CZECH REPUBLIC

The course introduces a special segment of popular culture in a historical context: the impact of the Cold War on science fiction film. It also considers how, as media technology developed between 1945-1990, nuclear threat, the arms race, and space race also inspired film and television directors to tell stories about a potential future. The course covers great movies born inside the Western and Eastern block, and discusses the different periods of Cold War (Thaw, Détente, etc.) thematized science fiction.

This course introduces and discusses historical developments and theoretical reflections of interactive media and looks at important authors, texts, and arguments. It explores various perspectives to analyze interactive media and uses these perspectives to illuminate selected cases. Topics include technological determinism; a Marxist base for digital superstructure; digital economy; history of the internet revisited; cyborgs and cybercommunities; cyberpower; digital texts, digital minds; artificial worlds, cyber bodies, and digital self; and alternatives to the West.

Through the use of a wide range of clips and relevant texts, this course looks at two kinds of propaganda in films, the overt and the covert, and the different categories within each type. The course makes a distinction between a the propaganda film that does not disguise its intentions to influence and even to convert audiences; and those films that have an ideology embedded in them, be it a western, thriller, comedy, or melodrama. The course is mainly structured chronologically and takes a contextual and intertextual approach to the subject while seeking out the specificity of cinema. It is supplemented and illustrated by the use of clips from films and one or two complete feature films, to which historical and critical analyses are applied to view films from different perspectives. In other words, the course explores how to "read" films.

This course provides interchanging discussions between media, communication, and sustainability issues. It examines sustainability issues in relation to media and communication theory to grasp strategies to encourage organizational or social behavior change. At the beginning of the semester, the course offers a theoretical framework of media and sustainability communication. Later in the course, students present a paper project on sustainability communication strategies in given sustainability issues.

This course is a general overview of the essential basic elements of film sound from the filmmaker's perspective. It investigates and discusses topics mainly from the viewpoint of how sounds are used in film and why. From theory through practical application, all aspects and functions of sound in film are examined. The course provides a basic understanding of how to conceptualize, prepare, and create sound for a film from script through production and post-production.

The course analyses all aspects of various short films and discusses how to write a short film, how to deal with the dramaturgy of the short film, and how to direct it. The course examines masterpieces created by the best directors in the history of cinema as well as contemporary ones. The course is intended for the students who are preparing their own short films but also for those, who want to understand the short film as a form.