Cinema History (20061)

Degree/study: Grade in Humanities
Year: 3rd-4th
Term: 3rd
Number of ECTS credits:  5 credits
Hours of studi dedication: 125 hours
Teaching language or languages: spanish
Teaching Staff: Carlos Losilla

1. Presentation of the subject

- The cinema history as an account

- The different stages and its development: from classism to the postmodernism.  

2. Competences to be attained

Transferable skills

Specific competences

1) Cultural and artistic competence, 2) Ability to relate literature, history, art and thought, 3) Develop the needed visual skills to study works of art from different periods and types, 4) describe visual works using the appropriate technical terms and concepts of the discipline, 5) recognize the ​​iconic, symbolic and artistic representation languages diversity in the twentieth century; 6) Identify the main authors, movies and trends in the cinema history.

3. Contents

Unit 1. Introduction to the course. What is the cinema history?

Unit 2.  Silent movies and avant-gardes: the first modernity.
Unit 3. The invention of the classical Hollywood cinema.
Unit 4. From Renoir to Rossellini: the second modernity. Poetic realism and neorealism.
Unit 5. The American mannerism: the forties and fifties.
Unit 6. The Nouvelle Vague and other new cinemas in the seventies: the third modernity.
Unit 7. The end of the modern project: the seventies.
Unit 8. The birth of postmodernism: the eighties and nineties.
Unit 9: Mutations of contemporary cinema: new technology, new cinephilia.

Unit 10: Where are we now?

 

 

*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. Metodology

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7. Planning of activities

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