History of Stage Design 2
| Code | Completion | Credits | Range | Language Instruction | Semester |
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| 203DSF2 | Z | 6 | 3T | Czech | summer |
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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.
Schedule for winter semester 2018/2019:
The schedule has not yet been prepared
Schedule for summer semester 2018/2019:
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| Date | Day | Time | Tutor | Location | Notes | No. of paralel |
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| Fri | 13:00–14:00 | Vlasta KOUBSKÁ | Zasedací místnost Karlova 26, Praha 1 |
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The subject is a part of the following study plans
- Directing for Dramatic Theatre in English (M.A.) (optional subject)
- Stage Design - Film and Television (M.A.) (required subject)
- Stage Design (M.A.) (required subject)