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13590
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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 |
Communication Sciences
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Entry requirements |
Some filmography will be avaiable in English.
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Mode of delivery |
Face-to-face.
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Work placements |
Not applicable.
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Learning outcomes |
This subject aims that students:
a) acquire knowledge about the discourse of film criticism, its main characteristics and associated problems;
b) develop a critical and reflective sense in the practice of film criticism.
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Syllabus |
Part I
1.1 Discourses on cinema: analysis and criticism
1.2 Dimensions of critical discourse. Types: review and essay. Relationship between analysis-criticism and ethics-aesthetics, the figure of the critic, arguments of criticism
1.3 Practicing criticism of film criticism
Part II
2.1 Criticism and Analysis. Argumentation and Rhetoric
a) Textual criticism
b) Narrative criticism
c) Contextual criticism: queer and decolonial
2.2 Criticism, Cinephilia and Film Culture
The subjectivity and pluralization of Film Criticism
The critical potential of the Audiovisual Essay
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Main Bibliography |
BRENEZ, N. (2013). La Critique comme concept, exigence et práxis.
CLAYTON, A. & A. KLEVAN (2013). The Language and Style of Film Criticism.
CUNHA, P. (2008). A crítica que mudou a crítica de cinema na imprensa portuguesa: o caso Diário de Lisboa, 1968.
CUNHA, T. C. (2017). Particularidades da crítica de cinema. in Paulo Cunha e Manuela Penafria (Ed.) Crítica do Cinema. Reflexões sobre um discurso, Ed. LabCom coleção ARS, pp.35-51
CUNHA, T. C. (2013). Avaliação e Interpretação na Crítica de Cinema. In Atas do II Encontro Anual da AIM,
editado por Tiago Baptista e Adriana Martins, Lisboa: AIM, pp. 152-159.
KOVÁCS, A. (2008). Screening Modernism. European Art Cinema 1950-80.
OSTROWSKA, D. (2008). Reading the French New Wave: Critics, Writers and Art Cinema in France.
ROSENBAUM, J. (2010). Goodbye Cinema, Hello Cinephilia: Film Culture in Transition.
SONTAG, S. (2009), Against interpretation and other essays, Penguin Books.
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Teaching Methodologies and Assessment Criteria |
Reading and analysis of reference texts.
Criticizing film criticism.
Practicing writing film criticism.
Analyzing film criticism.
Assessment consists of writing essays criticizing the discourse of film criticism and writing film criticism texts.
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Language |
Portuguese. Tutorial support is available in English.
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