The Biograph 2
Code | Completion | Credits | Range | Semester |
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301BG2 | Z | 1 | 4/T | summer |
- Subject guarantor:
- Viktor TAUŠ
- Name of lecturer(s):
- Viktor TAUŠ
- Learning outcomes of the course unit:
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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:
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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:
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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:
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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:
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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:
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Credit is awarded for active approach in classes (discussions) and attentance with two possible absences per semester.
- Course web page:
- Note:
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No comments
- Further information:
- This course is an elective for all students of this school
- Schedule for winter semester 2016/2017:
- The schedule has not yet been prepared
- Schedule for summer semester 2016/2017:
- The schedule has not yet been prepared
- The subject is a part of the following study plans: