The History of Film Space

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Code Completion Credits Range Language Instruction Semester
311HFS ZK 3 20S English summer

Subject guarantor

Georgy BAGDASAROV

Name of lecturer(s)

Georgy BAGDASAROV

Learning outcomes of the course unit

Our ambition is to come to comprehension of film space as it is present in Western film tradition.

Mode of study

Seminar

Prerequisites and co-requisites

No

Course contents

One of the most important aims of Film is to frame the Space on the flat screen. Film history as seen from the point of view of both audience and filmmakers will be our hand in this pursuit. Ranging from Soviet montage school to Andre Basin and French New Wave, from D. W. Griffith to TV era we will analyze what influence narration has on film space or the other way round, how space is connected with narrative elements. In this regard, we will discuss the following aspects: how space expands the Film, what kind of space exists in the cinema, and how space appears in the Film until the moment when it disappears.

Recommended or required reading

Marilyn Fabe „Closely Watched Films“, University of California Press, 2004

Gilles Deleuze „?Cinema 1: The Movement-Image“, Trans. Hugh Tomlinson and Barbara Habberjam. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1986

Gilles Deleuze „Cinema 2: The Time-Image“, Trans. Hugh Tomlinson and Barbara Habberjam. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1989

Eds. Thomas Elsaesser, Adam Barker „Early cinema: space, frame, narrative“, British Film Institute, 1990

Jean-Pierre Oudart: „The Reality Effect“ and „Notes for a Theory of Representation“ in The Politics of Representation: Cahiers du Cinema: 1969-1972, Harvard University Press, 1989; p. 189

Mikhail Yampolsky „Transparency Painting: From Myth to Theater,“ in: Tekstura: Russian Essays on Visual Culture, Alla Efimova and Lev Manovich, eds., Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1993; p. 139

Assessment methods and criteria

You will be evaluated on your contribution and efforts to the class. The examinations include essay, brief presentation based on essay topic and discussion.

Attendance of the classes - 30%

Participation in discussion - 10%

Essay - 30%

Final Exam - 30%

Note

Instructor: Georgy Bagdasarov

E-mail: lapskojs@gmail.com

Schedule for winter semester 2018/2019:

The schedule has not yet been prepared

Schedule for summer semester 2018/2019:

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
room 307
Room No. 6
(Lažanský palác)
BAGDASAROV G.
18:10–19:45
(lecture parallel1)
Wed
Thu
Fri
Date Day Time Tutor Location Notes No. of paralel
Tue 18:10–19:45 Georgy BAGDASAROV Room No. 6
Lažanský palác 		lecture parallel1

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