Film Theory

Recommended Prerequisites

None specific knowledge. Minimum proficiency in the English and French languages is recommended.

Teaching Methods

Seminars focus on the discussion of readings and films viewing and analysis of relevant for discussion films in accordance to the objectives of the course.

Learning Outcomes

1) Understand, in all its complexity, concepts developed by theorists and philosophers from the practice and experience cinematographic arts - such as "film noir".

2) Discussing these concepts in the context of questioning the film in a discursive frame  woven between sensibility and rationality, without giving up the historical background.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

The American "Film Noir"

1. Introduction.

2. A Gender Imagined.

3. Darkened spaces (Urban and Household).

4. Movies "Gris".

5. Black Lists.

6. Conclusion.

Head Lecturer(s)

Sérgio Emanuel Dias Branco

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Participation: 25.0%
Presentation in one of the sessions : 25.0%
Individual essay : 50.0%

Bibliography

BORDE, Raymond, e Étienne CHAUMETON. Panorama du film noir américain: 1941-1953. Paris: Flammarion, 1993.

DIAS BRANCO, Sérgio. “Darkened Spaces: The Urban and the Domestic in American Film Noir”. Inter[sections]: A Conference on Architecture, City and Cinema. Universidade do Porto, 13 Set. 2013.

______. “Film noir, um Género Imaginado”. Revista de História das Ideias, vol. 32, “Artes” (2011), pp. 327-54.

HIRSC, Joshua. “Film Gris Reconsidered”. The Journal of Popular Film and Television 34:2 (2006). http://www.freewebs.com/hirschjoshua/filmgrisreconsidered.htm

KRUTNIK, Frank, Brian NEVE, Steve NEALE, e Peter STANFIELD. ‘Un-American’ Hollywood: Politics and Film in the Blacklist Era. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2007.

NAREMORE, James. More than Night: Film Noir in Its Contexts. Berkeley e Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1998.

STAM, Robert. Film Theory. Oxford: Blackwell, 2000.