Photography and Cinema

Code:

MM0043

Acronym:

FC

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Visual Arts

Instance: 2025/2026 - 1S

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Department of Informatics Engineering
Course/CS Responsible:	Master in Multimedia

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
MM	23	Syllabus	1	-	6	45	162
			2

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

— Acquire historical and technical knowledge of photography and cinema;
— Understand the interactions and intersections between photography and cinema in the construction of visual narratives;
— Explore capture and editing techniques for still and moving images;
— Develop critical thinking about images and visual devices;
— Analyze issues and themes relevant to the artistic and cultural context of images;
— Construct a visual discourse that integrates experience, technique, and narrative in still and moving images.

Learning outcomes and competences

— Analyze the image beyond its representation;
— Investigate and validate the image as a contemporary unit of literacy;
— Understand the importance of visual narratives around contemporary projects;
— Identify and define communication problems that encourage them to interfere in contemporary society;
— Search for visual, photographic and cinematographic solutions, using less obvious methodologies;
— Combine personal interests with scientific areas of an artistic nature;
— Recognize the importance of image on a social, cultural and professional level.

Working method

Presencial

Pre-requirements (prior knowledge) and co-requirements (common knowledge)

Not applied.

Program

— Photography and Cinema as expanded languages and their relations with contemporaneity;
— Technical image and the convergence of media;
— Temporalities and modalities of the still and moving image;
— Possibilities of editing and narrative construction in photography and cinema

Mandatory literature

Ansel Adams; The Camera. ISBN: 0-8212-2184-1
Aumont , Jacques; L. image. ISBN: 2-09-190706-5
Barbara London; Video/Art: The First Fifty Years, Phaidon Press, 2020. ISBN: 071487759X
Bourriaud , Nicolas; Pós-produção : como a arte reprograma o mundo contemporâneo. ISBN: 978-85-61635-11-4
Crary , Jonathan; Técnicas do observador : visão e modernidade no século XIX. ISBN: 978-989-8327-84-0
David Campany; The Cinematic, The MIT Press, 2007. ISBN: 0262532883
Dvořák, Tomá¨; Jussi Parikka; Photography Off the Scale: Technologies and Theories of the Mass Image., Edinburgh University Press, 2021
David Parkinson; History of Film (World of Art), Thames & Hudson, 2012. ISBN: 9780500204108
Flusser , Vilém; Ensaio sobre a fotografia : para uma filosofia da técnica
Mangueira, Camila; A Mobilidade Fotográfica. In Novas Formas do Audiovisual., Estação das Letras e das Cores, 2016
Mark Cousins ; Biografia do Filme, Plátano Editora, 2005. ISBN: 9789727703258
Terence Marner; A Realização Cinematográfica (Re-Edição), Edições 70, 1980. ISBN: 9789724414133

Complementary Bibliography

Gilles Deleuze; A Imagem-Movimento (re-edição), Documenta, 2016. ISBN: 9789898566973
Giséle Freund; Fotografia e sociedade
João Bénard da Costa; Os Filmes da minha vida. ISBN: 978-972-37-1234-6
Liz Wells; The Photography Reader. ISBN: ISBN: 0-415-30703-1
Philippe Dubois; O acto fotográfico. . ISBN: ISBN: 972-699-280-X
Roland Barthes; A câmara clara. ISBN: 978-972-44-1349-5
Rosalind Krauss; O Fotográfico. ISBN: ISBN: 84-252-1858-6
Walter Benjamin; Sobre arte, técnica, linguagem e política. ISBN: ISBN: 972-708-1770
Wheeler Winston Dixon; A Short History of Film, Rutgers University Pres, 2018. ISBN: 0813595126
António Sena; História da imagem fotográfica em Portugal. ISBN: ISBN: 972-0-06265-7
Gerry Badger; The Genius of photography. ISBN: 978-1-84400-363-1
Joel Meyerowitz; Seeing Things: A Kid's Guide to Looking at Photographs, Aperture, 2016. ISBN: 1597113158
Susan Sontag; On photography. ISBN: 978-0-140-05397-5

Teaching methods and learning activities

The course is structured in two complementary modules: a theoretical module and a practical module.

The theoretical module introduces core concepts and debates in photography and cinema, focusing on the relationships between images. Students participate in the presentation, analysis, and critical discussion of projects, with attention to developing a visual repertoire through technological procedures related to the preparation, formatting, and production of visual narratives.

The practical module reinforces these concepts through hands-on application. Over the course of the semester, students complete two projects: the first focusing on the still image and the second on the moving image. These projects enhance technical skills and conceptual understanding, promoting the integration of research-based inquiry and creative experimentation.

keywords

Humanities > Arts > Visual arts > Film studies
Humanities > Arts > Visual arts > Photography

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation without final exam

Assessment Components

Designation	Weight (%)
Participação presencial	25,00
Trabalho de campo	25,00
Apresentação/discussão de um trabalho científico	15,00
Trabalho prático ou de projeto	35,00
Total:	100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

Designation	Time (hours)
Elaboração de projeto	40,00
Frequência das aulas	30,00
Trabalho de campo	15,00
Trabalho de investigação	15,00
Total:	100,00

Eligibility for exams

— Attendance;
— Scientific curiosity;
— Participation;
— Development of exercises and projects;
— Use of technical concepts and language;
— Work presentation.

Calculation formula of final grade

Project 01 — 20%
Deadline for submission of Project 01 — 5%
Project 02 — 20%
Project completion time 02 — 5%
Project Monitoring — 20%
Attendance, Participation and Presentation — 10%
Scientific Curiosity — 10%
Technological Domain — 10%

Projects that have not been duly followed during the semester will not be evaluated.

Students who do not attend at least 65% of classes will not be evaluated.