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14237
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| Year |
1
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| Semester |
S1
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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 |
Not applicable.
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Mode of delivery |
Face-to-face
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Work placements |
Not applicable
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Learning outcomes |
To successfully complete the History of Cinema curricular unit, the student must be able to:
1. Analyze a filmic work using a specifically cinematic language;
2. Recognize and identify the main movements, authors, aesthetics and technologies in the History of Cinema;
3. Critically distinguish cinema as art, media and/or product of a creative industry;
4. Socially, politically and culturally contextualize the most notable film works, movements and production systems in the History of Cinema;
5. Establish a dialogue between cinema and gender elements presented in the film, viewing Cinema as a means of representing different social roles attributed to men and women throughout the 20th and early 21st centuries.
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Syllabus |
- The beginning of the History of Cinema. The first years of cinema in Portugal
- The transition from silent to sound cinema
- Filmology. Specific cinema vocabulary and the development of a seventh art
- Cinema in World War II
- Post-World War II cinema and the attempt to reconstitute memory. Intolerable images and the spectator's involvement, in Jacques Ranciére's definition
- Film noir
- Alfred Hitchcock's thriller (1899 – 1980)
- The 60s, the New Wave and the New Portuguese Cinema
- Criticism of classic Hollywood cinema
- Transnational perspectives in contemporary cinema
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Main Bibliography |
- Aumont, Jacques & Marie, Michel (2009). Dicionário Teórico e Crítico do Cinema. Lisboa: Texto e Grafia.
- Cousins, Mark (2005). Biografia do Filme. Lisboa: Plátano.
- Mascarello, Fernando (2012). História do Cinema Mundial. Campinas, S.P.: Papirus Editora.
- Mulvey, Laura (1975). Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema. Screen 16.3.
Filmography
Maria do Mar - Leitão de Barros (1930)
A aldeia da roupa branca - Chianca de Garcia (1938)
Singing in the rain - Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly (1951)
Vertigo - Alfred Hitchcock (1958)
Verdes anos – Paulo Rocha (1963)
La dolce vita - Federico Fellini (1960)
Persona - Ingmar Bergman (1966)
Os canibais – Manoel de Oliveira (1988)
Cinema Paradiso - Giuseppe Tornatore (1988)
Piano - Jane Campion (1993)
Aparelho voador a baixa altitude - Solveig Nordlund (2002)
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Teaching Methodologies and Assessment Criteria |
Contents exposition.
Reading and analysis of reference texts.
Viewing and analysis of excerpts from cinematographic works.
Development and monitoring of practical work based on theoretical approaches.
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Language |
Portuguese. Tutorial support is available in English.
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