Politics, Literature and Film
0
2024-2025
01016329
Área Científica do Menor
English
Face-to-face
SEMESTRIAL
6.0
Compulsory
1st Cycle Studies
Recommended Prerequisites
Basic notions of international politics. Good English skills. Knowledge of techniques and styles of academic writing.
Teaching Methods
Seminars are organized to encourage students’ active involvement in learning, fostering student-teacher and student-student debate. Following the historical and conceptual contextualisation of each textual and visual work, students are expected to actively participate. This involves carefully reading, watching and preparing oral and written comments to the literary texts and films in order to contribute to a productive class discussion and reflection.
Learning Outcomes
Main learning outcome:
Understand international relations through the lens of literature and films, familiarising the students with the intersection of politics with literature and film, in order to enrich the intellectual discussions about both the macro concepts of international politics and the micro practices embodied in our societies.
Specific learning outcomes and methodological skills:
- Understand the role works of fiction play in the reflection and constitution of international politics;
- Understand the relevance of the political and cultural contexts in which these works are created and received;
- Discuss how works of fiction engage with the effect of key political concepts – such as freedom, equality, community, democracy, migrations, inclusion, oppression, racism, etc. – on our everyday lives;
- Develop skills of critical analysis, synthesis and argument, as well as oral and written presentation.
Work Placement(s)
NoSyllabus
1. The intersection between Politics, Literature and Film
2. Analysing textual and visual works: reflections on narrative and critique
3. Discussion of various fictional works (from different times and different societies) [chosen each academic year].
Assessment Methods
Assessment
Periodic or by final exam as given in the course information: 100.0%
Bibliography
Agnew, 1998, Geopolitics: Re-visioning World Politics. Routledge
Bagghi, 2018, Human Nature and Politics in Utopian and Anti-Utopian Fiction. R&L
Barthes, 1978, Image-Music-Text. Hill & Wang
Carter & Dodds, 2014, International Politics and Film: Space, Vision, Power. Wallflower Press
Cresswell & Dixon, eds., 2002, Engaging film. R&L
Danchev, 2009, On Art and War and Terror. EUP
Downing, ed., 1987, Film & Politics in the Third World. Autonomedia
Gregg, 1998, International Relations on Film. Lynne Rienner
Hale, 2016, The Politics of Perfection: Technology and Creation in Literature and Film. Lexington Books
Monaco, 2009, How to read a film: Movies, Media and Beyond. OUP
Said, 1978, Orientalism. Penguin
Scott, 2016, The Limits of Politics: Making the Case for Literature in Political Analysis. Lexington Books
Wachs & Schaff, 2021, Age of Anxiety: Meaning, Identity, and Politics in 21st Century Film and Literature. R&L
Weber, 2001, International Relations Theory. Routledge