The History of World Cinema 2

Code	Completion	Credits	Range	Language Instruction	Semester
373DSK2	ZK	2	6/T	Czech	summer

Subject guarantor:

Jan BERNARD

Name of lecturer(s):

Jan BERNARD

Learning outcomes of the course unit:

The lecture and screening series aim, in the three semesters, is to provide a basic knowledge of the development of world cinema from its prehistory to the 1980s, particularly its most significant types, genres, currents, styles and figures from the aspect of the entire cinematic repository, including politics, economics, arts and from the viewpoint of lifestyle of the audience, etc.

The lectures and screenings are the basic knowledge, necessary for a better understanding of the context of the specialized lectures.

Mode of study:

Lecture supplemented by film samples and study projects.

Information from lecture is supplemented by study of presented literature and individual „close reading“ of recommended films.

Prerequisites and co-requisites:

Knowledge of the history of world cinema up to 1945, general knowledge of world literature, fine arts, photography and world history. Knowledge of English as well.

Recommended optional programme components:

Independent study of presented literature or similar literature and „close readings“ of recommended films.

Course contents:

1940-60s

1. (13.2.) World and Czech Animated 1945 - 1960

Lecturer: Stanislav Ulver

Screening: MELODY and TOOT, WHISTLE, PLUNK AND BOOM, ROOTY TOOT TOOT, VYNÁLEZ ZKÁZY

2.(20.2.) Russian and German Cinema 1930-45 (film and propaganda)

Lecturer:Jan Bernard

Screening: Lenin in October (1937, Michail Romm, Dimitrij Vasiljev) film from NFA (National Film Archives)

3. (27.2.) France and Britain 1930-45

Lecturer: Helena Bendová

Screening: Le Jour se leve (1939, Marcel Carné) film from NFA

2nd. film: Le Regle du jeu (1938, Jean Renoir))

4. (6.3.) Britain and Post-war Scandinavia

Lecturer: Michal Bregant

Screening: The Lavender Hill Mob (Charles Crichton) film from NFA

2nd. film: Ordet (1955, Carl Theodor Dreyer)

5. (13.3.) Post-war film in Italy and Germany

Lecturer: Vít Janeček

Screening: Ladri di Biciclette (1948, Vittorio De Sica)

2nd. film: Paisa (1946, Roberto Rossellini)

6. (20.3.) Rise of Latin-america cinema and commencement of new waves in Latin America

Lecturer: David Čeněk

Screening: Yawal Mallku or Jatum Auka - both directed by Jorge Sanjines or Rio Zona Norte or Vidas secas both by Nelson Pereira dos Santos or La Muralla Verde directed by Armando Robles Godoy or Bye bye Brasil, directed by Carlos Diegues or Reed: Mexico Insurgente režie Paul Leduc ,María Candelaria

2nd. film: La Mujer del Puerto, dir. Arcady Boytler

7. (27.3.) France - new wave of the 60s and 70s

Lecturer: Vít Janeček

Screening: The Young Girls of Rochefort (1967, Jacques Demy, or Les Parapulies of Cherbourg) film from NFA

2nd. film: Au Hasard Balthazar (1966, Robert Bresson)

8. (3.4.) Asian cinema to the 1960s

Lecturer: Jan Bernard

Screening: Onibaba (1964, Dir. Kaneto Shindo) or Ugetsu Monogatari (1953, Kenji Mizoguchi) both films from NFA.

2nd film: Rashomon (1950, Akira Kurosawa)

9. (10.4.) Dokumentary film 1940-59

Lecturer: Petr Kubica

Screening: Alain Resnais: Nuit et brouillard (1955), Jean Rouch: Moi un noir (1958); Film Samples: Frank Capra: Why We Fight (1942-1945), Jean Painlevé: Le vampire (1945), Joris Ivens: Indonesia Calling (1946), Robert Flaherty: Louisiana Story (1948), Georges Franju: Le sang des betes (1949), Bert Haanstra: Spiegel van Holland (1950), Chris Marker: Lettre de Sibérie (1957), Lionel Rogosin: On the Bowery (1957), Richard Leacock: Primary (1960)

Supplementary readings: Erik Barnouw: Documentary: A History of the Non-Fiction Film, Jack C. Ellis, Betsy A. McLane: A New History Of Documentary Film; Guy Gauthier: Dokumentární film, jiná kinematografie; Bill Nichols: Úvod do dokumentárního filmu

