Curricular Unit:			Code:
Visual and Audiovisual Documentaries			774DVAU
Year:	Level:	Course:	Credits:
2	Undergraduate	Communication Sciences	6 ects
Learning Period:		Language of Instruction:	Total Hours:
Winter Semester		Portuguese/English	78
Learning Outcomes of the Curricular Unit:
Endow the students with theoretical knowledge, technical references and critical tools that enable them to identify and handle images with documental relevance. Encourage viewing experience and image interpretation of material with journalistic and documental relevance and comprehend the meaning of documentary as a cinematic genre. Develop the ability to reflect and integrate the different levels of knowledge of documental photography and documentary film. Develop the necessary skills to analyze, select and use documental photographic and audiovisual material within the context of communication.
Syllabus:
1. The concept of documentarism 2. Founding authors and the evolution of the concept 3. Image and history: to inform, document and witness 4. Photography and society 5. Forms of news-reporting 6. Bazin and the theory of photographic and cinematic images 7. Barthes and Benjamin’s perspectives 8. Photography and Cinema: the real and the fictional 9. Realism and Neo-Realism : aesthetics of truth 10. Comment and analysis of cinema and photography
Demonstration of the Syllabus Coherence with the Curricular Unit's Objectives:
The contents of each teaching unit encourage the deepening of theoretical and practical knowledge in the fields of documentary photography and audiovisual documentary, thereby promoting the acquisition and integration of concepts and techniques related to these areas.
Teaching Methodologies (Including Evaluation):
Exams, projects and oral presentations
Demonstration of the Coherence between the Teaching Methodologies and the Learning Outcomes:
The teaching methodologies articulate reading and comprehension of essential texts for the discussion and analyses of the problems debated in the curricular unit, by means of the handling of a corpus of image references and the perception of the role of edition, in a dialogue with the social and aesthetic impact of documentalism.
Reading:
Antologia de textos, filmes e fotografias disponibilizada nas aulas Bazin, A. O que é o Cinema? Livros Horizonte, Lisboa, 1992 Dubois, Philippe O acto fotográfico, Vega, Lisboa, 1992 Freund, G. Fotografia e Sociedade, Vega, Lisboa,1995 Penafria, Manuela (org.) (2011). Tradição e Reflexões: Contributos para a Teoria e Estética do Documentário, Livros Lab Com (www.livroslabcom.ubi.pt).