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Students will become familiar with methods of film analysis and film theory; they will apply this knowledge to specific films, genres, actors or tendencies in film history; they will become familiar with Soviet / Russian cinema 

During the course we will try to grasp cinema in its different dimensions and functions, which range from visual form and narrative structure to character presentation, from cinema’s social and political functions to entertainment. We will, in a first step, study methods of film analysis as well as film and media theory. In a second step we will apply these methods to Soviet / Russian films.

Lectures, short presentations and discussions of selected films by the participants

Regular and active attendance; short presentations; written test

James Monaco: Film verstehen: Kunst, Technik, Sprache, Geschichte und Theorie des Films und der Medien. Reinbeck 2005 (6. Aufl.); Knut Hickethier: Film- und Fernsehanalyse. Stuttgart [u.a.] 2007 (4. Aufl.); Geschichte des sowjetischen und russischen Films. Hrsg. von Christine Engel unter Mitarbeit von Eva Binder, Oksana Bulgakova, Evgenij Margolit, Miroslava Segida. Stuttgart, Weimar 1999.