15 articles in this issue
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Alessandra Brandão,Ramayana Lira
Introduction
The “double” is a well-known Hitchcockian motif. Widelyreviewed under a psychoanalytical perspective, the issue ofthe double still presents other important challenges and thisarticle aims at discussing the queer doubles in Hitchcock’s films as ... see more
Eduardo Marks de Marques
The resurgence of novels dealing with dystopian cosmogonies since the 1990s may reveal a newtrend in Utopian Studies. If classical dystopia was defined by the imposition of collective political and social structures upon the individual and out of wh... see more
Genilda Azeredo
Katherine Mansfield’s “The doll’s house” (2000) constitutes the object of the present discussion, which aims at tracing the relations among the characters, focusing on their affective actions–both those linked to negative affects (coldness,arrogance... see more
Adalberto Müller
Based on Gumbrecht’s (2010) concept of Stimmung, the film In the mood for love (2000) is analyzed in order to demonstrate thatthe essential in this film lies in the way it articulates affective moods and History.
Ignatius Chukwumah
Five decades of resorting to humanistic critical procedureshave bequeathed to the Nigerian critical practice the legacy ofexamining and discovering in Nigerian and African narrativesthe historical and social concepts of the time and times theyare pr... see more
Cecília Mello
This article employs a comparative approach to connect cities and cinemas by discussing the presence of the urban space in the films Foreign Land (Terra Estrangeira, Walter Salles and Daniela Thomas, 1995), Head-On (Gegen die Wand, Fatih Akin,2004),... see more
Marcus Rogério Tavares Sampaio Salgado
The novels Um táxi para Viena d´Áustria (Antonio Torres) e As cinco estações do amor (João Almino) stage the urban experience as exile. This exile can be due to geographical distance (as it happens to the migrational processes typical of the greater ... see more
Lucia Fatima Fernandes Nobre
The problematization of dichotomies in a plural, heterogeneous,and contradictory world, whose socio-artistic-culturalborders are questioned and confronted, motivates the artist tolook for aesthetical regimes that may appropriately face thesequestions. Met... see more
Fernando Morais Da Costa,Marcela Soalheiro
This arcticle aims to investigate sound representation through literature and cinematographic adaptation. Therefore, it analyses the representation of sound space in its relation with characters’ moods, as well as the construction of identification proces... see more
Maria Lúcia Milléo Martins
Book Review
Marcia Tiemy Morita Kawamoto