Research interests
My research interests include aesthetics and visual culture, cultural studies, comparative studies of cinema; film history; Latin American cinema; relations between cinema and the cities; Art and politics, contemporary theory; Media and memory; Pop culture, music and film; nostalgic imagination, aesthetic trajectories of contemporary filmmakers; Third Cinema. I have supervised on Masters and PhD topics that include: contemporary Argentine cinema; identity and exile in Terra estrangeira (Walter Salles); the city in Brazilian retomada; contemporary cinema from the state of Pernambuco; nostalgia and melancholy in Philippe Garrel; the impact of the internet in film criticism; the aesthetics of amateur pornography in the web; the cinematic adaptations of Caio Fernando Abreu's works; fan fiction in the web; among other themes.
Current research projects
Urban visibilities: British cinema and the cities
Description: The purpose of this research is to investigate the links between the city and the cinema through the reading of urban space in various stages and from different aspects of British cinema. The work plan of this investigation is structured in three thematic parts; the first concerning the role of London in British cinema; the second more focused on the cities in British films of the sixties and the last one related to contemporary British cinema and the emergence of multicultural urban contexts.
The Cinema and the Cities. Joints between urban space and the film image (linked to CNPq)
The project described above is part of a greater research which aims to investigate the links between the city and the cinema through the reading of urban space in various stages and from different aspects of world cinema. It is, therefore, a project that covers a wide spectrum of relationships and contexts that transcend the cinema and the city alone, encompassing multifaceted perceptions of urban space reflected in cinema, relating both to the study of the more empirical constitution of the metropolis and to the emergence of cinema. One of the purposes of the research, in fact, is precisely to survey the theoretical tools needed to perform such mapping. Thus, we articulate an essentially interdisciplinary theoretical frame to study both more strict aspects of the representation of the city in the cinema and also how urban space has been transformed by film.