Contemporary Cinema
Code
722011134
Academic unit
Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas
Department
Ciências da Comunicação
Credits
10
Teacher in charge
Inês Godinho Gil
Weekly hours
3 letivas + 1 tutorial
Teaching language
Portuguese
Objectives
During the seminar, the students will:
1. Identify the transition between classical and modern cinema to understand its ecolution toward its contemporaneity, based on the appearance of new narratives and a new film aesthetics
2. analyze how contemporaneity was constructed in film and its relation with art
3. explore the filmography and bibliography related to film histrory and its aesthetics
4. understand the reasons that turned possible the development of contemporary cinema
5. know the concepts to apply them in an analytical reflexion on contemporary cinema
6. be able to create a practical project based on the concepts of contemporary cinema
Prerequisites
None.
Subject matter
Modernity of cinema was born when its technique stpped beind transparent and was more importante than narrative. With neo-realism the plot has been substitued by History. A new reflexiono n cinema was also born. There is a clear cultural cleavage between West Cnema an East Cinema. On the first one, there is a relexion on the individual and its relation with the world but in the second one it is the cultural transmission that matters. New technologies are also an importante factor in contemporary cinema: expanded cinema and exposed cinema (in museums) or the performative cinema as the edition of found footage by Bill Morrison
Bibliography
AUMONT, Jacques (2013) Que reste t-il du cinema?, Paris, Vrin.
DELEUZE, Gilles (1985) A Imagem Tempo, Cinema 2, Lisboa, Assírio & Alvim, 2006.
DE BAECQUE, Antoine, CHEVALLIER , Philippe, Dictionnaire de la pensée du cinema (2012), Paris, PUF.
ELSAESSER, THOMAS, Film Theory, An introduction through the senses, Londres, Routledge, 2010.
Future Cinema, The Cinematic Imaginary after Film, SHAW, Jeffrey, WEIBEL, Peter (ed.), Massachusetts, MIT, 2003.
Teaching method
Each session will be divided in two parts: in the first we will study the cinematographic concepts and its socio-cultural contextualization and a theoretical essay will be analyzed. In the second part we will show filmic exemples that integrate these concepts.
Evaluation method
The student can choose either option:
-to write a theoretical essay on a contemporary film using the concepts learned during classes (around 4000 words)
-to present a practical project (50% of the final grade) with the inclusion of an essay that reflects on the contemporary easthetics and narrative of the film (2000 words) (50%).
Continous evaluation is also contemplated.