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History of Cinema

Code 16962
Year 1
Semester S1
ECTS Credits 6
Workload OT(15H)/TP(45H)
Scientific area Cinema
Entry requirements NA
Learning outcomes At the end of this course, students should be able to:
1. Analyse a film using a specifically cinematographic language;
2. Recognise and identify the main movements, authors, aesthetics and technologies in the History of Cinema;
3. Critically distinguish cinema as an art, a media and/or a product of a creative industry;
4. Socially, politically and culturally contextualise the most remarkable film works, movements and production systems in the History of Cinema;
5. Establish a dialogue between film and gender elements present in the work, viewing Cinema as a means of representing the different social roles attributed to men and women throughout the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st century.
Syllabus - The beginning of the History of Cinema
- The transition from silent to sound cinema
- Filmology
- Cinema in World War II
- Post-World War II cinema and the attempt to reconstruct memory
- Film noir
- Alfred Hitchcock's suspense
- The 1960s, the Nouvelle Vague and New Portuguese Cinema
- Criticism of classic Hollywood cinema
- Transnational perspectives on contemporary cinema
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.
Language Portuguese. Tutorial support is available in English.
Last updated on: 2026-01-11

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