Aesthetics and History of Cinema II

Recommended Prerequisites

Not applicable.

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 last years of the 1920s and the 1960s — 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 the aesthetic diversity of cinema between the last years of the 1920s and the 1960s — as well as their original social and cultural contexts

2) knowledge of the theoretical writings that have accompanied such aesthetic practices.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

1. The Development of Sound Cinema

• images and sounds

• American classicism I

• French poetic realism

• international vanguards.

2. Modernity in Post-War

• American classicism II

• Italian neo-realism

• the Auteurs

• French new wave

• other new waves

• direct cinema

• American experimentalism.

Head Lecturer(s)

Sérgio Emanuel Dias Branco

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Exam: 100.0%

Bibliography

ALLEN, Robert C., and Douglas GOMERY. Film History: Theory and Practice. New York: Random House, 1985.

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.

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.