Class Filmology

The general objective of this optional curricular unit focuses on the study of cinema as a social and artistic phenomenon, aiming to provide students with film literacy (BFI, 2011), one of the components of contemporary media literacy whose importance is most asserted, in a time when the world reaches 'prosumer' students in a mostly audiovisual way. Reinforcing the development of skills for decoding and interpreting audiovisual language cannot be done without knowledge of its construction over time, following the main forms of cinema history.

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1. Archaeological foundations of cinema: Lumière and Méliès, ambiguity of the device and relations with pre-cinema; cinema, culture and physiology. 2. The nomenclature of cinema: structural, imagery and continuity concepts 3. Image and movement: presence of technique and imagery; the Deleuzian notion of Image-Movement; absolute and relative movement; the assembly. 4. The grammar of cinema. Narrative, language and cinematic aesthetics. Classical narrative and non-linear narrative. Exploration of cinematic language as a catalyst for emotions. Sound perception: deaf-mute cinema; the empire of synchrony; the sound imaginary and its creators. 5. Historiography of cinema: Soviet cinema, the French theoretical school, German expressionism - aesthetics, social and political history; Hollywood cinema - the industrial dimension. The major cinematographic genres: musical, noir, comedy, western, thriller, Italian neo-realism, nouvelle vague, Portuguese cinema and documentary.

Active teaching-learning methodologies will be used, such as the flipped classroom, among others, centered on the learner.

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