Film Phenomenology

Subject guarantor:

Jitka HEJTMANOVÁ

Name of lecturer(s):

Jitka HEJTMANOVÁ

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Two-page essay, 100% attendance

This module will examine film as a phenomenal aspect of reality. We will look at the idea of a ?film? as a cinematic apparition: as an object that both creates and reflects knowledge of the world and knowledge in the world. We will analyze cinema as a practical mechanism for constructing an understanding of our world: how we perceive it, how we interact with it, and how we reflect it. Finally, we will explore cinema as both a product and purveyor of consciousness.

The module will be divided into two parts. The first part will be philosophical in nature?we will read and discuss certain texts that pertain to our theme. The second part will comprise of viewing excerpts of films that express the ideas we are working through.

PART I ? Expression and Meaning

?Selections from Edmund Husserl?s Logical Investigations Vol. 1 and 2

PART II ? The Reality of Man

?Selections from Pier Paolo Pasolini?s Heretical Empiricism

PART III ? The Filmmaker as an Artist of the Ephemeral

?Charles Baudelaire?s Essay ?The Painter of Modern Life?

SCREENINGS

?Appunti per un? Orestiade Africana (Notes for an African Orestes) by Pier Paolo Pasolini

?Nenette et Boni by Claire Denis

?Zabriskie Point by Michelangelo Antonioni

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This course is an elective for all students of this school

Schedule for winter semester 2012/2013:

The schedule has not yet been prepared

Schedule for summer semester 2012/2013:

Date	Day	Time	Tutor	Location	Notes	No. of paralel
08.03.2013		09:30–18:30	HEJTMANOVÁ J.	Učebna 2 Lažanský palác	In English. Lecturer: Asmara Marek	paralelka 1

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 (qualification subject, optional subject)
• Erasmus (optional subject)
• Cinema and Digital Media - Directing (qualification subject, optional subject)