The History of Film Space

Subject guarantor:

Georgy BAGDASAROV

Name of lecturer(s):

Georgy BAGDASAROV

Learning outcomes of the course unit:

Our ambition is to come to comprehension of film space as it is present in Western film tradition.

Mode of study:

Seminar

Prerequisites and co-requisites:

No

Recommended optional programme components:

No

Course contents:

One of the most important aims of Film is to frame the Space on the flat screen. Film history as seen from the point of view of both audience and filmmakers will be our hand in this pursuit. Ranging from Soviet montage school to Andre Basin and French New Wave, from D. W. Griffith to TV era we will analyze what influence narration has on film space or the other way round, how space is connected with narrative elements. In this regard, we will discuss the following aspects: how space expands the Film, what kind of space exists in the cinema, and how space appears in the Film until the moment when it disappears.

Recommended or required reading:

Marilyn Fabe „Closely Watched Films“, University of California Press, 2004

Gilles Deleuze „?Cinema 1: The Movement-Image“, Trans. Hugh Tomlinson and Barbara Habberjam. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1986

Gilles Deleuze „Cinema 2: The Time-Image“, Trans. Hugh Tomlinson and Barbara Habberjam. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1989

Eds. Thomas Elsaesser, Adam Barker „Early cinema: space, frame, narrative“, British Film Institute, 1990

Jean-Pierre Oudart: „The Reality Effect“ and „Notes for a Theory of Representation“ in The Politics of Representation: Cahiers du Cinema: 1969-1972, Harvard University Press, 1989; p. 189

Mikhail Yampolsky „Transparency Painting: From Myth to Theater,“ in: Tekstura: Russian Essays on Visual Culture, Alla Efimova and Lev Manovich, eds., Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1993; p. 139

Planned learning activities and teaching methods:

No

Assessment methods and criteria:

You will be evaluated on your contribution and efforts to the class. The examinations include essay, brief presentation based on essay topic and discussion.

Attendance of the classes - 30%

Participation in discussion - 10%

Essay - 30%

Final Exam - 30%

Course web page:

Note:

Instructor: Georgy Bagdasarov

E-mail: lapskojs@gmail.com

Schedule for winter semester 2012/2013:

The schedule has not yet been prepared

Schedule for summer semester 2012/2013:

The schedule has not yet been prepared

The subject is a part of the following study plans:

• Fotografie EN - bakalář (optional subject)
• Fotografie EN - magistr (optional subject)
• Cinema and Digital Media - Cinematography (qualification subject, optional subject)
• Cinema and Digital Media - Screenwriting (optional subject)
• Cinema and Digital Media - Directing (qualification subject, optional subject)
• Cinematography (optional subject)