A ArtCom apoia a edição e o lançamento de obras dos seus membros e outras relevantes para os objectivos da associação.Desde 2003 editámos e/ou produzimos o lançamento de obras de teatro, filosofia, teoria do teatro, arquitectura, desenho urbano e urbanismo.
Climate Theatre and Ecodramaturgy in the Anthropocene (Ecodramaturgia e Teatro Climático no Antropoceno)consiste numa compilação de artigos da autoria de investigadores e profissionais de diferentes disciplinas — literatura, jornalismo, teatro, dança, cinema,...
Numa época marcada por uma enorme popularidade do imaginário gótico na produção cultural global, este livro visa contribuir para uma reavaliação contemporânea do modo Gótico-Romântico em termos éticos, políticos e ecocríticos. Através de uma abordagem transdisciplinar...
Eleanor Marx é uma peça de metateatro que contrasta a busca de alternativas micropolíticas e o idealismo social que ainda deflagravam intensamente no final do século XIX, com o momento presente, em que aparentemente desapareceram. Baseada numa ampla investigação que a...
Através do seu trabalho de investigação na academia, membros da ArtCom têm vindo a produzir diversos artigos teóricos sobre temas de interesse para o projecto interdisciplinar a que a associação se propõe, essencialmente nas áreas da crítica de Filme e de Teatro, Arte...
by Graça P. Corrêa. LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, 2012. Within the emerging interdisciplinary scope of landscape theory, and taking as its object of study the work written for the stage by contemporary British playwright Harold Pinter, this book is the...
de Maria João Ceitil. Colecção Teses, Edição ISPA. Apresentado por Eduardo Prado Coelho na Culturgest, em Lisboa - 2005
Organizado por Graça P. Corrêa. UZINA Editores, 2013. Apresentado por Michel Toussaint no Palácio Foz, em Lisboa
by Luís Balula. LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, 2010. The rising authority of neo-traditional urban planning and design - either in the United States via New Urbanism or in Europe via the European Urban Renaissance - might provide much needed answers to the failures...
by Luís Balula.
A few days after the US presidential election of November 8, 2016, Oxford Dictionaries chose “post-truth” as the word of the year, calling the world’s attention to the new concept. However, the concept has been in use for the last twenty five years, first in reference to the media coverage manipulation of the Iran-Contra scandal (Reagan administration) and the first Gulf War (George Bush administration), and later in reference to the misleading statements that led to the invasion of Iraq (George W. Bush administration). The concept has gained particular relevance and became commonplace in the context of the last US presidential elections, which have raised the bar of abuse of truth to new limits. Curiously, or perhaps not so, also within the framework of yet another Republican administration.
From its inception the Gothic mode is structurally and thematically associated with the irrational, the ambiguous, the chaotic, the hidden, and the nightmare. Its fiction is populated by monstrous figures, by hybrids (in animal-human and machine-human combinations), and by other imaginary dwellers of the dark side. It is an aesthetic rooted in the intuition of a paranormal and supernatural realm, of a world that transcends human reason and therefore contests anthropocentric reality. It is therefore not surprising to suggest that US director David Lynch’s filmic oeuvre is aesthetically Gothic, as a few critics have already hinted at.
The world is experiencing an unprecedented rate of urbanization. In China alone each year 10 million people migrate from rural to urban areas, a flow predicted to add up to 350 million new residents in urban areas by 2030 (Balula and Bina 2015). Globally, cities already account for 70% of wealth creation, but also for 60% of total energy consumption, 70% of greenhouse gas emissions, and 70% of global waste (UN Habitat 2015). It is a global imperative to develop urban systems that integrate all aspects of sustainability to promote equity and shared prosperity, together with urban development patterns that improve the livability of cities while reducing resource consumption.
Drawing on emotion theory and genre studies, this article analyzes and compares three landscapes of dictatorship in film, namely Fritz Lang’s The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (1933), Guillermo del Toro’s The Devil’s Backbone (2001), and Luis Llosa’s The Feast of the Goat (2005), as expressed by distinct aesthetic and emotional modes. The films under examination reflect upon three interrelated dictatorial rules in disparate geographical locations: the escalation of Nazi power and attendant criminal frame of mind in Germany of the early 1930s (Fritz Lang’s); the persecution of Leftwing sympathizers, accompanied by the murder of powerless human beings, such as orphaned children, carried out by General Franco’s Rightwing supporters during the final days of the Spanish Civil War…
Portuguese dramatist Bernardo Santareno (1924-1980) has been practically ignored by the English-speaking critics and theatre practitioners, most likely because only two of his nineteen plays have been translated into English. One of these is the author’s first drama, The Promise (A Promessa), written during the year he spent aboard a Portuguese fishing boat along the coast of Newfoundland and Greenland, immediately after having graduated from medical school at the University of Coimbra.
Entre 1346 e 1353, a Peste Negra dizimou cerca de metade da população da Europa. Desde aí, e apesar das diversas guerras, epidemias e fomes que ocorreram ao longo dos seis séculos seguintes, a população humana continuou sempre a crescer. Durante as três últimas gerações, no entanto, esse crescimento tornou-se exponencial. Sobretudo devido aos avanços da medicina e ao aumento da produtividade agrícola, entre outros factores, a partir de 1950 verificou-se uma aceleração massiva do crescimento populacional.