Class History of the Media

  Historical study and critical analysis of media development in the West to the present.

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Concepts of communication and medium. The origins of communication. The emergence of writing: the Pictography to alphabetical. Writing between the power relations. Gutenberg and the emergence of the press. The age of enlightenment and the modern age. The academies and scientific societies. The triumph of Reason. The encyclopedia. The scientific patronage. Da Vinci. 19TH and early 20TH centuries: journalism for the masses. The Photograph.From  Joseph Nicéphore Niépce to the advertising communication. Image concepts. The film and the Lumière brothers. The film as a documentary. The comics and the Cartoon. The poster: art and propaganda.

Classes based on watching full-length films (short, medium-length and feature-length films) and their collective analysis in class. The dynamics of the classes are based on the experience of cinematographic narratives in a projection room and the pedagogical process is based on the dialogical exercise with students.

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