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The History of World Cinema 2

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373DSK2 ZK 2 6/T Czech summer
Subject guarantor:
Jan BERNARD
Name of lecturer(s):
Jan BERNARD
Learning outcomes of the course unit:

The lecture and screening series aim, in the three semesters, is to provide a basic knowledge of the development of world cinema from its prehistory to the 1980s, particularly its most significant types, genres, currents, styles and figures from the aspect of the entire cinematic repository, including politics, economics, arts and from the viewpoint of lifestyle of the audience, etc.

The lectures and screenings are the basic knowledge, necessary for a better understanding of the context of the 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:

Knowledge of the history of world cinema up to 1945, general knowledge of world literature, fine arts, photography and world history. Knowledge of English as well.

Recommended optional programme components:

Independent study of presented literature or similar literature and „close readings“ of recommended films.

Course contents:

Three-semester lectures in the history of world film designed as a comprehensive introduction to the history of film for first and second year students. The lectures attempt, in accordance with so called new film history, to acquaint students not only with the aesthetic and biographic aspects of cinema (artistically significant artists and currents, their mutual relationships, links to other types of art, etc.) but as well with social-cutural, economic and institutional, with cinema defined to a certain extent by that era and which also influences them. This course is complemented with regular screenings of selected films.

1940-60s

1. (11.2.) World and Czech Animated Film 1945 - 1960

Lecturer: Stanislav Ulver

Screening: MELODY and TOOT, WHISTLE, PLUNK AND BOOM, ROOTY TOOT TOOT, Jules Verne

2.(18.2.) Russian and German Cinema 1930-45 (film and propaganda)

Lecturer:Jan Bernard

Screening: Zid Sussˇ(Veit Harlan), DVD

3. (25.2.) France and Britain 1930-45

Lecturer: Helena Bendová

Screening: Le Jour se leve (1939, Marcel Carné) film from NFA

2nd. film: Le Regle du jeu (1938, Jean Renoir))

4. (4.3.) Post-war Britain and Scandinavia

Lecturer: Michal Bregant

Screening: The Lavender Hill Mob (Charles Crichton) film from NFA

2nd. film: Ordet (1955, Carl Theodor Dreyer)

5. (11.3.) Post-war film in Italy and Germany

Lecturer: Vít Janeček

Screening: Ladri di Biciclette (1948, Vittorio De Sica)

2nd. film: Paisa (1946, Roberto Rossellini)

6. (18.3.) Post-War French Cinema

Lecturer: Helena Bendová

Screening: L'école des facteurs, (Jacques Tati) National Film Archives (NFA)

2nd film: Orphée (1949, Jean Cocteau, Library DVD)

7. (25.3.) France - new wave of the 60s and 70s

Lecturer: Vít Janeček

Screening: The Young Girls of Rochefort (1967, Jacques Demy, or Les Parapulies of Cherbourg) film from NFA

2nd. film: Au Hasard Balthazar (1966, Robert Bresson)

8. (1.4.) Soviet Cinema of the 1960s

Lecturer: Tomáš Hála

Screening: A esli eto lyubov? (Julij Rajman, 1961) NFA

2nd.film: Tini zabutkykh predkiv (Sergej Paradžanov, 1965, dvd)

9. (8.4.) Asian Cinema up to the 1960s

Lecturer: Jaromir

Screening: Onibaba (1964, Dir. Kaneto Shindo) or Tales of a Pale and Mysterious Moon After the Rain (1953, Kenji Mizoguchi) one film from NFA.

10. (15.4.)

