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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 bibliography and filmography will be made available in foreign languages.
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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 course aims to help students:
a) acquire advanced knowledge of film criticism and its main associated issues;
b) develop critical and reflective thinking in the practice of film criticism;
c) enhance their capacity for autonomy and independence in research, processing, and presenting information, as well as their argumentative skills and ability to articulate various theoretical and practical content.
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Syllabus |
1. Introduction to Film Criticism
Evaluation and Interpretation in Film Criticism
2. Stages in the History of Film Criticism
The Portuguese Case
Digital Criticism
3. Criticism and Analysis. Argumentation and Rhetoric
a) Textual Criticism
b) Narrative Criticism
c) Contextual Criticism: Queer and Decolonial
4. Criticism, Cinephilia, and Film Culture
Subjectivity and the Pluralization of Film Criticism
Film Criticism in the Digital Age and 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 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, 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.
Filmography will be provided throughout the semester.
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Teaching Methodologies and Assessment Criteria |
Reading and analyzing reference texts.
Analysis of film reviews.
Practical exercises in writing film reviews.
Film viewing.
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Language |
Portuguese. Tutorial support is available in English.
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