The Biograph

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Subject guarantor:

Viktor TAUŠ

Name of lecturer(s):

Viktor TAUŠ

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. Perception of one's own path in film in the context of links to tradition. Ability to perceive a film/script a student is working on in the context of their own path. Particulars for scriptwriting students will approach film directing as an adaptive art in the sense of visual motifs and final „re-write“ of the script.

Mode of study:

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

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.

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

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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Further information:

This course is an elective for all students of this school

Schedule for winter semester 2015/2016:

The schedule has not yet been prepared

Schedule for summer semester 2015/2016:

	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 432 Učebna KSD 432 (Lažanský palác) TAUŠ V. 09:30–12:45 (přednášková par. 1)
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Date	Day	Time	Tutor	Location	Notes	No. of paralel
	Mon	09:30–12:45	Viktor TAUŠ	Učebna KSD 432 Lažanský palác		přednášková par. 1

The subject is a part of the following study plans:

• Scriptwriting and Dramaturgy - Master (qualification subject, optional subject)