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.- Film studies are those whose object of study is a film or a corpus of films. The basic discipline is therefore film aesthetics. But there are films that indicate, point to the study of art or literature, history or sociology, architecture or philosophy, and so on. There are also scholars of painting, storytelling, philosophy, history or architecture who take a film as an object of study, from their presuppositions. Film studies offer a context for the study of film aesthetics and its relationship with other arts and disciplines. 1.1- What is a historical narrative? Some basic concepts for continuous assessment work: PIGMALION, BIOMECHANICAL CREATION and THE CHANGE OF PARADIGM. 2.- Formalist Realism. 2.1- SPACE 3. Cinema and painting. 3.1. AESTHETICS OF THE PAINTING 4. Woman and spectator. 5.- The female spectator. 5.1. THE MELODRAMA 6. - The deformation of reality. 7. - Realism and the unconscious. 8. - Cinema and philosophy. 8.1. - POST-PANOPTIC SOCIETY

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