Introduction to the World Film History and Theory II (KSK_255)

To familiarise students with world cinematic art history to ensure extension of the general humanistic outlook of students. To deepen understanding of the modern history of communication and media, and importance in the context of development of European culture.
To familiarise with the most important stages, stylistic trends of development of the world cinematic art and the most important representatives of film culture – their canonical works. To learn and to be able to analyse the most brilliant examples of cinematic art, which characterise the development of film history, as well as to develop understanding of the development of film language and its effects on the modern audio-visual communication space. To provide information about the world film history and its development stages. To give an understanding of basic principles of film language.
The course familiarises with the development of cinema in the second half of the 20th century, emphasising the dominant element of modernism trend in the European film history of 1950s and 1960s, which appears as an opposition to the classical Hollywood style, as well as it echo in world cinematography.