The World of Documentary Film - JKB300

• Title: The World of Documentary Film
• Czech title: Svět dokumentárního filmu
• Guaranteed by: Department of Media Studies (23-KMS)
• Faculty: Faculty of Social Sciences
• Actual: from 2022
• Semester: winter
• E-Credits: 5
• Examination process: winter s.:combined
• Hours per week, examination: winter s.:1/1, Ex [HT]
• Capacity: 50 / 50 (unknown)
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: yes / unlimited
• Key competences: 4EU+ Flagship 2
• State of the course: taught
• Language: English
• Teaching methods: distance
• Teaching methods: distance
• Level: specialized
• Note: course for students of another faculty; course taught by another faculty; course can be enrolled in outside the study plan; enabled for web enrollment
• Guarantor: prof. MgA. Martin Štoll, Ph.D.
• Teacher(s): prof. MgA. Martin Štoll, Ph.D.
• Class: Courses for incoming students

Annotation

Last update: prof. MgA. Martin Štoll, Ph.D. (26.09.2023)

The World of Documentary Film is a course built for 4EU + students. Documentary film is conceived here as a specific type of communication, as a way of seeing the world, as a special segment of audiovisual production and creative industry, as well as a social and socialization element and finally as a supreme creative method. The course combines the theoretical-historical framework of various approaches of the "classics" of the documentary, theory as well as practical literary preparation of one's own documentary project. The lecturer is a long-time director, dramaturg (script-editor) and screenwriter of a documentary film.

Aim of the course

Last update: prof. MgA. Martin Štoll, Ph.D. (11.07.2022)

The course is designed as a creative screenwriting workshop for documentary film authors. The aim of the subject is to present the basic creative procedures, methods and approaches of the author of the documentary film to reality, and to place them in a theoretical-historical framework. Each class will therefore be a combination of a specific creative approach (problem) and its solution options, which will always be presented using examples of basic classical works of world (and Czech) documentary.

The course will be taught remotely (GoogleMeet) and will be based on materials in Moodle.

Literature

Last update: prof. MgA. Martin Štoll, Ph.D. (03.10.2022)

Material in MOODLE: Kurz: The World of Documentary Film (cuni.cz)

BEATTIE, K. Documentary Screens. Nonfiction Film and Television.  Palgrave McMillan, New York 2004.

BRUZZI, S. New Documentary: A Critical Introduction. London: Routledge, 2000.

CORNER, J. The Art of Record. A critical introduction to documentary. Manchester University Press, Manchester 1996.

CRISELL, A. Understanding Radio. London: Routledge, 1996.

ELLIS, J.C.-McLANE, B. A. A New History of Documentary Film. The Continuum International Publishing Group Inc., New York 2009

FRANKLIN, I. Think-tape: The aesthetics of montage in the post-war television documentary. In: JACOBS, J. - PEACOCK, S. Television Aesthetics and Style. New York: Bloomsbury 2013, s. 289-307

McCREADIE, M. Documentary Superstars. How Today´s Filmmakers Are Reinventing the Form. Allworth Press, New York 2008.

ROSENTAHL, A. New Challenges for Documentary. University of California Press, Berkeley  1988.

ROSENTAHL, A. Why Docudrama? Fact-Fiction on Film and TV. Illinois : Southern  Illinois University Press, 1999.  

Requirements to the exam

Last update: prof. MgA. Martin Štoll, Ph.D. (26.09.2023)

Requirements:
100 % the Moodle test and the presentation of own documentary screenplay/project. 

Final grade spectrum:
A: 91-100 B: 81-90 C: 71-80 D: 61-70 E: 51-60 Fail: <50

 

1. THE PROJECT IS NECESSARY TO PUT INTO THE MOODLE!

2. TEST WILL RUN ON MOODLE AT

8th JANUARY 2024 AT 9:30

22nd JANUARY 2024 AT 9:30

29nd JANUARY 224 AT 9:30

 

 

Syllabus

Last update: prof. MgA. Martin Štoll, Ph.D. (28.09.2023)

MEETING WILL RUN ON MS TEAMS LINK (above)

Schedule of meetings: 

1. Documentary film as a cultural shock and audivisual postcard (October 2, 2023)

2. Reconstruction of the Life (Robert Flaherty) (October 9, 2023)

3. Topics in front of your own doorstep (John Grierson and British School of Social realism) (October 16, 2023)

4. Politics and ideology in Documentary film (Dziga Vertov and Leni Riefenstahl) (October 23, 2023)

5. From Avantgarde to civically engaged documentary (Joris Ivens, Michael Moore) (October 3, 2023)

6. To catch life in the act - free cinema, cinema direct (Richard Leacock and others) (November 6, 2023)

7. Sociological and ethnographic approach in the documentary film (Jean Rouch, Martin Slivka) (November 13, 2023) - record

8. The world seen through emotions (Jan Špáta) (November 20, 2023)

9. Documentary film as a chronicle of the times (Helena Třeštíková, Federick Wiseman, Michael Apted) (November 27, 2023)

10. Documentary filmmaker as visionary (Geofrey Reggio) (December 6, 2023)

11. Presentation of the projects. (December 11, 2023)

12. Presentation of the projects. (December 19, 2023)