A dramaturgy of violence: João Canijo's films, by Daniel Ribas

Authors

  • Abílio Hernandez Cardoso Universidade de Coimbra, Faculdade de Letras, 3004-530 Coimbra

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14591/aniki.v7n1.653

Keywords:

Identity, Non-inscription, Realism, Repressed, Representation, Violence

Abstract

Ribas proposes the notion of dramaturgy of violence in Canijo's films, resulting from the intertextual dialogue between Greek tragedy and American melodrama, and materialized in the representation of a contemporary Portuguese imaginary, analyzed according to the concepts of non-inscription, by José Gil, and the repressed, by Eduardo Lourenço.

Author Biography

Abílio Hernandez Cardoso, Universidade de Coimbra, Faculdade de Letras, 3004-530 Coimbra

Abílio Hernandez Cardoso is a Retired Professor at the University of Coimbra, where he taught English Literature and Film History and Aesthetics.

He obtained his Ph.D. in English Literature, with a dissertation on James Joyce: From Ithaca to Dublin: Ulysses or the Odyssey of the Word.

He is the author of the book Dar a ver o que nos cega: escritos sobre cinema (Edições 70, 2019), co-edited, with Margarida Cardoso, of Cinema português em perspetiva (Instituto Camões, 2017), and published the essays “Quando um livro nos ensina a ler”, in Ut pictura poesis  (Colégio das Artes, 2019) and “Uma ética do olhar em Resnais, Godard e Nemes”, in Kátia Mendonça, ed., Imagem, Arte, Ética e Sociedade (Brasil, Belém do Pará: Editora EditAedi, 2019).

He has also published on film and literature, film and the city, German expressionist cinema, James Joyce, the English poets in the First World War, Manuel Alegre and Pablo Neruda.

He is currently a member of the Advisory Board of AIM - Association of Moving Image Researchers and of the Editorial Board of Manifesto, a journal dedicated to the debate of social and political subjects.

Adélia Sampaio

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Published

2020-01-23

Issue

Vol. 7 No. 1 (2020): Women and space in contemporary cinema

Section

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