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Vyučující
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Obsah předmětu
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Content of the lectures: 1) Film and Society in India I 2) Film and Society in India II 3) Film and Society in India III 4) Film and Society in India IV 5) Our Films, Their Films - The Poeological Specificities of Indian Cinema 6) Terminator in Love - issues of genre and the rasa theory 7) Why Indians dance around trees - meaning and function of musical scenes 8) From Indian Chaplin to Indian Rambo - transcultural borrowings and remake culture 9) Orientalism? Occidentalism? - Representations of other cultures in Indian cinema 10) Gods in front of the camera, gods behind the camera - Indian film and religion 11) From Composite Culture to the Hindu Nation - Indian Film and Minorities 12) (Vi)desi girls, (vi)desi boys - Indian film and gender issues
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Studijní aktivity a metody výuky
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Monologická (výklad, přednáška, instruktáž), Dialogická (diskuze, rozhovor, brainstorming), Metody práce s textem (učebnicí, knihou), Projekce (statická, dynamická)
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Výstupy z učení
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Topic: Bollywood as a pop-cultural phenomenom The purpose of the course is to familiarize students with the phenomenon of Indian popular cinema, especially its Hindi-speaking segment also known as Bollywood. The first third of the seminar will trace the development of Hindi-language cinema in relation to social, cultural, economic and political changes in India itself through a diachronic perspective. The remaining sessions will take a synchronic perspective on the phenomena most often studied in relation to Indian popular cinema. The students will be recommended literature and specific films to watch for each lesson, but the seminar will be based primarily on frontal teaching (lectures, screenings of film clips).
The graduate of the course will be familiar with the history and specificities of Hindi popular cinema in a broader cultural and political context. They will understand how Indian filmmaking relates to local forms of traditional culture and how it includes the influences of contemporary Western pop culture such as Hollywood. They will also understand its poetic strategies and the ways in which it reaches out to Indian and foreign audiences.
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Předpoklady
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(Kurz je otevřen i studujícím v českých programech) The course is open to all students (both Czech and international) interested in the subject. However, the participants are expected to be familiar with the general basics of popular culture studies and preferably also with the basic concepts related to film studies. Ability to read academic texts in English, to give a presentation in English, to and to engage in discussion in English is also required.
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Hodnoticí metody a kritéria
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Ústní zkouška, Analýza výkonů studenta, Rozhovor
Successful completion of the course will require attendance at seminars (2 absences will be tolerated), successful completion of interim assignments (e.g. reading excerpts from the literature) and passing the final colloquium, which will take the form of a discussion of the films viewed in the context of the material discussed. During the course, each student is required to watch at least 5 films from a set of those recommended (or approved) by the lecturer.
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Doporučená literatura
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Madhava Prasad. (2001). Ideology of the Hindi Film: A Historical Construction.
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Patrick Colm Hogan. (2008). Understanding Indian Movies: Culture, Cognition, and Cinematic Imagination.
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