Portuguese Cinema

Year
0
Academic year
2019-2020
Code
01012671
Subject Area
Área Científica do Menor
Language of Instruction
Portuguese
Mode of Delivery
Face-to-face
Duration
SEMESTRIAL
ECTS Credits
6.0
Type
Elective
Level
1st Cycle Studies

Recommended Prerequisites

Not applicable.

Teaching Methods

The teaching of the course aims to situate the Portuguese cinema in the context of Portuguese artistic practices, revealing the dialogue between filmmakers and other artists at the origin and resolution of aesthetic issues. It intends to give a general character to Portuguese cinema as an artistic practice, highlighting what does not distinguish it from other cinemas, since cinema is a universal practice. Thus, filmic objects will be shown giving an overview of Portuguese cinema, documentary and fiction, raising the students’ understanding of the entire filmic object.

Learning Outcomes

To have an historical and aesthetic perspective of cinema in the context of Portuguese art. Some authors will be valued as prevalent examples of the latter half of the 20th century and their work will be displayed as trends of Portuguese cinema at the national and international levels. There is a theoretical production, critically and historically remarkable that is part of the Portuguese cinema non-filmic heritage, which must be taken into account in the study of the already vast national cinema, made both at home and abroad.

By the end of the semester, the student should be able:

- to relate the aesthetic movements involving Portuguese cinema in relation to the intellectual and artistic movements contemporaries of the module’s periodization;

- to understand the relationship between Portuguese cinema and Portugal and cinema in general, in its artistic, cultural, political and historical dimensions.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

António Ferro and Portuguese cinema:

- film production conditions in Portugal in the period of Estado Novo;

- legislation and production: Law no. 2027 and the end of the state interventionist cycle;

- post-Ferro years and the degradation of production conditions;

- the role of the Film Council;

- the film clubs and magazines in producing a school of taste.

 

The "cinema novo" and the new cinemas:

- conditions for the emergence of Cinema Novo;

- the school of cinema and the new aesthetic influences;

- the battle of ideas and its protagonists;

- new conditions of production and new audiences;

- cinema and other disciplines and communication media.

 

The "cases" of Portuguese cinema:

- Manoel de Oliveira at the crossroads of modernity and classicism;

- Paulo Rocha, experimentation and hybridization;

- Fernando Lopes, between documentary, television and self-reflection;

- João César Monteiro, cinephilia and culture;

- Pedro Costa, post-cinema construction.

Head Lecturer(s)

Fausto Cruchinho Dias Pereira

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Research work: 25.0%
Synthesis work: 25.0%
Frequency: 50.0%

Bibliography

António Ferro. Teatro e cinema. Lisboa: SNI, 1950

Carolin Overhoff Ferreira (coord). O cinema português através dos seus filmes. Porto: Campo das Letras, 2007

Cem mil cigarros - os filmes de Pedro Costa. Lisboa: Orfeu negro, 2009

Cinema novo português. Lisboa: Cinemateca Portuguesa, 1985

Fausto Cruchinho. “Cinema e Portugal: não reconciliados”. In Revista de história das ideias, nº 32. Coimbra: FLUC, 2011, 277-288

Fausto Cruchinho. “O Conselho do cinema: notas sobre o seu funcionamento”. In O cinema sob o olhar de Salazar. Lisboa: Círculo de Leitores, 2000, 339-355

Fausto Cruchinho. “Os passados e os futuros do Cinema Novo - o cinema na polémica do tempo”. In Estudos do Século XX. Coimbra: Quarteto Editora, nº 1, 2001, 215-240

Fernando Lopes por cá. Lisboa: Cinemateca portuguesa, 1987

João Bénard da Costa. História(s) do cinema. Lisboa: Imprensa Nacional, 1992

João César Monteiro. Lisboa: Cinemateca portuguesa, 2004

Luís de Pina. História do cinema português. Mem Martins: Pub. Europa-América, 1987

Luís Reis Torgal. O cinema sob o olhar de Salazar (coord). Lisboa: Círculo de leitores, 2000

Manoel de Oliveira. Cem anos. Lisboa: Cinemateca Portuguesa, 2008

Paulo Rocha. O rio do ouro. Lisboa: Cinemateca Portuguesa, 1987