This course's language of instruction will be English. This course will cover the development of various cinematic movements in Central Europe, including Soviet montage cinema, German Expressionism, Interwar Czechoslovak film, Czech and Slovak New Waves, Socialist Realism, Yugoslav Black Wave, the Cinema of Moral Anxiety, City Symphonies, New German Cinema, and Post-Revolution Czech and Slovak Cinema. Readings will be in English, but students who can and wish to read them in the original languages will be encouraged to do so. Literature will be specified at the beginning of the semester. - Allen, Richard - Smith, Murray. (1997). Film Theory and Philosophy. Oxford. - Benjamin, Walter. (1930) "The Art Object in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction" - Breton, Andre. "The Surrealist Manifesto" - Bird, Robert. (2011) Vision and Communism - Dudková, Jana. "Celebration in the Botanical Garden" - Eisenstein, Sergei. "The Method of Making Workers' Films" - Elsaesser, Thomas. (2000) Weimar Cinema and After: Germany's Historical Imaginary - Elsaesser, Thomas. (1989) New German Cinema: A History - Grodal, Torben. (1997). Moving Pictures. A New Theory of Film Genres, Feeling, and Cognition. Oxford. - Gunning, Tom. "The Cinema of Attraction[s]: Early Film, Its Spectator and the Avant-Garde" - Hanáková, Petra. "VOICES FROM ANOTHER WORLD: - Feminine space and masculine intrusion in Sedmikrásky and Vražda ing. Čerta" - Havel, Václav. Power of the Powerless - Iordanova, Dina. (2006) Cinema of the Balkans - Judt, Tony. (2005) Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945 - Kracauer, Sigfried. "From Caligari to Hitler" - Kosinski, Bohdan, Kieslowski, Krzysztof. "Documentary Filmmakers Make Their Case" - Mukářovský, Jan. "A Note on the Aesthetic of Film" - Lenin, V.I. "The Lenin Decree" - Liehm, Antonín. (1974) Closely Watched Films - Liehm, Antonín. (2001) Ostře sledované filmy. - MacKenzie, Scott, ed. (2014) Film Manifestos and Global Cinema Cultures - Nicholls, Bill . (1985). Movies and Methods, Vol. II.. - Nicholls, Bill . (1976). Movies and Methods, Vol. I.. - Power, Nina. "Blood And Sugar: The Films of Dušan Makavejev" - Petrov, Petre. "The Industry of Truing: Socialist Realism, Reality, Realization" - Sobchack, Vivien . (1992). The Address of Eye. A Phenomenology Film Experience. - Stam, Robert. (2006). Film Theory An Indroduction. New York. - Teige, Karel. "The Poetist Manifesto" - Vertov, Dziga. (1929) "WE: a Variant on a Manifesto" - White, Jerry. "BRAKHAGE'S TARKOVSKY AND TARKOVSKY'S BRAKHAGE: Collectivity, Subjectivity, and the Dream of Cinema"
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This course is designed to not only familiarize students with the defining cinematic movements of Central Europe but to provide them with the historical and institutional context, as well as critical tools for theoretical and historical analysis. Students will be able to understand complex academic arguments, work with theoretical constructs, and gain a working knowledge of several influential cinematic movements which play key roles in the history of Central Europe. Students will also discuss the stylistic and formalistic aspects of these various cinematic movements, while learning to apply critical thinking and reasoning skills to discussions of the films, concepts, and historical concepts we encounter.
This course is designed to not only familiarize students with the defining cinematic movements of Central Europe but to provide them with the historical and institutional context, as well as critical tools for theoretical and historical analysis. Students will be able to understand complex academic arguments, work with theoretical constructs, and gain a working knowledge of several influential cinematic movements which play key roles in the history of Central Europe. Students will also discuss the stylistic and formalistic aspects of these various cinematic movements, while learning to apply critical thinking and reasoning skills to discussions of the films, concepts, and historical concepts we encounter.
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