UHVD3418 Central European Culture in the Civic Era

Faculty of Philosophy and Science in Opava
Winter 2015
Extent and Intensity
2/0/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
doc. PhDr. Marie Gawrecká, CSc. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
doc. PhDr. Marie Gawrecká, CSc.
Institute of Historical Sciences – Faculty of Philosophy and Science in Opava
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
This semestral course is dedicated to the culture since the end of the eighteenth century till the interwar period. The accents lies on the most important media, that enable us to percieve the period: press, literature, theatre, architecture, museum, monument and new media (photography, film etc.). This lecture cource captures the dynamics of culture, whose main cultivators were the ancient elites (monarch, aristocracy, high clergy), who were later overwhelmed by new elites (middle classes) that lost their dominancy after 1918 neverthless due to the emergence of mass culture a the emancipation of lower classes around 1900. ower middle strata of society in the late 19th and early 20th century.
Syllabus
  • 1. Printed media: mass production of text
    2. New places of knowledge
    3. Museum: visualisation of culture
    4. Exhibition inscenation of agon
    5. Monument: visualisation of memory
    6. Arts: visual strategies
    7. Public feast: medium of the nineteenth century
    8. Mimésis: theatre, tableauy vivants, allegorical march
    9. Nets: post, telegraph, telephone
    10. Authentical age: phonograph, photography
    11. Illusiun: panorama, diorama, stereoscopic photography
    12. Film: end of high culture?
Literature
    recommended literature
  • Bednařík, P.-Köpplová- B.-Jirák, J. Dějiny českých médií. Od počátků do současnoti. Praha, 2011. info
  • Telesko,W. Das 19. Jahrhundert. Eine Epoche und ihre Medien. Wien, 2010. info
  • Hertung, O. Kleine deutsche Museumsgeschichte. Köln, 2010. info
  • Osterhammel, J. Die Verwandlung der Welt. Eine Geschichte des 19. Jahrhunderts. München, 2009. info
  • Köpplová B.- Köppl,L. Dějiny světové žurnalistiky. I. díl. Praha, 1989. info
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
Teacher's information
Passing of an exam.
The course is also listed under the following terms Winter 2007, Summer 2008, Winter 2008, Winter 2012, Summer 2013, Winter 2013, Summer 2014, Winter 2014, Winter 2016, Winter 2017, Winter 2018.
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