Hollywood and Europe: A German Case Study Peter Krämer This course is made up of six sessions, each five hours long (much of this time is taken up by film screenings, ranging from The Great Dictator [1940] and Das Boot [1981] to Schindler's List [1993] and Independence Day [1996]). There will be two sessions per week, the first from 13.15 to 18.15, the second from 15.00 to 20.00: Monday, 20 April, Theatre Hall, 13:15-18:15 Thursday, 23 April, Film Hall, 15:00-20:00 Tuesday, 5 May, Film Hall, 13:15-18:15 Thursday, 7 May, Film Hall, 15:00-20:00 Tuesday, 12 May, Film Hall, 13:15-18:15 Thursday, 14 May, Film Hall, 15:00-20:00 There will be (individual and group) homework before each session and also during AFO week (27 April - 1 May). The course deals with a number of interrelated topics: the development of the film industry in the United States (especially of the so-called major Hollywood studios), the contributions made to that industry by many foreign-born (mostly European) people, the representation of foreign people and locations in Hollywood films, and the international operations of the major studios, especially in European countries. In addition to analysing the stories and themes of individual films, we will examine production processes and their film industrial, cultural and political contexts, film marketing and reception as well as box office hit patterns. We will focus on Germans and Germany - German filmmakers in Hollywood, German characters in Hollywood movies, Hollywood's operations in the German market, the German film industry. One issue we will have to address is what the assignment of a nationality (in this case "German") means and how it comes about. What, after all, is a German or a German movie? And what about people whose first language is German but who live in a country other than Germany (notably, Austria and other parts of Central and Eastern Europe, including the Czech lands)? Much of the work we do on this course should also be useful for examining the relationship between Hollywood and other countries and their nationals. In this way, our seminar complements a forthcoming course on Miloš Forman's career in Czechoslovakia and Hollywood. About the tutor: Peter Krämer is an Honorary Senior Research Fellow in the Faculty of Technology, Arts and Culture at De Montfort University (Leicester, UK) and an Honorary Fellow in the School of Media, Language and Communication Studies at the University of East Anglia (Norwich, UK).
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Monologická (výklad, přednáška, instruktáž), Dialogická (diskuze, rozhovor, brainstorming), Projekce (statická, dynamická)
- Účast na výuce
- 2 hodiny za semestr
- Příprava na zápočet
- 6 hodin za semestr
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