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2020/2021

History of Cinema

Code: 100079 ECTS Credits: 6
Degree Type Year Semester
2502758 Humanities OT 3 0
2502758 Humanities OT 4 0
The proposed teaching and assessment methodology that appear in the guide may be subject to changes as a result of the restrictions to face-to-face class attendance imposed by the health authorities.

Contact

Name:
Maria Rosa Gutiérrez Herranz
Email:
MariaRosa.Gutierrez@uab.cat

Use of Languages

Principal working language:
spanish (spa)
Some groups entirely in English:
No
Some groups entirely in Catalan:
No
Some groups entirely in Spanish:
Yes

Prerequisites

No prerequisites are required

Objectives and Contextualisation

- Know the main film schools and authors of the history of cinema

- Understand the cinematographic context in which these movements are developed

Competences

    Humanities
  • Analysing the regulations about cultural and natural heritage.
  • Critically analysing today's culture and its historical conditions.
  • Designing, producing, disseminating and commercializing a cultural product.
  • Producing innovative and competitive proposals in research and professional activity.
  • Properly using the resources and methodologies of the study of contemporary culture.

Learning Outcomes

  1. Analysing the legal framework of copyrights in cinematography.
  2. Applying the knowledge about aesthetic ideas and art theory to the analysis of the cinematographic imagery.
  3. Contrasting the various legal frameworks of the artistic heritage.
  4. Designing programmes of museography or management of the artistic heritage.
  5. Distinguishing the techniques and elaboration process of an artistic object from the avant-garde and the latest artistic trends.
  6. Identifying the artistic imagery, placing it into its cultural context.
  7. Preparing a proposal for an exhibition from a provided material.
  8. Reconstructing the artistic outlook of the contemporary world.
  9. Relating the artistic creations from various periods with other cultural phenomena.

Content

I. Early cinema

1. Origins of cinema: historical context

2. Pre-cinematic devices: inventions and mythical imaginary

3. Pioneers of cinema: science, entertainment and industry

4. Cinematographic genres: the cinema between high and low culture

5. Primitive Mode of Representation (M.R.P.) vs. classic cinema (M.R.I.)

II. American classic cinema

1. Hollywood: birth and evolution

2. Film as an industry: Studio System and Star System 

3. The grammar of classic cinema

4. Film genre codes: main authors

III. European realisms 

1. French poetic realism

2. Italian neorealism

IV. New European film and American alternatives

1. Nouvelle Vague

2. Cinema Nuovo

3. Free Cinema

4. Neue Deutscher Film

5. Other European cinematographies

6. New Hollywood and American Independent Cinema

V. Avant-garde, underground and experimental cinema 

1. French impressionism

2. German Expressionism, Kammerspielfilm and New Objectivity

3. Soviet montage films and kino-glaz

4. Cinema and artistic avant-gardes, experimental and underground film

VI. Peripheral cinematographies

1. Latin America

2. Asia

3. Africa

VII. Overview of contemporary cinema

Methodology

- Theoretical and practical classes directed by the professor

- Viewing and commentiary of the films of Aula de Cinema cycle (Filmoteca de Catalunya)

- Study, readings and personal work

Activities

Title Hours ECTS Learning Outcomes
Type: Directed      
THEORETICAL AND PRACTICAL CLASSES 24 0.96 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
Type: Supervised      
VIEWING AND COMMENTARY OF FILMS OF "AULA DE CINEMA" 58 2.32 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
Type: Autonomous      
READINGS AND PERSONAL WORK 25 1 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
STUDY OF THE CONTENTS 25 1 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9

Assessment

- Oral presentation about a contemporary or peripheral filmmaker (35%)

- Exam of the contents (35%)
 
- Viewing and commentary of the films Aula de Cinema cycle (Filmoteca de Catalunya) (30%)
 
Observations:

- Recovery: Students who have not passed or have not attended to some of the tests will have to recover the suspended part in the recovery. The recovery is exclusively for the suspended or not attended students. In no case may be raised as a means of improving the qualification of the student who has already passed. Suspended students who are not attent to the recovery will have a "non-evaluable" in the final grade; the one that suspends the recovery will have "suspense".

- Plagiarism: In the event of a student committing any irregularity that may lead to a significant variation in the grade awarded to an assessment activity, the student will be given a zero for thisactivity, regardless of any disciplinary process that may take place. In the event of several irregularities in assessment activities of the same subject, the student will be given a zero as the final grade for this subject.

- Virtual teaching: In the event that tests or exams cannot be taken onsite, they will be adapted to an online format made available through the UAB’s virtual tools (original weighting will be maintained). Homework, activities and class participation will be carried out through forums, wikis and/or discussion on Teams, etc. Lecturers will ensure that students are able to access these virtual tools, or will offer them feasible alternatives.

Assessment Activities

Title Weighting Hours ECTS Learning Outcomes
EXAM OF THE CONTENTS 35% 3 0.12 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
ORAL PRESENTATION ABOUT A FILMMAKER 35% 9 0.36 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
VIEWING AND COMMENTARY OF THE FILMS OF "AULA DE CINEMA" 30% 6 0.24 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9

Bibliography

Film History

AA.VV., Historia General del Cine (12 vols.), Cátedra, Madrid, 1995-1998

Gubern, Romà, Historia del cine (2 vols.), Lumen, Barcelona, 1971

Sánchez Vidal, Agustín, Historia del cine, Historia 16, Madrid, 1997 

Early Cinema

Burch, Noël, El tragaluz del infinito, Cátedra, Madrid, 1995

American Classic Cinema

Altman, Rick, Los géneros cinematográficos, Paidos, Barcelona, 2000

Bordwell, David; Staiger, Janet; Thompson, Kristin, El cine clásico de Hollywood, Paidos, Barcelona, 1997

Gomery, Douglas., Hollywood: el sistema de estudios, Verdoux, Madrid, 1991

European Realisms

Quintana, Àngel, Fábulas de lo visible, El Acantilado, Barcelona, 2003

New European Film

Torreiro, Casimiro; Riambau, Esteve; Monterde, José Enrique, Los “Nuevos Cines” europeos (1955-1970), Lerna, Barcelona, 1987

Avant-garde, Underground and Experimental Film

Sánchez-Biosca, Vicente, Cine y vanguardias artísticas, Paidos, Barcelona, 2004

Tejeda, Carlos, Arte en fotogramas. Cine realizado por artistas, Cátedra, Madrid, 2008

Peripheral Cinematographies

Elena, Alberto, Los cines periféricos: África, Oriente Medio, India, Paidos, Barcelona, 1999

Contemporary Cinema

Quintana, Àngel, Después del cine. Imagen y realidad en la era diglital, El Acantilado, Barcelona, 2011