Sérgio Dias Branco Assistant Professor of Film Studies University of Coimbra Commons username: @sdiasbranco ORCID iD: 0000-0003-2444-9905 Facebook URL: sergio.diasbranco http://www.sdiasbranco.net Following 1 members View ProfileActivitySites 2CORE deposits 35Following 1Followers 6Groups 8DiscussionsDocs Academic InterestsChristian theologyFilm and religionFilm criticismFilm historyFilm studiesFilm theoryLiberation theologyMarxismPhilosophy of filmPhilosophy of religionStanley CavellTelevision studiesTheological aestheticsWorking-class studies Commons GroupsHCCultural StudiesFilm StudiesFilm-PhilosophyPhilosophyPostcolonial StudiesReligious StudiesTelevision StudiesTheology Recent Commons Activity deposited Genuine Poetics: Expressive A… in the group Philosophy deposited Genuine Poetics: Expressive A… in the group Film Studies deposited Genuine Poetics: Expressive A… in the group Film-Philosophy deposited Genuine Poetics: Expressive A… in the group Cultural Studies deposited Genuine Poetics: Expressive A… AboutSérgio Dias Branco is Assistant Professor of Film Studies at the University of Coimbra, where he directs the MA in Art Studies and coordinates the Laboratory for Investigating and Practicing Art (LIPA). He is researcher at the Centre of 20th Century Interdisciplinary Studies at the University of Coimbra. He has taught at Nova University of Lisbon and the University of Kent, where he was awarded with a MA and a PhD in Film Studies. He is researching the theological virtues in contemporary cinema for the MA by Research in Theology at Durham University. He was President of the Association of Moving Image Researchers between 2018 and 2020 and member of its Direction Board between 2014 and 2020. His research falls within the scientific areas of film, religious, television, and working class studies. He co-edits Conversations: The Journal of Cavellian Studies. His latest books are Escrita em Movimento: Apontamentos Críticos sobre Filmes [Writing in Motion: Critical Notes on Films] (2020) and O Trabalho das Imagens: Estudos sobre Cinema e Marxismo [The Work of Images: Studies on Cinema and Marxism] (2020). EducationUniversity of Kent PhD, Film Studies University of Kent MA, Film Studies University of Lisbon BA (Hons), Architecture Work Shared in COREArticles“‘Being Open to Possibilities That We Can’t Know Yet’: An Interview with Catherine Grant”“The Work of Cinematic Art: Art as Work and Work as Art”Spectres of Today: The Fractures of History in “Horse Money” (2014)“The Law of Capital: ‘The Measure of a Man’”“Kino Kino Kino Kino Kino: Guy Maddin’s Cinema of Artifice”“The Mosaic-Screen: Exploration and Definition”“Kino Kino Kino Kino Kino: el cine de artificio de Guy Maddin”“The Past Tense of Our Selves: ‘Um adeus português’ in 1980s Portugal”Book chaptersGenuine Poetics: Expressive Authenticity in FilmTogether in the Midst of War: Muslim and Christian Coexistence in Lebanese Cinema“The Urban and the Domestic: Spaces of American Film Noir”“Music Videos and Reused Footage”“Sci-Fi Ghettos: ‘Battlestar Galactica’ and Genre Aesthetics”“Super Style: Notes for a Stylistic Analysis”“Situating Comedy: Duration and Inhabitation in Classical American Sitcoms”“Magic and Loss: Style, Progression and the ‘Ending’ of ‘Carnivàle’”Sembène, Ousmane (1923-2007)Book sections“Sembène, Ousmane (1923-2007)”Conference proceedings“The Class of Images: Sketch for a Research Project”“Screened Signs of Grace: André Bazin’s ‘Cinema and Theology’ and the Sacramental Facet of Film”Conference papersBuilding Cars and Destroying Men: Working Class Representation as Christian Allegory in “Blue Collar” (1978)Laughing in Friendship: The Intimate Ensemble Comedy of “Friends”Being Her/She in “Who Are You?”Divinely Human: Robert Bresson’s Spiritual ReflectionsOn Essentialism: Thoughts Between Nöel Carroll and Stanley CavellLabyrinths of the Self: Different Characters, Identical Bodies in “Battlestar Galactica”Book reviewsReligion and Film: Representation, Experience, MeaningCinema TransformedOtherConversations: The Journal of Cavellian Studies, no. 8Conversations: The Journal of Cavellian Studies, no. 5Conversations: The Journal of Cavellian Studies, no. 1Conversations: The Journal of Cavellian Studies, no. 3Conversations: The Journal of Cavellian Studies, no. 4Cinema: Journal of Philosophy and the Moving Image, no. 4, “Philosophy of Religion”Cinema: Journal of Philosophy and the Moving Image, no. 8, “Marx’s Philosophy” Blog Posts MembershipsAssociation of Moving Image Researchers (AIM) European Society for Catholic Theology (ESCT) Society for Cinema & Media Studies (SCMS) Working-Class Studies Association (WCSA)
