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Lecturer(s)
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Abbasová Veronika, Mgr. et Mgr. Ph.D.
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Schimera Rudolf, Mgr.
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Course content
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- General introduction (placing Japanese cinematography in an Asian, but also global context) - Arrival of film in Japan (1897 and early 20th century) - Influence of Japanese theater and film (kabuki, shinpa, shingeki, benshi, oyama) - Film before 1923 (beginnings of the studio system - the Nikkatsu studio, the Clean Film Movement, the creation of the Shochiku studio) - First Golden Age (1920s and 1930s) - studio system, genre films, jidai geki, gendai geki, shomin geki, keiko eiga, sound-films) - War propaganda (1937-1945) - forms of propaganda and censorship, kokusaku eiga, Daiei studio) - American occupation (1946-1953) - a new form of propaganda and censorship, the movie Rashomon in Venice film festival
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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Dialogic Lecture (Discussion, Dialog, Brainstorming), Analyzing and producing audiovisual content
- Attendace
- 26 hours per semester
- Homework for Teaching
- 65 hours per semester
- Semestral Work
- 35 hours per semester
- Preparation for the Exam
- 26 hours per semester
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Learning outcomes
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The aim of the course is to provide students with a continuous and comprehensive overview of the history of Japanese cinema up to 1953. The course emphasizes the historical context, thus it tries to acquaint the student not only with the history of Japanese film production and the emergence of the film industry, but also introduces to them the context of world cinema (the origin of film, the sound-film, war propaganda, etc.). The students are then able to perceive Japanese film in the context of film history.
An introduction to the basic works of Japanese cinema up to 1953 and with it the history and culture of Japan, ability to academically analyse film works.
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Prerequisites
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Bachelor's degree in Japanese philology, sufficient knowledge of the Japanese language to work with primary and secondary texts in Japanese.
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Assessment methods and criteria
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Written exam, Seminar Work
attendance, active participation in class, professional reading of 500 pages, viewing of approximately 12 films, oral report, seminar paper, written exam
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Recommended literature
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Baskett, Michael. (2008). The Attractive Empire: Transnational Film Culture in Imperial Japan. Honolulu.
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High, Peter B. (2003). The Imperial Screen: Japanese Film Culture in the Fifteen Years' War, 1931-1945. Wisconsin.
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Ritchie, Donald. (2001). A Hundred Years of Japanese Cinema. Tokyo.
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SHARP, Jasper. (2011). Historical Dictionary of Japanese Cinema. Plymouth.
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WADA-MARCIANO, Mitsuyo. (2008). Nippon Modern: Japanese Cinema of the 1920s and 1930s. Honolulu.
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