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Bernard Syllabus Spring 2011 NYU in Prague Seminar in Czech Cinema and Culture Syllabus Spring 2011 Jan Bernard [email protected] cell: 723489697 office hours: Tuesdays 3.30-4.30 p.m. Course description The goal of the course is to give students a picture of the main streams in development of Czech filmmaking from its origins to the present. The main phenomena will be explained in the international context regarding the influences and original innovations in style and in national and political relations. Special emphasis will be put on new trends from the “velvet revolution” of 1989 until the present. Lectures will be supplemented by the screening of characteristic excerpts of films, and some films in their entirety. Additional discussions with film directors and field trips may be offered. Students are expected to know the names of selected Czech directors and titles of their most important films including the context of their production and release, to work with basic literature about Czech filmmaking and to find necessary information on web sites. Grading Policy and Course Requirements Students are required to write a midterm paper [essay or analysis of chosen aspects of some film screened, approx.7 pages] later possibly presented on NYU web sites. The paper will be based on the lectures, assigned readings and films. Midterm and Final tests are also based on the lectures, assigned readings and screenings. They will require no outside research. Required readings [see Class Topics] will be discussed in relation to films screened, or with a short paper, prepared by students in relation to their outside screenings and presentations. Class participation/attendance: 10% Activity in discussions 10% Midterm test 10% Midterm essay 50% Final test 20% Schedule of classes Week 1 25 January Overview of Course + Brief historical survey: Origins of Czech filmmaking in Austro – Hungarian Monarchy. Introduction to the mature period at the beginning of sound cinematography and personality of Gustav Machaty. The Post-War Psychological School of Czech film. Totalitarism and Socialist Realism of Fifties – Fairytales and Reality. Renaissance of Psychological School in period of Khruschovian thaw and modern Classics of Czech cinema (Kadar-Klos,Jasny,Kachyna,Vlacil) Week 2 1 February Czech [and Slovak] New Wave in times of political liberalization and its turns . I) Cinema vérité and authenticity II) Stylisation and allegory Reading: Peter Hames: The Czechoslovak New Wave Screening : I. Passer: Intimate Lighting, V. Chytilová: Ceiling, Daisies, P. Jurá ček: Joseph K., Pearls at the Deep Week 3 8 February Introduction to economical, institutional and creative situation of Czech film before and after November 1989 .Personalities of K.Smyczek, Z. Troška, F. Feni č, M. Zábranský, Zdenek Tyc and Tomas Vorel. Disidents and Velvet Revolution: Screening: Kou ř, Zemský ráj to na pohled, Ob čan Havel, Ob čan Havel p řikuluje , Kawasakiho r ůže, Pouta, Pupendo Reading: P.Hames: The Velvet Transformation Week 4 15 February Parallel Society before and after Velvet Screening: P. Nikolaev´s It Only Gets Worse, Klub osam ělých srdcí, Sv ěrák´s Ride, Sláma´s Something Like A Happiness Week 5 22 February Hero as a loser Reading: Singularly Collaborative(Interview with D. Ond říček), www.ce-rewiev.org Screening: Ond říček´s Loners, Grandhotel; Prague seen through eyes of..; V. Morávek: Boredom in Brno, M. Najbrt: Champions, Sláma´s Wild Bees Week 6 1 March: Midterm Test Semantics of Country and City . Reading: J. Bernard: The Picture of Forrest in the Czech Film of Sixties, A.J. Horton : Hard Stuff (Michalek´s Andel Exit), I. Kosuli ć: From Depression to Hope (Out of The City), A.J. Horton: Misty Melancholia in the Czech Mountains ( The Way through the Bleak Woods)- last three on www.ce- review.org Screening: Vorel´s Stone Bridge and Out of the City, Tu ček´s Girlie, Vojnár´s The Way through the Bleak Woods, Michalek´s Exit Angel Week 7 8 March: Deadline for midterm essay! Mystification as an approach, research and provocation Reading” The “Czech Dream” That Wasn´t, Presence, Autumn 2004, vol.76, no 3, pp.38-41 Screenings: Zelenka´s Happy End, F. Remunda - P. Klusák: Czech Dream, J.Sv ěrák: The Oilgobblers Week 8 15 March Films of introspection. Screening: Gedeon´s Indian Summer, P.Václav´s Marián, Parallel Lives, Little Girl Blue and Mamas and Papas by A. Nellis Week 9 – Spring Break Week 10 29 March Two Adaptations of Dostojevsky Reading: http://www.radio.cz/en - articles about Zelenka Screening: Gedeon´s Idiot returns, Zelenka´s Karamazov Brothers Week 11 5 April Films of genre: New face of Comedy and Melodrama, Horror Reading: A.J. Horton: Winning Isn´t Everything(H řebejk´s Divided we Fall), M.Preskett: A Little bit of Money and a Lot of Love (A. Nellis- Eeeny Meeny), all on www.ce-review.org, Screening: H řebejk´s Cosy Dens, Divided we fall, Pupendo, Teddy Bear; Nellises The Trip, M. Dobeš: Choking Hazard Week 12 12 April Czech Rom´s and other Minorities : Screening: P. Václav: Marián, Z. Tyc: Smradi, El Paso, Vejd ělek: RomIng, Wlodarczyk: Indiáni a sest řička, T. Vorel: Ulovit miliardá ře Week 13 19 April Czech School of Film animation in fifties (Týrlová, Zeman, Trnka) and representants of contemporary animation (Bárta, Koutský, Pavlátová, FAMU graduates) Screening: At the Attic Week 14 26 April Personality of Jan Švankmajer Reading: P.Hames: Dark Alchemy, pp.1- 5,48 – 77,96 - 118 P.Hames: The Velvet Transformation, pp.18 – 26, T-L. Reid: Alice, in The Cinema of Central Europe, pp. 215 – 224 Screening: Surviving Life Week 15 3 May Reservation for discussion with director or for excursion Week 16 10 May Final Test Books (The following books and readers are available in NYU Library,Prague) Josef Skvorecky: All The Bright Young Men And Women: A Personal History Of The Czech Cinema, Peter Martin Association , Toronto 1973 Peter Hames: The Czechoslovak New Wave, University of California Press,L.A.,Berkeley, London1985, (2 nd edition – Wallflower Press, 2005) Peter Hames: Dark Alchemy: The Films of Jan Svankmajer, Trowbridge:Flicks Books 1985 P. Hames (Ed.): The Cinema of Central Europe. Wallflower Press 2004 Peter Hames: The Velvet Transformation (manuscript, in Reader) Mira Liehm, A.J. Liehm: The Most Important Art:East European Film After 1945. University of California Press, L.A. 1977 A.J. Liehm: Closely Watched Films, International Arts and Sciences Press, New York 1974 A.J. Liehm: The Milos Forman Stories, International Arts and Sciences Press, New York 1975 Jan Svankmajer – Transmutation of The Senses, Central European Gallery and Publishing House, Praha 1994 Daniel J.Goulding[ed.] :Post New Wave Cinema in The Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press 1989 Jan Novak, Milos Forman: Turnaround. A Memoir., Villard Books, Random House Inc. New York 1994 Usefull websites: www.filmcenter.cz www.kinoeye.org www.ce-review.org .
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