History of Everyday Life in Europe

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The subject provides Department of Cinematography

Contents

The lecture presents real personalities of the Near East and European civilization, with a fundamental impact on the history of Europe. The lecture is a celebration of Europe's vast spiritual and material wealth, which is the permanent driver of worldwide civilization and which is presented as the culture that permanently determines the global level of sustainable quality of human life.

The content of the lectures is a presentation, in pictures, of the history of everyday life in Europe, specifically based on the history of mankind, which is contained in preserved written texts, manuscripts, books, documents, etc. from the authentic real finds of the earliest texts to this day, that influenced the evolution of civilization in Europe. The purpose of these lectures is to inform students of authentic texts, personalities, their discoveries and inventions that have been fundamental to the development of our European civilization. The history of the European continent’s everyday life is presented on a realistic basis and the existing evidence of personalities still alive.

Learning outcomes

The purpose of the lectures is to present an introduction to the history of everyday life in Europe, supported by authentic documents discovered and still living, created by European and Near East civilisations and serving the foundations of European culture.

Prerequisites and other requirements

The lectures are intended for students of the Master's program and expect the students to have a minimum knowledge in this field.

Literature

Specialist books on the history of everyday life, translations of original writings, presented in the Bible and Torah, biographies of European history personalities who have brought civilization to Europe and the world.

For instance:

Bruse Altshuler: Biennials and Beyond - Exhibitions That Made Art History : 1962-2002, London : Phaidon , 2013, ISBN: 978-0-7148-6495-2

John J. Curley: A conspiracy of images : Andy Warhol, Gerhard Richter, and the Art of the Cold War, New Haven ;London : Yale University Press , [2013 ] ©2013, ISBN: 978-0-300-18843-1

John Tagg: Grounds of dispute : art history, cultural politics and the discursive field, Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press , [1992 ] ©1992, ISBN: 0-8166-2132-2

Evaluation methods and criteria

During the semester, students will work on the facts related to the life of a selected personality, whose life has been connected with Prague in the course of history. The result of the semester’s work will be a visual presentation of the historical facts of life of a selected personality associated with Prague.

The output of this course will be a PDF presentation dedicated to a specific historical celebrity who lived in Prague. The presentation will include a description of the selected time period, the political context of European development with respect to the Czech lands, and a description of one selected building in Prague where the personality lived in Prague. The presentation will include a hypothetical design of a period interior of the selected personality, prepared by the student in a minimum of 15 A4 pages of text with photo documentation. The presentation will be completed at least 7 days before the end of the regular semester, and will be emailed to the teacher for review. The presentation will be acknowledged as completed in the form of an email confirmation by the teacher.

Course web page

A
powerpoint
presentation
introducing
students
to
the
history
of
architecture
in
Europe
will
be
provided
in
the
form
of
a
link
to
the
repository
of
this
lecture,
which
students
can
draw
upon
to
successfully
complete
this
assignment.

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No schedule has been prepared for this course

The subject is a part of the following study plans

• Cinematography_3_2021 (Required subjects)