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:
Bazin, Andre; “What is Cinema”, 2 Volumes, translation by Hugh Gray.The Regents of the University of California. Reprinted by permission of the University of California Press,1967 Buckland, Warren; “La Politique des Auteurs in British Film Studies: Traditional versus Structural Approaches” AFCC, 2016 Caughie, John Theories of Authorship Routledge, London, eBook Published, 2013 Dubois, Philippe O acto fotográfico, Vega, Lisboa, 1992 BFP 77.01/DUB/9320 Freund, G. Fotografia e Sociedade, Vega, Lisboa,1995 BFP 77.01/FRE/9319 Lapointe, Julien; “Film Studies and the Philosophy of Science: Bordwellian Paradigms and Marxist Quarrels” , Association Française des Enseignants et Chercheurs en Cinéma et Audiovisuel, 2016 b-on Stam, Robert; Film Theory, An introduction, Department of Cinema Studies, New York University, 2000 Warner, Kristen; “The Sustainability of Film and Media Studies”, Cinema Journal Vol. 57 University of Texas at Austin (University of Texas Press),2018 b-on