Syllabus |
1. From Pre-Cinema to Post-Cinemas. 1.1. Benjamin and technical reproducibility. 1.2. Jenkins and the digital transformation. 2. Post-Cinemas. Andre´ Parente: the three dimensions of Cinema Form (Architecture, Technology and Discourse). 3. Thinking-Making cinema: dialogues between film theory and practice. 4. Digital Cinema. Lev Manovich: from kino-eye to kino-brush. 5. Transmedialities and intertextualities. 5.1. Music videos: narrativity, performance and cinema of attractions. 5.2. Video games: narrativity, interactivity and performance; mise-en-sce`ne and editing. 6. Expanded Cinema - Synesthesia, Syncretism and Metamorphosis; Experience, Kinesis and Synergy. 7. Experimental Cinema and lines of continuity with video art. 7.1. European Avant-Garde of the 1910s/20s 7.2. North American Vanguard
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Main Bibliography |
Benjamin, W. "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction" (1935) Fossati, G. “YouTube as a Mirror Maze” (2009) Galloway, A. "Origins of the First-Person Shooter" (2006) Hagener, M. & T. Elsaesser “Digital Cinema and Film Theory – The Body Digital” (2007) Jenkins, H. "The work of theory in the age of digital transformation" (1999) Maciel, Katia (org.). Transcinemas. Rio de Janeiro: Contra Capa Livraria (2009) Manovich, L. "What is Digital Cinema?" (2002) Mittel, J. "Narrative Complexity in Contemporary American Television" (2006) Mulvey, L. “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema” (1975) Parente, A. "O Acontecimento Cinema: Entrevista a Andre´ Parente” (2015) Stiegler, B. “The Carnival of the New Screen: From Hegemony to Isonomy” (2009)
Filmography Benning, RR (2007) Conner, Breakway (1966) Fiennes, The Pervert’s Guide to Cinema (2006) Hitchcock, Rear Window (1958) Jonze, Praise You (1999) Murai, This is America (2018) Parente, Circulando^ (2011) Van Sant, Elephant (2003)
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