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2023/2024

History of Audiovisual Stories

Code: 105005 ECTS Credits: 12
Degree Type Year Semester
2501928 Audiovisual Communication OB 2 A

Contact

Name:
Joaquin Puig Gonzalez
Email:
Joaquim.Puig.Gonzalez@uab.cat

Teaching groups languages

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Teachers

Matilde Delgado Reina
Jesica Ana Florencia Menéndez Signorini
Ludovico Longhi

Prerequisites

The subject of "History of audiovisual stories" is the first contact that students have with the matter of "History and Aesthetics of Audiovisual Communication". Therefore, no prerequisites are necessary than the knowledge and education achieved until the beginning of the second career course.


Objectives and Contextualisation

This subject analyzes the evolution that the media of the Audiovisual Communication (cinema, radio and television) throughout history in its aesthetic, technological, industrial and social aspects

 The processes involved in the cultural construction of images and their aesthetic and communicative function in the different audiovisual media are analyzed and studied in detail.


Competences

  • Contextualise audiovisual media and its aesthetics from a historic perspective.
  • Differentiate the discipline's main theories, fields, conceptual developments, as well as their value for professional practice.
  • Disseminate the area's knowledge and innovations.
  • Manage time effectively.
  • Research, select and arrange in hierarchical order any kind of source and useful document to develop communication products.
  • Rigorously apply scientific thinking.

Learning Outcomes

  1. Be familiar with the historic development of audiovisual media.
  2. Disseminate the area's knowledge and innovations.
  3. Identify interactions between history, aesthetics and audiovisual communication.
  4. Manage time effectively.
  5. Research, select and arrange in hierarchical order any kind of source and useful document to develop communication products.
  6. Rigorously apply scientific thinking.

Content

PRESENTATION: introduction, background and contextualization of audiovisual stories

 

PART I: RADIO AND TELEVISION

T0PIC 1: BIRTH OF THE ELECTRONIC MEDIA

1.1. Technology

1.2. Politics and society

1.3. Radio as a means of mass

1.4. The first stories

TOPIC 2: UNITED STATES. Study of the hegemonic model.

2.1. The Network Era: The Golden Age of Radio

2.2. "Video killed the radio stars." Television in the US

TOPIC 3: THE EUROPEAN MODEL

TOPIC 4: THE SPANISH CASE

4.1. Spain, a special case:

4.2. THE RADIO

4.3. THE TELEVISION

 

PART II: CINEMA, COMMERCIALS AND  MUSIC VIDEOS

TOPIC 5. ORIGIN, DEVELOPMENT AND HISTORIOGRAPHY ON THE CINEMA

5.1 From pre-cinema to the primitive type of representation

5.2 The creation of language: from the primitive type of representation to the type of institutional representation

5.3. Cinema as an industry

5.4 Cinema as creation

TOPIC 6. THE CINEMATOGRAPHIC AVANT-GARDES

TOPIC 7. HOLLYWOOD AND THE CINEMA MAINSTREAM

7.1 The Hollywood Cinema of the Classical Period

7.2 From Neo-Hollywood to the present

TOPIC 8. THE NEOREALISM

TOPIC 9. THE NOUVELLE VAGUE AND THE NEW CINEMAS

TOPIC 10. ASIAN CINEMA

TOPIC 11. AFRICAN AND LATIN AMERICAN CINEMA

TOPIC 12. THE CINEMA IN CATALONIA AND IN THE SPANISH STATE

TOPIC 13. POSTMODERNITY, DIGITALIZATION AND CURRENT CONTEXT

TOPIC 14.  CINEMA CROSSOVERS WITH COMMERCIALS AND MUSIC VIDEOS

 

 


Methodology

 

The subject of "History of audiovisual stories" is made up of theoretical classes, tutorials and seminars

 Programming of the subject

The detailed calendar with the content of the different sessions will be presented on the day of the presentation of the subject. It will also be posted on the Virtual Campus where people in the class will be able to find the detailed description of the exercises and practices, the various teaching materials and any information necessary for the appropriate monitoring of the subject. In the event of a change in the teaching modality for health reasons, information will be provided on the changes that will occur in the subject's programming and teaching methodologies

Annotation: Within the schedule set by the centre or degree programme, 15 minutes of one class will be reserved for students to evaluate their lecturers and their courses or modules through questionnaires.


