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Class Visual Culture II

  • Presentation

    Presentation

    This course is focused around documentary cinema: its history, its genres, its language and its contemporary production based on the language of animation.

  • Code

    Code

    ULHT2165-15906
  • Syllabus

    Syllabus

    1. History of documentary cinema 

    2. Documentary: genre or language? 

    3. The documentary effect in contemporary art 

    4. The animated documentary. 

    5. Film Language

    6. Films' analysis 

  • Objectives

    Objectives

    This curricular unit aims to reflect on the practices of contemporary documentary cinema and to analyse the cinematographic language based on montage and metamorphosis. Its objectives are:
    - To reflect on the documentary enunciation in cinema and art.
    - To develop the documentary theme at the crossroads between animation cinema and the other arts.
    - To analyse a film through the language used
    - Identify and understand the documentary uses of the moving image;
    - Acquire and apply knowledge about the intersection of different forms of production of images in a documentary perspective
    - Apply animation in the context of cinematographic language

  • References

    References

    BRUZZI, Stella (2000). New Documentary. London: Routledge. 

    COWIE, Elizabeth (2011). Recording Reality Desiring the Real. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. 

    FOSTER Hal (1996) The Return of the Real: The Avant-Garde at the End of the Century. Cambridge/MA: The MIT Press 

    KRIGER, Judith (2012). Animated Realism. A Behind-the-Scenes Look at the Animated Documentary Genre. New York: Focal Press. 

    MINH-HA, T. T. (1990). “Documentary Is/Not a Name”. October, vol. 52, Spring, pp. 76-98

    MURRAY J. and Erlich, N. eds. (2019). Drawn from Life. Issues and Themes in Animated Documentary Cinema. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press

    NICHOLS, Bill (2001). Introduction to Documentary. Bloomington: Indiana University Press 

    ROE, Annabelle Honess (2013). Animated Documentary. London: Palgrave Macmillan 

    International Journal of Film and Media Arts. (http://revistas.ulusofona.pt/index.php/ijfma/issue/view/662)

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