Topics of Contemporary Portuguese Culture
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).