History of Cinema (20061)

Degree/study: Degree in Humanities
Year: 3rd
Term:3rd
Number of ECTS credits: 5 credits
Hours of studi dedication:
Teaching language or languages: Spanish
Teaching Staff: Antonio Monegal

1. Presentation of the subject

Models and traditions.

Study of the outstanding historical facts of the history of cinema.

2. Competences to be attained

General competences

Specific competences

1) Cultural and artistic competence; 2) Understanding how literature, history, art and thought interact; 3) Visual ability to study works of art from different periods and typology; 4) Using technical terms and concepts when describing visual works; 5) Being aware of the diversity of iconic, symbolic and illustrative languages of 20th-century artistic expressions; 6) Identifying the main authors, films and movements of the history of cinema.

3. Contents

Unit 1. Introduction. Cinema's poetics and semiotics. Art and popular culture.

Unit 2. Avant-garde film: German Expressionism, Russian avant-garde, Dadaism and Surrealism.

Unit 3. Forms of Realism: Renoir and the Italian Neo-Realism.

Unit 4. The Nouvelle Vague and the deconstruction of the cinematographic discourse.

Unit 5. Looking at the individual: psychological cinema.

Unit 6. Society's image: political cinema.

Unit 7. The cinema of poetry and the image of desire. Conclusions. 

  

*The full version with the sections 4. Assessment, 5. Bibliography and teaching resources, 6. Methodology and 7. Planning of activities is available in the original version.

4. Assessment

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5. Bibliography and teaching resources

5.1. Basic bibliography

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5.2. Complementary bibliography

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5.3. Teaching resources

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6. Methodology

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7. Planning of activities

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