Literature and Cinema - 1st semester
Code
711091155
Academic unit
Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas
Department
Estudos Portugueses
Credits
6
Teacher in charge
Clara Maria Abreu Rowland
Weekly hours
4
Teaching language
Objectives
This course is designed to develop a degree of competence in analysis and critical production and to reinforce reading, theoretical reflection and argumentation skills applied to the study of the relationships between Film and Literature.
The capacity to build up relations and theoretical problems will be trained through the analysis of a selection of works and themes, with focus on interarts and interdisciplinary relations.
Prerequisites
n/a
Subject matter
The course will interrogate the relations between Literature and Film by focusing on the critical analysis of a set of films that enact the figure of the writer (author of letters, screenplays, diaries, novels) and foster an inquiry into representations of authorship and writing in Film. Films by João César Monteiro (Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen), Max Ophuls (Letter from an Unknown Woman, Le Plaisir), Nicholas Ray (In a Lonely Place), Pedro Almodóvar (La Ley del Deseo), Satyajit Ray (Charulata), François Truffaut (L’Homme qui aimait les femmes), Jean-Luc Godard (Le Mépris) and Gus van Sant (Paranoid Park) will be commented and discussed.
Bibliography
BAZIN, Andrè, Qu’est-ce que le Cinéma?, Éditions du Cerf, 2002 .
BÉRTOLO, José e ROWLAND, Clara (ed.), A Escrita do Cinema: Ensaios. Documenta, 2015.
CAVELL, Stanley, Contesting Tears: The Hollywood Melodrama of the Unknown Woman. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996.
CLOAREC, Nicole (ed.), Lettres de cinéma. De la missive au film-lettre. Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2007.
CONLEY, Tom, Film Hieroglyphs: Ruptures in Classical Cinema. University of Minnesota Press, 1991.
GAUDREAULT, Andrè, From Plato to Lumière - Narration and Monstration in Literature and Cinema, University of Toronto Press, 2009.
ROWLAND, Clara e CONLEY, Tom (eds.), Falso movimento: ensaios sobre escrita e cinema. Edições Cotovia, 2016.
Teaching method
Lectures with integrated discussion. The films under analysis will be commented and discussed in the classroom
Evaluation method
Evaluation will be the result of three different elements: two classroom written assignments and a paper on the general topics in the syllabus.