How are Comics Studies using Film Studies findings?

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Code Completion Credits Range Language Instruction Semester
300MKVF credit 1 6 hours (45 min) of instruction per semester, 21 to 26 hours of self-study English summer

Subject guarantor

Petra DOMINKOVÁ

Name of lecturer(s)

Petra DOMINKOVÁ

Contents

The lecture aimes to explain to the students how the film studies’ findings, or references to cinema as such, are used in comic studies. We will talk about the similarities and differences between these two “arts” - the seventh and the ninth. Students will also try to adopt one medium into the other (both ways), and I believe that a lively discussion on the similarities and differences between comics and film will follow.

Learning outcomes

The lecture aimes to explain to the students how the film studies’ findings, or references to cinema as such, are used in comic studies. We will talk about the similarities and differences between these two “arts” - the seventh and the ninth. Students will also try to adopt one medium into the other (both ways), and I believe that a lively discussion on the similarities and differences between comics and film will follow.

Prerequisites and other requirements

There are no requirements, besides being familiar with the movie Alien (1979), and comic book Alien: the Illustrated Story (1979) – it is available at this link: https://archive.org/details/AlienTheIllustratedStory/mode/2up?view=theater (= 19 hours of work)

Literature

Groensteen, Thierry. The System of Comics. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2007.

Groensteen, Thierry. Comics and Narration. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2013.

Evaluation methods and criteria

Students will receive credit for their participation and activity. The workshop will be divided into two parts - students will in groups, or pairs (depending on the number of participants) have to figure out how to “translate” a scene from the film into a comics, and – vice versa - how they would “translate” several pages from the comics into the film. I will choose the comics and movies that were already adapted, and we will compare the actual adaptation with the ones that the students will come up with on the spot.

Note

This workshop occurs at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague as part of the project “How are Comics Studies using Film Studies findings?” with the support of the Institutional Endowment for the Long Term Conceptual Development of Research Institutes, as provided by the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic in the year 2022-2024.

Further information

This course is an elective for all AMU students

Schedule for winter semester 2023/2024:

The schedule has not yet been prepared

Schedule for summer semester 2023/2024:

Date Day Time Tutor Location Notes No. of paralel
10.05.2024 09:50–14:25 Petra DOMINKOVÁ Room No. 3
Lažanský palác		 lecture parallel1

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