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OBJECTIVES
This seminar will view, examine and discuss three Shakespeare films by the American film-maker Orson Welles (1915-85). Particular attention will be paid to Welles's status as, for some critics including Michael Anderegg in his Orson Welles, Shakespeare, and Popular Culture, the preeminent American disseminator so far of Shakespeare to American popular culture and so to American cultural consciousness: Hence we shall explore how Welles sought to present the bard to his American audiences not only in his three Shakespeare films but also in his other Shakespeare cinema projects, translations of Shakespeare plays, and theatre work on Shakespeare that we shall discuss from our readings, above all in interviews with Welles and in Anderegg's tome. We shall also ask how much Welles's work on Shakespeare affected Shakespeare academics and the teaching of the bard within American academies. Attention will also be paid to the cinematically revolutionary new kinds of subjects, souls, and life, and strategic modes for viewing that the images of this foregoing corpus of work invokes and elicits from its viewers. In a more general and far-reaching key that traverses national-cultural boundaries, the presentation and critique of ´modernity´ found in Shakespeare-Welles will also be interrogated as an object of focus from multiple theoretical perspectives (baroque, Niklas Luhmann social systems theory, the Frankfurt School, Deleuze, Walter Benjamin, and so on). ASSESSMENT: To receive credit for the seminar students will be required to have no more than three absences and to submit a final composition of 2000-2500 words on a topic of their creative choice. (Specialization students will be required to submit another longer final essay of 3000-3500 words that may also be marked as písemná práce.) Poslední úprava: UAAZNOJE (30.05.2008)
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MATERIAL: Photocopied readings from the following texts, among others, will be available in a course-reader or will be adduced by the instructor in the class: Anderegg, Michael. Orson Welles, Shakespeare, and Popular Culture. New York: Columbia UP, 1999. Bersani, Leo and Ulysse Dutoit. Forms of Being: Cinema, Aesthetics, Subjectivity. London: British Film Institute, 2004. Cowie, Peter. A Ribbon of Dreams: The Cinema of Orson Welles. South Brunswick: A.S. Barnes, 1973. Estrin, Mark W., ed. Orson Welles: Interviews. Jackson: UP of Mississippi, 2002. Luhmann, Niklas. Observations on Modernity. Trans. William Whobrey. Stanford: Stanford UP, 1998. Nancy, Jean-Luc. The Creation of the World: or, Globalization, Trans. and with an intro. François Raffoul and David Pettigrew. Albany: SUNY P, 2007. Naremore, James. The Magic World of Orson Welles. Dallas: Southern Methodist UP, 1989. Roraback, Erik S. Revised presentation from the Panel "Deleuze and Cinema" (Chair: Ludwig Nagl, Univ. of Vienna) at the 29th Annual Conference of the Intl. Assoc. of Philosophy and Literature, Helsinki, Finland, 2-7 June, 2005: "Chiasmatic Interventions: Deleuze's Postmodern 'Time-Image' and Orson Welles's Late Medieval Chimes at Midnight (1966)" from work-in-progress Cinema as an Autopoietic System. Welles, Orson and Peter Bogdanovich. This is Orson Welles, ed. and preface Jonathan Rosenbaum, intro. Peter Bogdanovich. New York: Da Capo Press, 1998. Wilson, Richard. Secret Shakespeare: Studies in theatre, religion and resistance. Manchester: Manchester UP, 2004. Screenings: Welles, Orson, dir.: Macbeth (1948); Othello (1952); Chimes at Midnight (1966); Don Quijote (1992). Poslední úprava: UAAZNOJE (30.05.2008)
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seminář Poslední úprava: UAAZNOJE (30.05.2008)
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1 Introduction 2 discuss reading from Michael Anderegg pp. x-xi and 1-38 3 discuss reading from Anderegg pp. 39-73 4 discuss reading from Anderegg pp. 74-97; pre-film talk; screening of Macbeth (1952, 107 minutes) 5 finish screening Macbeth; post-film lecture/discussion 6 discuss reading from Anderegg pp. 98-122; pre-film talk; screening of Othello (1952, 89 minutes) 7 finish Othello; post-film lecture/discussion 8 discuss reading from Anderegg pp. 123-67; play clips from Don Quijote 9 pre-film talk; screening of Chimes at Midnight 10 finish screening Chimes at Midnight; post-film lecture/discussion 11 discuss reading from Erik Roraback + Conclusions I 12 Conclusions II Poslední úprava: UAAZNOJE (30.05.2008)
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