Sérgio Dias Branco



Website: http://www.sdiasbranco.net
Email: sdiasbranco@fl.uc.pt


Research Interests

  • Aesthetics and philosophy of film
  • Analytic philosophy of art
  • Critical analysis of films, music videos, television series, and videos
  • Film genres
  • Film theory
  • Television studies

Education

  • PhD Film Studies, University of Kent.
  • ATAP - Associate Teacher Accreditation Programme, University of Kent.
  • MA Film Studies, University of Kent.
  • Lic. Architecture, Technical University of Lisbon - Faculty of Architecture.

Presentations

  • (2012). “Screened Signs of Grace: André Bazin’s ‘Cinema and Theology’ and the Sacramental Facet of Film”. Spirituality in the 21st Century: At the Interface of Theory, Praxis and Pedagogy. Prague, 21-24 Mar. [in preparation]
  • (2011). “A Cinema Inhabited by the Angel of History: On Rossellini’s Paisà”. (Post-)Conflict Cinema: Remembering Out-breaks and In-tensions, IV International CECC Conference. Catholic University of Portugal, 6 Dec.
  • (2011).  “Descobertas e Prescrições: A Especificidade do Meio Cinemático Segundo Berys Gaut”. XIII Autumn Colloquium. Minho University, 17 Nov.
    “Descobertas e Prescrições: A Especificidade do Meio Cinemático Segundo Berys Gaut”. XIII Autumn Colloquium. Minho University, 17 Nov. 2011.
  • (2011). “Music Videos and Non-Musical Sounds”. Music and the Moving Image VI. New York University, 22 May
  • (2011). “Pensar o Cinema Através dos Filmes: A Filosofia do Cinema de Stanley Cavell”. I AIM Annual Meeting. University of Algarve, 6 May.
  • (2010). “On Essentialism: Thoughts Between Nöel Carroll and Stanley Cavell”. Film-Philosophy III. University of Warwick, 16 Jul.
  • (2010). “Entre a Desordem: Balagan como Mapa Intersticial de Identidades e Histórias”. 1.º Colóquio da Primavera: Literatura, Espaço, Cartografias. University of Coimbra, 17 May.
  • (2009). “Televisual Works”. “Screen” Conference 2009. University of Glasgow, 4 Jul.
  • (2009). “Each Voice: Internal Variation in Grey’s Anatomy”. Graduate Student Presentations. University of Kent, 27 May.
  • (2009). “Compreensões do Cinema: Funções da Linguagem Analítica e Crítica”. Minho University, 21 May.
  • (2009). “Compreensões do Cinema: Funções da Linguagem Analítica e Crítica”. New University of Lisbon, 20 May.
  • (2009). “Super Style: Heroes and Television Aesthetics”. The Politics of Super-Heroes: Renegotiating the Super-Hero in Post-9/11 Cinema. Yale University, 31 Jan.
  • (2008). “Cowboys no Espaço: Convergências de Género em Firefly e Serenity”. Fantastic Forum 2008. University of Lisbon - Faculty of Fine Arts, 4 Oct.
  • (2008). “Visualising Inference: Image Motifs in CBS Police Procedurals”. Graduate Student Presentations. University of Kent, 21 May.
  • (2008). “Borrowed Sounds, Appropriated Images: Music Videos and Found Footage”. Cultural Borrowings: A Study Day on Appropriation, Reworking and Transformation. University of Nottingham, 19 Mar.
  • (2008). “Laughing in Friendship: The Intimate Ensemble Comedy of Friends”. Playing for Laughs: On Comedy in Performance. De Montfort University, 9 Feb.
  • (2007). “Labyrinths of the Self: Different Characters, Identical Bodies in Battlestar Galactica”. BSG 2007: The Politics, Poetics and Philosophy of “Battlestar Galactica”. Bucks New University, 28 Jul.
  • (2007). “Being Her/She in ‘Who Are You?’”. It’s the End of the World. Again?!?: Why Buffy Still Matters. University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 16 Mar.
  • (2006). “Três Idades de Casais: Closer, Husbands and Wives, Saraband”. Portuguese Society of Family Therapy, 24 Nov. 2006.
  • (2005). “Imagens Sequências: A Partir do Conceito de Storyboard”. Lusophone University of Humanities and Technologies, 11 Dec.
  • (2003). “Narração do Espaço, Espaço da Narrativa”. Manuel Teixeira Gomes Higher Institute, 12 Nov.

