Cinema teacher: the possible relationship between emotion and reason

Abstract

The present article aims to merge two fields of expertise. The methodologies and pedagogical guidelines for Higher Education with the teaching in artistic degrees, more specifically in Cinema Studies. Usually taught by former professionals or researchers of the field, without pedagogical training that prepares them for the public exposure that the teaching activity demands, neither for the systematization of contents appropriate to the students, these courses are also attended by students with heterogeneous needs, expectations and references, making particularly necessary the debate and reflection about the models and techniques to be applied in class. In the case study here presented, the regency of the “History and Aesthetics of Portuguese Cinema” course at the University of Beira Interior assigns the motto to a brief dissertation about the objectives and methodologies that can be adapted in the training of future filmmakers. The attempt to balance the theoretical and practical variants, as well as the need to prepare the students for the job market – where, since it is an end-of-course discipline, they are expected to enter in the following months after the course graduation – have made it mandatory for the experience to evolve, allowing us to arrive at some conclusions about new educational models and their application to the Artistic Teaching.