NA_AP Audiovisual Propaedeutics

University of Finance and Administration
Winter 2026
Extent and Intensity
1/2/0. 6 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
doc. MgA. Martin Blažíček, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Guaranteed by
doc. MgA. Martin Blažíček, Ph.D.
Department of Social Sciences – Departments – University of Finance and Administration
Contact Person: Mgr. Petra Dovhunová
Timetable of Seminar Groups
NA_AP/cNCPH: Tue 13:00–13:45 S26, Tue 14:00–14:44 S26, M. Blažíček
NA_AP/pNCPH: Tue 12:15–12:59 S26, M. Blažíček
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is offered to students of any study field.
Course objectives
The course introduces students to the fundamental areas and topics of audiovisuality. It will provide an overview of the history, theoretical and methodological concepts, and approaches to audiovisual culture, as well as its perception and interpretation.
Learning outcomes
The course will explore historical and contextual connections of various audiovisual elements. The course's theoretical foundation will be complemented by visual and critical analysis, including practical examples and exercises.
Syllabus
Understanding media: methods and approaches / Modernist concepts of cinema: photogénie, manifestos, film as intermedium. / Film as codes and signs, mise-en-scène, language of film / Film genres / Auteur cinema / Realism and documentary approaches / Other cinemas / Feminist theory / Postmodernism, film, and video / New media, hypermedia, remediation / Identity and social networks / Operational images
Literature
    required literature
  • Monaco, James. How to Read a Film: Movies, Media, and beyond Art, Technology, Language, History, Theory. 4th ed. Oxford University Press, 2009.
    recommended literature
  • Thompson, Kristin, and David Bordwell. Film History: An Introduction. McGraw-Hill, 2003.
  • Bordwell, David, Kristin Thompson, and Jeff Smith. Film Art: An Introduction. 12th ed. McGraw-Hill, 2020.
  • MacKenzie, Scott. Film Manifestos and Global Cinema Cultures: A Critical Anthology. 1st ed. University of California Press, 2014.
  • Manovich, Lev. The Language of New Media. The MIT Press, 2002.
  • Bolter, Jay David, and Richard Grusin. Remediation: Understanding New Media. MIT Press, 2000.
  • Farocki, Harun. “Phantom Images.” Public: Art, Culture, Ideas, no. 29 (2004): 12–22.
  • Meixnerová, Marie. #mm Net Art: Internet Art in the Virtual and Physical Space of Its Presentation. Pastiche Filmz, 2014.
  • Constable, Catherine. Postmodernism and Film: Rethinking Hollywood’s Aesthetics. Wallflower press, 2015.
  • Clayton, Sue, and Laura Mulvey, eds. Other Cinemas. Politics, Culture and Experimental Film in the 1970s. Bloomsbury Academic, 2021.
  • Gunning, Tom. “The Cinema of Attraction[s]: Early Film, Its Spectator and the Avant-Garde.” In The Cinema of Attractions Reloaded, edited by Wanda Strauven. Routledge, 2025.
  • Mulvey, Laura. Visual and Other Pleasures. Palgrave, 1989.
  • Altman, Rick. Film, Genre. BFI, 1999.
Teaching methods
Lectures, class discussions, exercises,  individual project
Assessment methods
Students will be evaluated based on a short essay on a given topic and a subsequent discussion.
Language of instruction
English
Further Comments
The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
The course is also listed under the following terms Winter 2024, Winter 2025.
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