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The History of World Cinema 1

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373DSK1 ZK 2 6/T Czech winter
Subject guarantor:
Jan BERNARD
Name of lecturer(s):
Jan BERNARD
Learning outcomes of the course unit:

The aim of the study is, in three semesters, to acquire a basic knowledge of the development of international cinematography from pre-history to the 1980s. This will include the most significant types, genres, directions, styles and personalities from the viewpoint of the whole scope of cinematography, including politcal, economic, artistic relationships, life-style and the like. Basic lecture information is supplemented by study of the course literature and individual viewings of recommended films.

The lectures and screenings are the fundamentals of the knowledge necessary for a better comprehension of related specialized lectures.

Mode of study:

Lecture supplemented by film samples and study projects.

Information from lecture is supplemented by study of presented literature and individual „close reading“ of recommended films.

Prerequisites and co-requisites:

Lectures are intended for 1st year students and only requires a knowledge of world history, geography, literature, visual arts, theatre and the like at the primary school level. A certain level of English is required for reading of subject literature and subtitles of presented films.

Recommended optional programme components:

General history of cinema:

David Cook: A history of narrative film. New York 1990.

Gilles Deleuze: Film 1. Obraz-pohyb. Praha 2000.

Gilles Deleuze: Cinema 2. Time-image. London 1989.

Enno Patalas; Ulrich Gregor: Dejiny filmu. Bratislava 1968.

Course contents:

For 1st year students

This three-semester lecture on the history of world cinema offers a complex review of world cinema history for first- and second-year students. In conformity with „new film history“ the lecture attempts to acquaint students not just with the aesthetic and biographic dimensions of cinema (artistically important figures and trends, links between trends, links to other art forms, etc.) but also with the socio-cultural, economic and institutional context that shaped the cinema of a given era and that conversely was shaped by it. The course includes regular screenings of selected films.

Coordinator: Prof. PhDr. Jan Bernard, CSc. (jan.bernard@famu.cz)

Location: FAMU Screening Room, Weds 09.00 - 11.25, U1 11.30 - 13.55

Requirements for successful completion of the course:

1) Reading of required literature, that is, the books: David Bordwell; Kristin Thompson: Film History: An Introduction. McGraw-Hill, 1994 or the Czech edition „Historie Filmu“, several copies available in the FAMU library. For the test concluding each semester, it is sufficient to read all the parts of those books which cover the periods covered in lectures in the given semester.

Gerneral supplementary literature for lectures (D´Agostini, Paolo: Legendární filmy, Praha 1989; Sova, Dawn B.: Zakázané filmy, Praha 2005; Toterberg, Michael (ed): Lexikon světového filmu, Praha ? Litvínov 2005). The supplementary literature for individual lectures is largely found in the syllabuses. (The supplementary literature is not required. It only serves as help for student studies in subsequent years.)

2) Viewing compulsory films

An inseparable part of the lecture material is the viewing of 2-3 compulsory films, of which at least one will be shown at the school in the lecture. The others must be viewed by the students independent of the lecture. With the exception of some films shown during lectures, all compulsory films are available on VHS or DVD in the FAMU video library.

Be aware that the test or exam one question will focus on the verification of knowledge of the compulsory films.

3) Knowledge of the lecture material.

Grading:

Each of the three semester series of the History of Film is concluded with an exam in which one fundamental topics is tested, as second supplementary question is on one film. Aside from some very important cases, the exact year of production is not required. It is sufficient to place it within +/-5 years. For example: The first/second half of the 1920s, turn of the 1940s to 50s, beginning of the 1960s, etc.)

History up to 1945 (for first-year students)

1. (3.10.) Early film (1895-1907) and the history of media

Lecturer: Vít Janeček

Films: Werner Nekes: Media Magica parts I., IV. and V, films by the Lumiér brothers and Georgese Méliése, Brightonské school films (DVD)

2. (10.10.) History of Photography - a glimpse into the basic developmental turnovers in the XX.century

Lecturers: Pavel Scheufler, Robert Silverio

Screenings: photos which are an integral part of the lecture.

3. (17.10) 1908 - 20 in the USA and Europe: established narrative

Lecturer: Jan Bernard

Films: Broken Blossoms (1919, David Wark Griffith) DVD + The Treasure of Arne (1919, M. Stiller)

2nd. and 3rd films: Intolerance (1916, David Wark Griffith); The Phantom Carriage (1921, Victor Sjostrom)

Editing documentary: Kevin Brownlow, David Gill: Another - European Cinema I,1995, 55´; Melvyn Bragg: Lilian Gish, 1983, 25´; David Gill, Kevin Brownlow: D.W. Griffith - The Father of Film I-III, 1993, 150´

4. (24.10.) Soviet Arranged Cinema of the 1920s

Lecturer: Martin Čihák

Screenings:Ten Days that Shook the World (1927, Sergej Ejzenštejn) film NFA

2nd. film: Mother (1926, Vsevold Pudovkin)

5. (31.10.) France 1920s

Lecturer: Vít Janeček

Screening:: Straw Hat (1927, René Clair) film NFA

6. (7.11.) Germany 1920s

Lecturer: Michal Bregant

Screenings: The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920, Robert Wiene, DVD), Nosferatu (1922, Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau, DVD)

2nd. film: Metropolis (1927, Fritz Lang)

7. (14.11.) USA 1920s

Lecturer: Jan Bernard

Screening: Greed (1925, Erich von Stroheim, VHS)

2nd. film: The General Poster (1927, Buster Keaton, DVD)

