Teoria da Reportagem (not translated)
Code
722011127
Academic unit
Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas
Department
Ciências da Comunicação
Credits
10
Teacher in charge
Jacinto Rosa Godinho
Weekly hours
3 letivas + 1 tutorial
Teaching language
Portuguese
Objectives
What is proposed in this subject is to re-evaluate another historical line of current affairs mediation: reporting.
The priority proposed here consists of carrying out a great re-evaluation of the reportage genre in contemporary culture, implying an ontological and etymological re-analysis of reporting. A study of the main genealogies of reportage in journalism, literature, optical devices like cinema, photography and television is also proposed. We are studying new research areas which allow for a deeper knowledge of reportage ways and works with particular focus on Portuguese culture.
Students should become able to make critical readings of narrativisation strategies in current affairs. They should also refine their mastering of conceptual tools allowing for an innovative use of modern mediation devices.
Prerequisites
Subject matter
1. Genealogy of reportage
Part I: Ontology of reportage
2. The problematic structure of Greek legein
3. Stadium and theorein; lineages of cultural resolution of legein.
4. Reporting and the experience of the subject-spectator
Part II: Problematisation of the relationship between Literature and Reportage
5. The phenomenal wave of universal reportage
6. Apology and critique of reportage: Neue Sachlichkeit against Mallarmé
7. On the relationship between fiction and reportage: what novels can do that journalism can not.
Part III: Reportage: Audiovisual Mediations and Experience
8: Gunther Anders: the conflict news/reportage and the crisis of television experience.
9: Reality: Filming or unveiling it?
10. Tele-Lacan: applying transfer mechanisms as expressed by Lacan to the deconstruction of the subject-spectator.
Bibliography
ARAÚJO, Matilde Rosa (1946), A Reportagem como Género-Génese do Jornalismo através da constante Histórico-Literária, Dissertação para a licenciatura de Filologia Românica, Lisboa: FLUL;
BAPTISTA, Jacinto e António Valdemar-Repórteres e Reportagens de Primeira Página. I Vol. (1901-1910); Conselho de Imprensa, Lisboa,1990.
JEANNENEY, Jean-Noël e Monique (1982), Sauvage, Télévision, Nouvelle Mémoire, Les magazines de grand reportage 1959-1968, Paris: Seuil Institut National de L´Audiovisuel.
JAY, Martin (1994), Downcast Eyes, The Denigration of the vision in Twentieth-Century French Thought, Berkeley: University of California Press.
LACAN, Jacques (1964). The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis, the Seminar of Jacques Lacan, Book X I Tradução de Alan Sheridan, Nova Iorque: W.W.Norton, 1998.
GODINHO, Jacinto. As Origens da Reportagem: Imprensa. Lisboa: Livros Horizonte, 2009.
GODINHO, Jacinto. As Origens da Reportagem: Televisão. Lisboa: Livros Horizonte, 2011.
Teaching method
Exposition of the syllabus focusing on the question: What is reportage?
Video projection of different types and forms of reportage.
Discussion of research proposals.
Theoretical component 50%; Practical component 50%
Evaluation method
Research paper based on autonomous investigation: 10-20 pages.
Analysis of one text and one piece of reportage.