2nd. film: Rašómon (1950, Akira Kurosawa)

Documentary film 1940-1959

Lecturer Peter Kubica

Screenings: Alain Resnais: Nuit et brouillard (1955), Jean Rouch: Moi un noir (1958); Samples from films: Frank Capra: Why We Fight (1942-1945), Jean Painleve: Le Vampire (1945), Joris Ivens: Indonesia Calling (1946), Robert Flaherty: Loisiana Story (1948), Georges Franju: Le sang des Betes (1949), Bert Haanstra: Spiegel van Holland (1950), Chris Marker: Lettre de Siberie (1957), Lionel Rogosin: On the Bowery (1957), Richard Leacock: Primary (1960)

Supplementary Readings: Erik Barnouw: Documentary: A History of the Non-Fiction Film, Jack C. Ellis, Betsy A. McLane: A New History Of Documentary Film; Guy Gauthier: Dokumentární film, jiná kinematografie; Bill Nichols: Úvod do dokumentárního filmu

11. (22.4.) Experimental film 1943-59

Lecturer: Martin Čihák

Screening: Meshes of the Afternoon (1943, M. Derenová, A. Hammid); Fireworks (1947, K. Anger);

Pull My Daisy (1959, R, Frank); Anticipation of the Night (1958, S. Brakhage)

/All these films are on DVD or VHS in the FAMU video library/

12. (29. 4) Rise of Latinamerican cinema and begin of the new wave in Latin America

Lecturer: David Čeněk

Screening: Blood of the Condor or Main Enemy - both directed by Jorge Sanjines or The Northern Suburbs of Rio or Parched Lives both by Nelson Pereira dos Santos or Green Wall, directed by Robloy Godes or Bye Bye Brasil, directed by Carlos diegues or Revolutionary Mexico, directed by Paul Leduc, Maria Candelaria

2nd film: Woman from the Harbor, d. Arcady Boytler

13. (6.5.) Postwar American film (to the end of the 1950s)

Lecturer: Jan Bernard

Screening: Creature from the Black Lagoon (Jack Arnold), Marty (Delbert Mann, partial). High Noon (F. Zinneman)

2nd. film: Sunset Boulevard (1950, Billy Wilder)

14. (14. 5.) Post-War American Film (til the end of the 50s) II

Lecturer: Jan Bernard

Screening: High Noon (1952, F Zimmerman)

2nd film: Rebel without a Cause (1955, Nicholas Ray)

Recommended or required reading:

Required:

Davida Bordwella and Kristin Thompson: Dějiny filmu, NAMU+NLN Praha 2007. (FAMU Students in day study have the opportunity to buy, until sold out, a limited number of this book at the FAMU Library with a discount.) It is sufficient to read only those parts of the book with cover the periods covered in the semester's lectures.

Supplementary:

D´Agostini, Paolo: Legendární filmy, Praha 1989; Sova, Dawn B.: Zakázané filmy, Praha 2005; Toterberg, Michael (ed): Lexikon světového filmu, Praha - Litvínov 2005)

Supplementary readings for individual lectures are mainly found in the syllabuses on the webpages of CAS.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods:

Lecture supplemented by film examples and studio screenings.

Assessment methods and criteria:

Each (of the three) semesters in the series is concluded with an oral exam in which one of the fundamental topics is tested. The second is supplementary and the third is about a film. (execept in very exceptional and significant cases, knowledge of the exact year of production of a film or phenomenon will not be required: +/- 5 year precision is sufficient, ex; half of the 20s, turn of the 40s to 50s, beginning of the 60s, etc.)

Attendance is a requirement for grading - attendance at screenings is required - 3 absences are allowed.

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

The aim of this lecture and screening cycle is, in three semesters, to give fundamental knowledge of the development of world cinema from its pre-history to the 1980s, particularly, the most important types, genres, directions, styles and persons from a standpoint of the overall cinema, i.e. including political, economic, artistic relationships and people's lifestyles, etc.

The lectures and screenings are the foundational knowledge necessary for a better understanding of the relationships of specialized lectures.

Further information:
This course is an elective for all AMU students
Schedule for winter semester 2014/2015:
The schedule has not yet been prepared
Schedule for summer 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
Mon
Tue
Wed
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
Wed 09:00–11:25 BERNARD J. Projekce FAMU
Lažanský palác 		paralelka 1
Wed 11:30–13:55 BERNARD J. Učebna 1
Lažanský palác 		přednášková par. 1
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