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Course: History of World Cinema 2

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Course title History of World Cinema 2
Course code KDU/DSF2K
Organizational form of instruction Lecture
Level of course Bachelor
Year of study not specified
Semester Winter and summer
Number of ECTS credits 4
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course unspecified
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Hain Milan, Mgr. Ph.D.
Course content
- Implementing of sound - The Hollywood studio system and genre cinema - The British studio cinema - Popular and art cinema in France - Cinema of Italy: from the Fascist regime to neorealism - Cinema of the Central and Eastern Europe - Nordic cinema - Asian cinema - Cinema of Australia and Latin America - Transformations of the Hollywood studio system: institutions, technology, narration

Learning activities and teaching methods
Monologic Lecture(Interpretation, Training)
Learning outcomes
A subsequent course of a compendious history of cinema. The lectures will focus on the sound cinema until the beginning of the 1960s when together with the birth of New Wave movements the overall transformation process appeared in the paradigm in cinema. The important technical innovations in image and sound which are significant for this period will be related to the industrial conditions of the origin of films and to their aesthetic form as well. The lectures will explore the relationship between film medium and sociopolitical context furthermore.
The course will provide students with the basic knowledge required for their further study of film history.
Prerequisites
The knowledge of the foregoing periods of the history of cinema. The courses necessary to graduation of these lectures: The History of World Cinema 1.

Assessment methods and criteria
Mark, Oral exam

Thematic knowledge for the exam.
Recommended literature
  • ASHBY, Justine, HIGSON, Andrew. (2004). British Cinema, Past and Present. London .
  • AUSTIN, Guy. (2008). Contemporary French Cinema. An Introduction. Manchester .
  • BORDWELL, David, STAIGER, Janet, THOMPSON, Kristin. (2002). The Classical Hollywood Cinema. New York .
  • COOK, David A. (2004). A History of Narrative Film. New York.
  • DOWNING, John D. H. (1987). Film and Politics in the Third World. New York.
  • ELSAESSER, Thomas, HORWATH, Alexander, KING, Noel. (2004). The Last Great American Picture Show. New Hollywood Cinema in the 1970s. Amsterdam .
  • HAYWARD, Susan. (2005). French National Cinema. London .
  • IORDANOVA, Dina. (2003). Cinema of the Other Europe. The Industry and Artistry of East Central European Cinema. London .
  • LEYDA, Jay. (1983). A History of the Russian and Soviet Film. Princeton .
  • MALKMUS, Lizbeth, ARMES, Roy. (1991). Arab and African Film Making. London .
  • MILLER, Toby, GOVIL, Nitin, McMURRIA, John, MAXWELL, Richard. (2001). Global Hollywood. London .
  • SORLIN, Pierre. (1996). Italian National Cinema 1896?1996. London .
  • STANDISH, Isolde. (2006). A New History of Japanese Cinema. New York .
  • THOMPSONOVÁ, Kristin, BORDWELL, David. (2007). Dějiny filmu. Praha .


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Palacký University Olomouc, date of update: 01.05.2025 23:59. Data created for academic year 2024/2025