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New Cinemas

Code 13592
Year 1
Semester S2
ECTS Credits 6
Workload OT(15H)/TP(45H)
Scientific area Cinema
Entry requirements English texts may be available.
Mode of delivery Face-to-face.
Work placements Not applicable.
Learning outcomes - It is intended that the student acquires a comprehensive knowledge of the History of Media, with a special focus on the effects of the emergence of digital on culture, on media convergence and on the development of hybrid formats.

- The student must have the theoretical foundation necessary to understand and reflect on the way in which the modalities of digital expression are articulated with Cinema.

- The curricular unit acts as a field for the laboratory experimentation of new formats, and the student must articulate theory and practice in the development of a project that combines the modes of expression and narration of cinema with the logic of digital.
Syllabus 1- Expanded Cinema
Intermediality and Artistic Vanguards
Materialities and Devices
Cinema and Performance

2- Cinema and Media
Mediation, culture and technique
The language of New Media
Narratives and Data Structures
The Computer as Metamedium
Media Convergence

3- Immersion and Interactivity
Immersive typologies
Presence and Telepresence
Cybertext and Hyperdiscourse
Environmental Storytelling

4- New formats
Virtual Reality and 360º Video
AI film
Main Bibliography Atkinson, S. (2014). Beyond the ScreenEmerging Cinema and Engaging Audiences. New York, London: Bloomsbury Academic
Jenkins, H. (2006). Convergence culture: Where old and new media collide. New York: New
York University Press.
Kaye, N. (2007). Multi-Media: Video, Installation, Performance, Routledge
Manovich. L. (2001). The Language of New Media. Cambridge: MIT Press.
Murray, J.(1997). Hamlet on the Holodeck: The Future of Narrative in the Cyberspace.
Cambridge: MIT Press.

Recomended filmography:
Ashes to Ashes, Ligthart Schenk, Jamille van Wijngaarden e Steye Hallema (2016)
Bandersnatch, David Slade (2018)
High Rise: Out May Window, Katerina Cizek (2010)
The Fall , Peter Greenaway (1980)
Teaching Methodologies and Assessment Criteria The assessment in the curricular unit reflects both the reflection and theoretical framework as well as the research practices:

A) Presentation and scientific article - 50%

C) Assessment test – 50%
Language Portuguese. Tutorial support is available in English.
Last updated on: 2025-03-17

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