PORT 3800 is also offered in Fall 2024
PORT 3800 is also offered in Spring 2023
PORT 3800 is also offered in Fall 2022
Fall 2024 | PORT 3800 Section 001: Film Studies in Portuguese -- Intro to the Cinema of Brazil & Lusophone World (32965)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Repeat Credit Limit:
- 9 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- A-F or Audit
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person
- Class Attributes:
Topics Course
- Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
Tue,
Thu 01:00PM - 02:15PM
UMTC, East Bank
Kolthoff Hall 132
- Enrollment Status:
Open (1 of 22 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- This course offers an introduction to Brazilian film from the 1960s to the present and to postcolonial films from Portugal, Angola, and Mozambique. You will learn about the history of Brazilian film from cinema novo on, with attention to state funding; internationalization; and recurrent themes, such as the sert�o or backlands and the favela or shantytown. In the case of Lusophone postcolonial films, you will learn about issues of personal and collective identity, including hybrid, diasporic, and non-heteronormative identities; nation building and post-conflict trauma; memory and healing. The approach is two-fold: cinema as representation of society, history, culture, and the individual subject; and cinema as a complex, multi-layered, and expensive art form. You are expected to critically engage with the form and content of each film as you acquire an understanding of the historical, cultural, (geo)political, and socio-economic forces that have shaped the development of film in the various countries, in addition to the social issues raised by filmmakers. You will also become familiar with philosophical and aesthetic insights from which to critically review a film. The course will be taught in Portuguese and you are expected to use Portuguese orally in class and in all written assignments. Readings will be in Portuguese and occasionally in English.Topics vary and are specified in the class schedule. prereq: 3003 or instr consent or dept consent
- Class Notes:
- This course will offer an introduction to Brazilian film from the 1960s to the present and to postcolonial films from Portugal, Angola and Mozambique. Time allowing, we will peruse the first feature film produced in East Timor after the end of Indonesian occupation (1975-2002). The history of Brazilian film from cinema novo on will be perused, with attention to its relation to state funding; internationalization; and recurrent themes. In the case of postcolonial Lusophone films, we will focus particularly on issues of personal and collective identity, including diasporic ones, nation building and post-conflict trauma, and memory and healing. The approach is two-fold: cinema as representation of society, history, culture, and the individual subject; and cinema as a complex, multi-layered, and expensive art form. Students are expected to critically engage with the form and content of each film, at the same time as they acquire an understanding of the historical, cultural, (geo)political, and socio-economic forces that have shaped the development of film in the various countries, in addition to the social issues raised by filmmakers. Students will become familiar with philosophical and aesthetic insights as well as more standard elements of analysis and vocabulary used to critically review a film. The course will be taught in Portuguese and students are expected to use Portuguese orally in class and in all written assignments. Readings will be in Portuguese and English. Grading will take into account not only the content but the expression in Portuguese. Please be advised that some films include scenes with content that may be offensive for some viewers. This includes violence, nudity, off-camera or graphic sexual acts, use of profanity, smoking and drinking, and use or references to drugs. Please let me know if you would like me to suggest an alternative film in lieu of any that you do not want to watch and study.
- Class Description:
- Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/32965/1249
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