104823 - NIGHT AND CULTURE: NIGHT LIGHTING

Subject type: Optional

Coordinator: Jorge Oter Gonzalez

Trimester: Third term

Credits: 6

• Catalan
• Spanish

This subject is about talking, analyzing, reflecting and experimenting on different topics related to night and night light, from different angles, especially cultural, focused on audiovisual tools: photography and cinema.

In this way, research is encouraged which, in the end, we want to bring us a new vision and new uses of the nocturnal, oriented towards a more conscious way of making images.

The contents of the subject are divided into two parts that will be taught interspersed:

Part 1: 

1.1. Aspects of Biology, Physiology, Psychology, Sociology and Architecture related to the night.

1.2 Actuality and technical aspects.

      1.2.1. Current and night photography and video. Topics and resources. Lightpainting.

      1.2.2. The American Night and Plato's Fictions: Diegetic Lights.

      1.2.3. The night light in music clips.

1.3 History of nocturnal representation in painting. The fire, the moon, and the night.

1.4 Night photography: Brassai, Weegee and W. O Link.

1.5 Art and experimentation.

Part 2:

2.1. The symbolic. A semiological approach to the symbolic construction of discourse. 2.2. The shadow. History and use of a figure.

2.3. Horror movies: Val Lewton. From generic keys to an authorial case.

2.4. The film noir. Visual style of the classic cycle.

2.5. Gothic in cinema. From literature to its embodiment in cinema.

2.6. American Gothic. Regional evolution of Gothic fashion.

2.7. The voyeur. Prohibited visual pleasure and representation in images.

2.8 Night and stars. Representations and relationships derived from the representation of the moon and celestial bodies.

2.9. Night and celebration. The night space as a festive platform.

Continuous assessment (70%):

Laboratory practices (mandatory) 20%
Final work 20%
20% film analysis
Photographic story 10%

Final exam (30%):

30% exam

To access this weighting it is essential to have achieved an average of 5 in both the continuous assessment and the final exam. If the student has a lower average in one of the parts, he / she does not access this weighting and fails with the grade of the suspended part.

The part of continuous assessment is not recoverable.

The exam part is recoverable in the Recovery Exam. To access the weighted calculation of the grade it is necessary to get a grade of 5 in the recovery.

The statements of the different exercises will be provided throughout the course. These should provide for penalties for misspellings.

Failure to complete an exercise or non-compliance with the deadlines or forms established for its completion by teachers is a grade of zero.

Identification of plagiarism is considered a serious circumstance that may lead to a failing grade in the subject. In case of detection of plagiarism, the coordination of the degree will be informed so that the corresponding disciplinary measures can be taken.

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Casanovas, Cristófol (2013). Nocturnality in the lighting of current music videos [TFM, UOC]. http://openaccess.uoc.edu/webapps/o2/handle/10609/36001

Barreiro González, Mª Soliña (2011). The obsessive look: images of time in European avant-garde cinema of the 20s" [Doctoral thesis, Universidad Pompeu Fabra]. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/31884

Calvillo Cortés, Amparo Berenice (2010). Light and Emotions: Study on the Influence of Urban Lighting on Emotions; taking as a basis the Emotional Design [Doctoral Thesis, UPC]. http://www.tdx.cat/bitstream/handle/10803/6138/TABCC1de1.pdf?sequence=1

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