History of film and audiovision
Explore the development of film and audiovisual media, analyzing key movements, influential works, and their impact on culture and society.
The course History of film and audiovisual studies deals with the audiovisual medium and analyzes its historical context from its inception to the present. The emphasis is placed primarily on the emergence and impact of filmmaking in society, but other forms of audiovisual production with artistic, but also marketing, media and social messages are not neglected. The course, using a combination of lectures and screenings of carefully selected clips from cinematic & audiovisual history, will teach students to recognize the basics of film and dramaturgical language and help them navigate the extremely complex historical development of various film schools and audiovisual trends at the global and local level. The aim of the course is to teach students to understand film and audiovisual work, to form an individual opinion on them based on expert interpretation and publications. The main message of the course is to create a space for students to learn to independently form ideas about individual audiovisual components in the form of complex analyses and to navigate the issue. Each lecture will include a video previews and films recommendations for the current topic.and at the end of the course, the student will have a comprehensive overview of the history, as well as current trends in world and domestic film and other audiovisual techniques that are increasingly present in the online and offline world.
- Film language. Basic film terminology that a professional working in the audiovisual environment should master. All the means of expression and procedures that film and audiovisual creators use to achieve desired results.
- Filmology. Film studies is a comprehensive scientific discipline dealing with film and related audiovisual materials. It focuses mainly on film art and cinematography and uses a critical and media approach. Its boundaries often intersect with television or media studies and intersects with social studies, demographics and historical context.
- Neoformalist approach. It is an approach to the analysis of the material seen/perceived. The main concern of neoformalism is not interpretation, but in-depth analysis. How individual specific elements in their overall network interact with other elements and what their function is – rather than why they are present in the work.
- Historical research. In filmology, it is an investigation based on historically available data, their comparison and chronological determination. Together with the neoformalist approach, it creates space for a comprehensive perception of cinematography not only in historical, but also in social, economic and cultural contexts.
- Plot. The story that takes place in the world of film. It is the set of events of the entire story, both shown and not shown, and percieved chronologically, regardless of the order in which it is arranged in the film.
- Theme/matter. Everything the viewer see on screen and hear throughout the entire film, it is the collection of all the elements through which the film is told in the order in which they are shown.
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