The Biograph

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Subject guarantor:

Viktor TAUŠ, Lubor DOHNAL

Name of lecturer(s):

Viktor TAUŠ, Lubor DOHNAL

Learning outcomes of the course unit:

Ability to perceive and set specific narrative steps into a historical context in the development of film language and its impact on the form of modern film narrative.

Mode of study:

Classes

Prerequisites and co-requisites:

Fundamental bearing in the history of cinema, ability to set into a period context. Knowledge of analyzed films and literature bases. Class participation and knowledge of the recommended readings / literature bases.

Recommended optional programme components:

The films of Orson Welles, which will be available at the Dept. The history of Cinema. Staging of Shakespear tragedies.

Course contents:

A semester series of lectures and analysis of the screening of - „Biography.“ Students are acquainted with the lives of particular selected filmmakers through their films. „Biography“ presents those works which have basically influenced the manner of film narration in relationship to the period context and personal development and destiny of the creator.

Recommended or required reading:

Peter Bogdanovich - This is Orson Welles

Andre Bazin - Orson Welles, A critical view

Michael Anderegg - Orson Welles, Shakespeare and popular culture

Shakespeare - McBeth, Othello, Jindřich IV / 1, 2

Franz Kafka - Proces

Isak Dinesen - Nesmrtelný příběh

Planned learning activities and teaching methods:

Each class will be comprised of two screenings of the same film accompanied by commentary focused on previously defined elements and subsequent discussion.

Assessment methods and criteria:

Credit is awarded for active approach in classes (discussions) and attentance with two possible absences per semester.

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Schedule for winter semester 2014/2015:

	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
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Thu	místnost 432 Učebna KSD 432 (Lažanský palác) DOHNAL L. 14:00–16:25 (paralelka 1)
Fri

Date	Day	Time	Tutor	Location	Notes	No. of paralel
	Thu	14:00–16:25	DOHNAL L.	Učebna KSD 432 Lažanský palác		paralelka 1

Schedule for summer semester 2014/2015:

The schedule has not yet been prepared

The subject is a part of the following study plans:

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