8. (21.11.) Experimental film of the 1920s

Lecturer: Stanislav Ulver

Projekce: L'âge d'or (1930, Luis Bunuel, Salvador Dali) film NFA

2nd.-4th. film: Only Hours (1926, Alberto Cavalcanti), ? propos de Nice (1929, Jean Vigo), Symphonie diaganale (Viking Eggeling, 1924)

9. (28.11.) Dokumentary film up to 1940

Lecturer: Vít Janeček

Screening: Chang (l927, Merian S. Cooper, Ernst Schoedsack, DVD)

2nd. film The Man with the Movie Camera (1929, Dziga Vertov, DVD)

3rd. film: The Fall of the Romanov Dynasty (1927, Esfir Šub)

10. (5.12.) Transition to sound, color and the style of the 1930s

Lecturer: Vít Janeček

Screening: The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (1933, Fritz Lang, DVD)

2nd film: Under the Roofs of Paris (1930, René Clair)

11. (12.12.) Hollywood 1930-45 I. (figures of film classics)

Lecturer: Jan Bernard

Compulsory films: Citizen Kane (1941, Orson Welles, DVD)

2nd. film: Gone with the Wind (1939, Victor Fleming)

12. (19.12.) Hollywood 1930-45 II. (genre film)

Lecturer: Jan Bernard

Screenings:: Duck Soup (1933, Leo McCarey, dvd), Stagecoach (1939, John Ford) DVD

2nd. film: The Deep Sleep (1946, Howard Hawks)

Edited Documentaries:

Kevin Brownlow: Universal Horror ( Historie hororu), 1998, 96´ ; D.W. Griffith: The Father of Film (D.W. Griffith - Otec filmu I-III), 1993, 150´; Buster Keaton: A Hard Act to Follow, 1987; I'm King Kong!: The Exploits of Merian C. Cooper, 2005; Cecil B. DeMille: American Epic, 2004

Cinema Europe: The Other Hollywood (European Cinema)

- The End of an Era (1995)

- Opportunity Lost (1995)

- The Music of Light (1995)

- The Unchained Camera (1995)

- Where It All Began (1995)

Martin Scorsese, Michael Henry Wilson: A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies (A Century of Film), 1995, 225´

Gangster Chronicles I, II, 1998,100´

Recommended or required reading:

Required:

David Bordwell; Kristin Thompson: Film History: An Introduction. McGraw-Hill, 2003. česky: Dějiny filmu, AMU-LN, Praha 2007 nebo

W.W.Dixon-G.A. Foster: A Short History of Film , Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, New Jersey, 2008

(příslušné kapitoly)

Co je fotografie, 150 let fotografie - katalog, Videopress, Praha 1989

Supplementary:

obecné dějiny kinematografie:

David Cook: A history of narrative film. New York 1990.

Gilles Deleuze: Film 1. Obraz-pohyb. Praha 2000.

Gilles Deleuze: Cinema 2. Time-image. London 1989.

Enno Patalas; Ulrich Gregor: Dejiny filmu. Bratislava 1968.

Editing documents:

Kevin Brownlow: Universal Horror ( Historie hororu), 1998, 96´ ;; D.W. Griffith: Father of Film (D.W. Griffith ? Otec filmu I-III), 1993, 150´; Buster Keaton: A Hard Act to Follow, 1987; I'm King Kong!: The Exploits of Merian C. Cooper, 2005; Cecil B. DeMille: American Epic, 2004

Cinema Europe: The Other Hollywood (Evropská kinematografie - Jiný Hollywood)

- End of an Era (1995)

- Opportunity Lost (1995)

- The Music of Light (1995)

- The Unchained Camera (1995)

- Where It All Began (1995)

Martin Scorsese, Michael Henry Wilson: A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies (Století filmu), 1995, 225´

Gangsterská kronika I, II, 1998,100´

Planned learning activities and teaching methods:

Lecture + class screenings

Assessment methods and criteria:

Each (of three) semesters of the History of Film cycle is an exam in which the student is queried about one basic topics, a second supplementary question about a film (aside from exceptional and significant cases the exact date of production of a film or phenomenon will not be required: It is enough to arrange them into a +/- 5 year range, ex: half of the 20s, turn of the 40s to 50s, beginning of the 60s, etc.).

Course web page:
http://cas.famu.cz/
Note:

The aim of the lecture series and screenings is, in three semesters, to provide a basic knowledge of the development of world cinema from its pre-history to the 1980s, particularly the most important types, genres, trends, styles and figures from the viewpoint of overall cinematic depository, including political, economic and artistic contexts from the viewpoint of the lifestyle of the population, etc.

Lectures and screenings are the foundation of knowledge necessary for a better understanding of the contexts of specialized lectures.

Further information:
This course is an elective for all AMU students
Schedule for winter semester 2013/2014:
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 124
Projekce FAMU
(Lažanský palác)
BERNARD J.
09:00–11:25
(paralelka 1)místnost 107
Učebna 1
(Lažanský palác)
BERNARD J.
11:30–13:55
(přednášková par. 1)
Thu
Fri
Date Day Time Tutor Location Notes No. of paralel
Fri 09:00–11:25 BERNARD J. Projekce FAMU
Lažanský palác 		paralelka 1
Fri 11:30–13:55 BERNARD J. Učebna 1
Lažanský palác 		přednášková par. 1
Schedule for summer semester 2013/2014:
The schedule has not yet been prepared
The subject is a part of the following study plans:
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