IV Annual Cycle Young Social Scientists
2008-2009

June 17th, 2009, 17:00, CES Seminar Room
 
Nuno Ricardo Silva

On Image and fiction in an agogical idea of cinema

 
Abstract: As what pertains to literature dedicated, during the last decades, by historians and other scholars, to the relations between cinema/history, special focus has been given to a specific notion of image, somewhat permeable to preterit discourses on the “novelty” and “specificity” of cinematographic image, and a specific notion of fiction which manifests itself in the consideration of a genre of historic writing designated as histoire-fiction. In the framework of the world cinema narrative drift, elucidated out of key-papers of cinema critics and theorists, I will dedicate myself to the analysis of the training and functions performed by these notions, in the sense of establishing what one may consider the agogical basis of cinema. This is the one I propose to contemplation, also through the analysis of films freely selected in different periods of the history of cinema.

Biographic note: Nuno Ricardo Silva was born and studied in Coimbra. Holds a degree in Philosophy at the School of Humanities, University of Coimbra. He there develops doctoral studies with a grant from the Institute for Interdisciplinary Research.