Pentium - History of Audiovisualization: Film Noir 2

Subject guarantor:

Petra DOMINKOVÁ, Vít JANEČEK

Name of lecturer(s):

Petra DOMINKOVÁ

Learning outcomes of the course unit:

Students expand knowledge of Film Noir.

Mode of study:

Week 1 [Weds, 13. Feb]

Topic: French Poetic Realism - one of the Film Noir sources

Screening: LE QUAI DES BRUMES (Marcel Carné, 1938, 91", Czech title, IMDB: 7.7, CSFD: 79 %)

Reading: Čechová.

Week 2 [Weds, 20. Feb]

Topic: First phase of Film Noir: hard boiled detektive films

Screening: THIS GUN FOR HIRE (Frank Tuttle, 1942, 81„, English subtitles, IMDB: 7.6, CSFD: 77 %) or MURDER MY SWEET (Edward Dmytryk, 1944, 95“, Czech subtitiels, IMDB: 7.6, CSFD: 74 %)

Reading: Naremore, 63-81 (This Gun for Hire) or Telotte (1987; Murder My Sweet).

Week 3 [Weds, 27. Feb]

Topic: Police procedural

Screening: HE WALKED BY NIGHT (Alfred L. Werker, Anthony Mann, 1948, 79„, English titles, IMDB: 7.2, CSFD: 68 %) or THE NAKED CITY (Jules Dassin, 1948, 96“, IMDB: 7.7, CSFD: 71 %)

Reading: Dimenberg.

Essay topics (due March 27)

Week 4 [Weds, 6. Mar]

Topic: Costuming in Film Noir: Fur coats

Screening: BEYOND THE FOREST (King Vidor, 1949, 97„, Czech subtitles, IMDB: 6.9, CSFD: 72 %) or CAUGHT (Max Ophüls, 1949, 88“, Czech subtitles, IMDB: 7.1, CSFD: 70 %)

Reading: Doane.

Week 5 [Weds, 13. March]

Topic: Secluded house

Screening: ON DANGEROUS GROUND (Nicholas Ray, 1952, 82„, English subtitles, IMDB: 7.5, CSFD: 78 %) or THE RED HOUSE (Delmer Daves, 1947, 100“, no subtitles, IMDB: 6.8, CSFD: 63 %)

Reading: Dominková.

Week 6 [Weds, 20. March]

Topic: On the edge of other genres: Gothic film

Screening: REBECCA (Alfred Hitchcock, 1940, 130„, Czech subtitles, IMDB: 8.3, CSFD: 83 %) or MY NAME IS JULIA ROSS (Joseph H. Lewis, 1945, 65“, Czech subtitles, IMDB: 7.1, CSFD: 80 %)

Reading: Hanson.

Week 7 [Weds, 27. March]

Topic: On the edge of other genres: Western

Screening: PURSUED (Raoul Walsh, 1947, 101„, English subtitles, IMDB: 7.4, CSFD: 75 %) or BORDER INCIDENT (Anthony Mann, 1949, 94“, Czech subtitles, IMDB: 7.0, CSFD: 70 %)

Reading: Auerbach (Border Incident) or T.B.A.

ESSAY DUE

Week 8 [Weds, 3. April]

Topic: Experiments in Film Noir: perceptual/mental subjectivity and others.

Screening: DARK PASSAGE (Delmer Daves, 1947, 106„, English subtitles, IMDB: 7.5, CSFD: 78 %) or THE BLUE GARDENIA (Fritz Lang, 1953, 88“, English subtitles, IMDB: 6.9, CSFD: 73 %)

Reading: Telotte (1984/5; Dark Passage) or Kaplan (The Blue Gardenia).

Week 9 [Weds, 10. April]

Topic: Colorful Noir

Screening: NIAGARA (Henry Hathaway, 1953, 92„, English subtitles, IMDB: 7.0, CSFD: 69 %) or LEAVE HER TO HEAVEN (John M. Stahl, 1945, 110“, English subtitle, IMDB: 7.6, CSFD: 81%)

Reading: Deutelbaum (Leave Her to Heaven) NEBO TBA.

Week 10 [Weds, 17. April]

Topic: Filmu Noir Parodie

Screening: DEAD MEN DON'T WEAR PLAID (Carl Reiner, 1982, 89„, Czech subtitles, IMDB: 6.7, CSFD: 76 %) or THE LONG GOODBYE (Robert Altman, 1973, 112“, English subtitles, IMDB: 7.6, CSFD: 67 %)

Reading: Naremore, 196-219.

Week 11 [Weds, 24. April]

Topic: Filmu Noir successors - post-noir

Screening: SIN CITY (Frank Miller, Robert Rodriguez, 2005, 124", English subtitles, IMDB: 8.2, CSFD: 80 %) or THINGS TO DO IN DENVER WHEN YOU'RE DEAD, (Gary Fleder, 1995, 115, Czech subtitles, IMDB: 8.2, CSFD: 71 %)

Reading: T.B.A.

Weeks 13 and 13 [Week, 1. May + 8. May]: NO CLASS

Week 14 [Weds, 15. May]

Topic: Closing - Discussions over lectures, feedback, colloquium

Prerequisites and co-requisites:

Participation: Students are to attend lessons, including film screenings.

