Manuel Bandeira nas cartas e nas crônicas: percurso literário e arte poética

Este trabalho é um exercício reflexivo sobre o percurso literário e a arte poética de Manuel Carneiro de Souza Bandeira Filho nos decênios de 1920 e 1930. Na leitura da correspondência trocada por ele e Mário Raul de Morais Andrade, e de seus textos escritos para a imprensa, buscamos analisar as múltiplas feições assumidas pelo poeta pernambucano e procuramos desentranhar traços gerais de sua concepção de vida e de poesia. Deste modo, na presente dissertação, o gênero epistolar e a crônica são considerados como notáveis objetos de estudo para a literatura brasileira. A correspondência com Mário de Andrade adquire relevo na produção intelectual de Manuel Bandeira, pois ela possibilita um maior entendimento do poeta a partir de sua escrita de si, assim como permite observar a preocupação do escritor com a memória da cultura brasileira. Da mesma forma, a crônica torna-se importante porque traz o testemunho do cronista sobre o tempo circundante. Ao percorremos uma parte significativa da prosa de Manuel Bandeira, estabelecemos o cotejo com o seu texto memorialístico Itinerário de Pasárgada, rastreando, nessas fontes, os escritos que denunciam o seu posicionamento em relação às inovações da arte moderna

O cruzamento de linguagens e o espaço biográfico na obra de Lourenço Mutarelli

Esta dissertação analisa as obras do autor, quadrinista, teatrólogo e ator Lourenço Mutarelli, principalmente, os romances O cheiro do ralo, O natimorto, Jesus Kid e as narrativas gráficas Caixa de Areia, Mundo Pet, Réquiem e Quando meu pai encontrou o e.t. fazia um dia quente, a partir de duas perspectivas presentes na escrita contemporânea: o hibridismo entre diversas linguagens e os novos modos da escrita de si. Quanto ao primeiro aspecto, privilegia-se o dialogismo entre cinema e literatura, com importantes questionamentos e discussões acerca de quanto a literatura, por ser a obra original, é de fato superior em relação à sétima arte. A fim de analisar algumas questões essenciais que advêm da intertextualidade entre cinema e literatura − como originalidade, hierarquia e fidelidade −, este trabalho propõe abordagens que buscam explicitar que, ao se adaptar um texto literário, o cinema cria uma outra obra, híbrida, dotada de novas perspectivas, já contextualizadas no momento presente ao da adaptação, ou seja, trazendo para o texto literário um olhar suplementar, a partir de experiências, ideias e vivências do diretor. Em relação à segunda tendência observada na atualidade, a exposição da intimidade através de diferentes meios − blogs, portais da internet, reality shows, entre outros − vem alterando a forma de o autor lidar com a própria obra e com o público leitor. O escritor parece criar uma persona, tornando-se, muitas vezes, personagem de seu texto e fazendo uso da autoficção, com a mescla de elementos biográficos e ficcionais. Essa nova forma de escrita de si para além dos tradicionais diários, cartas e autobiografias resgata o autor da morte anunciada por Barthes e o traz novamente como objeto de análise do texto literário

Plurimidialidade e arte

Esta dissertação tem por objetivo o estudo e a realização de procedimentos artísticos singulares que se abrem após o modernismo em diferenças flagrantes, levando a formas contemporâneas de organização do sensível em que as fronteiras entre as especificidades artísticas são cada vez mais diluídas. Conceitos como, dentre outros, o de campo expandido ou campo ampliado, de Rosalind Krauss, de arte inespecífica, de Florencia Garramuño, de intermídia, de Dick Higgins, de quase-cinema, de Hélio Oiticica, de Mistura, de Ricardo Basbaum são de grande importância para a pesquisa, constituindo-se como alvo do trabalho a ser realizado. Por serem constituídos de, ao menos, três mídias distintas (sons, palavras e imagens), que, montadas, se fundem, criando uma obra de múltiplos meios entre as mídias, os vídeos ou os arranjos audiovisuais que apresento nesta dissertação têm como característica central a plurimidialidade

'What Foes more dang'rous than too strong Allies?': Anglo-Welsh relations in eighteenth-century London

Prescott, Sarah, ''What Foes more dang'rous than too strong Allies?': Anglo-Welsh relations in eighteenth-century London', The Huntington Library Quarterly (2006) 69 (4) pp.535-554 RAE2008

The Media in Wales: Voices of a Small Nation

Barlow, D.; O'Malley, T.; and Mitchell, P. (2005). The Media in Wales: Voices of a Small Nation. Cardiff: University of Wales Press. RAE2008

