History and Aesthetics of Cinema

Recommended Prerequisites

Knowledge of the English language.  

Teaching Methods

The classes will include presentations and the projection of films (or excerpts) and discussions that enable the sustained participation of students.

Learning Outcomes

1) Understanding the aesthetic diversity of cinema from the last years of the 1920s and 1960s - as well as its social and original cultural contexts.

2) Knowledge of theoretical writings that accompanied such aesthetic practices.  

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

1. The Development of Sound Cinema

   1.1. Images and Sounds

   1.2. American Classicism I

   1.3. French Poetic Realism

   1.4. International Vanguards

2. Modernity in the Post-War

   2.1. American Classicism II

   2.2. Italian Neo-Realism

   2.3. The Auteurs

   2.4. French New Wave

   2.5. Other New Waves

   2.6. Direct Cinema

   2.7. American Experimentalism.  

Head Lecturer(s)

Sérgio Emanuel Dias Branco

Assessment Methods

Continuous assessment
Class participation: 10.0%
Written test covering the first part of the program (approximately 2 hours): 40.0%
3500-word written work on one of the program topics: 50.0%

Bibliography

Thompson, Kristin e David Bordwell. Film History: An Introduction, 3.ª ed. Nova Iorque: McGraw-Hill, 2009.

Xavier, Ismail, ed. A Experiência do Cinema, 4.ª ed. São Paulo: Edições Graal, 2008.