Checking date: 07/05/2020


Course: 2019/2020

Film Studies
(13522)
Dual Bachelor in Journalism and Film, Television and Media Studies (2008 Study Plan) (Plan: 176 - Estudio: 231)


Coordinating teacher: FERNANDEZ-RODRIGUEZ LABAYEN, MIGUEL

Department assigned to the subject: Communication and Media Studies Department

Type: Compulsory
ECTS Credits: 6.0 ECTS

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Requirements (Subjects that are assumed to be known)
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.
Description of contents: programme
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.
Learning activities and methodology
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.
Assessment System
  • % end-of-term-examination 50
  • % of continuous assessment (assigments, laboratory, practicals...) 50

Basic Bibliography
  • CHURCH GIBSON, Pamela and HILL, John (eds.).. Film Studies: critical approaches.. Oxford University Press.. 2000.
  • NELMES, Jill (ed.). . Introduction to Film Studies (5th edition). Routledge. 2012
Additional Bibliography
  • BORDWELL, David y CARROLL, Nöel (eds.).. Post-theory. Reconstructing film studies.. University of Wisconsin Press. 1996
  • BRAUDY, Leo y COHEN, Marshall (eds.).. Film Theory and Criticism. Introductory Readings.. Oxford University Press. 2009
  • CHURCH GIBSON, Pamela y HILL, John (eds.).. Film Studies: critical approaches. Oxford University Press. 2000
  • ELSAESSER, Thomas y HAGENER, Malte. Film Theory: An Introduction through the Senses.. Routledge.. 2009
  • GLEDHILL, Christine y WILLIAMS, Linda (eds.). Reinventing Film Studies. Oxford University Press. 2000
  • GRIEVESON, Lee y WASSON, Haidee (eds.).. Inventing Film Studies. Duke University Press.. 2008
  • MILLER, Toby y STAM, Robert (eds).. Film and theory. An anthology. Blackwell Publishers. 2000
  • MILLER, Toby y STAM, Robert (eds.).. A Companion to Film Theory. Blackwell Publishers. 2004
  • NICHOLS, Bill. Engaging Cinema. An Introduction to Film Studies. W.W. Norton.. 2010
  • NICHOLS, Bill (ed.).. Movies and Methods. Volume 2. University of California Press. 1985
  • POLAN, Dana. Scenes of Instruction: The Beginnings of the U.S. Study of Film. University of California Press. 2007
  • RODOWICK, D. N.. The Virtual Life of Film. Harvard University Press. 2007
  • SITNEY, P. Adams (ed.).. The Avant-Garde Film. A Reader of Theory and Criticism. Anthology Film Archives. 1987.

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