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Last update: Louis Armand, Ph.D. (30.09.2019)
Tues 5:30 pm, room 111 CINÉ-TRACTS Tues 5:30 pm, room 111 This seminar takes its name from Jean-Luc Godard’s 1968 “blackboard” film of the same title & is concerned with interrogating the structures & forms of potentiality in what is called CINEMA. The theoretical focus of the seminar is montage, examined through a series of critical texts from Eisenstein’s Film Form (published posthumously in 1949) & “The Montage of Attractions” (1923); to Bertolt Brecht’s “The Film, the Novel & Epic Theatre” (1920s) & the evolution from montage to “alienation effect” [Verfremdungseffekt] (1930s); to Guy Debord’s “Methods of Détournement” (1956), Jean-Luc Godard’s “Montage, Mon Beau Souci” (1956), Gene Youngblood’s Expanded Cinema (1970), & others. *Assessment for single credit (Z) will be based upon a 2,500 word ESSAY conforming to Department style (see ESSAY GUIDELINS at http://ualk.ff.cuni.cz/current-students.html) (due 28 January; delivered in printed form to room 219a. Essays submitted by email will not be graded!); attendance (max. absences accompanied by doctor's certificate: 2); participation in in-class discussion; and a typed 500 word review of each of the screened titles (to be submitted on paper the following Tuesday in class). Plagiarism in any form will result in an immediate fail. NB that only MA students are entitled to apply for the additional credit (Zk) in this seminar, for which the assessment is an additional 2,500 word essay, or a single essay of 5,000 words. ADDITIONAL SUGGESTED READING Louis Armand, VIDEOLOGY I & II (Prague: LPB, 2015/2016). David Curtis, EXPERIMENTAL CINEMA: A FIFTY YEAR REVOLUTION (New York: Delta, 1971). Parker Tyler, UNDERGROUND FILM: A CRITICAL HISTORY (New York: Da Capo, 1995). Amos Vogel, FILM AS SUBVERSIVE ART (New York: DAP, 1975). P. Adams Sitney, VISIONARY FILM: THE AMERICAN AVANT-GARDE 1943-2000 (Oxford: OUP, 2002). Vachel Lindsay, THE ART OF THE MOVING Picture (New York: Modern Library, 2000 [1915]). |
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Last update: Louis Armand, Ph.D. (08.10.2019)
THEORETICAL TEXTS: MONTAGE Dziga Vertov, The Kino-Eye Writings (1985) Sergei Eisenstein, Montage of Attractions: or, "Enough Stupidity in Every Wiseman," The Drama Review: TDR Vol. 18, No. 1, Popular Entertainments (Mar., 1974), pp. 77-85 André Breton, Manifesto of Surrealism (1924) Thomas Beltzer, Last Year at Marienbad: An Intertextual Meditation Alain Robbe-Grillet, The Art of Fiction (1986) Guy Debord, “Methods of Detournement" (1956) George L. Dillon, Montage/Critique: Another Way of Writing Social History, Postmodern Culture 14.2 (2004) Roswitha Mueller, Montage in Brecht, Theatre Journal, Vol. 39, No. 4, Distancing Brecht (Dec., 1987), pp. 473-486 Jean-Luc Godard, Montage, mon beau souci (Cahiers du cinéma, 1965) Jean-Luc Godard, Towards a Political Cinema (1950) Louis Armand, Joyce Cineaste / Godard Auteur (2009) Sergei Eisenstein, Film Form (trans. 1969) Ernest Fenollosa, The Chinese Written Character as a Medium for Poetry (1920) Stoffel Debuysere, Notes on Militant Cinema (1967-1977) Guy Debord, et al, The Situationist International (Text Library) Jason E. Smith / McKenzie Wark / Benjamin Noys / Jacques Rancière, et al, Guy Debord's Cinema (2013) Tom Mc Donough, Guy Debord & the Situationist International (2002) Trevor Stark, The Medvedkin Group and the Potential of Militant Film (2012) David E. James, by Jonas Mekas, Robert Kelly, Ed Dorn, et al, STAN BRAKHAGE / FILMMAKER (2005) Gilles Deleuze, Cinema 1: The Movement-Image (1983) Gilles Deleuze, Cinema 2: The Time-Image (1985)
FILMS Henry Hills, Money (1985) on Roulette Intermedium Jean-Luc Godard, Chris Marker, et al, Cinétracts (1968)
ADDITIONAL SUGGESTED READING Louis Armand, VIDEOLOGY I & II (Prague: LPB, 2015/2016). David Curtis, EXPERIMENTAL CINEMA: A FIFTY YEAR REVOLUTION (New York: Delta, 1971). Parker Tyler, UNDERGROUND FILM: A CRITICAL HISTORY (New York: Da Capo, 1995). Amos Vogel, FILM AS SUBVERSIVE ART (New York: DAP, 1975). P. Adams Sitney, VISIONARY FILM: THE AMERICAN AVANT-GARDE 1943-2000 (Oxford: OUP, 2002). Vachel Lindsay, THE ART OF THE MOVING PICTURE(New York: Modern Library, 2000 [1915]). |
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Last update: Mgr. Helena Znojemská, Ph.D. (23.01.2016)
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Last update: Louis Armand, Ph.D. (19.09.2019)
SCHEDULE (WINTER 2019/2020)
1.10 / Chris Marker, LA JETEE (1962) / Luc Besson LE DERNIER COMBAT (1983) |