Code |
14237
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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 |
Cinema
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Entry requirements |
Not applicable.
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Mode of delivery |
Face-to-face
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Work placements |
Not applicable
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Learning outcomes |
To successfully complete the History of Cinema curricular unit, the student must be able to: 1. Analyze a filmic work using a specifically cinematic language; 2. Recognize and identify the main movements, authors, aesthetics and technologies in the History of Cinema; 3. Critically distinguish cinema as art, media and/or product of a creative industry; 4. Socially, politically and culturally contextualize the most notable film works, movements and production systems in the History of Cinema; 5. Establish a dialogue between cinema and gender elements presented in the film, viewing Cinema as a means of representing different social roles attributed to men and women throughout the 20th and early 21st centuries.
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Syllabus |
- The beginning of the History of Cinema. The first years of cinema in Portugal - The transition from silent to sound cinema - Filmology. Specific cinema vocabulary and the development of a seventh art - Cinema in World War II - Post-World War II cinema and the attempt to reconstitute memory. Intolerable images and the spectator's involvement, in Jacques Ranciére's definition - Film noir - Alfred Hitchcock's thriller (1899 – 1980) - The 60s, the New Wave and the New Portuguese Cinema - Criticism of classic Hollywood cinema - Transnational perspectives in contemporary cinema
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Main Bibliography |
- Aumont, Jacques & Marie, Michel (2009). Dicionário Teórico e Crítico do Cinema. Lisboa: Texto e Grafia. - Cousins, Mark (2005). Biografia do Filme. Lisboa: Plátano. - Mascarello, Fernando (2012). História do Cinema Mundial. Campinas, S.P.: Papirus Editora. - Mulvey, Laura (1975). Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema. Screen 16.3.
Filmography Maria do Mar - Leitão de Barros (1930) A aldeia da roupa branca - Chianca de Garcia (1938) Singing in the rain - Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly (1951) Vertigo - Alfred Hitchcock (1958) Verdes anos – Paulo Rocha (1963) La dolce vita - Federico Fellini (1960) Persona - Ingmar Bergman (1966) Os canibais – Manoel de Oliveira (1988) Cinema Paradiso - Giuseppe Tornatore (1988) Piano - Jane Campion (1993) Aparelho voador a baixa altitude - Solveig Nordlund (2002)
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Teaching Methodologies and Assessment Criteria |
Contents exposition. Reading and analysis of reference texts. Viewing and analysis of excerpts from cinematographic works. Development and monitoring of practical work based on theoretical approaches.
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Language |
Portuguese. Tutorial support is available in English.
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