FAMU katedra kamery

petra.dominkova@gmail.com

teacher, translator

At the Cinematography Department, Petra Dominkova teaches the Theory of Cinematography class where students learn various theoretical approaches to the aspects of the cameraman’s work they already know from first-hand experience. She teaches foreign students within the FAMU International program and has also lectured at the Department of Scriptwriting and Dramaturgy and CAS.

Petra Dominková was born in 1972. She received her PhD from CAS FAMU in 2008. As a Fulbright scholar, she spent one year at UCLA. Besides FAMU, she teaches international students at CIEE and CET.  Her main research interests include Czech and East European cinematography and film noir.

Bibliography (selection):

2017 – How New York City Sounds in Noirs and Neo-Noirs. In Urban Noir: New York and Los Angeles in Shadow and Light. Cynthia J. Miller & James Ward, Rowman.

2016 – Vlak ve filmu noir. In: Vlak zvaný film [proceedings from the 16th Czech-Slovak Film Conference held 15-18 October 2015 in Krpáčov], ed. Martin Kaňuch, 87-93. Bratislava: ASFK, SFÚ.

2014 – Ani tieň podozrenia, Cudzinci vo vlaku, Jeden večer, jeden vlak. In Vlak zvaný film. 120 rokov na filmovej trati, eds. Martin Kaňuch & Michal Michalovič, 20-21, 26-27, 330-337. Bratislava: SFU.

2012 – Vojtěch Jasný: Na obou stranách oceánu. In Vzkazy domů, ed. Lucie Wittlichová, 330-337. Prague: Labyrinth.

2012 – Vojtěch Jasný: On both sides of the ocean. In Vzkazy domů, ed. Lucie Wittlichová, 330-337. Prague: Labyrinth.

2009 – Dům na samotě ve filmu noir. Slovenská literatúra 56 (2009): 474-481.

2008 – I Want That Mink! Movie Noir and Fashion. In If looks could kill: Cinema’s Images of Fashion, Crime and Violence, ed. Marketa Uhlirova, 138-143. London: Koenig Books.

2008 – ‘We Have Democracy, Don’t We?’ Czech Society as Reflected in Contemporary Czech Cinema. In Past for the Eyes: East European Representations of Communism in Cinema and Museums, eds. Oksana Sarkisova & Péter Apor, 215-244. Budapest, New York: CEU Press.

2007 – ‘Máme demograciju, ne?‘ Současnost v české kinematografii po roce 1989. In Kapitoly z dějin české demokracie po roce 1989, eds. Adéla Gjuričová & Michal Kopeček, 175-192. Prague: Paseka.

2007 – Film noir a cenzura, Kinoikon 1: 181-192.