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Course: 2025/2026

European Cinema
(13533)
Bachelor in Film, Television and Media Studies (2008 Study Plan) (Plan: 154 - Estudio: 211)


Coordinating teacher: PRIETO SOUTO, XOSE ANTONIO

Department assigned to the subject: Communication and Media Studies Department

Type: Electives
ECTS Credits: 3.0 ECTS

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Requirements (Subjects that are assumed to be known)
Moving image history Media Technology Basic knowledge of video editing.
Objectives
The main competences that will be achieved in this module consist of: 1- A broad knowledge of contemporary theories, contents, production strategies, trends and authors of European Cinema(s). 2- Competence to contextualize, analyse and discuss contemporary European films with attention to their aesthetical trends and transnational dimensions. 3- Competence to contextualize, analyse and discuss the intricate relationship between contemporary institutional policies, European cinema and cultural identities. 4- Competence to make relations between European cinema and society.
Description of contents: programme
This course explores the relation between the concept of European Cinema and its cultural constructions. For this reason, a historiographical overview of European cinema will be presented first, to later focus on the theoretical debates about European Cinema's identity from different perspectives. The main objective of the course is providing a theoretical framework within which students can approach today's European cinema. The course will be divided into five parts: Part 1.- Introduction to European Cinema Part 2.- National, Transnational, and Supranational Part 3.- The Europeanness of European Cinema Part 4- Reaching Audiences Part 5.- Contemporary Trends in European Cinema
Learning activities and methodology
1.- Theory-based classes. Students will acquire basic knowledge about the topics addressed in the class (Competence 1) (1 ETCS) 2.- Practical exercises: Theses exercises which provide an atmosphere to debate about a specific theme related to European cinema (Competences 2, 3 and 4) (1 ECTS). 3.- Student's work: Guided study to theoretical contents and learning materials (Competences 2, 3 and 4) (1 ETCS)
Assessment System
  • % end-of-term-examination/test 0
  • % of continuous assessment (assigments, laboratory, practicals...) 100

Calendar of Continuous assessment


Extraordinary call: regulations
Basic Bibliography
  • Bergfelder, T. . National, transnational or supranational cinema? Rethinking European film studies. Media, Culture and Society, 27 (3), 315-331. . SAGE. 2005
  • Cuelenaere, E., Willems, G. y Joye, S. . European Film Remakes. Edinburgh University Press . 2021
  • De Valck, M. . Film Festivals: From European Geopolitics to Global Cinephilia. Amsterdam University Press . 2007
  • Dyer, R. y G. Vicendeau (Eds.). Popular European Cinema. Routledge. 1992
  • Elsaesser, T. European cinema: face to face with Hollywood. Amsterdam University. 2005
  • Ezra. E. (Ed.). European Cinema . Oxford University. 2004
  • Faulkner, S. (Ed). . Middlebrow Cinema . Roultedge . 2016
  • Frey, M. . Extreme Cinema: The Transgressive Rhetoric of Today's Art Film Culture. Rutgers University Press. 2016
  • Halle, R.. The Europeanization of Cinema. Interzones and Imaginative Communities. University of Illinois Press. 2014
  • Harrod, M, M. Liz y A. Timoshkina (Eds.). The Europeanness of European Cinema. Identity, meaning, globalization . IB Tauris . 2015
  • Jones, H. D. . Transnational European Cinema Representation, Audiences, Identity. Springer . 2024
  • Meir, C. . Mass Producing European Cinema: Studiocanal and its Works. . Bloomsbury. 2018
  • Newman, K. y N. Durovicova (Eds.) . World Cinemas, Transnational Perspectives. Routledge/American Film Institute Reader. 2009
Recursos electrónicosElectronic Resources *
Additional Bibliography
  • Akçali E., Çakirlar C., Güçlü O. . Mustang: Translating Willful Youth. Routledge. 2022
  • Horeck T., Kendall T. (Eds). The New Extremism in Cinema From France to Europe. Edinburgh University Press. 2011
  • Tzioumakis, Y., Molloy, C. . The Routledge Companion to Cinema and Politics. Routledge. 2016
Recursos electrónicosElectronic Resources *
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The course syllabus may change due academic events or other reasons.


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