European Film Analysis
- Course unit code:
- 311EFA
- Course unit title:
- European Film Analysis
- Mode of delivery:
- zkouška
- Range:
- 2/T
- Type of course unit:
- Study plan Fotografie EN - bakalář – optional subject
Study plan Fotografie EN - magistr – optional subject
Study plan Cinema and Digital Media - Cinematography – optional subject
Study plan Cinema and Digital Media - Screenwriting – optional subject
Study plan Erasmus – optional subject
Study plan Cinema and Digital Media - Directing – optional subject
Study plan Fotografie EN - magistr: restaurování – optional subject - Level of course unit:
- Year of study
- předmět nemá určen ročník studia
- Semester when the course unit is delivered
- letní
- Number of ECTS credits allocated:
- 3
- Garant předmětu:
- Marek BOUDA
- Name of lecturer(s):
- Marek BOUDA
- Study Objectives:
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The course will push students to realize that the present ordinary and often awarded cinema lacks numerous aesthetic values and narrative possibilities that these directors have formulated in their use of cinematic language.
- Mode of delivery:
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screening, discussion
- Prerequisites and co-requisites:
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No
- Recommended optional programme components
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No
- Course contents:
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The central task of this class is to understand the fundamental values of European directors who created milestone films in the history of cinema. These works constitute what we can call a „narration of solitaries“ - meaning a very specific, unorthodox and sophisticated approach to a film, its language and theme. We will appreciate the kind of cinema which is not just entertainment but so called ?art??the art which is nearly forgotten and unfortunately, often difficult for the present spectator to understand. In decoding these works we will point to the transcendental qualities of such art.
The course will consist of screenings from the works of Godard, Antonioni, Bresson, Tarkovsky, ... I will then discuss the works based on an analysis of language, narration, theme, form, poetics, aesthetics etc of the representative films. I will also mention the personal approaches of these filmmakers to direction and art in general. I will not hide that my taste is subjective, and the subjective approach of the student will be welcomed as well.
- Study materials:
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Peter Hames: The Czechoslovak New Wave
www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC/bergman.html
www.ingmarbergman.se
www.bergmanorama.com/home.htm
- P. & K.French: Wild Strawberries
BFI, London 1995
- William Arrowsmith, Ted Perry (Editor)
Antonioni: The Poet of Images
Oxford University Press, 1995
- Peter Brunette, Ray Carney
The Films of Michelangelo Antonioni (Cambridge Film Classics)
Cambridge University Press, 1998
- Seymour Benjamin Chatman
Antonioni, or, the Surface of the World
University of California Press, 1985
- Seymour Chatman, Paul Duncan
Michelangelo Antonioni
Taschen, 2004
- Michelangelo Antonioni Interviews, University Press of Mississippi, 2008
- Michelangelo Antonioni The Architecture of Vision ? writins and interviews on cinema, University of Chicago Press, 2007
- David Sterritt
The Films of Jean-Luc Godard
Cambridge University Press 1999
- W.W. Dixon
The Films of Jean-Luc Godard
State University of New York 1997
- David Sterritt (editor)
Jean-Luc Godard - Interviews
University Press of Mississippi
- Godard on Godard
Da Capo Press 1972
- Richard Roud
Jean-Luc Godard
Thames and Hudson 1970
- Bruce F. Kawin
Mindscreen ? Bergman, Godard, and First-Person Film
Princeton University Press 1978
- Robert Bresson
Notes on the Cinematographer
Green Integer Books 1997
- Joseph Cunneen
Robert Bresson ? A Spiritual Style in Film
Continuum 2003
- Keith Reader
Robert Bresson
Manchester University Press 2000
- James Quandt (editor)
Robert Bresson
Toronto, Cinematheque Ontario 1998
- Natasha Synessios
Mirror
I. B. Tauris, London - New York 2001
-Andrei Tarkovsky (Pocket Essentials)
by Sean Martin
- Sculpting in Time: Reflections on the Cinema by Andrey A. Tarkovsky and
Kitty Hunter Blair
Faber&Faber London 1989
- The Films of Andrei Tarkovsky: A Visual Fugue by Vida T. Johnson and
Graham Petrie
Indiana University Press 1994
- Time Within Time: Diaries, 1970-86 by Andrei Tarkovsky
Verso 1993
- Andrei Tarkovsky: Interviews (Conversations with Filmmakers) by Andrei
Arsen'evich Tarkovskii and John Gianvito
University Press of Mississippi
- The Cinema of Andrei Tarkovsky (British Film Institute) by Mark Le Fanu
- Planned learning activities and teaching methods
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No
- Assessment methods and criteria
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Condition for credit: Successful essay?analysis (at least three/four pages) of any film that I discussed. Additionally, a faculty interview may be needed in some cases.
Do not copy from internet! Any quotations must be marked and original sources mentioned.
- Language of instruction:
- English
- Work placement(s):
- Pracovní stáž není u tohoto předmětu zavedena.
- Course web page:
- Note:
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No
- Schedule for winter semester 2011/2012:
- The schedule has not yet been prepared
- Schedule for summer 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 Tue 14:50–16:25 BOUDA M. Učebna 3
Lažanský palácpřednášková par. 1 - The subject is a part of the following study plans:
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- Fotografie EN - bakalář (optional subject)
- Fotografie EN - magistr (optional subject)
- Cinema and Digital Media - Cinematography (optional subject)
- Cinema and Digital Media - Screenwriting (optional subject)
- Erasmus (optional subject)
- Cinema and Digital Media - Directing (optional subject)
- Fotografie EN - magistr: restaurování (optional subject)