Publications

  • (2012).  “Magic and Loss: Style, Progression and the ‘Ending’ of Carnivàle”. In Bloodlust and Dust: Essays on HBO’s “Carnivàle”, ed. Peg Aloi and Hannah Johnston. Jefferson, NC: McFarland. [forthcoming]
  • (2012). “Situating Comedy: Duration and Inhabitation in American Sitcoms”. In Global Television: Aesthetics and Style, ed. Jason Jacobs and Steven Peacock. New York: Continuum. [in preparation]
  • (2011). “Au hasard Balthazar: teologia e arte della presenza”. Fata Morgana: Quadrimestrale di cinema e visioni, no. 14, “Animalità”.
  • (2011). “Film noir, um Género Imaginado”. Revista de História das Ideias, vol. 32, “Artes” (2011), 327-54.
  • (2011). “Na Desordem: Balagan, Mapa Intersticial de Histórias e Identidades”. In Literatura, Espaço, Cartografias, ed. António Apolinário Lourenço and Osvaldo Manuel Silvestre, 391-408. Coimbra: Centro de Literatura Portuguesa da Universidade de Coimbra.
  • (2011). “Super Style: Notes for a Stylistic Analysis”. In Investigating “Heroes”: Truth, Justice and Quality TV, ed. David Simmons, 109-18. Jefferson, NC: McFarland
  • (2010), with CASTELLO BRANCO, Patrícia and VIEGAS, Susana. "Editorial". Cinema: Journal of Philosophy and the Moving Image 1, 1-6 (eng.), 7-13 (port.).
    Link (eng.)
    Link (port.)
  • (2010). “Sci-Fi Ghettos: Battlestar Galactica and Genre Aesthetics”. In Kaveney, R. and Stoy, J. (eds.), “Battestar Galactica”: Investigating Flesh, Spirit, and Steel, 185-98. London: I.B. Tauris.
  • (2009). “Music Videos and Reused Footage”. Scope: An Online Journal of Film & TV Studies, Smith, I. R. (ed.), “Cultural Borrowings: Appropriation, Reworking, Transformation” e-book, 111-21.
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  • (2008). “The Mosaic-Screen: Exploration and Definition”. Refractory: A Journal of Entertainment Media 14.
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  • (2005). “Evocation of Fear”. Big Lens: The Kent Film Magazine 3:2, 2.
  • (2003). “Il paesaggio”. Zero Mag 5, 11-12.
  • (2003). “A Banalidade” and “O Silêncio dos Olhares”. Registos 0, 6, 30-31.
  • (2002). “Cinco Detritos”. V-Ludo 7, 60-62.
  • (2002). “O Cinema Justo”. AO: Boletim da Ordem dos Advogados 21, 85-86.
  • (2001). “A Política dos Autores: Pensar a Nossa Solidão”. V-Ludo 6, 75-81.
  • (2000). “Rituais do Indecifrável”. V-Ludo 3, 61-65.
  • (2000). “O Feminino Plural”. V-Ludo 1, 18-21.
  • (2000). “Stanley Kubrick (1928-99): Labirintos e Olhares”. Boletim Informativo da Faculdade de Arquitectura 2000, 16-17.
  • (1999). “Verdade e Mentira”. Xinema 4, 3.
  • (1998). “Morrer Assombrado pela Beleza”. Xinema 3, 1.
  • (1998). “Profundo Oceano de Fantasmas”. Xinema 2, 1.
  • (1998). “Akira Kurosawa (1910-98): Entre o Sonho e a Morte Between”. Xinema 1, 1.
  • (1997). “Intensidade e Segredo”. Folha 7, 4.
  • (1997). “A Linha que Fecha a Forma”. Folha 6, 4.