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Film Analysis

Code 16623
Year 1
Semester S2
ECTS Credits 6
Workload OT(15H)/TP(45H)
Scientific area Cinema
Entry requirements Some bibliography and filmography will be made available in a foreign language.
Learning outcomes At the end of the UC, students must:
a) aknowledge the importance and complexity of film analysis;
b) acquire and operationalize basic knowledge about film analysis methodologies;
c) articulate, in a well-founded and critical way, the analysis of films with contextual and structural elements of cinematographic practice.
Syllabus 1. Film Analysis
Analyze for what?
Analyze and Interpret

2. Formal analysis
The shot (duration, framing, angle, movement)
Sound elements
Visual elements
The assembly

3. Narrative analysis
"Genealogy"
Dramatic graph
Sound ambiences
Visual ambiances

4. Contextual analysis
Creative process
Production modes
Critical studies
Main Bibliography Aumont & Marie. A análise do filme. 2004 [1988].
Bateman & Schmidt. Multimodal Film Analysis. How Films Mean. 2012.
Caldwell. Film analysis handbook: essential guide to understanding, analysing and writing on film. 2011.
Bordwell, Thompson & Smith. Film Art. An Introdution. 2017.
Lewis. Essential cinema. An introduction to film analysis. 2013
Sontag. Against Interpretation. 1964.
White, Film Analysis Guide. 2005.

Filmografia
2001: a space odissey (1968), S. Kubrick
Beau Travail (1998), C. Denis
Belarmino (1964), F. Lopes
Cléo from 5 to 7 (1962), A. Varda
Close-Up (1989), A. Kiarostami
Deus e o Diabo na Terra do Sol (1974), G. Rocha
Fish Tank (2009), A. Arnold
La Cienága (2001), L. Martel
La Jetée (1962), C. Marker
La Passion de Jeanne d’Arc (1927), C. Th. Dreyer
No Home Movie (2015), C. Akerman
O Movimento das Coisas (1985), M. Serra
One Week (1920), B. Keaton & E. Cline
Rashomon (1950), A. Kurosawa
Serpentário (2019), C. Conceição
Tonari no Totoro (1988), H. Miyazaki
Teaching Methodologies and Assessment Criteria Viewing and analysis of film excerpts.
Pratical exercices in the classroom.
Reading and analyzing texts.
Tutorial follow-up.
Language Portuguese. Tutorial support is available in English.

Instructors

 [Ficheiro Local]
Paulo Cunha

Course

Cinema
Last updated on: 2026-03-03

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