Audiovisual Interpretation of Reality - JJM001

• Title: Audiovisual Interpretation of Reality
• Guaranteed by: Department of Media Studies (23-KMS)
• Faculty: Faculty of Social Sciences
• Actual: from 2023
• Semester: winter
• E-Credits: 8
• Examination process: winter s.:
• Hours per week, examination: winter s.:1/1, Ex [HT]
• Capacity: 45 / 45 (45)
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: 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: prof. MgA. Martin Štoll, Ph.D.
• Teacher(s): prof. MgA. Martin Štoll, Ph.D.
• Class: Courses for incoming students
• Incompatibility : JKM145
• Is incompatible with: JKM145

Annotation

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

Course aimed at methods of interpretation of reality by tools of audiovisuality. Lectures provide theoretic approaches of (particularly) non-fiction film to relationship between "objective" reality and "author´s subjectivity". Thesis are demonstrated by excerpts of classic and contemporary documentary films. A lecturer apply also his filmmaker´s point of view at a process of creativity.

Course completion requirements

Last update: prof. MgA. Martin Štoll, Ph.D. (01.10.2023)

Conditions for the finishing the course:

a) Presentation of "audiovisual case". Choose the audio, visual or audiovisual item, that is good for analysis (form, content, context, creative approach etc.), that solves some (technical, aesthetic, content...) problem and present it in front of colleagues. 
b) Test can be passed in one of three terms, in MOODLE

Literature

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

* References and selected bibliography:

BARNOW, Erik: Documentary. A history of the Non-fiction Film. Oxford Univesrity Press, New York, 1993.

BLANDFORD, Steve-GRANT, Barry Keith-HILLIER, Jim: The Film Studies Dictionary. Arnold, London, 2001.

CORNER, John: The art of record. A critical introduction to documentary. Manchaster University Press, Manchester 1996.

ELLIS, Jack. C.-McLANE, Betsy, A.: A New History of Documentary Film. Continuum, New York-London, 2009

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

LEACOCK, Richard: The Feeling of Being There. A Filmmaker´s Memoir. Seueion, Semeion Editions, France 2011.

WINSTON, Brian: Lies, Damn Lies and Documentaries. British Film Institute, London 2000.

+ literature in each lecture

Teaching methods

Last update: prof. MgA. Martin Štoll, Ph.D. (01.10.2023)

Materials are settled in MOODLE: 

https://dl1.cuni.cz/course/view.php?id=8289

Syllabus

Last update: prof. MgA. Martin Štoll, Ph.D. (01.10.2023)

Syllabus JJM001

Each lecture is made of two parts: presentation by students and the lecture

 

1. Lecture:  Autenthicity - the main value

2. Lecture: Components of Audiovisual Language

3. Lecture: Between two Poles: Reality and Piece of Work

4.  Lecture: Between Two Poles: Objectivity and Author´s Subject

5. Lecture:  Observational Mode

6. Lecture: Forms of Representation and Birth of Stereotype

7. Lecture: Role of Stylization

8.  Lecture:  Poetic Mode

9. Lecture: Creative Treatment of Actuality

10. Lecture: Imaging of a Man/Human 

Entry requirements

Last update: PhDr. Petr Bednařík, Ph.D. (08.02.2022)