Researchers

L1NARRATIVES AND AESTHETICS

Permanents

• Elianne Ivo

  

  General research interests: Film theory and forms of film editing; TV editing; multiscreen narratives and technology.

• Fernando Morais da Costa

  

  General research interests: Sound in film in its multiple relations with the images; Brazilian and Latin American cinema; Aspects of contemporary cinema; Film theory in its interdisciplinary relations with other fields of thought.

• India Mara Martins

  

  General research interests: representation of space in the audiovisual (diegetic, physical, social, landscape and aesthetics space), relationship between languages (live action/animation; documentary/animation; fiction/documentary); visual composition and creation of atmospheres in the audiovisual, material aspects and art direction.

• Karla Holanda

  

  General research interests: Documentary and other liminal expressions (video art, performance), Women in film, Audiovisual media (film, television, video), Decolonial thinking, Studies in the intersections of gender, race, ethnicity, class, sexuality and age.

• Mariana Baltar

  

  General research interests: Body and cinema relations; Excess; Affection; Cinema of attractions; Narrative genres; Melodrama; Horror; Pornography; Documentary; Gender studies; Serial fiction.

• Marina Tedesco

  

  General research interests: Latin American cinema and audiovisual, Brazilian telenovela, cinematography, filmmaking, women in film and gender.

• Maurício de Bragança

  

  General research interests: Latin American cinema; relations between cinema, literature and the media; Latin American cultural studies; “spatial thinking,” space, territory, cartography, territoriality in film and the audiovisual; relations between film, image and decolonial and postcolonial theories.

L2HISTORY AND POLITICS

Permanents

• Cezar Migliorin

  

  General research interests: Film and clinic, film and education, psychoanalysis, subjective processes and Deleuzian studies.

• Douglas Resende

  

  General research interests: Documentary film; Documentary policies; Pedagogies of art; Film and education; Film and community; Collective processes and creation.

• Eliany Salvatierra Machado

  

  General research interests: Currently studies fundamentals or guiding principles that underline the practices of audiovisual educators in Basic Education and social projects. The goal is to discuss proposals that contribute to the training of undergraduates in Film and Audiovisual.

• Fabián Núñez

  

  General research interests: Latin American Cinema; Brazilian Cinema; African cinema; History of Film; Film and History; Film Criticism; Audiovisual Preservation.

• João Luiz Vieira

  

  General research interests: Adaptation; Body and image; immersive realism; Movie theaters; Movie stories; Preservation and archive.

• Luiz Augusto Rezende

  

  General research interests: Uses of audiovisuals in Education; reception of audiovisuals in educational contexts; articulations between pedagogical theories and audiovisual models and aesthetics; uses of audiovisual archives in education; history of educational audiovisual in Brazil and its relations with Science and Health; production and experimentation of educational action methodologies with the audiovisual.

   

• Rafael de Luna Freire

  

  General research interests: History and historiography of Brazilian cinema; technology of moving images; audiovisual preservation; chanchada; silent film; intermedia relations between sound film, record and radio; media archaeology; film screening; studies of film genres; orphan films; film restoration.

• Reinaldo Cardenuto

  

  General research interests: Film and History; Art, Culture and Politics; History of Brazilian Cinema; Cinema and Theater; Dramaturgy

• Talitha Ferraz

   

  

  General research interests: Movie theaters and urban spaces; film screenings; Memory of movie audiences; History of movie-going practices; Regimes of film spectatorship; Nostalgia and film consumption.

Emeritus Professor

• Antônio Carlos ‘Tunico’ Amâncio

  General research interests: Brazilian cinema; Film Representation; Film Stereotypes; Film analysis and Latin American cinema.