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History and Theory of Cinema

History and Theory of Cinema

Code	13061
Year	1
Semester	S1
ECTS Credits	6
Workload	OT(15H)/TP(45H)
Scientific area	Cinema
Mode of delivery	Face-to-face.
Work placements	Not applicable.
Learning outcomes	This course aims to help students: a) acquire advanced knowledge about film theory and history, and main problems associated, and deepen knowledge acquired and discussed by students in the degree; b) to develop the critical and reflexive sense of the debate around the cinematographic matter; c) to enhance the capacity of autonomy and independence in research, in the treatment of information and in its exposition, as well as the argumentative and articulating capacity of various theoretical and practical contents.
Syllabus	1. History (ies) and Theory (ies) of Cinema: critical review. 2. Narratives, representations and constructions in the cinema. 2.1. Hollywood cinema and the dominant paradigm. 2.2. The European author cinema as a contradictory model. 2.3. The Third Cinema as an alternative model. 2.4. A case study: the Queer cinema. 3. Cinephilia and Film Culture. 3.1. Audiovisual Essay.
Main Bibliography	Bazin, Andre (1990). O que é o Cinema? Lisboa: Livros Horizonte; Bordwell, David & Thompson, Kristin (1994). Film History. An Introduction. Nova Iorque: McGraw-Hill; Ashcroft, Bill, Griffiths, Gareth & Tiffin, Helen (1995). The Post-colonial Studies Reader. 2.º edição. Londres: Routledge. Elsaesser, Thomas & Hagener, Malte (2010). Film Theory: an introduction through the senses. Nova Iorque: Routledge; Jenkins, Henry (2006). Convergence Culture. Where Old and New Media Collide. Nova Iorque: NYU Press; Nagib, Lúcia (2011). World Cinema and the Ethics of Realism. Londres: Continuum; Rich, B. Ruby (2013). New Queer Cinema: The Director’s Cut. Durham: Duke University Press. Stam, Robert & Shohat, Ella (2012). Race in Translation: Culture Wars Around the Postcolonial Atlantic. Nova Iorque: NYU Press. Valck, Marijke de & Hagener, Melte (2005). Cinephilia: Movies, Love and Memory. Amesterdão: Amesterdam University Press.
Language	Portuguese. Tutorial support is available in English.