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Lecturer(s)
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Feikusová Klára, Mgr. Ph.D.
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Bojda Tomáš, Mgr. Ph.D.
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Jirsa Tomáš, doc. Mgr. Ph.D.
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Course content
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The course is led in Moodle. A week to week schedule will be listed there. Seminar themes and screenings (in no particular order) 1. What is nordic noir? 2. The Wallander (UK) - old school nordic noir 3. The Killing (US) - nordic noir adaptation 4. Witnesses (FR) - French nodric noir 5. La Caza. Monteperdido. (Sp) - Spanish nordic noir 6. Young Wallander (Sw) - nordic noir for younger generations 7. Broadchurch (UK) - nordic noir goes sunny 8. Deep Water (Aus) - queer history and nordic noir 9. The Gulf (NZ) - New Zealand and nordic noir 10. The Kettering Incident (Aus) - connecting nordic noir with fantastic genres 11. Jordskott (NR) - nordic noir and socialy pressing topics
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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Dialogic Lecture (Discussion, Dialog, Brainstorming), Work with Text (with Book, Textbook), Projection (static, dynamic)
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Learning outcomes
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Theme: Nordic Noir Lecturer: Jana Jedličková Seminar is led in English. **an online version of seminar starts at 8.30 to 9.30 Summary: Nordic noir belongs to one of the most popular film, literary and TV genres in the last decade. However, its shape and genre rules changed over the years and nowdays it also continues to inspire and merge with other genres and fictional forms all over the world. Thus the seminar will be focused not only on the beginings, characteristics and evolution of nordic noir in television but we will discuss and analyze crime TV adaptations inspired by nordic noir among others as well. Students will be expected to watch various TV series from European countries, United States, Australia and New Zealand (two episodes of each at least). They will analyze their genre structure, construction of characters, narative or style characteristics. They will also follow the contexts, in which the series are produced, distributed and promoted. And lastly, the will be expected to read texs about analyzed TV series (most of them being popular TV texts more than academic ones).
Students will prove their ability to analyse particular problems from the field of television and media studies. Students will gain knowledge of the concrete topic on account of studying relevant methodological literature, individual work and collective discussion. Students will be able to competently evaluate selected TV and other media products, their dramaturgical prehension, realization or other distribution media industry contexts linked to these specific outputs.
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Prerequisites
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Required is knowledge of terms and basic concepts of television studies, as well as fiction/faction television programmes.
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Assessment methods and criteria
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Student performance, Analysis of linguistic
A student needs to - participate on group discussions - watch at least 2 episodes of each TV series that will be analyzed during the course (episodes will be uploaded to Moodle) - read mandatory texts about mentioned TV series - choose two TV series from the course and compare their genre characteristics (the main research questions will be shared in Moodle; 5-6 np; cited sources included; deadline 20. 6. 2021; graduates till 18th April), the paper will be written in English
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Recommended literature
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Bignell, J. (2013). An introduction to television studies. London: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group.
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Butler, J. G. (2012). Television: critical methods and applications. New York, N.Y: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group.
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Butler, J. G. (2010). Television style. New York, N.Y: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group.
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CREEBER, Glen. (2006). Tele-visions: An Introduction to Television Studies. London.
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Orlebar, J., & Bendová, H. (2012). Kniha o televizi. Praha: Nakladatelství Akademie múzických umění.
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