It is intended to promote in students the following knowledge and skills:
a) Identification of the tendencies (aesthetic, creative, contextual, etc.) associated with the film expression on certain subjects (e.g., violence, love, etc.), genres (e.g., melodrama, film noir, etc.), specific geographies (e.g., Nordic cinema, new Latin American cinema, etc.) or others;
b) Knowledge of renowned authors, whose cinematographic expression is innovative in the artistic expression of certain themes, genres, specific geographies or others;
c) Understanding the main contributions of theoretical authors that reflect on the referred genres, themes, geographies or others;
d) Relation between the work of the referred artists and the reflections on Cinema originated by theoretical authors.
e) Analysis of the impact of selected authors’ film practice in the cinematographic and artistic production, of their time and in the contemporary period.