Film Programming
Code
711011038
Academic unit
Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas
Department
Ciências da Comunicação
Credits
6
Weekly hours
4
Teaching language
Portuguese
Objectives
The main objectives of this course are centred in the learning of different methods of film programming and their correspondent issues: archiving, promotion, critical analysis. Through a practical project of film programming, we will seek to transmit essential competences on the subject.
The student is required to:
a) Understand the position of film in the communication world and its practical extension;
b) Analyse film in the audiovisual complex, both in terms of form and sense;
c) Know the systems of analytical description of film and to use them in a critical form;
d) Understand the logic of programming;
e) Be able to explore the issues related to cultural production, in particular those articulated with the conceptual and thematic research on film.
Prerequisites
None.
Subject matter
Organization of a film program:
1. Guidelines stabilization;
2. Selection of documents;
3. Catalogue organization;
4. Program organization.
This process implies the didactics of certain knowledge that is indispensable for program activity:
1. Those which are related with archives;
2. Those which are related with public and audience matters;
3. Those which are related with critical writing and analysis;
Through collective discussion, we will seek to introduce some basic models of critical methodology that are in use on film theory and analysis.
Bibliography
DANEY, Serge; Persévérance, Paris, P.O.L., 1994;
GIANNETTI, Louis; Understanding Movies, New Jersey, Prentice-Hall, 2002;
GRILO, João Mário; O Homem Imaginado, Lisboa, Livros Horizonte, 2006;
MONACO, James; How to read a film, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2002;
MOSCOWITZ, John E.; Critical Approaches to writing about film, New Jersey, Prentice Hall, 2000.
Teaching method
During classes, students are invited to assist and comment the screening of the films included in the program. Theoretical classes: 40%. Practical classes: 60%.
Evaluation method
Oral Presentation and Written assignment 1 (critical analysis of a particular film): 40%
Written assignment 2 (thematic paper): 60%