The History of Film Space
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| Code | Completion | Credits | Range | Language Instruction | Semester |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 311HFS | ZK | 3 | 20S | English | summer |
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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
Further information
No schedule has been prepared for this course
The subject is a part of the following study plans
- Montage-1920 (required optional subject)
- Cinema and Digital Media - Directing-1819 (required optional subject)
- Cinema and Digital Media - Directing_1920 (required optional subject)
- Cinema and Digital Media - Screenwriting-1819 (required optional subject)
- Cinema and Digital Media - Screenwriting_1920 (required optional subject)