Genres
- Course unit code:
- 306ZAN
- Course unit title:
- Genres
- Mode of delivery:
- zkouška
- Range:
- 26/S
- Type of course unit:
- Study plan Animovaná tvorba - bakalář – optional subject
Study plan Dokumentární tvorba - magistr – optional subject
Study plan Dokumentární tvorba - bakalář – optional subject
Study plan Animovaná tvorba - magistr – optional subject
Study plan Scenáristika a dramaturgie - bakalář – optional subject
Study plan Scenáristika a dramaturgie - magistr – optional subject
Study plan Režie - bakalář – optional subject
Study plan Režie - magistr – optional subject
Study plan Kamera - bakalář – optional subject
Study plan Kamera - magistr – optional subject
Study plan Produkce - bakalář – optional subject
Study plan Produkce - magistr – optional subject
Study plan Audiovizuální studia - bakalář – optional subject
Study plan Střihová skladba - bakalář – optional subject
Study plan Střihová skladba - magistr – compulsory subject
Study plan Zvuková tvorba - bakalář – optional subject
Study plan Zvuková tvorba - magistr – optional subject
Study plan Fotografie CZ - bakalář – optional subject
Study plan Fotografie CZ - magistr – optional subject
Study plan Audiovizuální studia - magistr – optional subject
Study plan Fotografie CZ - magistr: restaurování – optional subject - Level of course unit:
- Year of study
- Study plan Střihová skladba - magistr – 1st year
- Semester when the course unit is delivered
- zimní
- Number of ECTS credits allocated:
- 2
- Garant předmětu:
- Jakub KUDLÁČ
- Name of lecturer(s):
- Jakub KUDLÁČ
- Study Objectives:
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A broadening in the understanding of the subject.
- Mode of delivery:
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moderated discussions, free discussions, media sample analyses.
- Prerequisites and co-requisites:
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Knowledge of film to which we will devot ourselves in the course.
- Recommended optional programme components
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No elective requirements necessary.
- Course contents:
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2010/2011 Melodrama!
Melodrama is not strictly understood as a genre, because the manner of conflict representation permeating film, it usually ranks below a variety of genres. We rank a whole standard of film to melodrama today, so-called melodrama or women's films of the 40s and 50s, i.e. film linked to makers such as Douglas Sirk, Vincente Minelli, Nicholas Ray which fulfill to a certain extent criteria in the identity of the genre (i.e. a particular semanitic and syntactic regularity). We consider more interesting and important that the essence of that genre permeates the film narrative to a more general measure, such as civil reality depiction methods through ideal types. With gain there is loss due to the melodramatic idealization; we gain obvious representatives of good and evil, we lose touch with reality.
Part of the course is film screenings. Lectures will be accompanied by film samples.
Lecture topics:
- Melodramatic imagination; Balzac, Griffith, excess.
- So-called family melodrama of the 50s; Douglas Sirk, Vincente Minelli, Nicholas Ray.
- Thomas Elsaesser and Peter Brooks.
- Melodrama critique from a feminism perspective.
- Melodrama as a common mode of film narration.
- Study materials:
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Barry Langford: Hollywood and beyond
B. K. Grant (ed.): Film Genre Reader III
Nick Browne: Refiguring American film genres: history and theory
- Planned learning activities and teaching methods
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lectures.
- Assessment methods and criteria
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attendance
completion of the final exam
- Language of instruction:
- Czech
- Work placement(s):
- Pracovní stáž není u tohoto předmětu zavedena.
- Course web page:
- Note:
- Further information:
- This course is an elective for all AMU students
- Schedule for winter semester 2010/2011:
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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
Mon Tue Fri Thu Fri - Schedule for summer semester 2010/2011:
- The schedule has not yet been prepared
- The subject is a part of the following study plans:
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- Animovaná tvorba - bakalář (optional subject)
- Dokumentární tvorba - magistr (optional subject)
- Dokumentární tvorba - bakalář (optional subject)
- Animovaná tvorba - magistr (optional subject)
- Scenáristika a dramaturgie - bakalář (optional subject)
- Scenáristika a dramaturgie - magistr (optional subject)
- Režie - bakalář (optional subject)
- Režie - magistr (optional subject)
- Kamera - bakalář (optional subject)
- Kamera - magistr (optional subject)
- Produkce - bakalář (optional subject)
- Produkce - magistr (optional subject)
- Audiovizuální studia - bakalář (optional subject)
- Střihová skladba - bakalář (optional subject)
- Střihová skladba - magistr (qualification subject, optional subject)
- Zvuková tvorba - bakalář (optional subject)
- Zvuková tvorba - magistr (optional subject)
- Fotografie CZ - bakalář (optional subject)
- Fotografie CZ - magistr (optional subject)
- Audiovizuální studia - magistr (optional subject)
- Fotografie CZ - magistr: restaurování (optional subject)