Revisiting Irish poetic modernisms

This thesis discusses Irish Modernist poetry written between 1905 and 1970, specifically the poetry of Joseph Campbell (1879-1944), Thomas MacGreevy (1893-1967), Denis Devlin (1908-1959) and Brian Coffey (1905-1995). All four poets have been largely neglected in criticism until a growth of interest encouraged by Michael Smith and Trevor Joyce’s New Writers’ Press during the 1970s. J.C.C. Mays, Stan Smith, Susan Schreibman, Terence Brown, Patricia Coughlan and Alex Davis published subsequent critical support during the ‘80s and ‘90s. My research aims to highlight poetry previously omitted from the canon of Irish literature, those with connections to British or continental European literary movements as well as poetry by women writers and writers from the North. Part of this exploration of Irish Poetic Modernisms involves an investigation of intersections between poetic modernisms and Irish war poetry and of depictions of Irish masculinity in the poetry of Devlin and Coffey. My discussion of Campbell’s poetry focuses on links between the early regional modernism of his poetry and later Irish modernist poetry, including his participation in the Ulster Literary Theatre, with the Literary Revival community in Dublin and his association with the proto-Imagist movement in London. My examination of connections between Irish war poetry and Irish modernism allows me to discuss the writing of several underrecognized Irish poets who are contemporaries and near contemporaries of the main subjects of my thesis. Thomas MacGreevy’s poetry is the most clear case study of the links between Irish modernist poetry and poetry about Ireland’s participation in the Great War. MacGreevy’s writing reveals his multiple allegiances: he both elegizes and challenges the increasing cultural inhibitions of Free State Ireland. Denis Devlin’s poetic portrayals of Ireland reveal his rejection both of the Literary Revival’s fascination with Celticism and of Dublin’s literary community while upholding tradition poetic gender roles. My research explores representations of masculinity and Irish politics, including heroic masculine imagery, in the long poems of Devlin and Coffey. My discussion of Brian Coffey considers the importance of the figure of the “poet as maker” to his writing and his relationship with Ireland during his long writing career. I also consider his role as the editor and executor of Devlin’s literary estate and the impact that had on both the latter’s posthumous reputation and Coffey’s later writing.

The Fraternity of Metaphors: Jean-Luc Godard's Film Socialisme

Since the 'completion' of Histoire(s) du cinema (1988-1998), Jean-Luc Godard's work has become increasingly mosaic-like in its forms and configurations, and markedly elegiac in its ruminations on history, cinema, art, and thought. While his associative aesthetic and citational method –including his choice of ‘actors’, and the fragmentariness of his ‘soundtracks’ – can combine to create a distinctive cinematic event, the films themselves refuse to cohere around a unifying concern, or yield to a thematic schema. Not surprisingly, Film Socialisme does not offer us the illusion of narrative or structural integrity anymore than it contributes to the quotidian rhetoric of political and moral argument. It is, however, a political film in the sense that it alters something more fundamental than opinions and points of view. It transforms a way of seeing and understanding reality and history, fiction and documentary, images, and images of images. If anything, it belongs to that dissident or ‘dissensual’ category of artwork capable of ‘emancipating the spectator’ by disturbing what Jacques Rancière terms ‘the distribution of the sensible’ in that it generates gaps, openings, and spaces, poses questions, invites associations without positing a fixed position, imposing an interpretation, or allowing itself to invest in the illusion of expressive objectivity and the stability of meaning. The myriad citations and fragments that comprise the film are never intended to culminate into anything cohesive, never mind conclusive. In one sense, they have no source and no context beyond their moment in the film itself, and what we make of that moment. This article studies the degree to which Godard allows these images and sounds to combine and collide, associate and dissolve in this film, arguing that Film Socialisme is both an important intervention in the history of contemporary cinema, and necessary point of reference in any serious discussion of the relations between that cinema and political reality.

(Pro)Motion Pictures: Len Lye in the Thirties

This article examines Len Lye’s film-making in the 1930s within a broader visual arts context, seeking to clarify the nature and extent of his involvement in British documentary film culture at this time. In particular, it demonstrates how Lye's method of fusing 'live action', found footage, and animation techniques created the possibility of a radical documentary practice that could reconcile promotional advertising and commercial art with avant-garde abstraction and kinaesthetic experimentation. In particular, the article focusses on Lye's N. or N.W. (1937, 35mm, b&w, 10 mns), arguing that his work from this period should be regarded as central - and not marginal - to any serious reassessment of Britain's “Documentary Movement” of the inter-war era, and its relations to any history of the cinema and visual culture.

