Portuguese Contemporary Culture Topics
Code
711091123
Academic unit
Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas
Department
Estudos Portugueses
Credits
6
Weekly hours
4
Teaching language
Portuguese
Objectives
Identify and distinguish the different portuguese cultural issues;
Questioning the several analyzed subjects;
Recreate the great portuguese cultural problematic in 19th, 20th and 21th centuries;
Analyze critically the used bibliography.
Prerequisites
None.
Subject matter
From 1808 to 1834 : the Liberal Revolution
• The court aristocracy and nobility
• The reformism
• The trend toward secularization
• Heroes of Liberalism
• Romanticism
From 1834 to 1890: elections and rotativism
• In search of a new empire
• The emigration
• The emergence of the middle class and the working class
• The new bourgeois culture
From 1890 to 1930 : farewell to Liberalism
• The First Republic and World War I
• Modernism
• Cinema
From 1930 to 1974: the Portugal of Salazar
• What was the Salazarism
• The emergence of PCP
• The golden age of Portuguese cinema
• The radio and television
• The literary gatherings
From 1974 to 2015: Revolution and disillusion
• In which consisted April 25th
• Saramago, Lobo Antunes and Lidia Jorge: New Portuguese Romance
• Portugal in the EEC and the European Union
• From the consumerism of the 90s to the disappointment of the early twentyfirst
century: times of crisis.
• New literary currents with the outbreak of the millennium
Bibliography
• História da Vida Privada em Portugal, Os Nossos Dias, direção de José Mattoso, Lisboa, Temas e Debates, 2011
• Telo, António José, História Contemporânea de Portugal, do 25 de Abril à Actualidade, volume II. Lisboa, Editorial Presença, 2008
• História de Portugal, Rui Ramos/ coordenação, Lisboa, Esfera dos Livros, 2009
• História das Ideias Políticas, volume II, vários. Lisboa, Editorial Presença, 2001
• Ferin, Isabel, Comunicação e Culturas do Quotidiano, Lisboa, Quimera, 2002
• Lipovetsky, Gilles, O Ocidente Mundializado/Controvérsia sobre a Cultura Planetária, Lisboa, Edições 70, 2011
• História Contemporânea de Portugal: 1808-2010 (5 volumes), direção António Costa Pinto e Nuno Gonçalo Monteiro, Lisboa, Objectiva, 2014
Teaching method
The curricular unit theoretical contents will be exposed during the class first part.
On the second part will be a interaction so that the learners can participate.
Evaluation method
The evaluation is carried out in two written tests, the first in the middle of the semester and the second on the final (50% each).