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Cinema and Other Arts

Cinema and Other Arts

Code	13576
Year	1
Semester	S1
ECTS Credits	6
Workload	OT(15H)/TP(45H)
Scientific area	Cinema
Entry requirements	Not applicable.
Mode of delivery	Face-to-face
Work placements	None
Learning outcomes	By the end of the course, students should: 1. Master the main criteria for differentiation and convergence of the arts 2. Identify the place of cinema in the arts system and its complexity 3. Critically and creatively explore cinema's connection to other arts, historically and contemporary 4. Reflect on the reciprocity of cinema's connection to the arts 5. Create a short film or write a paper that explores the relationship between cinema and other arts
Syllabus	1. Cinema as Art 1.1 The Filmmakers' Perspective 1.1.1 Abel Gance 1.1.2 Dziga Vertov 1.1.3 Germaine Dulac 1.1.4 Alfred Hitchcock 1.1.5 Sergei Eisenstein 1.1.6 Maya Deren 1.1.7 Hans Richter 1.1.8 José Val del Omar 1.1.9 Stan Brakhage 1.1.10 Jean-Luc Godard 1.1.11 Andrey Tarkovsky 1.1.12 Peter Greenaway 1.2 The Artists’ Perspective 1.2.1 Filippo Tommaso Marinetti 1.2.2 Francis Picabia 1.2.3 Lazlo Moholy-Nagy 1.2.4 Alexei Gan 1.2.5 Kazemir Malevich 1.2.6 Raoul Hausmann 1.2.7 Fernand Léger 1.2.8 Salvador Dali 1.2.9 Le Corbusier 1.2.10 Giorgio de Chirico 1.2.11 Man Ray 1.2.12 Andy Warhol 1.3 The Writers' Perspective 1.3.1 Máximo Gorki 1.3.2 Alfred Döblin 1.3.3 Vladimir Mayakovsky 1.3.4 Guillaume Apollinaire 1.3.5 Ezra Pound 1.3.6 Hugo Von Hoffmansthal 1.3.7 Blaise Cendrars 1.3.8 Robert Desnos 1.3.9 Bertolt Brecht 1.3.10 Virginia Woolf 1.3.11 Antonin Artaud 1.3.12 Thomas Mann 2. Cinema and the Arts 2.1 Music 2.2 Poetry 2.3 Dance 2.4 Architecture 2.5 Sculpture 2.6 Painting etc
Main Bibliography	Abel, R. (1988), French Film Theory and Criticism: a history/anthology 1907-1939, Princeton University Press Hammond, P. (2000), The Shadow and its Shadows: surrealist writings on the cinema, City Lights Books MacKenzie, S. (2014), Film Manifestos and Global Cinema Cultures, University of California Press Rámio, J.R., Thevent, H.A. (2007), Textos y Manifiestos del Cine, Cátedra Taylor, R. (1994), The Film Factory, Russian and Soviet film in Documents 1896-1939, Routledge
Teaching Methodologies and Assessment Criteria	Students may choose one of the following work: a) Short film + written essay or report b) Paper The overall objective of this project is to explore the relationship between film and other arts as a fundamental factor in artistic creation and/or scientific research.
Language	Portuguese. Tutorial support is available in English.