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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	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
Syllabus	1. Intensities 1.1 Art and cinema: decade by decade 1.1 Filmmakers and the art of cinema 1.2 Cinema seen from the outside: the first decades 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
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.
Language	Portuguese. Tutorial support is available in English.