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The History of World Cinema 2

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Code Completion Credits Range Language Instruction Semester
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.

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 the social-cutural, economic and institutional, which defined cinema to a certain extent and which also influences them. This course is supplemented with regular screenings of selected films.

1940-60s

1. (15.2.) World and Czech Animated Film 1945 - 1960

Lecturer: Edgar Dutka

Screening:

2nd film:

Supplementary reading:

Dutka, Edgar: Minimum z dějin světové animace. NAMU, Praha 2004; Scénáristika animovaného filmu / minimum z historie české animace, NAMU, Praha 2006

2.(22.2.) Russian and German Cinema 1930-45 (film and propaganda)

Lecturer:Jan Bernard

Screening: Zid Sussˇ(Veit Harlan), DVD

2.film: Čapajev (Vasiljevové, 1934)

Supplementary reading: Jireš, Jaromil: Totalitní kýč (dostupné v knihovně FAMU); Taylor, Richard: Filmová propaganda:Sovětské Rusko a nacistické Německo. Academia, Praha 2016; Kašpar, Lukáš: Český hraný film a filmaři za protektorátu: propaganda, kolaborace, rezistence. Libri, Praha 2007

3. (1.3.) Scandinavia in 1960s and 70s.

Lecturer: Viera Langerová

Screening: Persona (1966) Ingmar Bergman

2nd. film Elvira Madiganová (1967) Bo Widerberg

4. (8.3.) 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. (15.3.) 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)

6. (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)

7. (29.3.) 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. (5.4.) Soviet Cinema of the 1960s

Lecturer: Tomáš Hála

Screening: Wings (1966, Larisa Šepiťko) film from NFA + The Boy and the Pigeon (1961, A. Končalovskij, DVD)

2nd.film: Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (Sergej Paradžanov, 1965, DVD)

Supplementary reading: Bernard, Jan: Národní kinematografie Sovětského svazu. ČsFÚ Praha, 1989

9. (12.4.) American Film Avant Garde 1940. – 60s

Lecturer: Martin Čihák

Screenig: M. Derenová, A. Hammid: At Land (1943); Kenneth Anger Fireworks (1947);

Robert Frank: Pull My Daisy (1959); Stan Vanderbeek: Science Friction ( 1959), Robert Breer: Eyewash (1959), Stan Brakhage: Mothlight (1963), Stan Brakhage: Dog Star Man (1961-64), Paul Sharits: T,O,U,C,H,I,N,G (1968), Bruce Conner: Report (1963-67), James Whitney: Lapis (1963-66), Jonas Mekas: Walden: Diaries, Notes & Sketches (1969).All films on DVD or VHS from the FAMU video library

Supplementary reading: P. Adams Sitnery: Visionary film.

10. (15.4.) 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. (26.4.) Asijské cinema up tothe 1960s

Lecturer: Jaromír Blažejovský

Screening: Onibaba (1964, dir. Kaneto Šindó), nebo Povídky o bledé luně po dešti (1953, Kendži Mizoguči) jeden z filmů z NFA

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

12. (3.5.) Rise of Latin American cinema and start of the new wave in Latin America

Lecturer: Viera Langerová

Screening: Black God, White Devil (1964) Glauber Rocha.

2nd. film: The Woman of the Port, (dir. Arcady Boytler)

Additional films: Blood of the Condor or The Principal Enemy - both directed by Jorge Sanjines or Rio, Northern Zone or Barren Lives both by Nelson Pereira dos Santos or The Green Wall by Armando Robles Godoy or Bye bye Brasil, by Carlos Diegues or Reed: Insurgent Mexico by Paul Leduc ,María Candelaria

13. (10.5.) Post-war American film film (to the end of the 1950s) I

Lecturer: Jan Bernard

Screening: Creature from the Black Lagoon (Jack Arnold), Marty (Delbert Mann)

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

13. (17.5.) Post-war American film film (to the end of the 1950s)) II

Lecturer: Jan Bernard

Screening: At High Noon (1952, F.Zinneman)

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.

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 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
room 124
Projection Room
(Lažanský palác)
BERNARD J.
09:00–11:25
(paralelka 1)room 107
Room No. 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 Jan BERNARD Projection Room
Lažanský palác 		paralelka 1
Wed 11:30–13:55 Jan BERNARD Room No. 1
Lažanský palác 		přednášková par. 1
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