Seminar on Media Criticism
- Course unit code:
- 301SMK
- Course unit title:
- Seminar on Media Criticism
- Mode of delivery:
- zkouška
- Range:
- 2/T
- Type of course unit:
- Study plan Animovaná tvorba - bakalář – optional subject
Study plan Dokumentární tvorba - magistr – optional subject
Study plan Dokumentární tvorba - bakalář – compulsory subject
Study plan Animovaná tvorba - magistr – optional subject
Study plan Scenáristika a dramaturgie - bakalář – compulsory 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 – compulsory subject
Study plan Střihová skladba - bakalář – optional subject
Study plan Střihová skladba - magistr – optional 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 Dokumentární tvorba - bakalář – 3rd year
Study plan Scenáristika a dramaturgie - bakalář – 3rd year
Study plan Audiovizuální studia - bakalář – 2nd nebo 2nd nebo 3rd nebo 3rd year - Semester when the course unit is delivered
- zimní
- Number of ECTS credits allocated:
- 2
- Garant předmětu:
- Stanislav ULVER
- Name of lecturer(s):
- Stanislav ULVER
- Study Objectives:
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Cílem semináře probíhajícího v ZS je inspirovat studenty k psaní krátkých kritických textů na úrovni akceptovatelné v odborném tisku. Předpokládána je spolupráci studentů mezi sebou navzájem - i úzký individuální kontakt pedagoga a studenta v procesu finalizace a reflexe výsledného eseje. Viz též obsah předmětu.
- Mode of delivery:
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Text presentation which may be - optimally - published in a trade periodical. The topic (primarily in film, television television, photography new medidal and etc) They will be selected such to not only be contemporary and in some cases controversial.
- Prerequisites and co-requisites:
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Active interest in modern art and ability to reflect upon it critically. Suitable, particularly, for screenwriters and documentarists.
- Recommended optional programme components
- Course contents:
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Topics (primarily from the area of film, television, photography, new media and the like) will be selected so that they are not only current but sometimes controversial. Along with one or two papers (3 pages) for all students in which they select a topic pertinent to their specialization or immediate interests. Also students wll present a co-written paper in which the content and form of the work will be evaluated. The selected topic will undergo critical group discussions to which the author should respond; the instructor will also express ideas. Some subject matter can be supplemented with invited guests (creators or experts), screenings, group visits to exhibitions, etc. If the resulting essays are at the appropriate level they will be published in profession publications and the author will be compensated.
Examples of recommended topics:
What is subversive film?
David Lynch Web films
Is Jan Němec avant garde?
Staging reality in a documentary and truth (Karel Vachek, Michael Moore)
Lars von Trer as enfant terrible and a creator of melodrama
Editing composition and global time-space.
Pornographic elements in Michael Winterbottom's „9 Songs“
Manovich vision of Dziga Vertov
Roy Andersson's „Static World“
The new generation and the „old“ new wave.
Critical reflections upon controversial works created at FAMU
- Study materials:
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Film a doba
Iluminace
Cinepur
and others according to topic
- Planned learning activities and teaching methods
- Assessment methods and criteria
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Text presented by the author and active participation in class.
- 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 2011/2012:
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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 Datum Den Čas Tutor Místo Notes Č. paralelky Thu 17:20–18:55 ULVER S. Učebna KSD 434
Lažanský palácparalelka 1 - Schedule for summer semester 2011/2012:
- 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 (qualification subject, optional subject)
- Animovaná tvorba - magistr (optional subject)
- Scenáristika a dramaturgie - bakalář (qualification subject, 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 (qualification subject, optional subject)
- Střihová skladba - bakalář (optional subject)
- Střihová skladba - magistr (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)