The importance of cinema and the movies in the life and poetry of Jim Morrison

Subject guarantor:

Kateřina KLARICOVÁ

Name of lecturer(s):

Kateřina KLARICOVÁ

Learning outcomes of the course unit:

Motivating and inspiring the students to draw energy from the hidden sources of their creativity.

Mode of study:

Sober

Prerequisites and co-requisites:

None

Recommended optional programme components:

It would be nice to have a beamer to project sound and vision from my laptop (HP). Of course a dvd-installation would do also.

Course contents:

A guided tour through the labyrinth, including weird scenes inside the gold mine.

First part: Exhibition of the documentary The Doors: When you?re strange. A film by Tom Dicillo, narrated by Johnny Depp (ca 87 minutes, 2010).

Second part: Interactive reading of The Lords. Notes on Vision. A poetry album by Jim Morrison (1969), based on notes he took while studying at the UCLA film academy in Los Angeles and full of references to the movies, the cinema and its precursors. These references will be uncovered during the lecture.

Recommended or required reading:

Robert C. Allen/Douglas Gomery, Film History. Theory and Practice, McGraw-Hill, Inc., 1985;

David A. Cook, A History of Narrative Film, Fourth edition, W.W. Norton & Company, New York, 2004;

Daniel Dreier, Jim Morrison. The Scream of the Butterfly, Schirmer Art Books, s.d.;

Erika Fischer-Lichte, History of European Drama and Theatre, Translated by Jo Riley, Routledge, London and New York, 2002;

Mark Fortier, Theory/Theatre. An Introduction, Second edition, Routledge, London and New York, 2002;

Jerry Hopkins, No one here gets out alive. The long-awaited biography of JIM MORRISON, Plexus, London, 1980;

Greil Marcus, The Doors. A Lifetime of Listening to Five Mean Years, Public Affairs, New York, 2011;

José Luis Sanchez Noriega, Historia del Cine. Teoria y géneros cinematograficos, fotografia y television, Alianza Editorial, Madrid, 2002;

Hans-Peter Schwarz, Media-Art-History, Media Museum, ZKM, Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, Prestel, Munich ? New York, 1997.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods:

Screening of a documentary followed by commentary and group discussion.

Assessment methods and criteria:

To be discussed.

Course web page:

Note:

CV: Frank Despriet

Birth Date:February 18,1957, Kortrijk

Nationality:Belgian

Degrees:Master's in Sociology, RUGent (1979)

Higher Education Institution Instruction, RUGent (1981)

Special University Programme SPSS, RUGent (1999), 3 parts:

-Analysis of variance (result A);

-Regression analysis (result A);

-Mulitivariate analysis (result: A).

Experience:1997-2006:Copywriter and Market researcher for Markee Research & Creation, Ghent

Since 1999: Teacher at Hogeschool West-Vlaanderen (HOWEST), Departments of Communications management, Tourism and Journalism.

Partime: Communications psychology, Propaganda, Communications sociology, Consumer psychology, SPSS (Statistical software), Intercultural communications, Communications research

Publications:

2011: Communications psychology. From Reptile to Robot (in Dutch), Academia Press, Ghent;

2013: From Reptile to Robot 2.0. Evolution of human communication (in Dutch), Academia Press, Ghent.

Schedule for winter semester 2013/2014:

The schedule has not yet been prepared

Schedule for summer semester 2013/2014:

Date	Day	Time	Tutor	Location	Notes	No. of paralel
25.04.2014		10:00–16:00	KLARICOVÁ K.	Učebna 2 Lažanský palác		paralelka 1

The subject is a part of the following study plans:

• Animation - Master (optional subject)
• Documentary Film - Master (faculty subject, optional subject)
• Documentary Film - Bachelor (optional subject)
• Animation - Master (faculty subject, optional subject)
• Scriptwriting and Dramaturgy - Bachelor (optional subject)
• Scriptwriting and Dramaturgy - Master (faculty subject, optional subject)
• Film Directing - Bachelor (optional subject)
• Film Directing - Master (faculty subject, optional subject)
• Cinematography - Bachelor (optional subject)
• Cinematography - Master (faculty subject, optional subject)
• Production - Bachelor (optional subject)
• Production - Master (faculty subject, optional subject)
• Audiovisual Studies - Bachelor (optional subject)
• Editing - Bachelor (optional subject)
• Editing - Master (faculty subject, optional subject)
• Sound Design - Bachelor (optional subject)
• Sound Design - Master (faculty subject, optional subject)
• Photography CZ - Bachelor (optional subject)
• Photography CZ - Master (faculty subject, optional subject)
• Photography EN - Bachelor (optional subject)
• Photography EN - Master (optional subject)
• Audiovisual Studies - Master (faculty subject, optional subject)
• Cinematography (optional subject)
• Restoring of Photogrphy (optional subject)
• Cinema and Digital Media - Cinematography (qualification subject, optional subject)
• Cinema and Digital Media - Screenwriting (qualification subject, optional subject)
• Cinema and Digital Media - Directing (qualification subject, optional subject)