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13085
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| Year |
2
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| Semester |
S2
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| ECTS Credits |
6
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| Workload |
OT(15H)/TP(45H)
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| Scientific area |
Cinema
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Entry requirements |
N/A
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Mode of delivery |
Presential.
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Work placements |
Not suitable.
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Learning outcomes |
At the end of the course, students must:
1. Master the fundamental principles, practices and methodologies of scientific research
2. Master the principles and practices of film analysis and thinking
3. Applying debate procedures at thematic seminars
4. To critically problematize cinematographic creation processes
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Syllabus |
1. Cinema as a reflection process: the Essay Film
1.1 The essay in literature: Montaigne, George Lukacs, Bense, Adorno, Huxley and others
1.2 The Essay Film
1.2.1 Essayists: Richter, Astruc, Bazin, Lopate, Rascaroli, Corrigan and others
1.2.2 Films: All the Memory in the World (1956), F for Fake (1973), Koyaanisqatsi (1982), Sunless (1983), Blue (1993), The Gleaners and I (2000) and others
2. Cinema as a creative process: metacinema
2.1 Self-reflexivity in literature: Odyssey, Don Quixote, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, If on a Winter's Night a Traveler, One Hundred Thousand Million Poems and others
2.2 Self-reflexivity in cinema: The Man with the Movie Camera (1929), The Bad and the Beautiful (1952), 8 ½ (1963), Vertical Features Remake (1974), Histoire(s) du Cinèma (1988-98), Holy Motors (2012) and others
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Main Bibliography |
Alter, N. M. (2018), The Essay Film After Fact and Fiction, Columbia University Press
Alter, N. M. & Corrigan, T. (2017), Essays on the Essay Film, Columbia University Press
Canet, F. (2014), El Metacine como Práctica Cinematográfica: uma propuesta de clasificación, in L’Atalante, Julio-Deciembre 2014, pp 17-26
Corrigan, T. (2011), The Essay Film: From Montaigne, after Marker, Oxford University Press
LaRocca, D. (2021), Metacinema: The Form and Content of Filmic Reference and Reflexivity, Oxford University Press
Klaus, C. H. & Stuckey-French, N. (2012), Essayists on the Essay, University of Iwoa Press
Papazian, E. A. & Eades, C. (2016), The Essay Film: Dialogue, Politics, Utopia, Wallflower Press
Stam, R. (1992), Reflexivity in Film and Literature: From Don Quixote to Jean-Luc Godard, Columbia University Press
Wolf, W. (2009), Metareference across Media, Rodopi
Wolf, W. (2011), The Metareferential Turn in Contemporary Arts and Media, Rodopi
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Teaching Methodologies and Assessment Criteria |
Students can opt for one or two of the following works:
work 1
Creation, in groups or individually, of a film-essay (up to 7 minutes) that reflects on the relationship between cinema and a theme of their choice: politics, art, etc.
Additional evaluation elements:
- synopsis (up to 150 words)
- note of intent (up to 500 words)
- state of the art (up to 500 words)
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- title
- abstract (up to 150 words)
- keywords (4 to 6)
- individual essay on the work (800 to 1200 words)
work 2
Creation, in groups or individually, of a short film (up to 7 minutes) that answers the question: how do you film… time, a dream, a tear, waiting, the invisible, etc.?
Additional evaluation elements: same as work 1
work 3
Individual writing of an article (5000 to 6000 words) obeying the general assumptions of the works described above.
Additional evaluation elements:
- title
- abstract (up to 150 words)
- keywords (4 to 6)
- state of the art (up to 1000 words)
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Language |
Portuguese. Tutorial support is available in English.
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