Aesthetics and History of Cinema I
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2017-2018
01012736
Área Científica do Menor
Portuguese
Face-to-face
SEMESTRIAL
6.0
Elective
1st Cycle Studies
Recommended Prerequisites
None specific knowledge. Minimum proficiency in the English and French languages is recommended.
Teaching Methods
Classes are expository and include film screenings (or excerpts) and moments of discussion that enable the sustained participation of students.
Learning Outcomes
Objectives:
1) understand the aesthetic diversity of cinema between the end of the 19th century, throughout its silent period, and the beginning of sound cinema — as well as their original social and cultural contexts
2) explore the theoretical writings that have accompanied such aesthetic practices
Competencies to develop:
1) understanding of the aesthetic diversity of cinema between the end of the 19th century, throughout its silent period, and the beginning of sound cinema — as well as their original social and cultural contexts
2) knowledge of the theoretical writings that accompanied such aesthetic practices
Work Placement(s)
NoSyllabus
1. The First Cinema
• images and movement
• percursors
• a varied art
• mise-en-scène and editing
• american cinema and national cinemas
2. The Late Silent
• French impressionism
• German expressionism
• Soviet montage cinema
• American slapstick
3. The Development of Sound Cinema
• images and sounds
• American classicism
• French poetic realism
• international vanguards
Head Lecturer(s)
Sérgio Emanuel Dias Branco
Assessment Methods
Continuous Assessment
Participation: 10.0%
Written exam: 40.0%
Essay made by a group (with a maximum of three students): 50.0%
Final Assessment
Exam: 100.0%
Bibliography
ALLEN, Robert C., and Douglas GOMERY. Film History: Theory and Practice. New York: Random House, 1985.
THOMPSON, Kristin e David BORDWELL. Film History: An Introduction, 3.ª ed. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2009.
XAVIER, Ismail, ed. A Experiência do Cinema, 4.ª ed. São Paulo: Edições Graal, 2008.
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DIXON, Wheeler Winston e Gwedolyn Audrey Foster. A Short History of Film. London: I. B. Tauris, 2008.
HILL, John e Pamela CHURCH GIBSON. The Oxford Guide to Film Studies. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998.
NOWELL-SMITH, Geoffrey, ed. The Oxford History of Wolrd Cinema. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996.
STAM, Robert. Film Theory: An Introduction. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2000.