Topics in Philosophy of Film

Code: FIL14418D

3 ECTS

Duration: 15 weeks/78 hours

Scientific Area: Philosophy

Teaching languages: Portuguese

Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese, English

Regime de Frequência: Presencial

Presentation

Optional. Within a broad panoramic overview an essential filmography of historical scope, and the theoretical sophistication attained by the philosophy of cinema, a new gaze through a new lens is proposed, in order to re-examine all the big existential questions reopened by the thinking image

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Ação climática - Tomar medidas urgentes para combater a mudança climática e seus impactos (*).

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e inclusivas em todos os níveis.

Learning Goals

Knowledge:
Of film as an appropriate vehicle to convey theoretical topics and contents of film as an original form of thought of film as an inquisitive challenger to established philosophical thought;
Theory(ies) and philosophy(ies) put to the test of films and directors (and vice-versa)
Competences:
Recognizing and reappropriating fundamental philosophical questions, while articulated in non-discursive modalities refractory to language;
Mobilizing theoretical and philosophical resources for the interpretation of the grand cinema
Skills:
For the performance of a semiotic, aesthetic, subtle thought;
For conceptually exceeding the limits of concept;
For confronting the philosophical other of philosophy

Cinema as
Display, representation and thought: Vertov, Tarr, Kubrick
Representations of the unpresentable: Trumbo, Nemes, Kiarostami
The eternal return of the repressed: Kubrick
Language vs Image: Deleuze, Pasolini
Phenomenology of the being-in-film: Husserl, Gil, Tarkovsky, Kurosawa, Malick
Illusions of reality: Lynch, Nolan, Cronenberg, Bazin
Resurrection: Dreyer, Sapinho, Reygadas
Cinema and
Time: Ozu, Roeg, Duras, Costa, Figgis
Metacinema: Guerin, Beckett, Deren, Marker, G. Stewart, Bergman, Debord, Haneke
Painting: Majewski, Erice, Kurosawa
Word: Chaplin, Oliveira, Rohmer
The cinema of
Pathos and mélos: Schröter, Sirk, Herzog
Desire, Play, Mystery: Buñuel, Welles, Tarkovsky, Schrader, Herzog
Moral vs ethics: Capra, Pasolini, Renoir, Ford
Redemption: Deleuze, Cavell, Bresson, Dreyer, Rohmer

Teaching Methods

Lectures on assigned topics and materials, close analysis of film, critical commentary of visual materials with a theoretical eye. Seminar educated debates, keen to embracing some of the research interests of the participants.
The assessment comprises an ongoing evaluation (seminar discussions, 20%) and a final paper of 3000 to 5000 words (80%).