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FaVU-TAIF2Acad. year: 2026/2027
The course will present and critically analyze films conveying images of Nature, the natural, vs. culture, artificiality, the synthetic; human vs. non-human (sometimes the monstrous), more-than-human or posthuman; we will also look at visions of environmental collapse or post-apocalyptic visions.
Students will learn to look critically at a selection of films from the 60s and 90s (with some excursions to the present) through the prism of politics/ideology and environmental issues. The course will focus (albeit not exclusively) on the vampire figure, exploring the elements of trangression that culture invests into this figure.
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None.
Rules for evaluation and completion of the course
Students will be assesed from discussing and writing short, in-class response papers about the assigned texts. Not having read those texts will count as an absence. The answered quiz questions regarding each text for homework have to be uploaded to the shared drive a day before the class. Before the last class in the semester, students will have to have fulfilled at least 60% of the assignments in order to be able to finish the remaining assignments by the end of the exam period. Students will be assessed from the regular, continuous work during the semester.
75% videoconferences must be attended and students must participate actively in a discussion (and/or chat or some other written form) relevant to the film and texgt assigned for the respective week.
Aims
1. Cinefile 2. critical. Although the selection of the films might be subjective and not necessarily always canonical, one of the aims is to show students some noteworthy film production of the 70s and 80s (European and American film only). 2. Students will see the interpretation possibilities of the selected films through approaches which were often contemporary with the films themselves. Students will look at examples of interpretation methods of film based on a particular thematic framework (politics/ideology, gender, environmental issues) not necessarily explicitely based on the narrative itself.
Study aids
CANAVAN, Gerry a ROBINSON, Kim Stanley (ed.). Green planets: ecology and science fiction. Middletown, Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press, [2014]. ISBN 9780819574275.
CREED, Barbara. Return of the Monstrous-feminine: Feminist New Wave Cinema. Routledge, 2022. ISBN 0367478161.
KUHN, Annette. Alien Zone. Verso, 1990. ISBN 0860919935.
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Natural, more-than-human, non-human, artificial, synthetic
1. Woman as a monster (not only) in Amrican post-war cinema: Cat People, Carrie, Trouble Every Day, etc.
2. Ridley Scott: The Alien3. Natural and contaminated: Tony Scott: The Hunger (upíří téma 1)4. Nature vs. technology: Ridley Scott: Blade Runner.5. Nature vs. technology: Juraj Herz: Upír z Ferratu (upíří téma 2)6. Nature vs. technology: David Cronenberg: Videodrome (upíří téma 3)
7. Posthumanism and sci-fi: Andrei Tarkovski - Solaris. 8. Posthumanism and sci-fi: Stanley Kubrick: Space Odyssey.9. Ends and Beginings of worlds, the collonialist myth: Interstellar10. Un/natural: Queerness in horror films in American post-war cinema11. Ghostwood in Twin Peaks12. Ghibli Studios: Princezna Mononoke