History of Stage Design 2

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Subject guarantor:

Vlasta KOUBSKÁ

Name of lecturer(s):

Vlasta KOUBSKÁ

Learning outcomes of the course unit:

Introduce students to modern 20th century set-design considering film set-design.

Mode of study:

Lecture, discussion, analysis of presentation of productions.

Prerequisites and co-requisites:

203DSF1

Course contents:

Lectures and classes with presentation of the most important set design work of the Czech Theatre Avant Garde of the 1920's and 30's. A paper on a selected topic in the history of Avant Garde set design in film. Searching for sources of inspiration and contexts of film set design from the history of theatre and photography

- Rise of Czech modern set design and costuming

- Modern Czech theatre costuming

- Czech Avant Garde set design

- Vlastislav Hofman and the beginnings of Czech Theatre Expressionism

- Josef Čapek - relation of painting to set design

- František Troester - Scene urbanism and imagination

- Theatregraph, D 34, E.F. Burian, Laterna Magika - stage and film

- Alexandr Vladimír Hrska and Antonin Heythum - do Fauvism and Constructionism exist in set design

- František Zelenka - pre-war activity and Terezín

- Bedřich Feuerstein - purism or surrealism

- František Muzika - poetic surrealism

- Karel Svolinský, Jiří Trnka, František Tichý as set designers

- Josef Svoboda and new set design technology.

Recommended or required reading:

-Ptáčková V.: Česká scénografie XX. století, Praha 1982

-Černý J. a kolektiv: Dějiny českého divadla, díl III., díl IV., Praha 1983

-Obst M., Scherl A.: K dějinám české divadelní avantgardy, Praha 1962

-Píša A. M.: Divadelní avantgarda, Praha 1978

-Monografie jednotlivých scénografů vydané Divadelním ústavem

-Sadoul G., Dějiny filmu od Lumiera až do doby současné, Praha Orbis,1958

Assessment methods and criteria:

75% attendance at lectures and classes, independent creation of the course paper and its presentation (approx. 10 pages of text), oral credit.

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Note:

Schedule for winter semester 2017/2018:

The schedule has not yet been prepared

Schedule for summer semester 2017/2018:

	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
Thu
Fri	room S202 Zasedací místnost (Karlova 26, Praha 1) KOUBSKÁ V. 08:30–10:00 (přednášková par. 1)room () KOUBSKÁ V. 13:00–14:00 (přednášková par. 1)

Date	Day	Time	Tutor	Location	Notes	No. of paralel
	Fri	08:30–10:00	Vlasta KOUBSKÁ	Zasedací místnost Karlova 26, Praha 1		přednášková par. 1
	Fri	13:00–14:00	Vlasta KOUBSKÁ			přednášková par. 1

The subject is a part of the following study plans:

• Stage Design - Film and Television (M.A.) (required subject)
• Stage Design (M.A.) (required subject)