Cooperation with Czech TV in the field of Documentary film

Display Schedule

Subject guarantor:

Alice RŮŽIČKOVÁ

Name of lecturer(s):

Lucie KRÁLOVÁ, Alice RŮŽIČKOVÁ

Learning outcomes of the course unit:

Students will be introduced to the contemporary organizational structure of Czech Television (Creative productions group system), particularly with their approval, implementation and dramaturgical procedures in documentary film.

Mode of study:

classes, collaboration

Prerequisites and co-requisites:

None

Course contents:

How do the Czech Television institutional mechanisms form contemporary documentary film?

What does documentary dramaturgy bring us and what does it look like at Czech Television?

In what manner does Czech Television today look at the documentary film area?

How is this related to genres, modes, and forms? To its creators and dramaturgists?

What is the image of a FAMU student in the current television struture?

Czech Television Dramaturgist: You haven't yet understood what television is all about?

LK: Perhaps not...

Czech Television Dramaturgist: It about not having a blank screen.

(diary, 2002, my first collaboration with Czech Television)

Students will be introduced to the contemporary organizational structure of Czech Television (Creative productions group system), particularly with their approval, implementation and dramaturgical procedures in documentary film.

In connection with the study perspective on production culture I will attempt to outline the institution of Czech Television as a particular type of production cutlure; with their rituals, narratives , internal complexity, processes, institutional mechanism and ideas about the participants in roles, topics and forms of documentary film inside the television structure.

More detailed attention will be devoted to how Czech Television, today, presents new ideas, what the debates about film / programs are in various phases of their development. We will pose questions regarding institutional processes and mechanisms influencing contemporary discussions about documentary film at Czech Television; how television defines documentary film and individual types representative documentaries. A more detailed look will be devoted to the function of dramaturgy in the television structure.

This module is an extension of long-standing ethnographic research in the institutional mechanisms of Czech Television and it influence on documentary film, whichLucie Králová presented in her recently completed dissertation „Understanding Television. The Production Culture of Czech Television in Documentary film 1993 - 2017“ (available at the FAMU Library).

Recommended or required reading:

Ivo Bystřičan. Ideologie z obrazovky. Analýza ideologie v současných reality TV formátech České televize. [diplomová práce]. Praha: Akademie múzických umění Praha, Fakulta filmová a televizní, Katedra dokumentární tvorby, 2014.

John Caldwell, Cultures of Production: Studying Industry's Deep Texts, Reflexive Rituals,

and Managed Self-Disclosures. In: Jennifer Holt – Alisan Perren (eds.), Media Industries: History, Theory, and Method. Oxford: Blackwell 2009, s. 199–212

Lucie Česálková,Družná nevraživost. Pět zastavení nad současným českým dokumentem. In: Lucie Česálková (ed.), Generace Jihlava. Brno, Praha: Větrné mlýny, AMU 2014, s. 36–74

Jan Gogola ml. Smrt dokumentárnímu filmu – Ať žije film – Od díla k dění. [diplomová práce]. Praha: Akademie múzických umění. Filmová a televizní fakulta. Katedra dokumentární tvorby, 2001

Francoise Jost. Realita/fikce – říše klamu. Praha: NAMU. Centrum audiovizuálních studií, překlad Ladislav Šerý, 2006

Lucie Králová. „Head and Stomach”: Formát masterclass jako východisko pro zkoumání představ o dokumentárním filmu v systému televize veřejné služby: Současné trendy v oblasti dokumentárního filmu v Evropě v podání decision makerů z televizí veřejné služby z Dánska, Švédska a České republiky“. Iluminace, 2016, roč. 28, č. 4, s. 61-95

Lucie Králová. „Odpor a jistota: kritické poznámky k televiznímu provozu v oblasti dokumentu.“ Film a doba 60, 2014, č. 4, s. 176–185

Lucie Králová. „Systém-autor-obrazy“ In: Jadwiga Hučkova - Jan Křipač - Iwona Lyco (eds).

Český a polský dokumentární film v éře europeizace, Praha: NFA, 2015, s. 61-73

Assessment methods and criteria:

90% attendance and class participation

Course web page:

Note:

Lucie Králová

Lucie Králová studied at the Humanities Faculty at Charles University and at the Documentary Dept. at FAMU, where in 2017 she defended her dissertation 'Understanding Television.„ Production culture of Czech Television in the area of documentary film 1993 - 2017. She has worked as a director, scriptwriter and dramaturgist working with independent producers and Czech Television. She also teaches and lectures at various higher-learning institutions (particularly KFS UK, FAMU). Her films have been shown at a number of international film festivals and won many awards; ex: The Crystal Globe at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival for the feature “Lost Holiday," twice awarded for best Czech documentary film of the year at the International Festival Documentary Film Jihlava (Ill-fated Child, Sold). Currently she is preparing her new feature-length film and also is working in dramaturgy.

Selected films:

•Zlopověstné dítě (2003) / Nadtrpaslík – Überzwerg (2003) /Aqua Fosilot Medica (2004)

•Děti z Hartmanic (2005) /Prodáno (2005) / Hranice pachu (2006),

•Ztracená dovolená (2007) / Naslouchači snů (2007) /

•Pahrbek český (2009) / ProStory: Život v konceptu a Huť architektury (2011)

•Jak se chovat (2015), Nová věčnost (2015) Hledání nadreality (2016) ad.

Further information:

This course is an elective for all students of this school

Schedule for winter semester 2017/2018:

The schedule has not yet been prepared

Schedule for summer semester 2017/2018:

Date	Day	Time	Tutor	Location	Notes	No. of paralel
23.03.2018		09:50–16:00	Lucie KRÁLOVÁ	Room No. 217 Lažanský palác		paralelka 1

The subject is a part of the following study plans: