Overview

Joo Pedro Rodrigues and Joo Rui Guerra da Mata are one of the most cosmopolitan duos in contemporary world cinema. Their films tell us stories of love and human desire, receiving a highly favourable reception among critics and at international festivals. Despite their high profile, Rodrigues and da Mata's work remains relatively understudied. ReFocus: The Films of Joo Pedro Rodrigues and Joo Rui Guerra da Mata, paves the way for the study of the directors' work, critically analysing the various cinematic perspectives of their short and full-length feature films. In the first collection solely dedicated to their work, this book addresses the historical, political, stylistic, industry, and cultural dimensions of Rodrigues and da Mata's films, providing critical recognition for their contribution to world cinema.

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Author:   José Duarte (Dr, Universidade de Lisboa) ,  Filipa Rosário (Research Fellow, University of Lisbon)
Publisher:   Edinburgh University Press
Imprint:   Edinburgh University Press
ISBN:  

9781474460804

ISBN 10:   1474460801
Pages:   232
Publication Date:   25 March 2022
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

List of FiguresList of ContributorsAcknowledgements Introduction. Nonconformities and Unconventional, Unreal Liberties: The Cinema of João Pedro Rodrigues and João Rui Guerra da Mata - José Duarte and Filipa Rosário Section 1. Queer (Dis)Placements, Exquisite Bodies 1: Sculpting the Body, Sculpting History - Glòria Salvadó-Corretger and Fran Benavente 2: The Injury: On Pathosformel in João Pedro Rodrigues’s Work - Olivier Cheval 3: Love is Stronger than Death: João Pedro Rodrigues’s Two Drifters and the Ghost(s) of Manoel de Oliveira - José Bértolo Section 2. Cinematic Landscapes and Territories 4: Phantoms, Drifters, and Desiring Saints: Landscapes and Soundscapes of Becoming-Queer in the Films of João Pedro Rodrigues and João Rui Guerra da Mata - Andrija Filipović 5: Queer Metamorphoses and Displacements in the Cinema of João Pedro Rodrigues and João Rui Guerra da Mata - António Fernando Cascais 6: Neo-Baroque Landscape: João Pedro Rodrigues’s Docu-Fiction and Ecosophical Kinships in The Ornithologist - Hyemin Kim 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 - Juan Antonio Suárez 8: Space and Memory: The Window as Freeze-Frame - Carlos Alberto Carrilho and Rita Ferrão Section 3. Artistic Practices 9: New Frontiers in Art Direction: João Guerra da Mata’s Contribution to Portuguese Cinema as a Case Study - Caterina Cucinotta 10: Other Landscapes: On the Expanded Cinema of João Pedro Rodrigues and João Rui Guerra da Mata - Filipa Rosário Section 4. Interview with João Pedro Rodrigues and João Rui Guerra da Mata 11: Interview with João Pedro Rodrigues and João Rui Guerra da Mata Julián Daniel Gutiérrez Albilla

Reviews

[T]his volume boosts the international status and visibility of smaller players, allows for a larger audience to have access to the work of these two artists while, simultaneously, justifying the international acclaim they have already earned. While the specificities of working and living in a particular small nation are made apparent throughout the essay selection, so is the transnationality of the stories told. Overall, the volume highlights the transformative input of João Pedro Rodrigues and João Rui Guerra da Mata in the Portuguese cinematic landscape. --Hermínia Sol ""AM Journal of Art and Media Studies"" Duarte and Rosário conduct a complex and complete analysis of the work of these two pioneers of Portuguese Queer Cinema; an insightful, multi-layered book that delves into the meaning of Rodrigues and Guerra da Mata's images of queer subjects and their endless transformations. --Iván Villarmea Álvarez, Universidade de Coimbra This indispensable collection offers an extraordinarily rich set of perspectives on one of Portugal's most innovative and important filmmaking partnerships. The result does justice not only to Rodrigues and Guerra da Mata's well-known work on queerness but also to their unique and complex engagement with spatial thought, cinephilia and corporeality. --Hilary Owen, University of Oxford Without ever assuming itself as a manifesto against the auteur theory (which, since the 1950s, has absorbed the entire discourse of cinephilia and film theory), ReFocus: The Films of João Pedro Rodrigues and João Rui Guerra da Mata is an example that the academy begins to expand its scope beyond the figure of the director. [...] In the absence of more extensive studies on the various creative voices that are sheltered in ""allegedly"" technical positions, comes a book that, in gathering a set of distinct perspectives on the filmography of João Pedro Rodrigues, also presents a panoramic view of one of the most reflexive art directors of Portuguese cinema, João Rui Guerra da Mata. --Ricardo Vieira Lisboa ""Público""

"[T]his volume boosts the international status and visibility of smaller players, allows for a larger audience to have access to the work of these two artists while, simultaneously, justifying the international acclaim they have already earned. While the specificities of working and living in a particular small nation are made apparent throughout the essay selection, so is the transnationality of the stories told. Overall, the volume highlights the transformative input of Jo�o Pedro Rodrigues and Jo�o Rui Guerra da Mata in the Portuguese cinematic landscape. --Herm�nia Sol ""AM Journal of Art and Media Studies"" Duarte and Ros�rio conduct a complex and complete analysis of the work of these two pioneers of Portuguese Queer Cinema; an insightful, multi-layered book that delves into the meaning of Rodrigues and Guerra da Mata's images of queer subjects and their endless transformations. --Iv�n Villarmea �lvarez, Universidade de Coimbra This indispensable collection offers an extraordinarily rich set of perspectives on one of Portugal's most innovative and important filmmaking partnerships. The result does justice not only to Rodrigues and Guerra da Mata's well-known work on queerness but also to their unique and complex engagement with spatial thought, cinephilia and corporeality. --Hilary Owen, University of Oxford Without ever assuming itself as a manifesto against the auteur theory (which, since the 1950s, has absorbed the entire discourse of cinephilia and film theory), ReFocus: The Films of Jo�o Pedro Rodrigues and Jo�o Rui Guerra da Mata is an example that the academy begins to expand its scope beyond the figure of the director. [...] In the absence of more extensive studies on the various creative voices that are sheltered in ""allegedly"" technical positions, comes a book that, in gathering a set of distinct perspectives on the filmography of Jo�o Pedro Rodrigues, also presents a panoramic view of one of the most reflexive art directors of Portuguese cinema, Jo�o Rui Guerra da Mata. --Ricardo Vieira Lisboa ""P�blico"""

Author Information

Dr José Duarte teaches cinema at the School of Arts and Humanities at the Universidade de Lisboa, and is a researcher at ULICES (University Lisbon Centre for English Studies). Filipa Rosário is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Comparative Studies, University of Lisbon (CEC-UL). She co-edited the book New Approaches to Cinematic Space (2019), and is the author of O Trabalho do Actor no Cinema de John Cassavetes (2017).

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