History and Culture in the Czech Lands 1836-2009 1

Course unit code:

311HCL1

Course unit title:

History and Culture in the Czech Lands 1836-2009 1

Mode of delivery:

zápočet

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 – 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 – 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 Fotografie EN - bakalář – compulsory subject
Study plan Fotografie EN - magistr – optional subject
Study plan Audiovizuální studia - magistr – optional subject
Study plan Cinema and Digital Media - Cinematography – optional subject
Study plan Cinema and Digital Media - Screenwriting – optional subject
Study plan Fotografie CZ - magistr: restaurování – optional subject
Study plan Režie činoherního divadla v angličtině (Mgr.) – 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

Study plan Fotografie EN - bakalář – 2nd nebo 3rd year

Semester when the course unit is delivered

zimní

Number of ECTS credits allocated:

1

Garant předmětu:

Tomáš POSPISZYL

Name of lecturer(s):

Tomáš POSPISZYL

Study Objectives:

The aim of the lecture is to present basic concepts of Czech modern history, culture and art.

Following chronological order and necessary historical context, lecturer will present the most significant figures and works in visual arts, architecture, and selected literature. Where possible, a later film adaptation of these works will be presented as well. The course will continue in a spring semester with similar introduction to history and art in Czechoslovakia and contemporary cultural currents in the Czech Republic.

Mode of delivery:

Lecture accompanied with disscussions

Prerequisites and co-requisites:

No

Recommended optional programme components

Visits to Museum and galleries in the Czech Republic, reading of Czech literature and watching Czech films.

Course contents:

September 22nd

Czechs in Austrian Empire and the concept of National revival. Božena Němcová and her myth

Czechs, Germans and their parallel worlds, National Theatre and National gymnastics

September 29th

Rethinking Czech history. Prague at the end of 19th century

Secession and anarchy, Alfons Mucha

Cosmopolitan modernism, art for art and mood for decadence.

October 6th

Art visionary: painter František Kupka

October 13th

Spiritism and tourism of Josef Váchal

Philosophical visionary: Ladislav Klíma

The Sufferings of Prince Sternenhoch (dir. Jan Němec) 1991

October 20th

Czech cubism in painting, sculpture and architecture. Photographer František Drtikol

October 27th

Jaroslav Hašek, T.G. Masaryk and their path to independent Czechoslovakia

The Good Soldier Schweik (dir. Jiří Trnka, Karel Steklý) 1955, 1956

November 3rd

Karel Čapek and Josef Čapek, The Rossum?s Universal Robots story

November 10th

Avant-garde of the 1920s, Devětsil, Modern architecture in dispute.

November 17th

Surrealism and abstract art, Zdeněk Pešánek

November 24th

WWII, political and cultural consequences. Group 42, Stalinism and Socialist Realism

December 1st

Bohumil Hrabal, Egon Bondy, Vladimír Boudník and foundations of Czech unofficial culture

December 8th

Prague Spring 1968, Milan Kundera, Jan Švankmajer, Underground culture of the 1970s, Plastic People of the Universe.

Happenings and Performance art

December 15th in U3

Oral Exam

Study materials:

Basic Literature:

Petr Čornej, Jiří Pokorný: A Brief History of the Czech Lands to 2000. Prah Publishing House, Praha 2004

Selected Literature:

Ladislav Klíma, The Sufferings of Prince Sternenhoch, Twisted Spoon Press, Praha 2007

Jaroslav Hašek, The Good Soldier Svejk, Penguin Classics, 2005

Gustav Meyrink, The Golem, Dedalus 2000

Karel Capek, War with the newts, Catbird Press, 1990

Jiří Weil: Life with a Star, Northwestern University Press 1998

Bohumil Hrabal: I Served the King of England, New Directions, 2007

Milan Kundera: The Joke, Harper 1993

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

Assessment methods and criteria

Assignment:

Written essay, three pages long, based on one of the fiction titles listed in ?selected literature? and focused on historical contextualization of these works.

Essay in printed form.

During oral exam students will defend their views expressed in essays in a conversation with a lecturer.

Evaluation:

Essay: 50%

Participation in the class: 20%

Final oral exam: 30%

Language of instruction:

English

Work placement(s):

Pracovní stáž není u tohoto předmětu zavedena.

Course web page:

Note:

No

Further information:

This course is an elective for all AMU students

Schedule for winter semester 2011/2012:

	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	místnost 241 Učebna 3 (Lažanský palác) POSPISZYL T. 09:50–11:25 (přednášková par. 1)
Fri

Datum	Den	Čas	Tutor	Místo	Notes	Č. paralelky
	Thu	09:50–11:25	POSPISZYL T.	Učebna 3 Lažanský palác		přednášková par. 1

Schedule for summer semester 2011/2012:

The schedule has not yet been prepared

The subject is a part of the following study plans:

• 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 (optional subject)
• Zvuková tvorba - bakalář (optional subject)
• Zvuková tvorba - magistr (optional subject)
• Fotografie CZ - bakalář (optional subject)
• Fotografie CZ - magistr (optional subject)
• Fotografie EN - bakalář (qualification subject, optional subject)
• Fotografie EN - magistr (optional subject)
• Audiovizuální studia - magistr (optional subject)
• Cinema and Digital Media - Cinematography (optional subject)
• Cinema and Digital Media - Screenwriting (optional subject)
• Fotografie CZ - magistr: restaurování (optional subject)
• Režie činoherního divadla v angličtině (Mgr.) (optional subject)
• Erasmus (optional subject)
• Cinema and Digital Media - Directing (optional subject)
• Fotografie EN - magistr: restaurování (optional subject)