The History of World Cinema 1

Course unit code:

373DSK1

Course unit title:

Mode of delivery:

zkouška

Range:

6/T

Type of course unit:

Study plan Animovaná tvorba - bakalář – compulsory subject
Study plan Dokumentární tvorba - magistr – compulsory optional subject
Study plan Dokumentární tvorba - bakalář – compulsory subject
Study plan Animovaná tvorba - magistr – compulsory optional subject
Study plan Scenáristika a dramaturgie - bakalář – compulsory subject
Study plan Scenáristika a dramaturgie - magistr – compulsory optional subject
Study plan Režie - bakalář – compulsory subject
Study plan Režie - magistr – compulsory optional subject
Study plan Kamera - bakalář – compulsory subject
Study plan Kamera - magistr – compulsory optional subject
Study plan Produkce - bakalář – compulsory subject
Study plan Produkce - magistr – compulsory optional subject
Study plan Audiovizuální studia - bakalář – compulsory subject
Study plan Střihová skladba - bakalář – compulsory subject
Study plan Střihová skladba - magistr – compulsory optional subject
Study plan Zvuková tvorba - bakalář – compulsory subject
Study plan Zvuková tvorba - magistr – compulsory optional subject
Study plan Fotografie CZ - bakalář – compulsory optional subject
Study plan Fotografie CZ - magistr – compulsory optional subject
Study plan Scénografie - film a televize (Mgr.) – compulsory optional subject
Study plan Audiovizuální studia - magistr – compulsory optional subject
Study plan Fotografie CZ - magistr: restaurování – compulsory optional subject

Level of course unit:

Year of study

Study plan Animovaná tvorba - bakalář – 1st year
Study plan Dokumentární tvorba - bakalář – 1st year
Study plan Scenáristika a dramaturgie - bakalář – 1st year
Study plan Režie - bakalář – 1st year
Study plan Kamera - bakalář – 1st year
Study plan Produkce - bakalář – 1st year
Study plan Audiovizuální studia - bakalář – 1st year
Study plan Střihová skladba - bakalář – 1st year
Study plan Zvuková tvorba - bakalář – 1st year

Semester when the course unit is delivered

zimní

Number of ECTS credits allocated:

Garant předmětu:

Jan BERNARD

Name of lecturer(s):

Jan BERNARD

Study Objectives:

The aim of the study is, in three semesters, to acquire a basic knowledge of the development of international cinematography from pre-history to the 1980s. This will include the most significant types, genres, directions, styles and personalities from the viewpoint of the whole scope of cinematography, including politcal, economic, artistic relationships, life-style and the like. Basic lecture information is supplemented by study of the course literature and individual viewings of recommended films.

The lectures and screenings are the fundamentals of the knowledge necessary for a better comprehension of related specialized lectures.

Mode of delivery:

Základní formou výuky je přednáška, doplněná ukázkami filmů a studijní projekcí.

Informace z přednášek si studenti doplňují studiem uvedené literatury a individuálním „blízkým čtením“ doporučených filmů.

Prerequisites and co-requisites:

Lectures are intended for 1st year students and only requires a knowledge of world history, geography, literature, visual arts, theatre and the like at the primary school level. A certain level of English is required for reading of subject literature and subtitles of presented films.

Recommended optional programme components

Course contents:

FAMU CAS / FF UK KFS 2010/11

Survey of World Cinematic History I. (ZS)

For first year students.

Coordinator: Prof. PhDr. Jan Bernard, Csc. (jan.bernard@famu.cz)

History up to 1945 (for first year students)

1. 10. Introductory screening 09:00-11:00 (D.W. Griffith: Broken Blossoms)

1. (8.10.) History of photography

Lecturers: Pavel Scheufler, Robert Silverio

Screening: on-going screening of photographs which are an integral part of the lectures.

2. (15.10.) Early Film (1895-1907)

Lecturer: Vít Janeček

Screening„ Werner Nekes“ Media Magica parts I, IV and V. Films of the Brothers Lumiér and Georges Méliése, films of the Brighton School (DVD)

3. (22. 10) Early Decade (1908-20)

Lecturer: Jan Bernard

Screening: Broken Blossoms (1919, David Wark Griffith) DVD+ Sir Arnes Treasure (1919, M. Stiller)

2nd and 3rd films: Intolerance (1916, David Wark Griffith); Koerkarlen (1921, Victor Sjostrom)

4. (29.10.) Soviet Cinematography of the 1920s

Lecturer: Martin Čihák

Screening: October: Ten Days that Shook the World (1927, Sergei Eisenstein) Film NFA

2nd film: Mother (1926, Vsevold Pudovkin)

5. (5.11.) France in the 1920s

Lecturer: Vit Janeček

Screening: The Italian Straw Hat (1927, René Clair) film NFA

6. (12.11.) Germany in the 1920s

Lecturer: Michal Bregant

Screening: The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920, Robert Wiene, DVD), Nosferatu (1922, Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau, DVD)

2nd film: Metropolis (1927, Fritz Lang)

7. (19.11.) USA in the 1920s

Lecturer: Jan Bernard

Screening: Greed (1925, Erich von Stroheim, VHS)

2nd. Film: Steamboat Bill Jr. (1927, Buster Keaton, DVD)

8. 26.11.) Animated film up to the 1930s.

