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Proletarian internationalism was rehabilitated as an integral part of the Soviet project after the fall of Stalinism and the subsequent changes in the USSR's foreign policy in the 1950s. In Czechoslovakia, internationalism was likewise declared at the highest level of the state and the government was providing scholarships to foreign students from countries that were still fighting their armed struggles for independence or had just gained independence from European colonial powers. In the National film archive Prague are deposited film works from students who came to Czechoslovakia from the so called „Third World“ countries (today's Global South countries) during this foreign policy. The course Through-the-lense of Global South stresses the importance of transversal skills such as critical thinking and social engagement and it is held in a hybrid form in partnership with the Warsaw university. Students will get familiar with the best practices for oral history and in small groups they can later conduct an online or in person interview with living witnesses by using this qualitative research method or they can submit a film analysis. Both results can later be publish (in English) in the journal Filmový přehled.
The course will be held in a close collaboration with the National Film Archive in Prague and the film journal Filmový přehled where students can publish their final essays and textual analysis. The film archival institution will provide film materials and organize two screenings in the cinema Ponrepo (on the 6th of March 2023 and the 17th of April 2023, Bartolomějská 11, Prague 1), free of charge for enrolled students. During those two sessions students will have an opportunity to assist the screenings from 35mm film copies. Other film excerpts will be shown in the form of HD digital scans. The classes will be taught in a hybrid form: in a present form for students in Prague (in Hybernská 4 premises and in the cinema Ponrepo) and in an online form through for the students from other 4EU+ universities. Poslední úprava: Šarše Vojtěch, Mgr., Ph.D. (11.12.2022)
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The theoretical section of the course seeks to answer a series of questions regarding the concept of Europeanness and the past and contemporary cultural exchange practices by focusing on analyzing a variety of student film excerpts, theoretical texts and oral historical interviews held with the filmmakers that studied at FAMU and UMPRUM before 1989. In the fictional narratives of the film works are inscribed the experiences of daily reality of the foreign students in Central European space but also fantasies about the other. Together with the participants we can ask the following questions: Who was (and is) considered to be a European and who is not? Was the Czechoslovak urban environment in the 1960s ready to accept the new coming students? What ways were used to integrate the foreign students to Czechoslovak university system and in what ways did the local students benefit from their presence? What consequences had the Czechoslovak internationalist political curse on the current art, literary, archival and academical scene? The aims of this course are:
Poslední úprava: Šarše Vojtěch, Mgr., Ph.D. (11.12.2022)
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To get the credits, the students have to be active and have to write an essay on a topic related to the course. It will be further described during the first seminar. Three absences are allowed. Poslední úprava: Hotová Pavlína (06.12.2022)
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Online sources: http://www.colonialfilm.org.uk/production-company/colonial-film-unit https://files.libcom.org/files/zz_aime_cesaire_robin_d.g._kelley_discourse_on_colbook4me.org_.pdf https://monoskop.org/images/4/4e/Said_Edward_Orientalism_1979.pdf https://web.archive.org/web/20120803090558/http://old.bfi.org.uk/sightandsound/feature/49355 https://www.vulture.com/2015/02/how-ousmane-sembene-invented-african-cinema.html
Film sources: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-pksToXSL4 (12 episodes all accessible on youtube) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X75COneJ4w8 (4 episodes all accessible on youtube)
Book sources: Manthia Diawara, African Cinema: Politics & Culture, Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 1992. Nancy J. Schmidt, Sub-Saharan African films and filmmakers, 1987-1992: an annotated bibliography, Londres, New Providence (N.J.), Hans Zell Publishers, 1994. Ukadike, Nwachukwu Frank, Black African cinema. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1994. Lindiwe Dovey, African Film and Literature: Adapting Violence to the Screen. Columbia University Press, 2009. Barlet, Olivier, Contemporary African Cinema. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2016. Poslední úprava: Hotová Pavlína (06.12.2022)
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13. 2. 2023 15:40-17:20, Hybernská 4 20. 2. 2023 15:40-17:20, Hybernská 4 27. 2. 2023 15:40-17:20, Hybernská 4 6. 3. 2023 18:00-19:30, Bartolomějská 11 20. 3. 2023 15:40-17:20, Hybernská 4 27. 3. 2023 15:40-17:20, Hybernská 4 3. 4. 2023 15:40-17:20, Hybernská 4 10. 4. 2023 15:40-17:20, Hybernská 4 17. 4. 2023 18:00-19:30, Bartolomějská 11 24. 4. 15:40-17:20, Hybernská 4 Poslední úprava: Šarše Vojtěch, Mgr., Ph.D. (03.02.2023)
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