| Code |
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 thinking process: the film-essay
1.1 The essay in literature: Montaigne, Lukacs, Bense, Adorno, Huxley
1.2 In cinema
1.2.1 Authors: Richter, Astruc, Bazin, Lopate, Rascaroli, Corrigan
1.2.2 Films: Tout la mémoire du monde, F for Fake, Sans Soleil, Blue, Oriental Elegy, Les glaneurs et la glaneuse
2. Cinema as a creative process: the metacinema
2.1 Self-reflexivity in literature: Odyssey, Don Quixote, Tristam Shandy, If on a Winter's Night ..., One Hundred Billion Poems
2.2 In the cinema: The man with the movie camera, The Bad and the Beautiful, 8 ½, Vertical Features Remake, Histoire (s) du Cinèma, Holy Motors
3. Cinema as an identity process: world cinematographies
3.1 Brief history
3.2 Works, authors, genres and movements
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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
Baptista, M. & Mascarello, F. (2008), Cinema Mundial Contemporâneo, Papirus
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
Cousins, Mark (2013), The Story of Film, Pavilion
Klaus, C. H. & Stuckey-French, N. (2012), Essayists on the Essay, University of Iwoa Press
McKenzie, S. (2014), Film Manifestos and Global Cinema Cultures: a critical anthology, University of California Press
Papazian, E. A. & Eades, C. (2016), The Essay Film: Dialogue, Politics, Utopia, Wallflower Press
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Teaching Methodologies and Assessment Criteria |
Work 1
Organization of a seminar with a film cycle
Starting question: What is a movie...?
Class division into 8 groups
Evaluation:
- article (50%)
- presentation (25%)
- argument (25%)
Each group will be an examiner of another group
Elements for evaluation:
- title
- resume
- key words
- state of art
- paper (4000 to 5000 words)
Work 2
Creating a short film
Starting question: How do you film...?
Class division into 8 groups
Evaluation:
- film (50%)
- presentation (25%)
- argument (25%)
Each group will be an examiner of another group.
Elements for evaluation:
- synopsis
- note of intentions
- state of the art (bibliography, filmography and other references)
- movie (up to 7 minutes)
- making-of
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Language |
Portuguese. Tutorial support is available in English.
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