Film Analysis

Code:

LEI018

Acronym:

AF

Instance: 2024/2025 - 1S

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Department of Portuguese and Romance Studies
Course/CS Responsible:	Bachelor in Literature and Interart Studies

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
LEI	41	Study plan	3	-	6	41	162

Teaching language

English

Objectives

The programme will provide students with information and conceeptual skills for understanding how narrative is organised in film. Particularr attention will be given to narrative structure, setting and themes Areas of intellectual output and debate to be considered will include key film studies concepts such as mise-en-scène, genre studies, psychoanalytic film thgeory and the auteur theory

Learning outcomes and competences

By the end of the semester, students should be able to:

 

1. Recognise the differences of approach when creating narrative in cinema;
2. Recognise and critically deploy some key notions in film studies
3. Particpate in discussions involving the concepts, discourses and objects of study favoured by the programme.

Working method

Presencial

Program

3 films by Alfred Hitchcock

3 films by Luis Bunuel

3 films by Michael Haneke

Mandatory literature

David Bordwell/Kristin Thompson; Film Art An Introduction. ISBN: 007118001
Pam Cook et al; The Cinema Book. ISBN: 9781844571932
Peter William Evans/Isabel Santaolalla; Luis Bunuel New Readings. ISBN: 9781844570034
Sigmund Freud; A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis. ISBN: 97818440226867
Roy Grundmann; A Companion to Michael Haneke. ISBN: 9781118723487
E.A. Kaplan; Psychoanalysis and Cinema. ISBN: 978041590029490000
Robin Wood; Hitchcock's Films Revisited. ISBN: 9780231126953

Teaching methods and learning activities

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation without final exam

Assessment Components

Designation	Weight (%)
Participação presencial	10,00
Prova oral	45,00
Teste	45,00
Total:	100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

Designation	Time (hours)
Estudo autónomo	121,00
Frequência das aulas	41,00
Total:	162,00

Eligibility for exams

75% of the scheduled classes /completion of 2 written essays written in class/ 1 oral presentation

Calculation formula of final grade

Oral presentation 45%

1st Essay 23%

2nd essay 22%

Class participation 10%

Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)

Special category students must do a presentation and the written tests

Classification improvement

Students can do a "melhoria" of one of the written components  only.