Students are expected to have completed 'Moving Image History' and 'Reading Moving Image'.

1-Competence to understand and analyse cinema from an academic perspective. 2-A broad knowledge of the main film theories and methodologies. 3-Competence to apply the different theories and methodologies in film analysis and research. 4-Competence to research the field of film studies and understand its problematics.

1-What is cinema? Introduction and basic concepts. 1.1-Ways of understanding Cinema. Industry, Institution, Culture, Aesthetic. 1.2-Film Modes and Worlds: Documentary, Experimental and Fiction. 1.3-Development of film theories. 1.4-Film studies as a discipline. 2-Realism and Auteur Cinema. 2.1-The problem of realism: Aristarco, Bazin, Kracauer. 2.2-New realisms: from frame to pixel. 2.3-Film's vindications: auteur cinema and Third Cinema. Art and Politics. 3-Formalism and Textual Analysis. 3.1-Russian Formalism: Vertov, Eisenstein. 3.2-Textual passion and film as a language: semiotics and structuralism. 3.3-The post-stucturalist reform. 4-Identity Politics and Reception Theories. 4.1-Feminism and gender studies. 4.2-Cultural studies, multicultural phenomena. 4.3-Visionary pleasures. Reception and fandom.

1-Lectures Theoretical classes that give the student a notion about the different film theories. 2-Practices Case studies. 3-Student work Writing of an essay supervised by the professor. 4-Midterm exam