10. (17.4.) Soviet cinema of the 60s

Lecturer: Tomáš Hála

Screening: Mne Dvadtsat let (Marlen Chuciev, 1966)

2nd.film: Tini zabutkykh predkiv (Sergej Paradžanov, 1965, dvd)

11. (24.4.) Experimental film 1943-59

Lecturer: Martin Čihák

Screening: Meshes of the Afternoon (1943, M. Derenová, A. Hammid); Fireworks (1947, K. Anger);

Pull My Daisy (1959, R, Frank); Anticipation of the Night (1958, S. Brakhage)

/All these films are on DVD or VHS in the FAMU video library/

12. and 13. (1. and 9.5.) State holidays - no classses. Omitted topics - French post-war cinema and Asian Cinema II (mainly Japan in the 50s and 60s) These remain valid for the exam. They must be studied independently.

14. (15.5.) Postwar American film (to the end of the 1950s)

Lecturer: Jan Bernard

Screening: Creature from the Black Lagoon (Jack Arnold), Marty (Delbert Mann, partial). High Noon (F. Zinneman)

2nd. film: Sunset Boulevard (1950, Billy Wilder)

Recommended or required reading:

Required:

David Bordwell; Kristin Thompson:Dějiny filmu, AMU-LN nebo W.W.Dixon - G.A. Foster: A Short History of Film , Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, New Jersey, 2008(příslušné kapitoly)

Supplementary:

General history of cinematography:

David Cook: A history of narrative film. New York 1990.

Gilles Deleuze: Film 1. Obraz-pohyb. Praha 2000.

Gilles Deleuze: Cinema 2. Time-image. London 1989.

Enno Patalas; Ulrich Gregor: Dejiny filmu. Bratislava 1968.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods:

Lecture supplemented by film examples and studio screenings.

Assessment methods and criteria:

Each (of three) semesters of the History of Film cycle is an exam in which the student is queried about one basic topics, a second supplementary question about a film (aside from exceptional and significant cases the exact date of production of a film or phenomenon will not be required: It is enough to arrange them into a +/- 5 year range, ex: half of the 20s, turn of the 40s to 50s, beginning of the 60s, etc.).

Course web page:

http://cas.famu.cz/

Note:

Further information:

This course is an elective for all AMU students

Schedule for winter semester 2012/2013:

The schedule has not yet been prepared

Schedule for summer semester 2012/2013:

	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
Fri	místnost 124 Projekce FAMU (Lažanský palác) BERNARD J. 09:00–11:25 (paralelka 1)místnost 107 Učebna 1 (Lažanský palác) BERNARD J. 11:30–13:55 (přednášková par. 1)
Thu
Fri

Date	Day	Time	Tutor	Location	Notes	No. of paralel
	Fri	09:00–11:25	BERNARD J.	Projekce FAMU Lažanský palác		paralelka 1
	Fri	11:30–13:55	BERNARD J.	Učebna 1 Lažanský palác		přednášková par. 1

The subject is a part of the following study plans:

Animovaná tvorba - bakalář (faculty subject, optional subject)
Dokumentární tvorba - magistr (faculty subject, optional subject)
Dokumentární tvorba - bakalář (faculty subject, optional subject)
Animovaná tvorba - magistr (faculty subject, optional subject)
Scenáristika a dramaturgie - bakalář (faculty subject, optional subject)
Scenáristika a dramaturgie - magistr (faculty subject, optional subject)
Režie - bakalář (faculty subject, optional subject)
Režie - magistr (faculty subject, optional subject)
Kamera - bakalář (faculty subject, optional subject)
Kamera - magistr (faculty subject, optional subject)
Produkce - bakalář (faculty subject, optional subject)
Produkce - magistr (faculty subject, optional subject)
Audiovizuální studia - bakalář (qualification subject, faculty subject, optional subject)
Střihová skladba - bakalář (faculty subject, optional subject)
Střihová skladba - magistr (faculty subject, optional subject)
Zvuková tvorba - bakalář (faculty subject, optional subject)
Zvuková tvorba - magistr (faculty subject, optional subject)
Fotografie CZ - bakalář (faculty subject, optional subject)
Fotografie CZ - magistr (faculty subject, optional subject)
Scénografie - film a televize (Mgr.) (compulsory optional subject)
Audiovizuální studia - magistr (qualification subject, faculty subject, optional subject)
Fotografie CZ: Restaurování fotografie (faculty subject, optional subject)