The latvian academy of culture

Requirements for the Acquisition of Credit Points:
1. To participate and receive a positive assessment at seminars.

2. To successfully pass an examination.

Literature:

1.Latvijas kino1920.—1940. Iepazīšanās. Rīga, 1990

2.Līce S. Latviešu literatūras klasika kinomākslā. Rīga,1977

3.Līce S. Viņi veidoja latviešu mākslas filmu vizuālo tēlu. Rīga,1995

4.Padomju Latvijas kinomāksla. Rīga, 1989

5.Par sevi, par savu dzīvi, par savu darbu kino: latviešu aktierfilmu režisori. Rīga, 1991

The Name of the Course: History of the World Cinema
The Scope of the Course: 96 contact hours (60 hours of lectures, 36 hours of

seminars)

6 credit points. The type of assessment: an examination.
The Author of the Course: Lecturer Daira Āboliņa
Preconditions for the Acquisition of the Course: General knowledge in the history of art and cinema.
Thematic Planning:

Theme	Week	Type of classes and hours
The Russian cinema: personalities.
Dziga Vertov. The principles of the “Film Eye”.	1.,2.	L2;S2
Sergey Eisenstein and his “montage of attractions”.	3.,4.	L2;S2
Aleksandr Dovzhenko and his poetic cinema.	5.,6.	L2;S2
The comedies of Stalin period. I.Piryev. G.Aleksandrov.	7.,8.	L2;S2
The comedies of Soviet period. L.Gaidai. E.Ryazanov.	9.	L2;S2
The cinema during war. M. Kalatozov, G.Chukhrai and others.	10	L2;S2
Individual way. The basic principles of K.Muratova’s aesthetics.	11.	L2
Individual way. The basic principles of S.Soloviov’s aesthetics.	12.,13.	L2;S2
Individual way. The basic principles of A.Sokurov’s aesthetics.	14.	L2
Individual way. The basic principles of V.Abdrashitov’s aesthetics.	15.	L2;S2
Individual way. The basic principles of A.German’s aesthetics.	16.	L2
Andrey Tarkovsky: the evolution of his work.	17.	L2
Andrey Konchalovsky: the evolution of his work.	18.,19.	L2;S2
Nikita Mikhalkov: the evolution of his work.	20.,21.	L2:S2
Father and son. Piotr Todorovsky and Valeriy Todorovsky.	22.,23.	L2;S2
The directors of the new generation. Y.Grimov and others.	24.	L2
Italy. Neo-realism and its followers. V. de Sica, R.Rosellini.	25.	L2;S2
F.Fellini: the basic principles of his aesthetics.	26.	L2;S2
M.Antonioni “The theory of alienation”.	27.	L2
L.Visconti: the basic principles of his aesthetics.	28.,29.	S2;L2
France. “The New Wave” and J.L.Goddard.	30.	L2
R. Clair: from avantgarde till poetry.	31.	S2;L2
M. Carné: the basic principles of his aesthetics.	32.	L2;S2
The man of feelings F.Truffaut.	33.	S2;L2
L.Carrax: the basic principles of his aesthetics.	34.	S2
Sweden. I.Bergman’s cinema of “a vertical“.	35.,36.	L2;S2
B.Videberga “call for a horizontal”.	37.	L2;S2
Denmark. A dogma. L.von Trier, S.K.Jakobsen, T.Vintenberg.	38.	L2;S2