Course: Introduction to Audiovision

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Course title Introduction to Audiovision
Course code KZU/UAM
Organizational form of instruction Seminar
Level of course Master
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
Lecturer(s)
  • Korda Jakub, Mgr. Ph.D.
  • Bartošová Monika, Mgr.
Course content
1 to 2 Teoretization Of pictures - cultural construction of images in art, media and everyday life, relationships, visual representations of the questions the importance of truth and power. 3rd ? New History? Audiovisual Culture: methodological changes in the concept of the history of media forms (aesthetic, technological, economic and social history of the audiovisual industry). 4 to 6 Historical changes in film media: history of changes in terms of film style (long and systematic use of certain techniques, media), the history of film forms (narrative, non-narrative etc.) and genres. 7 to 8 Historical change TV? institutional appointment television media and its technological changes, the history of television-style television forms and genres. 9th Border positioning art, film, television: from experimental film to video art 10th Interactive on-line media? from video games virtual map. 11th Exemplary analysis of film form as a unified system works: the type of film narrative and non-narrative form, style means (mizancene, cinematography, editing, sound) 12th Exemplary television text analysis: design (use codes), audience (target under consideration), narrative, categorization, institutions

Learning activities and teaching methods
Lecture, Dialogic Lecture (Discussion, Dialog, Brainstorming)
Learning outcomes
The aim of this course is to convey basic information about the various forms of audiovisual culture. In sub-blocks will be applied in critical, historical and analytical approach to the various categories, but also taking into account their mutual relations intermediálním typical of contemporary audiovisual culture. In addition to more detailed analysis of film, television, interactive media, DVD / video, video games, virtual reality will be included in the chapter devoted to generalizing the issue of today's "company image". The special lecture is part of the explanation and application of selected analytical approaches that allow students to understand konstruovanost audiovisual communications and identify the different ways these structures and interactions of their individual components (thematic, narrative, stylistic).
Student is able to analyze visual text according to several basic methods, especially iconology, formal analysis or ideological analysis.
Prerequisites
unspecified

Assessment methods and criteria
Written exam

Oral or written form of testing knowledge, questions based on course topics.
Recommended literature
  • Belting, H. Konec dějin umění. Praha 2000..
  • Bordwell, D. On the History of Film Style, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, London 1997.
  • CORNER, J., HARVEY, S. Television Times ? A Reader. London: Arnold 1996.
  • ELLIS, J. Visible Fictions: Cinema, Television, Video. London: Routletge 1982.
  • SELBY, K., COWDERY, R. How to Study Television. London: Macmillan 1995.
  • SILVERMAN, K. Threshold of the Visible World. London: Routledge 1996.
  • SZCZEPANIK, P. Nová filmová historie. Praha: Hermann a synové 2004.


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): Media Studies - Journalism Studies specialization (2019) Category: Journalism, library science and informatics - Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: -
Faculty: Faculty of Arts Study plan (Version): Media Studies - Media Analysis specialization (2019) Category: Journalism, library science and informatics - Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: -
Faculty: Faculty of Arts Study plan (Version): Media Studies - Cultural Studies specialization (2019) Category: Journalism, library science and informatics - Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: -
Faculty: Faculty of Arts Study plan (Version): Media Studies - Communication Studies specialization (2019) Category: Journalism, library science and informatics - Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: -