Images that burden us

Authors

  • Albert Elduque University of Reading, Department of Film, Theatre and Television, Minghella Studios, Shinfield Road, RG6 6BT Reading

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14591/aniki.v3n2.239

Keywords:

decolonization, political cinema, archive, Portugal

Abstract

This article starts with an analysis of Daniel Barroca's work Circular Body in order to approach the conference Liberation Struggles, The ‘Falling of the Empire’ and the Birth (through Images) of African Nations, which took place in Reading and London on January 27th and 28th. The text focuses on the questioning of images and the work with the archive which were presented in the different papers.

Author Biography

Albert Elduque, University of Reading, Department of Film, Theatre and Television, Minghella Studios, Shinfield Road, RG6 6BT Reading

Albert Elduque is a postdoctoral researcher in the University of Reading (UK), where he works in the project Towards an Intermedial History of Brazilian Cinema: Exploring Intermediality as a Historiographic Method. His PhD thesis (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain, 2014) dealt with the concepts of hunger, consumption and vomit in modern European and Brazilian cinema. He is a co-editor of the journal Cinema Comparat/ive Cinema.

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Published

2016-06-16

Issue

Vol. 3 No. 2 (2016): Other films

Section

Reviews