ECTS credits ECTS credits: 6
ECTS Hours Rules/Memories Student's work ECTS: 99 Hours of tutorials: 3 Expository Class: 24 Interactive Classroom: 24 Total: 150
Use languages Spanish, Galician
Type: Ordinary Degree Subject RD 1393/2007 - 822/2021
Departments: History of Art
Areas: History of Art
Center Faculty of Geography and History
Call: Second Semester
Teaching: With teaching
Enrolment: Enrollable
- To formulate interpreative patterns for the analysis of the history of Spanish cinema.
- To analyse the different contributions of the most relevant Spanish filmmakers.
- To offer a contextualised and interdiciplinary view of the development of Spanish cinema vis-a-vis other arts: architecture, urban planning, landscape, music, painting or literature.
- To scrutinise the diversity of cinematographic experiences in Spain, paying special attention to Basque, Catalan and Galician cinemas.
· Silent Cinema (1895-1930)
· Cinema of the II República (1931-1939)
· Cinema of the Autarchic Period (1940-1952)
· Incomplete Modernity (1953-1972)
· Cinema of the Transition (1973-1981)
· Documentary and Experimental Cinema (1950s - 2000s)
· New Models (1982-2020s)
· 'Otro Cine Español' (2000s - 2020s)
· Galician Cinema (1930s-2020s)
· Filedwork: visit to the Filmoteca de Galicia in A Coruña. Possible date: May 9, 2025.
ESSENTIAL READING
· Buñuel, L. & Carrère, J. C. 1982. Mi último suspiro. Barcelona: Plaza & Janés.
HANDBOOKS
· Castro de Paz, J. L. & Pena, J. 2005. Cine español. Otro trayecto histórico: Nuevos puntos de vista. Una aproximación sintética.
Valencia: Filmoteca Valenciana.
· Gubern, R., Monterde, J. E., Pérez Perucha, J., Riambau, E. & Torreiro, C. 2009. Historia del Cine Español. Madrid: Ediciones Cátedra.
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
· Benet, Vicente J. 2012. El cine español. Una historia cultural. Barcelona: Ediciones Paidós.
· Catalá, J. M., Cerdán, J. & Torreiro, C. (eds.). 2001. Imagen, memoria y fascinación: notas sobre el documental en España. Málaga & Madrid: Festival de Cine Español de Málaga & Ocho y Medio, Libros de Cine.
· Caparrós Lera, J. M. 2007. Historia del cine español. Madrid: T&B Editores.
· Edwards, G. 1995. Indecent exposures: Buñuel, Saura, Erice & Almodóvar. Londres: Marion Boyars.
· Faulkner, S. 2017. Una historia del cine español: cine y sociedad, 1910-2010. Madrid: Iberoamericana-Vervuert.
· Nogueira, X. 1997. O cine en Galicia. Vigo: Edicións A Nosa Terra.
· Nogueira, X. (ed.). 2021. Lume na periferia. Vigo: Editorial Galaxia.
· Pérez Perucha, J., Gómez Tarín, F. J. & Rubio Alcover, A. (eds.). 2009. Olas rotas. El cine español de los sesenta y las rupturas de la modernidad. Madrid: Asociación Española de Historiadores del Cine & Ediciones El Imán.
· Torreiro, C. & Alvarado, A. (eds.). 2023. El documental en España: historia, estética e identidad. Málaga & Madrid: Festival de Cine Español de Málaga & Ediciones Cátedra.
· Zunzunegui, S. 2018. Historias de España: de qué hablamos cuando hablamos de cine español. Santander: Shangrila
- To acquire a precise knowledge about Spanish cinema from an innovative and intermedial perspective.
- To identify tendencies and patterns in the evolution of Spanish cinema throughout time.
- To reconcile themes and motives in Spanish cinema with the general history and cultural context of the country.
To make teaching more effective and favour cognitive alignment, this course will be organised as follows:
- Lectures in which the theoretical contents will be presented and explained.
- Interactive seminars oriented towards practical activities –related to the theoretical contents covered beforehand– in which students will be encouraged to discuss the films watched in the classroom and the texts provided by the teacher.
- One-to-one tuition hours.
The most relevant contents of the course will be approached in both the lectures and seminars. Any content from the teaching programme may be included in the evaluation. The general dynamic in the classroom will be oriented towards the creation of a participative and critical atmosphere.
FIRST CHANCE
1. Written essays on a film directed by Luis Buñuel based on the ideas developed in his autobiography 'Mi último suspiro'. Length: 1000 – 2000 words. Percentage in the final assessment: 20% (2 points)
2. Oral presentations of fragments of films. These presentations must be done individually in the last two weeks of classes. Duration: 15-20 minutes. Percentage in the final mark: 20% (2 points)
3. Comparative analyses of two films associated with the program. One of these films must have been shown in the interactive sessions. Length: 3,000 – 4,000 words (text) or 5-8 minutes (video essays). Percentage in the final mark: 20% (2 points)
4. Final exam. Percentage in the final mark: 40% (4 points)
Every student must do their respective comparative analyses, oral presentations and written essays in order to be able to take the final exam.
SECOND CHANCE
This mark will be achieved from a comparative analysis and an exam similar to that of the first chance.
Dispensation: students affected by an attendance dispensation (according to the Instrucción No. 1/2017 issued by the Secretaría Xeral on attendance dispensation in some special circumstances) will be evaluated with a specific exam which will entail the 100% of the final mark.
In cases of plagiarism or fraud in the exams, the dispositions established in the Regulations for the evaluation of academic performance will be enforced.
3 hours per week have been regarded as a reasonable workload for this course. This time should also be devoted to the writing of the collective essay and to the completion of all the other tasks set by the teacher.
Students are asked to pay special attention to the instructions concerning the collective essay that will be detailed in the earliest lessons. Topics selected and names of the members of each group should be submitted early on. It is also advisable to ask any queries to the teacher and to arrange tuition meetings to keep track of the progress of the collective essay and the challenges it may pose. It is strongly recommended to consult the selected bibliography and the specialised websites provided.
Xose Ivan Villarmea Alvarez
Coordinador/a- Department
- History of Art
- Area
- History of Art
- ivan.villarmea [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: LOU (Organic Law for Universities) PhD Assistant Professor
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| 09:00-11:00 | Grupo /CLE_01 | Spanish | Classroom 07 |
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| 05.19.2025 18:30-21:00 | Grupo /CLE_01 | Classroom 12 |
| 06.30.2025 18:00-20:30 | Grupo /CLE_01 | Classroom 12 |