Activities

Title Hours ECTS Learning Outcomes
Type: Directed      
Seminars 30 1.2 6, 3
Theoretical classes 66 2.64 6, 1, 2, 3
Type: Supervised      
Tutorials 15 0.6 6, 3
Type: Autonomous      
Reading, analysis and synthesis of texts and documents, preparation and completion of work 182.5 7.3 6, 5, 1, 4, 3

Assessment

Assessment:
 
Part One: Radio and Television
 
This part will have the following evaluation activities:
- Theoretical exam, 50% of the final grade for this part
- Written historiographical work done in a group, 35% of the final grade for this part
- Oral presentation of the work, 15% of the final mark of this part
The final mark of this part will be the sum of these three activities as long as they are approved
 
Second Part: Cinema, spots and video clips
 
This part will consist of the following evaluation activities:
  - Theoretical exam, 50% of the final grade for this part
- Written historiographical work done in a group, 35% of the final grade for this part
- Oral presentation of the work, 15% of the final mark of this part
 
The final mark of this part will be the sum of these three activities as long as they are approved
 
Final grade for the course: The result of adding the two grades of each part and dividing it by two
 
Reminder: In order to pass the subject, it will be necessary to have passed all the evaluation activities of both parts. If any of them were suspended, the subject cannot be passed. Students will have the right to recover failed tests, as long as they have obtained a minimum of 3 points the first time.

Assessment Activities

Title Weighting Hours ECTS Learning Outcomes
Theoretical test 40% 3 0.12 6, 5, 1, 2, 4
Public presentation of the historiographical work 10% 1 0.04 6, 5, 4, 3
Reading, analysis and synthesis of texts and documents, preparation and completion of work 50% 2.5 0.1 6, 5, 1, 2, 4, 3

Bibliography

BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE SUBJECT

 

1. RADIO AND TELEVISION BIBLIOGRAPHY 

ALBERT, Pierre and TUDESQ, Andre-Jean, (2001) . Historia de la radio y la televisión. México: Fondo de Cultura de México.

ARCHER, Gleason L. (1971) . History of Radio to 1926. New York: Arno Press.

BAGET I HERMS, Josep Maria,(1993) . Historia de la televisión en España (1956-1975). Barcelona: Feed-Back.

BALSEBRE, Armand. (2001). Historia de la radio en España. Volumen I (1874-1939). Madrid: Cátedra.

BIGNELL, Jonathan and FICKERS, Andreas (eds) (2008), A European television history, Oxford: Blackwell Publishing.

BIGNELL, Jonathan (2018), “Performing Television History” a Critical Studies in Television, vol. 13, no. 3

BRIGS, Asa y BURKE, Peter, (2002) . A Social History of the Media. From Gutenberg to the Internet. Cambridge: Polity.

BRINSON, Susan (2005), "From Marconi to Cop Rock. An introduction to Broadcasting history" in WINN, Emmet and BRINSON, Susan (eds), Transmitting the Past. Historial and Cultural Perspectives on Broadcasting, Tuscaloosa: The University of Alabama Press, p.p. 1-15. 

BUSTAMANTE, Enrique, (2008), Radio y televisión en España. Historia de una asignatura pendiente de la democracia, Barcelona: Gedisa

CROWLEY, David and HEYER, Paul (eds.). (1997), La comunicación en la historia. Tecnología, cultura, sociedad. Barcelona: Bosch.

DOUGLAS, Susan J. (2004), Listening in. Radio and the American Imagination, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

FLICHY, Patrick, (1993), Una historia de la comunicación moderna. Espacio público y vida privada, Barcelona: Gustavo Gili. Cap. 6: "Siembro a los 4 vientos", p.p.

