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Aesthetics

Code 16631
Year 2
Semester S2
ECTS Credits 6
Workload OT(15H)/TP(45H)
Scientific area Philosophy
Entry requirements -
Learning outcomes 1 This subject is dedicated to the study of aesthetic experience. It goes through the main historical conceptions that reflect on this experience and seeks to answer questions about the genesis of aesthetics, the study of beauty, the foundations of art and artistic subjectivity, the relationship between aesthetics, ethics and technique, applied to the context of cinema.
2. Know and master the aesthetic themes and problems proposed by the programme.

At the end of this course unit, students should have acquired:
- Knowledge, skills and competences in mastering the themes and aesthetic problems proposed by the programme, in particular in their relationship with cinematographic practice and experience.

Syllabus
Introduction. Presentation: teacher, students, programme, work materials, methodology and assessment. Concept of Aesthetics. Concepts of aesthetics. Problems of aesthetics.
1. aesthetics and tragedy: their origins
2. Aesthetics: the art of fiction.
3. Kant's (analytical) aesthetics; Towards a theory of beauty.
4. Hegelian interpretation of aesthetics
5. What is art? What is art criticism?
6. The work of art and technique
7. Aesthetics and cinema.
Conclusion The cinema's experience.
Main Bibliography BENJAMIN, W., “A obra de arte na era da sua reprodutibilidade técnica”, in Sobre arte, técnica, linguagem e política, Lisboa, Relógio D’Água, 1992.
CONLEY, Tom, “Cinema and Its Discontents: Jacques Rancière and Film Theory”, in SubStance Vol. 34, No. 3, Issue 108: French Cinema Studies 1920s to the Present (2005), pp. 96-106, The Johns Hopkins University Press.
GAUT, Berys & LOPES, Dominic McIver. The Routledge companion to aesthetics, London, Routledge, 2005.
HAUSKEN, LIV, Thinking media aesthetics: Media Studies, Film Studies and the arts, Berlin: Peter Lang, 2013.
KANT, Crítica da faculdade do juízo [Kritik der Urteilskraft, 1790], Lisboa, Imprensa Nacional-Casa da Moeda, 1992.
MANOVICH, Lev, “what is cinema”, in The Language of New Media, Massachusetts, MIT Press, 2001, pp.286-330.
MULVEY, Laura, Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema, Screen, Volume 16, Issue 3, 1 October 1975, Pages 6–18.
TALON-HUGON, Carole, A Estética: História e Teorias, Lisboa, Edições Texto e Grafia, 2015.
Teaching Methodologies and Assessment Criteria Assessment will take into account the theoretical-practical status of the course, and will be continuous and phased.
Assessment elements:
1. individual work discussing a film object (2 pages) - weighting 30% (15% written; 15% oral)
2. Original critical group work (4 elements) (4-5 pages) - weighting 60% (50% written; 20% oral). It will be presented and discussed orally. There are two options for this work: 1. express your own position on the aesthetics applied to a film/image. The work can take the form of a film; 2. Analyse a thesis on aesthetics.
3. Factors such as active participation in the proposed activities will also be taken into account (10%)
Any evidence of plagiarism will be penalised by a mark of zero for any element of the assessment that has been used improperly and without reference to texts by third parties or artificial agents.
During the period scheduled for exams, students will have the opportunity to redo a piece of work in order to improve their grade.
Language Portuguese. Tutorial support is available in English.
Last updated on: 2025-02-25

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