Checking date: 20/04/2024


Course: 2024/2025

Trends of contemporary fiction
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Master in Film and Television (Plan: 320 - Estudio: 290)
EPH


Coordinating teacher: FERNANDEZ-RODRIGUEZ LABAYEN, MIGUEL

Department assigned to the subject: Communication and Media Studies Department

Type: Compulsory
ECTS Credits: 3.0 ECTS

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Objectives
-To possess and understand key knowledge to be able to be original in the development and application of ideas. -Capacity to apply knowledge and solve problems in new environments within wider contexts (or multidisciplinary) related to the area of study.. -Capacity to express knowledge, convey reasoning and reach conclusions to specialized and non-specialized audiences in a clear, unambiguous fashion. -Capacity to learn in order to keep studying in an autonomous fashion. -Have a broad perspective on the processes of innovation and reelaboration of previous styles, narrative formulas and promotional mechanisms in the audiovisual world. -Produce, manage and organize audiovisual productions for cinema and television. -Evaluate and organize the economic management of productions. -Identify the roles and human resources relations within the context of audiovisual productions. -Define exploitation and commercialization pathways for audiovisual productions. -Identify, select and develop proposals for film and television projects. -Capacity to create viability studies, package creation and budgets. -Capacity to identify funding opportunities and solve economic and financial problems for audiovisual projects. -Create and explain audiovisual projects in pitching sessions. -Identify and classify the appropriate technical and working crews for each phase of the project: preproduction, shooting and postproduction. -Control the amortization processes of audiovisual productions. -Supervise and manage the postproduction and finalization processes.
Skills and learning outcomes
Description of contents: programme
1. THE NEW AND THE TRADITION IN FILM AND TV TRENDS 2. TECHNOLOGICAL TRENDS: DIGITAL CINEMA, ANALOGUE APPARATUSES. FORMATS AND AESTHETICS 3. AESTHETIC TRENDS: RETRO, VINTAGE AND ANACHRONISM 4. AESTHETIC TRENDS II: EXTREME CINEMA 5. INDUSTRIAL TRENDS: BLOCKBUSTERS, REBOOTS, SEQUELS AND REMAKES 6. INDUSTRIAL TRENDS II: WHAT IS 'PRODUCEABLE' IN SPAIN IN THE 2020s? 7. NARRATIVE AND THEMATIC TRENDS I: MODULAR NARRATIVES AND FILM GENRES 8. SOCIO-CULTURAL TRENDS: INTERSECTIONAL PERSPECTIVES IN CONTEMPORARY FILM & TELEVISION
Learning activities and methodology
FORMATION ACTIVITIES Theorical class Practical classes Theoretical and practical classes Tutoring Team work Individual student work TEACHING METHODOLOGIES -In-class lectures by the teacher supported by computer and audiovisual media, in which the main concepts of the subject are developed and bibliography is provided to complement the students' learning. -Critical reading of texts recommended by the subject teacher: Press articles, reports, manuals and/or academic articles, film and television scripts, either for subsequent discussion in class, or to expand and consolidate knowledge of the subject. -Resolution of practical cases, problems, etc. posed by the teacher individually or in groups -Exhibition and discussion in class, under the moderation of the teacher, of film and television scripts, as well as audiovisual projects
Assessment System
  • % end-of-term-examination 80
  • % of continuous assessment (assigments, laboratory, practicals...) 20




Basic Bibliography
  • Casetti, Francesco. The Lumière Galaxy: Seven Key Words for the Cinema to Come. . New York: University of Columbia Press. 2015
  • Cerdán, Josetxo y Fernández Labayen, Miguel. Imaginarios digitales en los cines hispánicos: Historias de pertenencia y desarraigo. Peter Lang. 2023
  • Frey, Mattias.. Extreme Cinema. The Transgressive Rhetoric of Today¿s Art Film Culture. . Rutgers, NJ: Rutgers University Press. 2016
  • HERBERT, Daniel & VEREVIS, Constantine (eds.). Film reboots. Edinburgh University Press. 2022
  • Hjort, Mette & Nannicelli, Ted (eds.). A Companion to Motion Pictures and Public Value. Wiley-Blackwell. 2022
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