Film and Memory 2

Course unit code:

311FM2

Course unit title:

Film and Memory 2

Mode of delivery:

zkouška

Range:

2/T

Type of course unit:

Study plan Cinema and Digital Media - Cinematography – compulsory subject
Study plan Cinema and Digital Media - Screenwriting – compulsory subject
Study plan Cinema and Digital Media - Directing – compulsory subject

Level of course unit:

Year of study

Study plan Cinema and Digital Media - Cinematography – 1st year
Study plan Cinema and Digital Media - Screenwriting – 1st year
Study plan Cinema and Digital Media - Directing – 1st nebo 2nd year

Semester when the course unit is delivered

letní

Number of ECTS credits allocated:

Garant předmětu:

Radim HLADÍK

Name of lecturer(s):

Radim HLADÍK

Study Objectives:

The goals of the course are the following:

1) to familiarize students with the history of the country where they study

2) to help them understand the importance of historical topics for cinematography and, in turn, the cinematography's

contribution to historical consciousness and social memory

3) to train students as critical movie-goers

4) to educate students in the basic theory of historical film, so that they can better reflect on the implications of their own work in the field.

Mode of delivery:

Seminar

Prerequisites and co-requisites:

None

Recommended optional programme components

Course contents:

Scholars like Robert A. Rosenstone have pointed out that filmmakers often engage with the past much like academic historians do: they tell us stories about it. Feature films set in the past, i. e. the genre of historical films, may have fictional plots, yet they still render the past visually and their narratives provide frameworks for understanding it. In other words, with historical films history is always a part of the story. Or is it? In this course, we will examine the idea of cinema as a historiographic or memory medium in its own right. Before mmersing ourselves into the intricacies of theory that seeks to conceptualize the relationship of cinematography to history and memory, we will attend to some examples of how Czech(oslovak) filmmakers decided to treat certain topics from the Czechoslovak history in the 20th century. Critical spectatorship will be encouraged.

Study materials:

Čornej, Petr (2000): A brief history of the Czech lands to 2000. Praha: Práh.

Nora, Pierre. „Between Memory and History“

Sorlin, Pierre. „How to Look at an 'Historical' Film.“

White, Hayden. „Historiography and Historiophoty.“

Jarvie, I.C. „Seeing Through Movies.“

Selections. Guynn, William. „Writing History in Film.“

Mainstream Drama. „Rosenstone, Robert A. History on Film/Film on History.“

Radstone, Susannah. „Trauma and screen studies: opening the debate.“

Enns, Anthony. „The politics of Ostalgie: post-socialist nostalgia in recent German film.“

Raack, R. C. „Historiography as Cinematography: A Prolegomenon to Film Work for Historians.“ Journal of Contemporary History, Marcus Alan S. and Stoddard, Jeremy D. (2006).

„The Burden of Historical Representation: Race, Freedom, and “Educational„ Hollywood Film“.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

None

Assessment methods and criteria

Students will be expected to contribute to the class discussions. Each student needs to prepare a brief class topic report once per semester. Reading of selected articles required.

Language of instruction:

English

Work placement(s):

Pracovní stáž není u tohoto předmětu zavedena.

Course web page:

Note:

Printed articles to be found in seminar room 439.

Schedule for winter semester 2010/2011:

The schedule has not yet been prepared

Schedule for summer semester 2010/2011:

The schedule has not yet been prepared

The subject is a part of the following study plans:

Cinema and Digital Media - Cinematography (qualification subject)
Cinema and Digital Media - Screenwriting (qualification subject)
Cinema and Digital Media - Directing (qualification subject)