Animation Theory

5 ECTS / Semester / English, Portuguese

Learning outcomes of the curricular unit:

a) Understand the medial specificity of animation cinema and its narratological implications;
b) To apprehend the importance of animation cinema in the cultural history of the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries;
c) Understand the development of animation cinema as an artistic discipline, economic sector and theoretical research area;
d) Analyze works using theoretical tools developed in the area of animation studies;
e) Compare and relate animation cinema to other types of artistic production, namely comics and other sequential arts;
f) Develop your critical thinking in relation to this art form;
g) Develop autonomous speculative skills applied to animation;
h) Recognize, describe and contextualize conceptual, historical and sociological aspects of this art form;
i) Produce a written document that analyzes one or more aspects of this art form.