Sumários

The path to independence.

10 Outubro 2019, 14:00 • Maria Teresa Correia Casal

1.1. Home Rule; Ulster Covenant; Easter Rising 1916 and the Proclamation of the Irish Republic.

1.2. 1916-2016: Easter Rising, the Great War, War of Independence and Civil War.

Relations between Ireland and England: politics and culture (19th cent.).

8 Outubro 2019, 14:00 • Maria Teresa Correia Casal

1. Reflecting back on Yeats's and Lady Gregory's play Cathleen Ni Houlihan: culture, nationalism and the choices at stake.

2. Further representations of Ireland as woman: Punch cartoons; ballads: Roisin Dubh, Kathaleen Ny-Houlahan e Shan Van Vocht.

3. Students' presentation on Maud Gonne, "The Famine Queen", 1900.

Irish Literary Revival and identity debates (19th-20th cent.).

3 Outubro 2019, 14:00 • Maria Teresa Correia Casal

1. Listening to films: synopsis and discussion of Pamela Howland's lecture.

2. Students' presentations on:

2.1. Douglas Hyde, "The Necessity for De-anglicising Ireland" (1892): cultural nationalism and independence;

2.2. W.B. Yeats e Lady Gregory, Cathleen Ni Houlihan, 1902. Reading and discussing the play and its political and cultural context.

Performed lecture by Pamela Howland.

1 Outubro 2019, 14:00 • Maria Teresa Correia Casal

Learning to listen to films: Pamela Howland, "Music and the Movies", Theatre 1.

www.pamelahowland.com

Abstract

MUSIC AND THE MOVIES: The Soundtrack of American Film

Music is one of the most powerfully emotional and least understood aspects of film. Although many people are barely aware of it while they are viewing a movie, film scores move us and manipulate us, often giving us clues for understanding what we’re seeing and more often, for what we are not seeing. This lecture is a survey of the works of great American film score composers from the 1930s Golden Age up to contemporary times. Film score composers such as Max Steiner (Gone with the Wind, 1939) Bernard Herrmann (Psycho, 1960), and the more contemporary John Williams (Harry Potter 2001-2004, Star Wars 1977-2017) will be studied, along with many others. We will examine and develop a vocabulary and techniques for analyzing virtually any movie score. In addition, we will investigate why and how music functions as a powerful emotional and storytelling tool in these films, and discover the degree to which film composers have relied on cherished symphonic and operatic traditions from 19^th- century European musical styles in creating their uniquely American soundtracks. After this course students will never “hear” movies in the same way.

Knowledge of classical music and proficiency in music reading are not pre-requisite, but a love of the movies is.

Relations between Ireland and England (17th-18th cent.).

26 Setembro 2019, 14:00 • Maria Teresa Correia Casal

1.1. Recap: Reformation and Plantations;

1.2. Jonathan Swift, "A Modest Proposal", 1729 - students' presentation and discussion.

1.3. The Great Famine (1845-1849): Liam Mac Uistín, “On Board the Esperanza”, from Esperanza, Part II, Section 5. Context and text.