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Lecturer(s)
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Course content
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Content of the lectures: 1) Global vs. local poetics in world cinema 2) Cinema of India I - poetics of Indian popular cinema 3) Cinema of India II - Hindi cinema aka Bollywood 4) Cinema of India III - cinemas of South India 5) Cinema of Chinese territories I - Mainland China (PRC) 6) Cinema of Chinese territories II - Hong Kong 7) Cinema of Chinese territories III - Chinese action cinema (wuxia, kung fu, heroic blooshed) 8) Cinema of Turkey I - Turkey during Yeşilçam era 9) Cinema of Turkey II - contemporary Turkish cinema 10) Cinema of North Korea 11) Cinema of South Korea I - before Hallyu (Korean wave) 12) Cinema of South Korea II - contemporary South Korean cinema
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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Monologic Lecture(Interpretation, Training), Dialogic Lecture (Discussion, Dialog, Brainstorming), Work with Text (with Book, Textbook), Projection (static, dynamic)
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Learning outcomes
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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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Prerequisites
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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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Assessment methods and criteria
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Oral exam, Student performance, Dialog
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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Recommended literature
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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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