Activity: Students are to join into dicussions - debates about films which are an important part of the lessons.

Presentation: Each student will lead at least one discussion about a film shown in the previous class and contribute a brief summary presentation.

Essay (3pgs. minimum, i.e. 1,050 words): An essay about one Film Noir; Students will create their own topic, which will be consulted upon with the instructor.

Due date: 27 March.

Colloquium: Film Noir discussion. Students demonstrate a knowledge of the topic and films discussed during the semester. Date: May 15.

Recommended optional programme components:

- Blog about Film Noir in Czech: http://filmnoirblog.blogspot.cz/ (there are a number of links to relevant webpages in English)

- A special web edition of the web magazine (25 fps) about Film Noir, at this address: http://25fps.cz/tag/11-cislo/

Course contents:

The aim of the course is to acquaint students with one of the most interesting American styles of film - Film Noir and as well its successors. Each lesson is focused on one aspect of Film Noir. Students will have the opportunity to view a number of well-known and lesser-known excerpts from Film Noir and 11 feature-length films (most in English with Czech subtitles). This course is a continuation from the Winter 2012 semester course and is designed to be comprehensible also for students who did not complete the Winter semester.

Recommended or required reading:

All writings will be available in electronic form:

Auerbach, Jonathan. „Noir Citizenship: Anthony Mann?s Border Incident“. Cinema Journal vol. 47, no. 4 (2008), s. 102-120.

Čechová, Briana. „Poetický realismus jako noirová inspirace.“ In: Poetika zločinu. Francúzský film noir, ed. by Martin Kaňuch a Michal Michalovič. producer, Bratislava 2012, s. 49-62.

Deutelbaum, Marshall. „Costuming and the Color System in Leave Her to Heaven“. Film Criticism vol. 11, no. 3 (jaro 1987), s. 11?20.

Dimenberg, Edward. Film Noir and the Spaces of Modernity. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, London. 2004, s. 21?85. (kapitola „Naked City“)

Doane, Mary Ann. „The Clinical Eye: Medical Discourses in the “Woman's Film„ of the 1940s“. Poetics Today vol. 6, no. 1/2 (1985), s. 205-227.

Dominková, Petra. „Dům na samotě ve filmu noir.“ Slovenská literatúra 56, 2009, s. 474-481.

Hanson, Helen. Hollywood Heroines: Women in film noir and the Female Gothic Film. I.B. Tauris, London, New York. 2008, s. 33-62.

Kaplan, W. Ann. „The place of women in Fritz Lang's The Blue Gardenia.“ In: Women in film noir, ed. by E. Ann Kaplan. BFI Publishing, London 1980, s. 83-90.

Naremore, James. More Than Night. University of California Press, Los Angeles. 1998, s. 63-81, 196-219. (kapitoly „Sympathy for the Devil“ a „Parody, Pastiche, Fashion“)

Telotte, J. P. „Effacement and Subjectivity: Murder My Sweet's Problematic Vision“. Literature/Film Quarterly vol. 15, no. 4 (říjen 1987), s. 227?236.

Telotte, J. P. „Seeing in Dark Passage“. Film Criticism vol. 9, no. 2 (zima 1984/85), s. 15?27.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods:

Assessment methods and criteria:

Final grading will be calculated as follows:

Attendance and participation (25%); Presentation (25%); Essay (25%); Discussions (25%)

Course web page:

http://www2.iim.cz/wiki/index.php/Mediahistory_I_and_II

Note:

Further information:

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:

	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	místnost 207 Učebna 2 (Lažanský palác) DOMINKOVÁ P. 14:50–18:05 (přednášková par. 1)
Thu
Fri

Date	Day	Time	Tutor	Location	Notes	No. of paralel
	Fri	14:50–18:05	DOMINKOVÁ P.	Učebna 2 Lažanský palác		přednášková par. 1

The subject is a part of the following study plans:

• Animovaná tvorba - bakalář (faculty subject, optional subject)
• Dokumentární tvorba - magistr (faculty subject, optional subject)
• Dokumentární tvorba - bakalář (faculty subject, optional subject)
• Animovaná tvorba - magistr (faculty subject, optional subject)
• Scenáristika a dramaturgie - bakalář (faculty subject, optional subject)
• Scenáristika a dramaturgie - magistr (faculty subject, optional subject)
• Režie - bakalář (faculty subject, optional subject)
• Režie - magistr (faculty subject, optional subject)
• Kamera - bakalář (faculty subject, optional subject)
• Kamera - magistr (faculty subject, optional subject)
• Produkce - bakalář (faculty subject, optional subject)
• Produkce - magistr (faculty subject, optional subject)
• Audiovizuální studia - bakalář (qualification subject, faculty subject, optional subject)
• Střihová skladba - bakalář (faculty subject, optional subject)
• Střihová skladba - magistr (faculty subject, optional subject)
• Zvuková tvorba - bakalář (faculty subject, optional subject)
• Zvuková tvorba - magistr (faculty subject, optional subject)
• Fotografie CZ - bakalář (faculty subject, optional subject)
• Fotografie CZ - magistr (faculty subject, optional subject)
• Audiovizuální studia - magistr (qualification subject, faculty subject, optional subject)
• Fotografie CZ: Restaurování fotografie (faculty subject, optional subject)