Cinema 4

30.12.2013


The fourth issue of Cinema: Journal of Philosophy and the Moving Image, which I edited, has now been published. The contents may be consulted, read, and downloaded here:

“Editorial: Cinema, Religion, and Their Philosophical Thinking”, Sérgio Dias Branco

Articles:

“A Night at the Opera of Talmudic Reasoning: The ‘Jewishness’ of Jewish Cinema”, Shai Biderman (Tel Aviv University)

“From Up in the Air to the Roots of Avatar’s Tree of Souls: Hossein Nasr’s Islamic Traditionalism and the Hope for Western Futures Grounded in the Sacredness of the Earth”, Daniel Bradley (Gonzaga University)

“Revisiting Dhvani in the Context of the Aesthetics of Experience in Film”, Anuradha Chandra (Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay)

“The Tao of BwO: Deleuzian Becomings in Kung Fu Cinema”, Amir Vodka (University of Amsterdam)

“Silence as the Space for Love: Bergman’s Trilogy and the Absence of God”, Earl Allyson P. Valdez (Ateneo de Manila University)

“A Linguagem e os Ritos Sacrificiais no Cinema de João César Monteiro”, Catarina Maia (University of Coimbra)

“Approches d’un style spirituel au cinéma : Dans la brume de Sergei Loznitsa”, Inês Gil (Université Lusophone)

“How Film Can Carry Being: Film Melodrama and Terrence Malick’s The Tree of Life”, Warwick Mules (University of Queensland)

“Des films cannibales, ou l’humanisme mis à mal”, Frédéric Marteau and Christophe Becker

“Cannibal’s Sermon: Hannibal Lecter, Sympathetic Villainy and Moral Revaluation”, Aaron Taylor (University of Lethbridge)

Interview:

“Film/Religion: A Conversation with P. Adams Sitney”, by Sérgio Dias Branco (University of Coimbra)

Conference Reports:

“2013: A Slow Year”, William Brown (University of Roehampton)

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F. W. Murnau: O Real Fantástico (3)

18.12.2013


Fausto (Faust - Eine deutsche Volkssage, 1926).


Aurora (Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans, 1927).

Serão mostrados hoje nas Sessões do Carvão, o primeiro às 18h30, o segundo às 21h30, na Casa das Caldeiras.

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“F. W. Murnau: O Real Fantástico”: (1) · (2)

F. W. Murnau: O Real Fantástico (2)

11.12.2013


Fantasma (Phantom, 1922).


O Último dos Homens (Der letzte Mann, 1924).

Serão mostrados hoje nas Sessões do Carvão, o primeiro às 18h30, o segundo às 21h30, na Casa das Caldeiras.

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“F. W. Murnau: O Real Fantástico”: (1)

F. W. Murnau: O Real Fantástico (1)

04.12.2013


O Castelo Maldito.


Nosferatu, o Vampiro (Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens, 1922).

Serão mostrados hoje nas Sessões do Carvão, o primeiro às 18h30, o segundo às 21h30, na Casa das Caldeiras.

Num artigo sobre Aurora (Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans, 1927) e o cinema de F. W. Murnau, João César Monteiro refere-se a um “olhar que mergulhando no real nos manifesta subitamente a presença do fantástico”. Estas obras de Murnau, do período alemão e americano da sua filmografia, são algumas das que melhor revelam este real fantástico que está no coração da arte expressiva e expressionista deste cineasta. Entre elas estão filmes pouco conhecidos e mostrados, como O Castelo Maldito (Schloß Vogeloed, 1921) e Fantasma (Phantom, 1922), que vão ser apresentados em cópias novas, tal como os restantes títulos.

Conversations 1

03.12.2013

The inaugural issue of Conversations: The Journal of Cavellian Studies, which I co-edit with Amir Khan, has now been published. We are grateful to the University of Ottawa for supporting this project. The contents may be downloaded here or, alternatively, here:

“Genesis: Editorial Comment”, Sérgio Dias Branco and Amir Khan

“Me, Myself and Us: Autobiography and Method in the Writing of Stanley Cavell”, Timothy Gould (Metropolitan State University Denver)

“A Scarred Tympanum”, Chiara Alfano (University of Sussex)

“Medium and the “End of the Myths”: Transformation of the Imagination in The World Viewed”, Daniel Wack (Knox College)

“Stanley’s Taste: On the Inseparability of Art, Life, and Criticism”, Sebastião Belfort Cerqueira (University of Lisbon)

“Seeing Souls: Wittgenstein and Cavell on the ‘Problem of Other Minds’”, Jônadas Techio (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul)

“Un Poète Maudit: Stanley Cavell and the Environmental Debate”, Tomaž Grušovnik (University of Primorska)