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, Technology, Culture, Aesthetic. 1.2-Film Modes and Film Worlds: Documentary, Experimental and Fiction. 1.3-Development of film theories. 1.4-Film studies as a discipline. 1.5-Keywords to study cinema: auteurs, stars, genres, audiences. 2-Realisms. 2.1-The problem of realism: the ontology of the photgraphic image. 2.2-Digital realisms: from frame to pixel. 2.3-Film's vindications: auteur cinema and Third Cinema. Art and Politics. 3-Aesthetic perspectives and textual analysis. 3.1-Textual passion and film as a language: formalism, semiotics, structuralism and post-structuralism. 3.2-Sound. 3.3-Neo-formalism and cognitivism. 3.4-Phenomenology and the study of emotions and affect. 4-Identity politics, cultural studies and reception theories. 4.1-Feminism and post-feminism. 4.2-Queer Theory. 4.3-Multiculturalism and race theory. Postcolonialism and decolonization. 4.4-Ecocritique and ecocinema. 4.3-Visionary pleasures and popular culture. 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 essays supervised by the professor.