Central European Cinemas within the Context of the World Cinema
| Code | Completion | Credits | Range | Language Instruction | Semester |
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| 311CEW | ZK | 3 | 5/T | English | winter and summer |
- Subject guarantor:
- Dan DUTA
- Name of lecturer(s):
- Dan DUTA
- Learning outcomes of the course unit:
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Students acquire basic knowledge of Central European cinema and mainly glimpse at the most significant moments and movements. (i.e. Czech and Slovak New Wave, First, Second and Third Polish cinema, contemporary Rumanian New Wave, Hungarian Waves of the 50s and 60s., etc.
- Mode of study:
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Theory classes including lectures, screenings, film excerpts and finally debates.
Feature film screenings.
- Prerequisites and co-requisites:
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The lectures do not presuppose any previous knowledge of Central European Cinematography therefore there are no conditions for registration.
- Recommended optional programme components:
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Recommended optional component: Other films mentioned in lectures.
- Course contents:
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The course Central European Cinemas within the Context of the World Cinema explores the most important names, movements and films in Central European film. Primarily, this course examines the highlights and priorities of the Czech, Polish, Slovak, Hungarian and Romanian cinema, the influence of those national cinemas and their most outstanding personalities on the development of the world cinema or of the cinemas of other countries, but we also discuss the most important stylistic developments in the region. Considering the vast history and geography of the subject, lectures are primarily informational; details receive less emphasis. A strong accent is placed on the 60´s, i.e. „New Wave“ movements (the Czech New Wave, the Slovak New Wave, the „Second Wave“ of the Hungarian School, the 3rd Polish Cinema etc.), although we also take into account the Cinema of Moral Concern and the most important of what is happening now (i.e. after the year 2000) within the Central European cinemas (chiefly the Romanian New Wave and the Young Hungarian Cinema). We also dedicate one chapter to the filmmakers and actors that emigrated from Central European countries and influenced the development of other national cinemas (and even the evolution of the world cinema as it - see personalities as Sándor Korda / Sir Alexander Korda or Vilmos Fried / William Fox, MIloš Forman, Ladislav Kořínek / John L. Brom, Bolesław Matuszewski, Jean Negulesko etc.). The last chapter is dedicated to the film schools in the region, their most famous alumni, their international influence, but also to the work of their today´s students.
The films screened are chosen to reflect and illustrate the aforementioned criteria; two of the screening blocks are composed by short films, so that the students would have the opportunity to be informed also about this usually less known and less available field of the short film within the Central European Cinemas.
- Recommended or required reading:
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Recommended (not compulsory) Bibliography:
World Cinema: Hungary - Bryan Burns, Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press 1996
History Must Answer To Man - Graham Petrie, Corvina Kiadó, 1978
A Short History of the Hungarian Cinema - István Nemeskűrty, Corvina, 1980
Word and Image: History of the Hungarian Cinema - Corvina Press, 1968
The Czechoslovak New Wave - Peter Hames, New York, Wallflower Press, 2005 (Second Edition)
All the Bright Young Men and Women: a Personal History of the Czech Cinema - Josef Škvorecký, Peter P. Martin Associates, 1971
Closely Watched Films: the Czechoslovak Experience - Antonín J. Liehm, White Plains, International Arts and Sciences Press, New York, USA, 1974
The Silenced Movie - Jan Žalman, The National Film Archive in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic, 1993
Polish Film: A Twentieth Century History - Charles Ford & Robert Hammond, McFarland & Company, 2005
Polish National Cinema - Marek Haltof, Berghahn Books, 2003
Polish Postcommunist Cinema: From Pavement Level - Ewa Mazierska, Peter Lang, 2007
Women In Polish Cinema - Ewa Mazierska & Elźbieta Ostrowska, Berghahn Books, 2006
Moving People, Moving Images: Cinema and Trafficking in the New Europe - Dina Iordamova, William Brown and Leshu Torchin, StAFS, 2010
Romanian Cinema: From Modernity to Neo-Realism - Film Criticism, Allegheny College, 2010
In Short(S) About the New Romanian Cinema (Short Films) - Film Criticism, Allegheny College, 2010
A Concise History of the Romanian Film - Manuela Gheorghiu Cernat, Editura Ştiinţifică şi Enciclopedică, 1982
Articles on Romanian Films - Hephaestus Books, 2011
Articles on Cinema of Romania - Hephaestus Books, 2011
- Planned learning activities and teaching methods:
- Assessment methods and criteria:
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One at least 10-page essay or an oral exam at the end of the semester
- Course web page:
- Note:
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vserioja@seznam.cz
Detailed syllabus available upon request in FAMU International office.
- Further information:
- This course is an elective for all AMU students
- Schedule for winter semester 2013/2014:
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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 Fri - Schedule for summer semester 2013/2014:
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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 Fri Date Day Time Tutor Location Notes No. of paralel Thu 17:20–21:25 DUTA D. Učebna 3
Lažanský palácLesson in Room number 3, projection in Screening room přednášková par. 1 - The subject is a part of the following study plans:
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- Photography EN - Bachelor (optional subject)
- Photography EN - Master (optional subject)
- Erasmus (optional subject)
- Cinematography (optional subject)
- Cinema and Digital Media - Cinematography (optional subject)
- Cinema and Digital Media - Screenwriting (optional subject)
- Cinema and Digital Media - Directing (optional subject)