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13576
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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 |
None
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Learning outcomes |
At the end of the course, the student must:
1 - Master the main criteria of differentiation and convergence of the arts
2 - Identify the place of cinema in the arts system and its complexity
3 - Be able to explore critically and creatively the connection between cinema and other arts, historically and contemporaneously
4 - Be able to reflect on the reciprocity of the articulation of cinema with the arts
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Syllabus |
1. Brief history of the arts in cinema
2. Singularities
2.1 One number: seven
2.2 An etymology: cine
2.3 A tension: writing
2.4 A design: gesamtkunstwerk
2.5 A decade: 1920
2.6 A visionary: Abel Gance
2.7 One sign: the 2001 monolith - A Space Odyssey
2.8 A plan: counterbalanced
2.9 A work: Histoire (s) du Cinema
2.10 A filmmaker: Andrei Tarkovski
2.11 An artist: Andy Warhol
2.12 A concept: Verfremdungseffekt
2.13 A contrast: chiaroscuro
2.14 A space: the white cube
2.15 An absence: the out-of-bounds
2.16 A phenomenon: Star Wars
2.17 A substance: light
2.18 A format: widescreen
2.19 An attempt: the essay
2.20 A look: the close-up
3. Affinities
3.1 Architecture
3.2 Sculpture
3.3 Painting
3.4 Poetry
3.5 Music
3.6 Dance
3.7 Theatre
3.8 Photography
3.9 Comics
3.10 Literature
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Main Bibliography |
1.1: Canudo, Ricciotto (1995), L’Usine aux Images, Séguier
1.2: Mannoni, Laurent (2003), A Grande Arte da Luz e da Sombra, Senac
1.3: Balazs, Bela (2010), Early Film Theory: The Visible Man and The Spirit of Film, Berghahn Books
1.4: Wagner, Richard. 2003. A Obra de Arte do Futuro. Antígona
1.5: AAVV (1979), Film as Film, Arts Council of Great Britain
1.6: Cuff, Paul. 2015. A Revolution for the Screen: Abel Gance’s Napoleon. Amsterdam University Press
1.7: Benson, Michael (2019), Space Odyssey: Stanley Kubrick, Arthur C. Clarke and the Making of a Masterpiece, Simon & Schuster
1.8: Welch, David (2001), Propaganda and the German Cinema, IB Tauris
1.9: Witt, Michael (2013), Jean-Luc Godard, Cinema Historian, Indiana University Press
1.10: Tarkovski, Andrei (1989), Sculpting in Time, University of Texas Press
etc.
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Teaching Methodologies and Assessment Criteria |
1. Exposition, contextualization and theoretical problematization.
2. Case studies.
3. Analysis, discussion and monitoring of the work.
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The student must choose and carry out a work that can assume one of the following typologies:
Type 1
- Short film: fiction, documentary, experimental, animation, essay film, etc.
Type 2
- Paper
type 3
- Others (to be agreed with the teacher; ex: installation, comics, painting, poster, etc.)
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Language |
Portuguese. Tutorial support is available in English.
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