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Lecturer(s)
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Parma Tomáš, doc. Ph.D. et Ph.D.
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Somer Tomáš, PhDr. Ph.D.
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Course content
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18. 2. Nanook of the North (1922, USA) 25. 2. Ten Canoes (2006, Australia) 4. 3. Tomiris (2019, Kazakhstan) 11. 3. Attila (1954, Italy/France) 18. 3. When the Raven Flies (1984, Iceland) 25. 3. Pathfinder (Ofelas, 1987, Norway) 1. 4. Genghis Khan (1965, UK) 8. 4. Mongol (2007, Kazakhstan/Russia/Germany) 15. 4. The Hour of the Pig (1993, France/Great Britain) 22. 4. The Mission (1986, Great Britain/France) 29. 4. The Last of the Mohicans (1992, USA) 6. 5. The Horse Thief (1986, China)
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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Dialogic Lecture (Discussion, Dialog, Brainstorming), Demonstration, Projection (static, dynamic)
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Learning outcomes
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This course explores how cinema represents people living at the geographical, political, and cultural edges of historical worldsnomadic societies, frontier communities, and populations situated outside or in tension with Weberian "centres" of power, bureaucracy, and statehood. Using historical epics, ethnographic films, Indigenous cinema, socialist-era productions, and post-Cold War reinterpretations, the course examines how migration, mobility, and marginality are visualized on screen. Particular attention is paid to the relationship between centre and periphery, empire and frontier, myth and historiography, and to how different cinematic traditions construct (or challenge) narratives about "barbarians," nomads, and border societies. Films are discussed both as historical interpretations and as products of their own time and place of production, allowing students to compare depicted historical periods with the ideological, aesthetic, and political contexts in which the films were made. The course begins on 18th February 2026; the course takes place in the Lecture Hall of Sts Cyril and Methodius Faculty of Theology (Univerzitní 22) in the time 17:30-20:00.
Student will perceive the historical context of film work in his relation with described historical facts.
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Prerequisites
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The basic orientation in history. English language.
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Assessment methods and criteria
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Essay, Dialog
Active preparation for individual lectures, presence, written essay in the extent of 5 pages. The text of the essay about the selected film is to submit by the application "Semestral works" on Portal UP up to 16th April (23:59 h.)
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Recommended literature
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Blažejovský Jaromír. (2007). Spiritualita ve filmu. Brno.
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De Baecque A. (2008). Histoire et cinéma. Paris.
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Ferenčuhová, M. Historici a film, filmári a história. Hranice a prieniky dvoch disciplín.
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Ferro Marc. (2003). Cinéma et histoire. Paris.
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Ferro Marc. (1984). Film et histoire. Paris.
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Fuhrmann Horst. (2006). Středověk je kolem nás. Jinočany.
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Rosenstone Robert A. (2006). History on Film/Film on History. New York.
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Rosenstone Robert A. (2003). Visions of the Past. The Challenge of Film to Our Idea of History. Cambridge (Mass.).
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