Course detail

The Art of Interpreting Film 2

FaVU-TAIF2Acad. year: 2019/2020

Students will learn to look critically at a selection of films from the 70s and 80s through the prism of politics/ideology, gender, environmental issues, and the self-reflexivity of a medium/and an artist as a creator.

Language of instruction

English

Number of ECTS credits

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Guarantor

Mgr. et MgA. Barbora Lungová

Department

Department of Art History and Theory (KTDU)

Learning outcomes of the course unit

Students will look at examples of interpretation methods of film based on a particular thematic framework (politics/ideology, gender, environmental issues) not necessarily explicitely based on the narrative itself.

Prerequisites

None.

Co-requisites

Not applicable.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

The course has a seminar form - discussion and a written reflection of assigned material in class is essential .

Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes

Continuous assessment. Students will reflect the assigned reading and films in a written form of short, in-class response papers and a subsequent group discussion.

Course curriculum

1. Politial film: Fassbinder.
2. political film: Copolla, Cimino.
3. Sci-fi: Nicolas Roeg, Ridley Scott.
4. Sci-fi: Cronenberg, Chytilová.
5. Horror film: De Palma.
6. Sci-fi and environmental crisis: Lynch, Scott
7. Horror film and politics/gender angst: Zulawski
8. Film and environmental crisis: western etc.
9. "indie 80s"
10. Post-modern cinema - blinking at the master: De Palma/Hitchcock
11. Post-modern cinema - the labyrinth of symbols: Greenaway

Work placements

Not applicable.

Aims

1. Cinefile 2. critical. Although the selection of the films might be subjective and not necessarily always canonical, one of the aims is to show students some noteworthy film production of the 70s and 80s (European and American film only). 2. Students will see the interpretation possibilities of the selected films through approaches which were often contemporary with the films themselves.

Specification of controlled education, way of implementation and compensation for absences

Attendance mandatory (two absences per semester).

Recommended optional programme components

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

Fay, Jennifer. Inhospitable World: Cinema in the Time of the Anthropocene. (EN)
Sobchack, Vivian. Screening Space: American Science Fiction Film. (EN)

Type of course unit

Lecture

13 hours, optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

Mgr. et MgA. Barbora Lungová

Seminar

13 hours, compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer

Mgr. et MgA. Barbora Lungová

VUT

Faculties

University Institutes

Parts

The Art of Interpreting Film 2

Type of course unit