Vytvořeno v rámci Operačního programu
Vzdělávání pro konkurenceschopnost CZ.1.07/2.2.00/15.0188

Vytvořeno v rámci Operačního programu
Vzdělávání pro konkurenceschopnost CZ.1.07/2.2.00/15.0188

Vytvořeno v rámci Operačního programu
Vzdělávání pro konkurenceschopnost CZ.1.07/2.2.00/15.0188

 

This course aims at familiarizing participants with the Canadian feature film production from the late Nineteen-Sixties to the present. Using a body of critically acclaimed films, the course is designed to enhance students’ interpretive skills and to provide them with relevant knowledge concerning the production, distribution, consumption and reception of Canadian feature films in Canada.

The successful participants will become aware of the variety and quality of Canadian feature film production and gain relevant insights into the development of the Canadian film industry, criticism and film scholarship. In addition to studying representative works by major Canadian filmmakers, students will be invited to consider a variety of wider contextual issues. In other words the course provides not only opportunity for close textual analysis, but also for assessment of a variety of social, political, and cultural circumstances that the films result from and reflect.

 

 


The aim of the course is to familiarize students with the main theoretical concepts for the analysis of identity formation as well as the formation of alterity. Presenting the main critical terms, methods of analysis will be developed, which will be in turn applied on a variety of case studies. The course aims at enabing students to gain thorough knowledge of the relevant aspects of the formation of human identity and alterity and their functioning across the North American space (and not only there).

The successful particiants of this course will:
- become familiar with the main theoretical concepts for the analysis of identity formation as well as the formation of alterity;
- will aquire basic methods of analysing these processes;
- will become familiar with a variety of case studies illustrative of the topic;
- will understand the role problems of identity and alterity formation played in the North American space, past and present.

Assessment:
1) An oral exam of two parts; examined by two course teachers - 50 %,
2) In-class tests and active participation - 50%

Vytvořeno v rámci Operačního programu
Vzdělávání pro konkurenceschopnost CZ.1.07/2.2.00/15.0188

 

This course aims at familiarizing participants with the Canadian feature film production from the late Nineteen-Sixties to the present. Using a body of critically acclaimed films, the course is designed to enhance students’ interpretive skills and to provide them with relevant knowledge concerning the production, distribution, consumption and reception of Canadian feature films in Canada.

The successful participants will become aware of the variety and quality of Canadian feature film production and gain relevant insights into the development of the Canadian film industry, criticism and film scholarship. In addition to studying representative works by major Canadian filmmakers, students will be invited to consider a variety of wider contextual issues. In other words the course provides not only opportunity for close textual analysis, but also for assessment of a variety of social, political, and cultural circumstances that the films result from and reflect.

 

 

Vytvořeno v rámci Operačního programu
Vzdělávání pro konkurenceschopnost CZ.1.07/2.2.00/15.0188

This course aims to examine in more detail modern Indigenous literatures in North America since the 1990s. Students will be asked to study the texts, analyzing themes and narrative strategies and contemplate the ways in which Indigenous literatures today may articulate a distinctive genre. The textual analysis will be put into a larger context of the historical development of Indigenous literatures in the USA and Canada since its renaissance in the 1960s and also into the perspective of traditions of oral cultures. At the end of the course students should have a better appreciation of the minority literary discourse and the development of Indigenous artistic forms in the last five decades.

Vytvořeno v rámci Operačního programu
Vzdělávání pro konkurenceschopnost CZ.1.07/2.2.00/15.0188

Vytvořeno v rámci Operačního programu
Vzdělávání pro konkurenceschopnost CZ.1.07/2.2.00/15.0188

This course aims at familiarizing participants with various elements related to one of the most important spheres of cultural production in the USA: the American feature film. Using a body of twenty two representative films as its point of departure, the course is designed not only to enhance students’ interpretive skills, but also to provide them with relevant knowledge concerning the production, distribution, and consumption of films at various stages of American history from World War II to the present.

            Cutting across a variety of genres, the selected films offer important insights into the development of the American film industry and criticism; at the same time they invite thinking about a variety of wider contextual issues. In other words we will not only concentrate on close textual analysis, but also consider a variety of social, political and historical circumstances that the films reflect and result from.