Gerald Bar

1. Romantic cinema
2. Cinema of the margins
3. Neorealism
4. Expressionism

In the end, students are expected to be able to
• reflect critically about aesthetical elements of the cinematographic narrative,
• ponder over the work produced by the different European cinema schools which were in the origin of diverse movements,
• relate a film with a historical and cultural context,
• elaborate an essay on the texts studied,
• analyse a film.

The most important cinematographic works of some European producers: Méliès, Dziga Vertov, Eisenstein, Fellini, Goddard and Almodovar; conventional production and its dissidents in Germany, France and the Soviet Union; the devastation of war and a new language of cinema; rage and symbolism in the cinema of the 1950s; death of the romantic cinema and the coming of modernism; cinema from the margins.
The Portuguese cinema.

Cousins, Mark. Biografia do Filme. Lisboa: Plátano Editora, 2004.
Ezra, Elizabeth. European Cinema. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004.
Ferreira, Carolin Overhoff. O cinema português através dos seus Filmes. Porto: Campo das Letras, 2007.
Forbes, Jill & Sarah Street (eds.). European Cinema: An Introduction. New York: Palgrave, 2000.

E-learning.

Continuous assessment is privileged: 2 digital written documents (e-folios) during the semester (40%) and a final digital test, Global e-folio (e-folio G) at the end of the semester (60%). In due time, students can alternatively choose to perform one final exam (100%).