Předmět Key Trends in American Film (FAVz044)

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Cíl

Key Trends in American Film aims to facilitate students’ deeper understanding of the relationships that exist between, on the one hand, the content and themes of American mainstream cinema, and, on the other hand, certain prominent social, cultural, political discourses circulating the public (and private) sphere. In doing so, the course will seek to familiarize students with important and transferable critical tools, frameworks, approaches, and skills that will serve to deepen their capacity to engage with, and to read, audiovisual texts critically both on, and hopefully outside of, the course. Key Trends in American Cinema aims to enable students to appreciate that the interplay between texts and contexts is more than a simple “sign of the times” but is characterized by complex processes of mediation, selection, and interpretation at the levels of production, promotion, and reception.By the end of the course, students will be expected to posses: the critical abilities to produce insightful analysis of film texts; the skills necessary to conduct sound contextual analysis; the demonstrable capacity to synthesize original ideas in a lucid and coherent manner, both verbally and in writing; a solid understanding of the complex social, cultural, historical, and political relationships that have shaped important aspects of American cinematic output (and by implication different forms of audiovisual media produced both inside and outside of the US); and solid understanding of debates circulating the case-studies that comprise the course.

Osnova

For the full syllabus see the file "Key Trends in American Film Syllabus Fall 2014 Final" in the documents attached to this course.This course offers students insights into the ways in which socio-political discourses have shaped the production, content, and themes of American motion pictures. The course encourages students to take up more nuanced and pragmatic positions to the relationships between these two phenomena than those posited by the preeminent socio-symptomatic and ideological analyses, both of which have been guilty of reducing the commercial and creative forces behind films to mere ciphers of the irresistible force of the zeitgeist. Rather than considering films to be simply signs of the times or unwitting witnesses to the mores and values of American society, this course invites students to think about how the American film industry uses and appropriates socio-political discourses in a rational and strategic fashion in order to make its products attractive and relevant to targeted audiences. Students will explore these issues in relation to six of Hollywood’s most high-profile topical production trends of the last forty years: the Blaxploitation cycle of the early-to-mid 1970s, women-in-danger films of the late 1970s and early 1980s, the New Cold War Cinema of the mid-late 1980s, Gen-X cinema of the early-to-mid 1990s, the Family Film of the 1990s (and beyond), and the Post-9/11 cinema of the mid-to-late 2000s.

Garant

prof. PhDr. Jiří Voráč, Ph.D.

Vyučující

doc. Mgr. Petr Szczepanik, Ph.D.Mgr. Luděk Havel