Course: The Western Balcans Contemporary Literature and Film

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Course title The Western Balcans Contemporary Literature and Film
Course code KBH/VBALK
Organizational form of instruction Seminar
Level of course Bachelor
Year of study not specified
Semester Winter and summer
Number of ECTS credits 3
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course Compulsory-optional
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Course availability The course is available to visiting students
Lecturer(s)
  • Hrabal Jiří, Mgr. Ph.D.
Course content
Literature and films: Arsenijević, Vladimir (SRB): V podpalubí. Praha 1996. Jergović, Miljenko (BIH/HR): Sarajevské Marlboro. Olomouc 2008. Gromača, Tatjana (HR): Černoch. Olomouc 2009. Ljuca, Adin (BIH): Vytetované obrazy. Praha 2005 Štiks, Igor (HR): Eliášovo křeslo. Praha 2008. Úplně osobní (rež. Nedzad Begović /BIH/, 2005) - 72min Země nikoho (rež. Danis Tanović /BIH/, 2001) - 98min Sud prachu (rež. Goran Paskaljević /SRB/, 1998) - 102min Grbavica (rež. Jasmila Žbanić /BIH/, 2005) - 90min Turné (rež. Goran Marković /SRB/, 2008) - 103min Chlapi nepláčou (rež. Alen Drljević /BIH/, 2017) - 98min Armin (rež. Ognjen Sviličić /HR/, 2007) - 82min Beronja, Vladislav - Stijn, Vervaset (ed.): Post-Yugoslav Constellations: Archive, Memory, and Trauma in Contemporary Bosnian, Croatian, and Serbian Literature and Culture. Berlin - Boston 2016. Dorovský, Ivan. Slovník balkánských spisovatelů. Praha 2001. Levi, Pavle: Disintegration in frames: aesthetics and ideology in the Yugoslav and post-Yugoslav cinema. Stanford 2007. / Levi, Pavle: Raspad Jugoslavije na filmu. Estetika i ideologija u jugoslovenskom i postjugoslovenskom filmu. Beograd 2009. Stijn, Vervaset: Holocaust, War, and Transnational Memory: Testimony from Yugoslav and Post-Yugoslav Literature. New Yourk 2018. Drakulić, Slavenka (HR): Ani mouše by neublížili. Praha 2006. Karahasan, Dževad (BIH): Loučení se Sarajevem. Praha 1995. Matvejević, Predrag (BIH): Breviář Středomoří. Praha 2002. Rehnicer, Raymond (BIH): Tráva a sloni. Poznámky o životním prostředí za občanské války v Bosně. Praha 1992. Rehnicer, Raymond (BIH): Nesnesitelná jednoduchost modernosti a jiné texty. Praha 1999.

Learning activities and teaching methods
Dialogic Lecture (Discussion, Dialog, Brainstorming), Work with Text (with Book, Textbook)
Learning outcomes
Acquisition of basic information about contemporary Croatian, Bosnian and Serbian literature and film
Basic understanding of contemporary literature and film in the Balkans
Prerequisites
unspecified

Assessment methods and criteria
Essay, Systematic Observation of Student

active participation in class, i.e. partial initial analysis of and subsequent discussion over the selected reading materials a films
Recommended literature
  • Aycock, Wendell - Michael Schoenecke (ed.). (1988). Film and Literature: A Comparative Approach to Adaptation. Lubbock.
  • Beronja, Vladislav ? Stijn, Vervaset. (2016). Post-Yugoslav Constellations: Archive, Memory, and Trauma in Contemporary Bosnian, Croatian, and Serbian Literature and Culture. Berlin ? Boston.
  • Bílek, P. A. Hledání jazyka interpretace k modernímu prozaickému textu. Brno, Host 2003.
  • Dorovský, Ivan (ed.). (2001). Slovník balkánských spisovatelů. Praha.
  • Levi, Pavle. (2007). Disintegration in frames: aesthetics and ideology in the Yugoslav and post-Yugoslav cinema. Stanford.
  • Nünning, Ansgar (ed.):. Lexikon teorie literatury a kultury, Brno 2006.
  • Stijn, Vervaset. (2018). Holocaust, War, and Transnational Memory: Testimony from Yugoslav and Post-Yugoslav Literature. New York.


Study plans that include the course
Faculty Study plan (Version) Category of Branch/Specialization Recommended year of study Recommended semester
Faculty: Faculty of Arts Study plan (Version): Czech Philology (2019) Category: Philological sciences - Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: -
Faculty: Faculty of Arts Study plan (Version): Czech Philology (2025) Category: Philological sciences - Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: -
Faculty: Faculty of Arts Study plan (Version): Czech Philology for News Media Editors (2019) Category: Philological sciences - Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: -
Faculty: Faculty of Arts Study plan (Version): Czech Philology (2019) Category: Philological sciences - Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: -
Faculty: Faculty of Arts Study plan (Version): Czech Philology for News Media Editors (2025) Category: Philological sciences - Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: -
Faculty: Faculty of Arts Study plan (Version): Czech Philology (2025) Category: Philological sciences - Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: -
Faculty: Faculty of Arts Study plan (Version): Czech Philology (2015) Category: Philological sciences - Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: -
Faculty: Faculty of Arts Study plan (Version): Czech Philology (2019) Category: Philological sciences - Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: -