Lecturer: Pavel Ryška

Screening: Émile Cohl, Raul Berré, The Fleischer Brothers, Walt Disney (DVD)

9. (3.12.) Experimental Film

Lecturer: Stanislav Ulver

Screening: The Golden Era (1930, Luis Bunuel, Salvador Dali) film NFA

2nd-4th films: Rien que les heures (1926, Alberto Cavalcanti), Apropos de Nice (1929, Jean Vigo), Symphonie Diagonale (Viking Eggeling, 1924)

10. (10.12.) Documentary film up to 1930

Lecturer; Vít Janeček

Screening: Chang (1927, Merian S. Cooper, Ernst Schoedsack, DVD)

2nd film: Man with the Movie Camera (1929, Dziga Vertov, DVD)

3rd film: The Fall of the Romanov Dynasty (1927, Esfir Šubova)

11. (17.12.) The move to sound and the style of the 1930s

Lecturer: Vít Janeček

Screening: Das Testament des Doktor Mabuse (1933, Fritz Lang, DVD)

2nd film: Under the Roofs of Paris (1930, René Clair)

12. (7.1.) Hollywood 1930-45 I. (personalities of classic film)

Lecturer: Jan Bernard

2nd film: Gone with the Wind (1939, Victor Fleming)

13. (14.1.) Hollywood 1930-45 II. (genre film)

Lecturer: Jan Bernard

Screening: Duck Soup (1933, Leo McCarey, DVD), Stagecoach (1939, John Ford, DVD)

2nd film: The Deep Sleep (1946, Howard Hawks)

Study materials:

Povinná:

David Bordwell; Kristin Thompson: Film History: An Introduction. McGraw-Hill, 2003. česky: Dějiny filmu, AMU-LN, Praha 2007 nebo

W.W.Dixon-G.A. Foster: A Short History of Film , Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, New Jersey, 2008

(příslušné kapitoly)

Co je fotografie, 150 let fotografie - katalog, Videopress, Praha 1989

Doplňková:

obecné dějiny kinematografie:

David Cook: A history of narrative film. New York 1990.

Gilles Deleuze: Film 1. Obraz-pohyb. Praha 2000.

Gilles Deleuze: Cinema 2. Time-image. London 1989.

Enno Patalas; Ulrich Gregor: Dejiny filmu. Bratislava 1968.

Střihové dokumenty:

Kevin Brownlow: Universal Horror ( Historie hororu), 1998, 96´ ;; D.W. Griffith: Father of Film (D.W. Griffith ? Otec filmu I-III), 1993, 150´; Buster Keaton: A Hard Act to Follow, 1987; I'm King Kong!: The Exploits of Merian C. Cooper, 2005; Cecil B. DeMille: American Epic, 2004

Cinema Europe: The Other Hollywood (Evropská kinematografie - Jiný Hollywood)

? End of an Era (1995)

? Opportunity Lost (1995)

? The Music of Light (1995)

? The Unchained Camera (1995)

? Where It All Began (1995)

Martin Scorsese, Michael Henry Wilson: A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies (Století filmu), 1995, 225´

Gangsterská kronika I, II, 1998,100´

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

Přednáška + seminární projekce

Assessment methods and criteria

Každý (ze tří) semestrů cyklu Dějiny filmu je završen zkouškou, ve které je student tázán na jedno základní téma, druhé doplňující a na jeden film. (Kromě velice významných a signifikantních případů nebude požadována znalost přesného roku produkce jednotlivých filmů či fenoménů: stačí jejich zařazení s přesností +/- 5 let, např. polovina 20. let, přelom 40. a 50. let, počátek 60. let apod.)

Language of instruction:

Czech

Work placement(s):

Pracovní stáž není u tohoto předmětu zavedena.

Course web page:

http://cas.famu.cz/

Note:

Further information:

This course is an elective for all AMU students

Schedule for winter semester 2010/2011:

	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	místnost 124 Projekce FAMU (Lažanský palác) BERNARD J. 09:00–11:25 (přednášková par. 1 paralelka 1)místnost 107 Učebna 1 (Lažanský palác) BERNARD J. 11:30–13:55 (přednášková par. 1)
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:

Animovaná tvorba - bakalář (faculty subject, optional subject)
Dokumentární tvorba - magistr (faculty subject, optional subject)
Dokumentární tvorba - bakalář (faculty subject, optional subject)
Animovaná tvorba - magistr (faculty subject, optional subject)
Scenáristika a dramaturgie - bakalář (faculty subject, optional subject)
Scenáristika a dramaturgie - magistr (faculty subject, optional subject)
Režie - bakalář (faculty subject, optional subject)
Režie - magistr (faculty subject, optional subject)
Kamera - bakalář (faculty subject, optional subject)
Kamera - magistr (faculty subject, optional subject)
Produkce - bakalář (faculty subject, optional subject)
Produkce - magistr (faculty subject, optional subject)
Audiovizuální studia - bakalář (qualification subject, faculty subject, optional subject)
Střihová skladba - bakalář (faculty subject, optional subject)
Střihová skladba - magistr (faculty subject, optional subject)
Zvuková tvorba - bakalář (faculty subject, optional subject)
Zvuková tvorba - magistr (faculty subject, optional subject)
Fotografie CZ - bakalář (faculty subject, optional subject)
Fotografie CZ - magistr (faculty subject, optional subject)
Scénografie - film a televize (Mgr.) (compulsory optional subject)
Audiovizuální studia - magistr (qualification subject, faculty subject, optional subject)
Fotografie CZ - magistr: restaurování (faculty subject, optional subject)