Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas

Portuguese Culture (20th Century) - 1st and 2nd semester

Code

711091109

Academic unit

Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas

Department

Estudos Portugueses

Credits

6

Teacher in charge

António Martins Gomes, Clara Maria Abreu Rowland

Weekly hours

4

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

1) To be acquainted with the main theoretical and methodological questions in the field of Literary, Cultural and Interart Studies.
2) To develop written and oral skills at both comprehension and production levels, with a special focus on reading, critical analysis, and autonomous research.
3) To reinforce reading competences, theoretical reflection and argumentation skills applied to different types of text and different media, thus developing the student’s ability to compare, to build up relations and to identify theoretical problems through the critical analysis of a selection of works.

Prerequisites

None

Subject matter

The syllabus will consider the relations among different arts in the Portuguese 20th Century by focusing on forms of presence, in Film, of writing and Literature. In the first section, we will consider a set documentaries on writers and literary works, or features dealing with the same issues, in order to discuss Film´s representation of Literature and the challenges of writing in Film. In the second section, we will consider the possible dialogues between Literature and Film in three major clusters: 1) Camilo Castelo Branco in the work of Manoel de Oliveira; 2) Robert Desnos in the work of Pedro Costa; 3) Film in Carlos de Oliveira´s oeuvre and Carlos de Oliveira´s oeuvre in Film.

Bibliography

AA.VV. (2009) Cem Mil Cigarros. Os filmes de Pedro Costa. Coord. edit. de Ricardo Matos Cabo. Lisboa: Orfeu Negro.
BAPTISTA, Tiago (2008) A Invenção do Cinema Português. Lisboa: Tinta da China.
GRILO, João Mário (2006) O Cinema da Não-ilusão. Histórias para o cinema português. Lisboa: Livros Horizonte.
Guerreiro, Fernando. Cinema El dorado: cinema e modernidade. Colibri, 2015.
Gusmão, Manuel, Finisterra. O Trabalho do Fim: reCitar a Origem. Angelus Novus, 2009.
Lavin, Mathias, La Parole et le lieu: le cinéma de Manoel de Oliveira. Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2008.
Lupi Bello, Maria do Rosário, Narrativa literária e narrativa fílmica: o caso de Amor de Perdição. Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, 2005.
Preto, António. Manoel de Oliveira: o cinema inventado à letra. Público/Fundação Serralves, 2008.
Rowland, Clara & Bértolo, José (eds.). A Escrita do Cinema: ensaios. Documenta, 2015.
Rowland Clara & Conley, Tom (eds.). Falso Movimento: estudos sobre escrita e cinema. Cotovia, 2016.

Teaching method

Lectures with integrated discussion.

Evaluation method

Evaluation will be the result of three different elements: two classroom written assignments and a paper on one of the topics in the syllabus.

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