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Course: 2025/2026

Audiovisual archaeology, memory and cinematographic heritage
(19753)
Master in Applied Research in Media (Plan: 516 - Estudio: 248)
EPH


Coordinating teacher: CERDAN LOS ARCOS, JOSE FRANCISCO

Department assigned to the subject: Communication and Media Studies Department

Type: Electives
ECTS Credits: 6.0 ECTS

Course:
Semester:

Branch of knowledge: Social Sciences and Law



Requirements (Subjects that are assumed to be known)
none
Objectives
-to understand the role and functions of heritage institutions -to place cinema and media in the context of cultural heritage -to know the history of cinematographic and video materials -to understand the processes of recovery, revaluation and restoration of cinema and video
Learning Outcomes
Description of contents: programme
1. Heritage, Society, and Citizenship 2. Film and Audiovisual Heritage (with a brief history of film formats) 3. The Archive from a Theory Perspective: Preserving, Disseminating, and Restoring (Conflicts & Evolutions) 4. The Film Archive as a Memory and Historical Source
Learning activities and methodology
-master classes -discussion groups -readings -fieldwork, at the archive (service learning)
Assessment System
  • % end-of-term-examination/test 50
  • % of continuous assessment (assigments, laboratory, practicals...) 50

Calendar of Continuous assessment


Basic Bibliography
  • Fossati, Giovanna. From Grain to Pixel. Revised Edition. Amsterdam University Press. 2018
  • Franco-Lorenzana, Julián. La memoria en imágenes: Manual para la recuperación y gestión dle patrimonio cinematográfico. Octaedro. 2022
  • Jussi Parikka. What is Media Archaeology?. Polity Press. 2012

The course syllabus may change due academic events or other reasons.