ROTURA MAGAZINE
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The fourth edition of CIAC’s ROTURA-Revista de Comunicação, Cultura e Artes (Vol.2, N. 2) is now available online. Titled “Silent Cinemas in Portugal,” this edition aims to contribute to the improvement of studies on the field of silent cinema and introduce new indications for a historiographical practice on Portugal’s cinema.
In “A representação das mulheres Invicta através dos seus figurines” [Invicta’s women representation through their costumes], Carolina Fadigas proposes an analysis of the costumes worn by the main female characters of three different works by Invicta Film: Os Fidalgos da Casa Mourisca [The nobles of the Moorish House], Barbanegra [Blackbeard] and As Mulheres da Beira [The women of Beira]. In the paper “Sinfonia da imagem: os artifícios sonoros durante a era do mudo no cinema português”, Ana Patrícia J. Gonçalves reverts to a time when devices were unable to capture moving images and sound in sync; therefore, different mechanisms or maneuvers were invented to ‘lend’ sound to the images. Joana Duarte brings to light the important collection of magazines and publications specialized in cinema that were produced in the first decades of the century. Elena Cordeiro Hoyo signs “Finding redemption by educating the masses: the shift in Portuguese intellectual discourses around silent cinema” with the means to identify, within the variety of discourses produced in the first decades of the twentieth century, the effects of cinema that were key to the Portuguese intellectual elite in 1914-1924.
“Silent Cinemas in Portugal” also includes four articles in the section ‘Varia’ and a critical review: “Filmmakers as performers from the silent cinema of 1890 to today’s live cinema“, by Ana Perfeito and Bruno Mendes da Silva; “Audiovisual advertising: object of consumption and social representation“, by Marcelo Ribaric; “Vermeer, Bergotte and Marcel Proust“, by Ana Alexandra Seabra de Carvalho; “Media education: identifying and combating false information”, by Ingrid Fechine and Paulo Gerson Olinto Deodato; and, finally, the critical review from John Carvalho to the book As if it was a novel: The Most Curious History of cinema, by journalist and film promoter, Mário Augusto.
ROTURA’s fourth issue was directed by CIAC coordinators Mirian Tavares and Bruno Mendes da Silva, and edited by researchers Jorge Carrega (CIAC), Paulo Cunha (LabCom-UBI), Patrícia Dourado (CIAC), and Susana Costa (CIAC).
The next issue will be released in February 2023 under the theme “Digital Media-Art.” The dossier means to focus on the investigation of creative, methodological, and communication aspects of digital artefacts. The call for papers is open until October 15, 2022.
