Thoughts on the Invention of Film 1

Subject guarantor:

Miroslav PETŘÍČEK

Name of lecturer(s):

Miroslav PETŘÍČEK

Learning outcomes of the course unit:

Inter-disicpline as a manner of consideration which enables the search for relationships among various areas without attempting to researching phenomena and reducing them to a minimal common denominator.

Mode of study:

Lecture, discussion, essay and text analyses.

Prerequisites and co-requisites:

Provided by the lecturer

Recommended optional programme components:

None

Course contents:

Thoughts on the invention of film: A wider context of theory considerations linked to image technology; philosophic investigation of time, narration and movement. Phenomonology and its limits (conepts of events, discontinuity and simultaneousness). Relationships among various media (film, literature, visual art) and between technology and culture.

Basic issues: What existed before story and narration? Concepts of events and philosophy of the second half of 20th century and do not depend only on temporality, but rather on the material of reality, and therefore the question of story and narration moves toward to ontology. In this investigation is photography and film, respectively the photogenity of film (index and icon), therefore it is possible to confirm: in that estimation in which film is a narration, it stops being a film (Sean Cubitt). Through the analysis of film it is possible to permeate the conditions for the potential of story and narration. Dependent upon this is, also, the concept of text and discourse which arises not only in semiology but in philosophy as well.

Course aim: not an introduction to modern thought, rather active work with this thought and its concepts, experimenting with borders which needlessly divides those occupations.

Recommended or required reading:

Giorgio AGAMBEN, Infancy and History. On the Destruction of Experience. Verso, London New York, 2007.

Giorgio AGAMBEN, Prostředky bez účelu. Poznámky o politice, Přel. Naděžda Bonaventurová. Sociologické nakladatelství Praha, 2003.

Derek ATTRIDGE, „Derrida and the Questioning of Literature“, in: Jacques DERRIDA, Acts of Literature. Ed. by Derek Attridge, Routledge, New York, London 1992.

Noël BURCH, La Lucarne de l´infini. Naissance du langage cinématographique. Paris, Nathan 1990.

Noël CARROLL, Jinhee CHOI (eds.), Philosophy of Film and Motion Pictures, Blackwell 2006

Dorrit COHN, Distinction of Fiction, John Hopkins UP, Baltimore, 1998. (Čes. překl. Dorrit COHNOVÁ, Co dělá fikci fikcí. Přel. M. Orálek a V. Klusíková, Academia, Praha 2009.

Sean CUBITT, The Cinema Effect. The MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2005.

Mark CURRIE, About Time. Narrative, Fiction and the Philosophy of Time. Edinburgh University Press, 2007.

Georges DIDI-HUBERMAN, La ressemblance par contact. Archéologie, anachronisme et modernité de l'empreinte, Ed. de Minuit, Paris 2008

Carlo GINSBURG, Spurensicherung. Die Wissenschaft auf der Suche nach sich selbst. Wagenbach, Berlin 2002

Edmund HUSSERL, Späte Texte über Zeitkonstitution (1929-1934). Die C-Manuskripte. Hrsg. von Dieter Lohmar, Husserliana Materialien Bd. VIII, Springer 2006.

Milan JANKOVIČ, Dílo v pohybu, Academia 2009.

Siegfried KRACAUER, Theory of Film. The Redemption of Physical Reality, Princeton 1997

Jurij M. LOTMAN, Semiotika filmu a problémy filmovej estetiky, Slovenský filmový ústav, Bratislava 2008.

Charles Sanders PEIRCE, Collected Papers of Ch.S. Peirce, I.-VI, ed. by Ch. Harsthorne and P. Weis. Harvaŕd U.P., Cambridge Mass. 1931-35; VII.-VIII. ed. by A.W. Burks, Harvaŕd U.P., Cambridge Mass. 1958.

Claude ROMANO, L'événement et le monde, Presses Universitaires de France, 1998.

Claude ROMANO, L'événement et le temps, Presses Universitaires de France, Paris 1999.

Claude ROMANO, Il y a, Presses Universitaires de France, Paris 2003.

Alfred North WHITEHEAD, Process and Reality

Planned learning activities and teaching methods:

Lectures

Assessment methods and criteria:

Final essay on a topic related to lecture content.

Course web page:

Note:

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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	místnost FF 217 FF UK - učebna 217 () PETŘÍČEK M. 17:30–19:00 (přednášková par. 1)
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Fri
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Date	Day	Time	Tutor	Location	Notes	No. of paralel
	Mon	17:30–19:00	PETŘÍČEK M.	FF UK - učebna 217		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:

• 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 (qualification subject, 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)