Sérgio Dias Branco
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Sérgio Dias Branco (born 5 September 1977) is a film critic, film and television theorist, philosopher, theologian, and trade unionist. He is Associate Professor of Film Studies at the University of Coimbra and a member of the National Council of the General Confederation of the Portuguese Workers (CGTP-IN), the largest trade union federation in Portugal.
Career
His teaching career in higher education began at the University of Kent, where he was awarded a PhD in film studies.[1] He then taught at NOVA University Lisbon before moving to the University of Coimbra. He is the director of the MA in Art Studies and coordinator of LIPA - Laboratory for Investigating and Practicing Art at the University of Coimbra.[2]
Research
Branco is a researcher at the Centre for 20th Century Interdisciplinary Studies (CEIS20)[3] at the University of Coimbra, after leaving the NOVA Institute of Philosophy. He has been an invited member of the film criticism group "The Magnifying Class" at the University of Oxford, coordinated 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.
Journals
From 2010 to 2019, he was one of the editors of Cinema: Journal of Philosophy and the Moving Image.[5] He co-edits Conversations: The Journal of Cavellian Studies,[6] the only academic journal dedicated to the study and discussion of Stanley Cavell’s work.
Affiliations
He was elected for the Direction Board of the Association of Moving Image Researchers (AIM) between 2014 and 2020 and its president between 2018 and 2020.
Religion
A lay member of the
Branco is a regular contributor for Pontos SJ, the portal of the Jesuits in Portugal.[10]
Activism
Much of his political activism has to do with uniting the Left. As a trade unionist, he has been a member of the Teachers’ Union of the Centre Region and the National Federation of Teachers, acting in various capacities since 2014.[11] In 2020, in the XIII Congress of the CGTP-IN, he was elected for the National Council and its Executive Board,[12] a possibility previously disclosed by the press.[13]
He is affiliated with the left-wing political association Democratic Intervention. Branco has run as a candidate for the Unitary Democratic Coalition.[14]
Publications
Books
- O Trabalho das Imagens: Estudos sobre Cinema e Marxismo [The Work of Images: Studies on Cinema and Marxism]. Lisbon: Página a Página, 2020. [in Portuguese]
- Escrita em Movimento: Apontamentos Críticos sobre Filmes [Writing in Motion: Critical Notes on Films]. Lisbon: Documenta, 2020. ISBN 978-989-9006-32-4[in Portuguese]
- Por Dentro das Imagens: Obras de Cinema, Ideias do Cinema [Within Images: Film Works, Cinema Ideas]. Lisbon: Documenta, 2016. ISBN 978-9898618924[in Portuguese]
Selected edited journal issues
- Cinema: Journal of Philosophy and the Moving Image, no. 9, “Islam and Images” (with Patrícia Silveirinha Castello Branco and Saeed Zeydabadi-Nejad). ISSN 1647-8991
- Cinema: Journal of Philosophy and the Moving Image, no. 8, “Marx’s Philosophy” (with Michael Wayne). ISSN 1647-8991
- Cinema: Journal of Philosophy and the Moving Image, no. 4, “Philosophy of Religion”. ISSN 1647-8991
Selected articles and book chapters
- “The Urban and the Domestic: Spaces of American Film Noir”. In New Approaches to Cinematic Spaces, ed. Filipa Rosário and Iván Villarmea Álvarez, pp. 85–96. London: Routledge, 2018. ISBN 978-113-860-444-5
- “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. ISSN 2469-4800
- “Sembène, Ousmane (1923-2007)”. In The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Imperialism and Anti-Imperialism, Vol. I, ed. Immanuel Ness and Zack Cope, pp. 218–222. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. ISBN 978-023-039-277-9
- "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
- “Situating Comedy: Duration and Inhabitation in Classical American Sitcoms”. In Television Aesthetics and Style, ed. Jason Jacobs and Steven Peacock, pp. 93–102. New York: Bloomsbury, 2013. ISBN 978-144-117-992-0
References
- ^ Branco, Sérgio Dias (2016) “V. F. Perkins Tribute”. University of Warwick.
- ^ LIPA, “Who We Are” . [in Portuguese]
- ^ List of researchers at the CEIS20 website. [in Portuguese]
- ^ Sérgio Dias Branco: 4. Research. See also related posts on his blog The Motions of Images
- ^ Cinema: Journal of Philosophy and the Moving Image, Archive.
- ^ Conversations, Editorial Team.
- ^ AIM Board Members.
- ^ Sérgio Dias Branco: 10. Professional Affiliations.
- ^ Laicado Dominicano 387 (Aug.-Sept. 2017), p. 2. [in Portuguese].
- ^ Sérgio Dias Branco, Pontos SJ..
- ^ SPRC-FENPROF, “Meeting about the Regulations for the Recruitment and Contracting of UC Teaching Staff”. [in Portuguese]
- ^ CGTP-IN, “Executive Board of the National Council - 2020-2024 Term” . [in Portuguese]
- ^ “Arménio Carlos sai da CGTP em fevereiro mas novo secretário-geral só é escolhido no congresso”, Expresso, 22 January 2020 . [in Portuguese]
- ^ CDU candidates in Coimbra for the 2015 Portuguese Legislative Election . [in Portuguese]
External links
- Sérgio Dias Branco’s faculty page at University of Coimbra
- Sérgio Dias Branco’s personal page
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