Contemporary Art Film 1

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373SUF1 ZK 3 4T English, Czech winter

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Learning outcomes of the course unit

Lecture on contemporary world art cinematography presents significant trends and filmmakers shooting in the last 10 years.

Mode of study

Lecture supplemented with examples and films screened in their entirety

Prerequisites and co-requisites

Knowledge of the English language - Films with English subtitles will be shown in lecture.

Course contents

The course will combine a summarial overview of basic production, distribution, technological, stylistic and topical tendencies in contemporary art film with deep analysis into the creations of individual countries and fillmmakers. The course is defined by artistic element of cinematography with and emphasis on the works and awarded filmmakers at recent prestigious festivals such as Cannes, Venice, Rotterdam or Sundance. The summary will include the last 10 years at maximum. Around seven general lectures are planned (about current tendencies in film narration, production and distribution strategies, documentaries, experimental films, animation, etc.). Along with this 19 geographically separated lectures (allowing an understanding of the production and social image of the given cinematography and, as well with be devoted to selected innovative filmmakers and works).

There will be several instructors lecturing, specializing in individual areas: Helena Bendová, Kamil Fila, Jindřiška Bláhová, Andrea Slováková, Eliška Děcká, David Čeněk and others.

Recommended or required reading

•Judith Aston – Sandra Gaudenzi – Mandy Rose (eds.): I-Docs: The Evolving Practices of Interactive Documentary. Columbia University Press, 2017.

•Brian Baker: Contemporary Masculinities in Fiction, Film and Television. Bloomsbury, 2016.

•Doris Baltruschat (ed.): Independent Filmmaking Around the Globe. University of Toronto Press, 2015.

•Mattias Frey: Extreme Cinema: The Transgressive Rhetoric of Today's Art Film Culture. Rutgers Unviersity, 2016.

•Rosalind Galt – Karl Schoonover (eds.): Queer Cinema in the World. Duke University Press, 2016.

•André Gaudreault – Philippe Marion: The End of Cinema?: A Medium in Crisis in the Digital Age. Columbia University press, 2015.

•Joel Gwynne (ed.): Transgression in Anglo-American Cinema: Gender, Sex, and the Deviant Body. Columbia University Přes, 2016.

•Kate Ince: The Body and the Screen: Female Subjectivities in Contemporary Women’s Cinema. Continuum, 2017.

•Aaron Kerner – Jonathan Knapp (eds.): Extreme Cinema: Affective Strategies in Transnational Media. Edinburgh Unviersity press, 2016.

•Geoff King: Indie 2.0 : Change and Continuity in Contemporary American Indie Film. I.B. Tauris, 2014.

•Remi Fournier Lanzoni: French Cinema: From Its Beginnings to the Present. Continuum, 2015.

•Mariana Liz: Euro-Visions: Europe in Contemporary Cinema. Bloomsbury, 2016.

•Tiago de Luca – Nuno Barradas Jorge (eds.): Slow Cinema. Edinburgh Unviersity press, 2016.

•Nikolaj Lübecker: The Feel-bad film. Edinburgh University press, 2015.

•Dominique Nasta: Contemporary Romanian Cinema. Columbia University press, 2013.

•Michele Schreiber: American Postfeminist Cinema: Women, Romance and Contemporary Culture. Edinburgh University press, 2015.

•Holly Willis: Fast Forward: The Future(s) of the Cinematic Arts. Columbia University Press, 2016.

•Brian Winston et al. (eds.): The Act of Documenting: Documentary Film in the 21st Century. Bloomsbury, 2017.

•Jason Wood: Last Words: Considering Contemporary Cinema. Columbia University Press, 2014.

Assessment methods and criteria

Grading will be in the oral exam which will cover the screenings and lecture material.

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