Towards a Poetics of the Cinematographic Frame

In delineating a poetics of the cinematographic frame, this article presents a typology of framing styles, and demonstrates how filmmakers use the frame as an expressive resource and how the frame uses them. The examples discussed are modernist in orientation, and each has a particular association with a city - its history, architecture, and cultural character. Although it is common practice to refer to some framing situations as instances of 'deframing', the article enquires into the problematic nature of this term, suggesting alternative visual and cinematographic contexts more amenable to its deconstructive implications. As the boundaries between cinema and the other arts continue to converge and relations between frame, image, and screen become more complex, this article offers a reassessment of some first principles of film language, especially the aesthetic integrity of the cinematographic frame.

La ofensiva cinematográfica de la URSS en la guerra civil española

This article explores Soviet cinema and the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939. The article focuses on three separate components of Moscow’s cinematic operations vis-à-vis the Spanish imbroglio: 1.) the distribution of Soviet-made feature films in the Loyalist zone, 2.) the production of Soviet propaganda newsreels on Spanish subjects intended for distribution within the Soviet Union, and 3.) the significance of the Spanish war for Soviet cinema throughout the balance of the Bolshevik period. The narrative and conclusions herein are supported by new research from archives in both Spain and the Russian Federation, as well as analyses of films rarely if ever discussed in the scholarly literature, either within film studies or twentieth century European history.

Review of Jinhee Choi, The South Korean Film Renaissance: Local Hitmakers, Global Provocateurs

In this review of Jinhee Choi’s monograph The South Korean Film Renaissance: Local Hitmakers, Global Provocateurs, I argue that Choi provides an insightful and original contribution to the growing ?eld of Korean ?lm studies. By examining some of the domestic ?lm trends that have never received sustained academic attention in the English language, Choi represents the true diversity of contemporary South Korean cinema and the issues it raises around notions of national cinema and globalisation.

Maria Victoria Atencia: Legend of Myself

In this collection of 65 short poems, Roberta Quance exemplifies the range, vitality and mysticism of work by one of Spain’s foremost, if controversial, contemporary female poets, drawing on the contents of a number of Spanish collections.

Robot

Klimowski’s graphic novel, Robot, was commissioned by the Adam Mickiewicz Institute in Warsaw to mark Poland’s Presidency of the European Union’s Cultural Programme in 2011. Self Made Hero and Timof Comiks published the book simultaneously in the UK and Poland. Klimowski adapted and translated Stanisław Lem’s short fiction ‘The sanatorium of Dr Vliperdius’ (1977), aiming to develop a new position for illustration and the graphic novel aside from mainstream graphic novels and literature, and a new approach to visual bookmaking. The project proved to be an artistic challenge: Lem often proclaimed his disapproval of adaptations of his work, dismissing even Andrei Tarkovsky’s film adaptation (1972) of his novel Solaris (1961). Produced in collaboration with Danusia Schejbal, Robot features a diptych form, counter-pointing (both formally and conceptually) two contrasting stories. The first is a colourful parable describing a totalitarian and autocratic regime that must be vanquished, the second a monochromatic dialectic on philosophy, humanism and mechanisation. Klimowski and Schejbal’s publication is intended to challenge stereotypes and established styles and formulas associated with the production of graphic novels. Much emphasis was laid upon the depiction of space and location, artificiality and realism. Silence and the suspension of linear time were also strong features of the artists’ investigations. These qualities were recognised and discussed by the media, in particular by a panel of critics on Polish Television’s Cultural Channel, in the most respected comics blog, Zeszyty Komiksowe (http://zeszytykomiksowe.org/recenzja_robot, 2012), and by Monika Malkowskain in the national newspaper Rzeczpospolita (2011). The artists gave a special talk at the Science Museum, London, during the Robot Festival ‘Robotville’ (December 2011). Lem, one of the world’s leading writers of science fiction, was featured throughout the year in the UK on stage, cinema and in literary events (Barbican Centre London, British Library, Science Museum London).

Cinematic motion by hand

The general goal of my research is to find out what is questioned whenever an animated film is made by an author who chooses to have maximum control over the device automatisms. I am trying to understand in what ways that specific kind of film relates with Cinema and the History of Art as a whole and, more specifically, how its filmic discourse is built within cinematic codes, workings and machinery. This paper, in particular, aims to establish that each time an author makes a film by suspending both automatic ‘motion’ and image recording functions—that which is often known as “cameraless” film—a process is initiated that simultaneously questions not only Cinema, within both expression and technology, but also the ontological position this same technology occupies in current media.