Photography and Cinema - 1st semester
Code
722011133
Academic unit
Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas
Department
Ciências da Comunicação
Credits
10
Teacher in charge
Margarida Medeiros
Weekly hours
3 letivas + 1 tutorial
Teaching language
Portuguese
Objectives
1.Understanding the way phtography and cinema are connected by the realist apparatus;
2.Questioning ontologies of photography and film;
3.Understanding the tensional and contuiguity relahionship between photography and cinema in contemporary culture, through a sort of paradigmatic cases;
4.Understanding ;contemproary relationship between photography and cinema, opposing to previous ones;
5. Constructing a conceptual vocabulary about photography and cinema, through a specific bibliography.
Prerequisites
No requisits
Subject matter
The problem of realism in photographic image and cinema has divided scholars all along the xx century, crossing the approching of genders as portrait, street photography, ‘film noir’, ou representaing science. What is the relationship between the realism as convoked by photographic camera and realism promoted by movies? In which way the still image is intertwined with the sewuence captured by the movie camera? What remains from one’s history to the other’s? How to understand the ‘total realism’ of Bazin and the ‘spectral realism’ of Barthes? The different forms in which indexicality is worked out in the still and in the moving image, the different objects that they allow, the reception they work out and conmporary mutation of both media relationship in contemporary times will be some of the main topics of analisys and discussion within this seminar, settled upon the bibliography.
Bibliography
BAZIN, André (1958) O que é o cinema. Lisboa, Horizonte, 1992.
BERGER, John (1986) Understanding a Photograph. Londres: Penguin Books, 2013.
CAMPANY, David, Photography and Cinema. Londres, Reaktion Books, 2008.
DERRIDA, Jacques (2010) Copy, Archive, Signature – a conversation on photography. Stanford: Stanford University Press.
DOANE, Mary Ann, The Emergence of Cinematic Time: Modernity, Contingency, the Archive. Boston: Harvard University Press, 2002.
ENWEZOR, Okwui (2007) “Archive Fever: Photography Between history and the Monument”. In Okwui Enwezor (org.) Archive fever – Uses of document in Contemporary Art. Gottingen: Steidl.
METZ, Christian (1987) “Photography and Fetish”, in Liz Wells, The Photographer Reader. Londres: Thames and Hudson, 2003
MULVEY, Laura (2006) Death 24x a Second, Stillness and the Moving Image. Londres: Reaktion Books.
Rossak, Elvi (ed.) (2011) , Between Stillnes and motion. Film, Photography, Algorithm. Amsterdam Univ. Press.
Teaching method
Open exposition by the teacher, text discussion under previous assigment
In class teaching
Evaluation method
Text presentation in class (under inscription): 2
Oral presentation of the essay in class: 5
Written essay: 13