History and Society in the Russian Cinema - JMMZ336

• Title: History and Society in the Russian Cinema
• Guaranteed by: Department of Russian and East European Studies (23-KRVS)
• Faculty: Faculty of Social Sciences
• Actual: from 2018
• Semester: winter
• E-Credits: 6
• Examination process: winter s.:
• Hours per week, examination: winter s.:0/4, Ex [HT]
• Capacity: unknown / unknown (15)
• Min. number of students: 5
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: not taught
• Language: English
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan; enabled for web enrollment
• Guarantor: Mgr. Daniela Kolenovská, Ph.D.; Francesca Mazzali, Ph.D.

Course completion requirements

Last update: Mgr. Daniela Kolenovská, Ph.D. (20.09.2017)

1. active participance in lectures

2. a contextual review 7/8 pages long where significant connections between the movie and historical time, political or cultural consequences will be explained;

OR a comparative analysis of two films of choice (7/8 pages) focusing on its message, contents, roles of protagonists, etc...

Literature

Last update: Mgr. Daniela Kolenovská, Ph.D. (20.09.2017)

Birgit Beumers, Russia on Reels: The Russian Idea in Post-Soviet Cinema, I.B.Taurus, 1999.

Birgit Beumers, A History of Russian Cinema, Bloomsbury, 2009.

Rimgaila Salys, The Russian Cinema Reader (Volume 1 and 2), Academic Studies Press, 2013.

Zorkaya Neya: Istoriya otechestvennogo kino, XX vek. Moskva, Belyi gorod, 2006.

KinoKultura: www.kinokultura.com

Netfilm: www.net-film.ru

Kinokhronika 17 Moments in Soviet history: soviethistory.msu.edu/about/

Syllabus

Last update: Mgr. Daniela Kolenovská, Ph.D. (20.09.2017)

Sessions will be organized around following topics (films will mainly be presented partly; in original Russian or Czech version with English subtitles):

 

National Heroes at the Service of Political Power

Alexander Nevsky (1938) by Sergei Eisenstein

Burnt by the Sun (1994) by Nikita Mikhalkov

The Admiral (2008) by Alexander Kravchuk

The Priest (2009) by Vladimir Khotinenko

 

Eltsin Era and “Chernukha”Films

The Moslim (1995) by Vladimir Khotinenko

Brat (1997) by Alexsei Balabanov

The Thief (1997) by Pavel Chukhraj

 

Putin’s Russia Films

The Star (2002) by Nikolai Lebedev

The Island (2006) by Pavel Lungin

We are from the Future 2 (2010) by Aleksandr Samokhvalov and Boris Rostov

OR The Match (2012) by Andrei Maliukov

 

Soviet society in Document

Dziga Vertov, Man with the Movie Camera, 1929.

Kinokhronika 17 Moments in Soviet history (http://soviethistory.msu.edu/about/)

Artur Aristakisyan, Palms, 1993.

Sergey Loznica, Maidan, 2014.

 

Soviet Society in Soviet Cinematography

Boris Barnet, Dom na Trubnoy, 1928.

Vladimir Menshov, Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears, 1979.

Alexej Balabanov, Brat, 1997.

Pyotr Buslov, Vysockiy, sposibo chto zhivoy, 2011.

 

Re-shaping  national history: Historical milestones in Soviet Cinematography

Sergej Ejzenshtein, Battleship Potemkin, 1925.

Vsevolod Pudovkin, Admiral Nakhimov, 1946.

Pvel Lugin, Ivan the Terrible, 2009.

SCI-FI

Yakov Protazanov, Aelita, 1924

Vasily Zhuravlev, Cosmic Voyage, 1935 

Andrej Tarkovski, Solaris, 1972.

Richard Viktorov/Nikolai Viktorov, Per Astra ad Aspera, 1981

 

Non-Russians in Soviet/Russian Cinematography

Alexandr Ptushko, Ilya Muromec, 1956.

Andrey Tarkovski, Andrey Rublev, 1969.

Nikita Michalkov, 12, 2007. 

 

Post-Soviet Society

Timur Bekmambetov, Noční hlídka, 2005.

Alexandr Sokurov, Faust, 2011.

Novye Russkie, 2015.

Andrej Zvjagincev: Return, 2003; Leviathan, 2014.

Aktan Arym Kubat, The Light Thief, 2010.

Emir Baigazin, Harmony Lessons, 2013.