Sérgio Dias Branco

Sérgio Dias Branco
Born (1977-09-05) 5 September 1977
Lisbon, Portugal
Nationality Portuguese
Occupation Film critic, film theorist, television theorist
Academic background
Alma mater
Influences
Academic work
Institutions

Sérgio Dias Branco (born 5 September 1977) is Assistant Professor of Film Studies at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Coimbra, where he co-ordinates the image and film studies in the art studies course and directs the MA in art studies.

Career

He has taught at the Nova University of Lisbon and at the University of Kent, where he was awarded a PhD in film studies.[1]

Research

He is a Researcher at Nova Institute of Philosophy (IFILNOVA),[2] an Associate Researcher at the Centre of 20th Century Interdisciplinary Studies (CEIS20)[3] at the University of Coimbra, and an invited member of the film criticism group "The Magnifying Class" at the University of Oxford, co-ordinated by Andrew Klevan.[4] His research work focuses on the aesthetics and poetics of works of the moving image, in their relations with philosophy, history, Marxism and religion.[5]

Journals

He is one of the editors of Cinema: Journal of Philosophy and the Moving Image[6] and Conversations: The Journal of Cavellian Studies.[7]

Affiliations

He has been a member of the Direction Board of the Association of Moving Image Researchers (AIM) since 2014.[8]

Political activism

Much of his political activism has to do with uniting the left. As a union leader, he has been a member of the District of Coimbra Directorate of the Teachers’ Union of the Centre Region and of the National Council of the National Federation of Teachers along with its Council for the Department of Higher Education and Research. He is also affiliated with the political association Democratic Intervention.

Publications

Books

  • Por Dentro das Imagens: Obras de Cinema, Ideias do Cinema [Within Images: Film Works, Cinema Ideas]. Lisbon: Documenta, 2016. ISBN 978-9898618924

Edited journal issues

  • Cinema: Journal of Philosophy and the Moving Image, no. 8, "Marx’s Philosophy" (with Michael Wayne). Lisbon: IFILNOVA, 2016. ISSN 1647-8991
  • Cinema: Journal of Philosophy and the Moving Image, no. 4, "Philosophy of Religion". Lisbon: IFILNOVA, 2013. ISSN 1647-8991

Selected articles

  • "Morta por Dentro: Subjetividade e Alegoria em The Addiction" ["Dead Inside: Subjectivity and Allegory in The Addiction"], Revista de História das Ideias, vol. 35, "Fronteiras", ed. João Maria André and Rui Cunha Martins, pp. 433–57. Coimbra: Coimbra University Press, 2017. ISSN 0870-0958
  • "The Past Tense of Our Selves: Um Adeus Português in 1980s Portugal". Journal of Lusophone Studies, vol. 2, no. 1, "Special Dossier on Portuguese Cinema", ed. Clara Rowland and Estela Vieira, pp. 41–58. Davis, CA: American Portuguese Studies Association, 2017. ISSN 2469-4800
  • "O Cinema como Educação Social dos Sentidos" ["Film as Social Education of the Senses"]. Persona: Revista do Departamento de Teatro e Cinema da ESAP, no. 3, "Art and Human Development", ed. José Eduardo da Silva”, pp. 61–69. Porto: Theatre and Cinema Department of ESAP - CESAP, 2016. ISSN 2183-4504
  • "Kino Kino Kino Kino Kino: Guy Maddin’s Cinema of Artifice". L’Atalante: Revista de estudios cinematográficos, no. 19, coord. Pablo Hernández Miñano and Violeta Martín Núñez, pp. 105–10. Valencia: University of Valencia, 2015. ISSN 2340-6992

References

  1. ↑ Branco, Sérgio Dias (2016) "V. F. Perkins Tribute". University of Warwick.
  2. ↑ Profile at IFILNOVA website.
  3. ↑ List of researchers at CEIS20 website. [in Portuguese]
  4. ↑ "Film", Faculty of English, University of Oxford, with information on "The Magnifying Class". See also related posts on his blog The Motions of Images.
  5. ↑ "Research" on his personal website.
  6. ↑ Cinema, Editorial Team.
  7. ↑ Conversations, Editorial Team.
  8. ↑ AIM Direction Board 2016-2018.
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