FRANQUET, Rosa, (2001), Història de la ràdio a Catalunya al segle XX. De la ràdio de galena a la ràdiodigital. Barcelona: Edicions 62.

GOMERY, Douglas, (2008), A history of Broadcasting in the United States, Malden: Blackwell Publishing. HILMES, Michele (ed.) (2003), The Television History Book. London, British Film Institute
FAUS Angel, (2007), La radio en España (1896-1977). Una historia documental, Madrid: Taurus. OLIVESI, Stephane, 1998. Histoire politique de la télévision. Paris: L'Harmattan

PALACIO, Manuel, (2001), Historia de la televisión en España, Barcelona: Gedisa. PEGG, Mark 1983. Broadcasting and Society 1918-1939. London: Croom Helm.

STERLING, Cristopher H. and KITTROSS, John Michael (2002), Stay Tuned. A history of American Broadcasting, Mahwah, N.J. : Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, cap. 2 "The Prehistory of Broadcasting", P.P. 19-50.

WHEATLEY, Helen,(Ed) (2007), Re-viewing television history. Critical Issues in Television Historiography, NEW YORK: Tauris & Co.

WILLIAMS, Raymond, (1989). Raymond Williams on Television. Selected Writings. London: Routledge.

WYVER, John, (1992) La imagen en movimiento. Aproximación a una historia de los medios audiovisuales. Valencia: Filmoteca Generalitat Valenciana.

 

2. CINEMA BIBLIOGRAPHY

ALTMAN, Rick (2000)  Los géneros cinematográficos, Ed. Paidós,Barcelona

BORDWELL, David, STAIGER Janet, THOMPSON, Kristin  (1996) El cine clásico de Hollywood, Barcelona, Ed. Paidós

BURCH, Noël (1987) El tragaluz del infinito. Contribución a la genealogía del lenguaje cinematográfico Madrid, Ed.Catedra

BUTLER, Judith (1990) Gender Trouble: Feminism and The Subversion of Identity, Routledge, Nueva York

CAPARRÓS LERA, Josep Mª (2007)  Historia del cine español, T&B editorial, Madrid

COLAIZZI, Giulia (2007) La pasión del significante: Teoría del género y cultura visual, Biblioteca Nueva, Madrid,

COUSINS, Mark (2005) Historia del cine, Blume, Barcelona

DE LAURETIS, Teresa (1987) Technologies of Gender: Essays On Theory, Film & Fiction, Indiana University Press, Bloomington

GASCA, Luis (1998)  Un siglo de cine español, Alianza, Madrid

GUBERN, Romà  (2006) Historia del cine, Lumen, Barcelona, 2006

GUBERN, Romà, MONTERDE José Enrique; PÉREZ PERUCHA, Julio, RIAMBAU, Esteve y TORREIRO, Casimiro (2009)  Historia del cine español, Cátedra, Madrid

KAEL, Pauline (1974)  Kiss Kiss Bang Bang: el tiempo del cine, Marymar, Buenos Aires

MORIN, Edgar  (1972) Las Stars. Servidumbres y mitos. Barcelona, Dopesa

MULVEY, Laura (1989) Visual and other pleasures, Indina University Press, Bloomington

NICHOLS, Bill (1997)  La representación de la realidad Barcelona, Paidós

PASKIEWICZ, Katarzyna (2017): Rehacer los géneros: mujeres cineastas dentro y fuera de Hollywood.  Icaria,  Barcelona

QUINTANA Ángel (2003) Fábulas de lo visible Barcelona, Acantilado

RIAMBAU, Esteve (2011)  Hollywood en la era digital. De Jurassic Park a Avatar. Madrid, Ed. Cátedra

SÁNCHEZ NORIEGA, José Luis (2018). Historia del cine, Alianza Editorial, Madrid

VVAA Historia general del cine vols. I-XII (1996), Cátedra, Madrid

 

The audiovisual contents of each topic will be provided throughout the classes


Software

This course don't need any specific software