ECTS credits ECTS credits: 6
ECTS Hours Rules/Memories Student's work ECTS: 99 Hours of tutorials: 3 Expository Class: 24 Interactive Classroom: 24 Total: 150
Use languages Spanish, Galician
Type: Ordinary Degree Subject RD 1393/2007 - 822/2021
Departments: History of Art
Areas: History of Art
Center Faculty of Geography and History
Call: First Semester
Teaching: With teaching
Enrolment: Enrollable
· Identify the main features of different periods and movements in film history.
· Explain the film language, mise-en-scène and editing strategies used in different periods.
· Interpret the implicit and symptomatic meanings of the films discussed in classes.
· Develop critical discourses on a series of milestones in film history.
1. SILENT FILM (1895-1931)
- The Birth of Hollywood
- Avant-garde Cinema
2. CLASSICAL CINEMA (1931-1959)
- The Studio System and Classical Genres in North America
- European and Japanese Industries in the Mid-20th Century
3. MODERN CINEMA (1959 - 1981)
- The End of the Classical Paradigm: Neorealisms and Mannerisms
- New Waves in Europe and Latin America
- New Hollywood and American Independent Cinema
4. POSMODERN CINEMA (1981-2005)
- Generic Hybridization
- Late Modernity
- Return to Reality
5. CONTEMPORARY AUDIOVISUAL (2005-2024)
- The Emergence of Asian Cinemas
- Transmodernity and Digital Cinema
· Fieldwork: visit to the Casa do Cinema Manoel de Oliveira and to the Batalha Centro de Cinema in Porto (Portugal). Possible date: November 22, 2024
ESSENTIAL READINGS (just one of them)
· Bresson, R. (1975) 1993. Notas sobre o cinematógrafo. Edicións Positivas.
· Ozu, Y. 2017. La Poética de lo cotidiano: escritos sobre cine. Gallo nero.
· Schrader, P. (1972) 1999. El Estilo trascendental en el cine: Ozu, Bresson, Dreyer. Ediciones JC.
· Tarkovski, A. (1985) 1991. Esculpir en el tiempo: reflexiones sobre el arte, la éstetica y la poética del cine. Ediciones Rialp
HANDBOOKS
· Araújo, N. (coord.). 2021. História do cinema. Dos primordios ao cinema contemporáneo. Edições 70.
· Aumont, J. & Marie, M. (1988). 1990. Análisis del Film. Paidós.
· Cousins, M. (2004). 2005. Historia del cine. Blume.
· Cousins, M. 2011. The Story of Film: An Odyssey. 5 DVD.
· Labarrère, A. Z. & O. (2002). 2009. Akal - Atlas del Cine. Akal.
· Sánchez Noriega, J. L. 2018. Historia del cine. Teoría, estéticas, géneros. Alianza.
· Rodríguez Vela, A. 2019. Breve historia del cine. Nowtilus.
· VV. AA. 1995-1998. Historia general del cine. 12 volumes. Cátedra.
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
· Balló, J. 2000. Imágenes del silencio. Los motivos visuales en el cine. Anagrama.
· Bordwell, D.; Staiger, J. & Thompson, K. (1985). 1997. El cine clásico de Hollywood: estilo cinematográfico y modo de producción hasta 1960. Paidós.
· Bordwell, D. & Thompson, K. (1994). 1995. El arte cinematográfico. Una introducción. Paidós.
· Chion, M. 1993. La audiovisión: introducción a un análisis conjunto de la imagen y el sonido. Paidós.
· Cousins, M. 2018. Women Make Film: A New Road Movie Through Cinema. 5 DVD.
· Cueto, R. & Weinrichter, A. 2004. Dentro y fuera de Hollywood. La tradición independiente en el cine americano. Intitut Valencià de Cinematografia Ricardo Muñoz Suay.
· Font, D. 2002. Paisajes de la Modernidad. Cine europeo 1960-1980. Paidós.
· Lagny, M. (1992). 1997. Cine e Historia. Problemas y métodos en la investigación cinematográfica. Bosch Casa Editorial.
· Nichols, B. (2001). 2013. Introducción al documental. UNAM.
· Pena, J. 2020. El cine después de Auschwitz. Representaciones de la ausencia en el cine moderno y contemporáneo. Cátedra.
· Knowing the main tendencies, films and filmmakers in film history in order to identify the formal and discursive strategies associated with different genres, styles and historical contexts.
· Understanding, analysing and interpreting the meaning of a film from a semiotic and discursive perspective.
· Learning film analysis techniques in order to understand and evaluate films and audiovisual works.
· Constructing arguments from a critical and analytical perspective through oral and written language.
· Understanding the relation between cinema and other contemporary arts in order to go on studying other subjects related to film history and film studies.
· Master classes to explain content from film fragments.
· Workshop of film analysis in which students will discuss a sequence of an audiovisual work related to the program by means of oral presentations.
There will be three main assignments:
· Oral presentations of film excerpts in order to identify and explain their formal and conceptual elements. Duration: 15-20 minutes. Percentage in the final evaluation: 20%.
· Written works: analysis of a feature film based on the ideas developed by the filmmaker in some of the essential readings. Length: 3000 - 4000 words. Percentage in the final evaluation: 40%
· Final exam: film analysis of an audiovisual text. Oral presentation and written assignments must be done before taking the final exam. Percentage in the final evaluation: 40%.
Second chance: an individual film analysis (50%) and an exam similar to that of the first chance (50%).
Those students exempt from class attendance (following Instruction No. 1/2017 issued by Secretaría Xeral on this issue) will be evaluated with a specific test (Percentage in the final evaluation: 100%)
In cases of fraud, the 'Regulations for evaluating the academic performance of students and reviewing grades' will apply.
In-person classes: 51 hours.
Student’s work on their own: 99 hours.
This subject continues the first-year subject 'Introduction to Film Language'. Taking into account its particular features, and since students are usually unfamiliar with film history and film analysis, it is highly recommended to attend the classes in order to understand the dynamics of the assignments.
Xose Ivan Villarmea Alvarez
Coordinador/a- Department
- History of Art
- Area
- History of Art
- ivan.villarmea [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: LOU (Organic Law for Universities) PhD Assistant Professor
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