Publication details
Rozbor filmu
| Title in English | Film Analysis |
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| Authors | |
| Year of publication | 2015 |
| Type | Monograph |
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| Citation | |
| Description | The book focuses on possibilities of analyzing a film as a system. Its aim is to deal with the process of asking questions in such a way that their answers will contribute to convincing solutions of exactly formulated tasks related to the structure of a film work. It is not a broadly conceived exposé of numerous kinds of analyses of numerous types of films; it rather follows the method of in-depth study of a limited scope of issues. As such, it consists of four sections. Each of these sections offers different questions and answers, presents different findings to the reader and follows different methods of work with the explication. All sections logically follow from the others, and thus analysed topics reappear in various contexts, as well as complement and develop each other. The first section presents the basic tools for an analysis of a work of art. The subject matter of the explication is a film work. The subject matter of the second section’s explication is the analysis as such. The subject matter of the third section is explication is a written analytical text. The final section makes it easier to understand on a higher level the various ways of structuring an analysis and its functions. It presents three formats of such texts: an analytical essay, an analytical study and poetological study. The subject matter of the explication is a unity of approach on the one hand and a variety of issues-solving on the other hand. The book aims to show the widest range of the explanatory possibilities of its approach, which it labels a poetics of fiction. When working with its case-studies, it repeatedly proceeds in the chapters from formally playful films to structurally complex works. This enables it to cover a wide range of challenges, which one can encounter in the process of an analysis of film works. And finally, the last chapter introduces the theme of a historiographic dimension of the book. It presents an original research of the beginnings of Czech cinema. |
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