Art and Experience
Code
722031033
Academic unit
Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas
Department
Filosofia
Credits
10
Weekly hours
3 letivas + 1 tutorial
Teaching language
Portuguese
Objectives
Prerequisites
None
Subject matter
Theme: Film as philosophy
This seminar is inspired by the recent trend to think of film as philosophy (Mulhall 2002). The cinema of Ingmar Bergman will be the starting point and the main focus of the seminar, although several other filmmakers will also be considered. The following set of philosophical themes will be the guiding thread of the seminar:
1. Mimesis.
2. Truth.
3. Will, desire and drives.
4. Nihilism.
5. Power and ideology.
The philosophy embedded in the films to be analyzed will be questioned in the light of the thought of such philosophers as Plato, Aristotle, Hegel, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Heidegger, or Deleuze.
Bibliography
- ARISTÓTELES, de arte poetica liber, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1968
-BERGMAN, I., Images, My Life in Film, New York, Arcade Publishing, 1990
-HALLIWELL, Stephen, The Aesthetics of Mimesis, Ancient Texts and Modern Problems, Princeton and Oxford, Princeton University Press, 2002
-MULHALL, S., On film, Thinking in Action, London and New York, Routledge, 2002
-IEK, S., Looking Awry, Cambridge Mass./ London, MIT Press, 1992
Teaching method
Lectures; analysis and discussion of texts.
Evaluation method
Written Test. Presentation and discussion of papers.