Snow White in the 1930s

Tutor:

Ivan KLIMEŠ

Synopsis:

Přednášející: Prof. Annette Kuhn, Queen Mary, University of London, koordinuje Klimeš

Termíny a místo konání: pátek 21. 11. 2008, 14-17h U3, uzávěrka 21. 11. 2008

Podmínky atestace: Zá/2 za 100 % účast - v angličtině

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Abstract: Disney?s Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, the world?s first ever feature-length animated film, was released in February 1938. In Britain, as elsewhere in the world, it was eagerly awaited, energetically promoted, and highly acclaimed.

Drawing on a large-scale piece of research on cinema culture in 1930s Britain, the lecture will explore the circumstance surrounding the film?s first arrival and early reception in the UK. It will include illustrated discussion of the film itself, looked at within the framework of this background and context, and focussing on: contemporary debates about children, horror films and censorship; the popular ?buzz? generated around the film; and the significance of themes of home and domesticity that figured centrally in both the film itself and in its promotion and reception.

Professor Kuhn took Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Sociology at the University of Sheffield and a PhD on the history of film censorship at the University of London; and embarked on an academic career in 1989, joining the University of Glasgow as a Lecturer in Film and Television Studies in January of that year. She had previously worked as a writer, lecturer and editor, with posts in publishing and television production, and for some years was a lecturer on the (then) Polytechnic of Central London's pioneering part-time Postgraduate Diploma in Film Studies. At Glasgow she was promoted to Reader in Film and Television Studies in 1991, and in 1998 moved to Lancaster University, where she was promoted to Professor of Film Studies in 2000. In 2006 she took up the present appointment at Queen Mary. She have held Fellowships and Visiting Professorships at the Australian National University's Humanities Research Centre at Mount Holyoke College (as Fulbright Senior Research Scholar), and at Stockholm University; and in 2004 was elected a Fellow of the British Academy. For many years she has been a working co-editor of Screen and is currently on the editorial boards of Secuencias: revista de historia del cine; Journal of British Cinema and Television; Visual Studies; Memory Studies; and Transformations: the Journal of Inclusive Scholarship and Pedagogy.

Publications include:

? Ratcatcher. London: British Film Institute, 2008.

? (edited with Kirsten Emiko McAllister) Locating Memory: Photographic Acts. Oxford and New York: Berghahn Books, 2006.

? (edited, with Catherine Grant) Screening World Cinema: a Screen Reader. London: Routledge, 2006

? Family Secrets: Acts of Memory and Imagination. revised edition. London: Verso, 2002.

? An Everyday Magic: Cinema and Cultural Memory. London: I.B. Tauris, 2002. Published in the USA as Dreaming of Fred and Ginger: Cinema and Cultural Memory. New York: New York University Press, 2002.

? (edited) Alien Zone II: the Spaces of Science Fiction Cinema. London: Verso, 1999.

? (edited, with Jackie Stacey) Screen Histories: a Reader. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998.

? (edited) Queen of the Bs: Ida Lupino Behind the Camera. Bradford-on-Avon: Flicks Books; New York: Praeger, 1995.

? Women's Pictures: Feminism and Cinema, second edition. London: Verso, 1994.

? (edited) Alien Zone: Cultural Theory and Contemporary Science Fiction Cinema. London: Verso, 1990.

? Cinema, Censorship and Sexuality. London: Routledge, 1988, 160pp.

? The Power of the Image: Essays on Representation and Sexuality. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1985

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Course may be repeated

Schedule for winter semester 2008/2009:

	06:00–08:0008:00–10:0010:00–12:0012:00–14:0014:00–16:0016:00–18:0018:00–20:0020:00–22:0022:00–24:00
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Schedule for summer semester 2008/2009:

The schedule has not yet been prepared

The subject is a part of the following study plans:

• Animovaná tvorba - bakalář (optional subject)
• Dokumentární tvorba - magistr (faculty subject, optional subject)
• Dokumentární tvorba - bakalář (optional subject)
• Animovaná tvorba - magistr (faculty subject, optional subject)
• Scenáristika a dramaturgie - bakalář (optional subject)
• Scenáristika a dramaturgie - magistr (faculty subject, optional subject)
• Režie - bakalář (optional subject)
• Režie - magistr (faculty subject, optional subject)
• Kamera - bakalář (optional subject)
• Kamera - magistr (faculty subject, optional subject)
• Produkce - bakalář (optional subject)
• Produkce - magistr (faculty subject, optional subject)
• Audiovizuální studia - bakalář (optional subject)
• Střihová skladba - bakalář (optional subject)
• Střihová skladba - magistr (faculty subject, optional subject)
• Zvuková tvorba - bakalář (optional subject)
• Zvuková tvorba - magistr (faculty subject, optional subject)
• Fotografie CZ - bakalář (optional subject)
• Fotografie CZ - magistr (faculty subject, optional subject)
• Fotografie EN - bakalář (optional subject)
• Fotografie EN - magistr (optional subject)
• Audiovizuální studia - magistr (faculty subject, optional subject)
• Cinema and Digital Media - Cinematography (qualification subject, optional subject)
• Cinema and Digital Media - Screenwriting (qualification subject, optional subject)
• Cinema and Digital Media - Directing (qualification subject, optional subject)