Pentium History of Audiovision: The History of Animated Film 2

Subject guarantor:

Name of lecturer(s):

Learning outcomes of the course unit:

The course aim is to evoke an active interest in issues of animated film, introduce its history, important figures and the newest artistic trends.

Mode of study:

Lectures with screenings.

Prerequisites and co-requisites:

General knowledge of Czech and world animated film history.

Recommended optional programme components:

None

Course contents:

An expectation for completion of this course is regular attendance at lectures because there will be no chance to present material again and the inter-dependence of the topics are quite fixed. Both courses are completed with written and oral examinations by which the instructor will classify the students. For effectiveness in the course are texts of Minimum z dějin české animace („Minimum from the history of Czech Animation“) and God-willing, by the end of the semester there will be, as well, Minimum z dějin světové animace („Minimum from the History of International Animation“), with which the students can fill in the 'white areas', which may arise from rare absences at lectures.

FAMU

Prof. PhDr. Stanislav Ulver

ulver.st@volny.cz

11. Animovaný film 1960-1990

Since 1960 there have been intense spurts of change in animated film which do not only appear in traditional 'spheres of influence' in great studies but in a slew of other „non-traditional“ areas. John Halas in his book „Masters of Animation“ traces those changes in the following locations:

USA, Canada, Japan, Great Britain, Yugoslavia, Hungary, Italy, France, Czechoslovakia, Poland, The Soviet Union and The Netherlands. It seems that this geographic point of view is the most practical since in the given areas there is always an emphasis on that period which from the viewpoint of writers film the most fruitful. In some cases, persons (ex. Paul Driessen, George Dunning), which were concerned with migration between Europe and America the preference was on the „old country“.

USA

Jules Engel, Robert Breer, Whitneys

Canada

Frédéric Back, Caroline Leafová - Two Sisters, The Metamorphosis of Mr. Samsa, George Dunning - Yellow Submarine

Japan

Yoji Kuri, Kihachiro Kawamoto

Great Britain

Bob Godfrey, The Quay Brothers - Street of Crocodiles, Nick Park - The Wrong Trousers

Yugoslavia

Dušan Vukotić - Surogát (Surrogate), Zdenko Gasparović - Satiemanie

Hungary

Marcell Jankovics - Sisyphus

Italy

Bruno Bozzetto - Allegro non Troppo

France and Belgium

Paul Grimault - The King and the Mockingbird, Jean-François Laguionie - Wild Planet, Raoul Servais

Poland

Jan Lenica, Walerian Borowczyk - Renaissance, Jerzy Kucia

Russia and Estonia

jurij Norštejn - Tale of Tales, Igor Kovaljov - Hen, His Wife, Flying Nansen, Priit Pärn - 1895, Breakfast On The Grass.

Holandsko

Paul Driessen - „Ter land, ter zee en in de lucht“ („On Land, at Sea and in the Air“), Gerrit van Dijk - Pas a deux; Janneke; I Move, So I am.

Recommended Literature:

Edgar Dutka

John Halas, Masters of Animation, BBC Books, 1987.

Gianalberto Bendazzi, Cartoons, John Libbey, London 1994.

For comparison with domestic animation:

Animace a doba, SPOFT, Praha 2004

Recommended or required reading:

Jan Poš: Český animovaný film 1934 - 1994 (Krátký film a.s. 1994) nebo

Edgar Dutka: Animovaný film (kapitoly Jiří Trnka a film a Minimum z dějin české animace) (FAMU 2002)

Giannalberto Bendazzi: Cartoons - One Hundred Years of Cinema Animation (London 1996)

Edgar Dutka: Minimum z dějin světové animace (FAMU 2004)

Planned learning activities and teaching methods:

Lecture, screenings

Assessment methods and criteria:

Attendance and presentation of a paper focused on a selected writer.

Completion of a test supplemented if necessary by an exam.

Course web page:

Note:

The aforementioned student papers must be submitted at least 3 days in advance. For communications, students are asked to submit a functioning email and/or mobile phone number.

Further information:

No schedule has been prepared for this course

The subject is a part of the following study plans:

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