ReFocus
1st Edition
Published on 30. April 2022
232 pages
978-1-4744-6083-5 (ISBN)
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An exploration of the films of Joao Pedro Rodrigues and Joao Rui Guerra da Mata.
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ReFocus: The Films of Joao Pedro Rodrigues and Joao Rui Guerra da Mata
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03/2022
Edinburgh University Press
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Content
- Intro
- Figures
- Notes on Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Nonconformities and Unconventional, Unreal Liberties-The Cinema of João Pedro Rodrigues and João Rui Guerra da Mata
- Part 1 Queer (Dis)Placements, Exquisite Bodies
- 1 Sculpting the Body, Sculpting History
- 2 The Injury: On Pathosformel in João Pedro Rodrigues's Work
- 3 Love is Stronger than Death: João Pedro Rodrigues's Two Drifters and the Ghost(s) of Manoel de Oliveira
- Part 2 Cinematic Landscapes and Territories
- 4 Phantoms, Drifters, and Desiring Saints: Landscapes, Soundscapes, and Becoming-queer in the Films of João Pedro Rodrigues and João Rui Guerra da Mata
- 5 Queer Metamorphoses and Displacements in the Cinema of João Pedro Rodrigues and João Rui Guerra da Mata
- 6 Neo-Baroque Landscapes: João Pedro Rodrigues's Docu-fiction and Ecosophical Kinships in The Ornithologist
- 7 Failure, Erasure, and Oblivion in João Pedro Rodrigues and João Rui Guerra da Mata's Asian Trilogy: Red Dawn, The Last Time I Saw Macao, and Iec Long
- 8 Space and Memory: The Window as Freeze-frame
- Part 3 Artistic Practices
- 9 New Frontiers in Art Direction: João Guerra da Mata's Contribution to Portuguese Cinema as a Case Study
- 10 Other Landscapes: On the Expanded Cinema of João Pedro Rodrigues and João Rui Guerra da Mata
- Part 4 Interview
- 11 Interview with João Pedro Rodrigues and João Rui Guerra da Mata
- Notes
- References
- Index
