History of the Cinema
Code
711011023
Academic unit
Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas
Department
Ciências da Comunicação
Credits
6
Teacher in charge
José Manuel Costa
Weekly hours
4
Teaching language
Portuguese
Objectives
a) To develop the capacity to question the notion of film history and the awareness of a history of the history (in particular
of the historiography);
b) To understand turning points in film history, where changes and fractures happened;
c) To develop the capacity to frame ones own vision of those periods;
d) To understand the place of individual works in the whole of film history and the capacity to relate different works and tendencies among themselves;
e) To develop the capacity to analyse moving images;
f) To develop the capacity to establish relationships between artistic movements in film history and other artistic movements.
Prerequisites
None.
Subject matter
Bibliography
MONACO, James, How to read a film: the world of movies, media and multimedia: art, technology, language, history, theory, New York, Oxford University Press, 2000, 672 p.
THOMPSON, Kristin/BORDWELL, David, Film History: an introduction, Boston, McGraw Hill Higher Education, 2003, 788 p.
MUSSER,, Charles, The Emergence of Cinema (principalmente cap. 11 a 15) e Bowser, Eileen, The ransformation of Cinema (principalmente cap. 4, 6, 14 e 15), Volumes I e II de History of the American Cinema, Berkeley, Univ. of California Press, 1994
BORDWELL, David, On the History of Film Style, Harvard Univ. Press, 1997
MAST, Gerald, Cohen, Marshall (eds.), Film Theory and Criticism Introductory Readings (principalmente os dois cap. iniciais), Oxford Univ. Press, 1985
Teaching method
In each class one follows a theoretical and practical approach (approximately 60% - 40%). The theoretical side develops the issues covered in the Syllabus through presentation by the teacher. The practical side includes viewing of films and film excerpts, film analysis conducted by the teacher and collective discussion. Some historically relevant texts from the courses bibliography may also be discussed in class.
Evaluation method
One individual paper. The individual paper concerns a free subject to be chosen by the student in the context of the Syllabus.