Cinema and Other Arts

Recommended Prerequisites

NA

Teaching Methods

Teaching involves the presentation of fundamental theoretical texts provided by the teacher to be studied by the students, as well as the screening of films, series, images and theoretical presentation by the teacher followed by discussion, establishing a theoretical basis for each final essay.

Learning Outcomes

The objective of the curricular unit is to make the student understand the ties of cinema with other arts, in a multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary process, understanding and recognizing the fusional character of cinema.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

Cinema and television: limits and complicities

- does the artistic nature of cinema conflict with the media nature of television?

- definition of author in film and television

 

Cinema and television: some examples

- Roberto Rossellini's didactic television

- Jean-Luc Godard's political television

Head Lecturer(s)

Fausto Cruchinho Dias Pereira

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Presentation of texts: 25.0%
Final essay: 75.0%

Bibliography

Pierre Bourdieu - Sobre a Televisão. Oeiras: Celta editora, 2001.

Jean-Luc Godard par Jean-Luc Godard. Paris: Cahiers du cinéma, 1985.

Fausto Cruchinho - Roberto Rossellini: a 'televisao de autor'. Coimbra: Universidade de Coimbra, 2013. Tese de doutoramento.

Gene Youngblood - Expanded Cinema. Nova Iorque: P. Dutton & Co., Inc.,1970.

Marshall McLuhan - Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1964.

Roberto Rossellini e o Cinema Revelador. Lisboa: Cinemateca Portuguesa, 2007.