MLA Commons | Sérgio Dias Branco | Activity https://mla.hcommons.org/members/sdiasbranco/activity/ Activity feed for Sérgio Dias Branco. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 14:39:58 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 f8bdd323ba2c09b7194d78df457d47b1 Sérgio Dias Branco deposited Our Lady of Struggle: Marian Devotion and Organized Labor in "Salt of the Earth" (1954) in the group Religious Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1888694/ Sat, 08 Jun 2024 03:01:06 -0400 “Salt of the Earth” (1954) is viewed as one of the major examples of working-class cinema in the United States, yet its portrayal of the deep connection between the plight and struggle of Latino workers and Catholicism has not been developed in critical discussions of the film. This paper aims to address this aspect of the film. “Salt of the…[Read more]

]]> 0 1fa6401f547cce7c1ead1b68e071dba9 Sérgio Dias Branco deposited Our Lady of Struggle: Marian Devotion and Organized Labor in "Salt of the Earth" (1954) in the group Film Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1888693/ Sat, 08 Jun 2024 03:00:56 -0400 “Salt of the Earth” (1954) is viewed as one of the major examples of working-class cinema in the United States, yet its portrayal of the deep connection between the plight and struggle of Latino workers and Catholicism has not been developed in critical discussions of the film. This paper aims to address this aspect of the film. “Salt of the…[Read more]

]]> 0 0228e7a629ecdf6a946a2801e31763c5 Sérgio Dias Branco deposited Our Lady of Struggle: Marian Devotion and Organized Labor in "Salt of the Earth" (1954) https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1888676/ Fri, 07 Jun 2024 21:02:48 -0400 “Salt of the Earth” (1954) is viewed as one of the major examples of working-class cinema in the United States, yet its portrayal of the deep connection between the plight and struggle of Latino workers and Catholicism has not been developed in critical discussions of the film. This paper aims to address this aspect of the film. “Salt of the…[Read more]

]]> 0 943671d6ca047692a0434acdc4d79d50 Sérgio Dias Branco's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1875477/ Sat, 10 Feb 2024 14:24:48 -0500 0 5c28343c44e5371b9d937a37ebb26500 Sérgio Dias Branco's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1867294/ Sat, 09 Dec 2023 11:50:12 -0500 0 a1426f5ec6780aae0304d083827b9068 Sérgio Dias Branco deposited Genuine Poetics: Expressive Authenticity in Film in the group Philosophy https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1864500/ Tue, 14 Nov 2023 03:02:27 -0500 This chapter seeks to reflect on the concepts of entertainment, engagement, and poetics applied to cinematic art and it inscribes this set of reflections within the scope of aesthetic authenticity in cinema. The discussion is structured around the question of the autonomy of art, understood as a kind of characterization or requirement, a topic…[Read more]

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]]> 0 87e472626a697445f4b5d7e86e1d871c Sérgio Dias Branco deposited Building Cars and Destroying Men: Working Class Representation as Christian Allegory in "Blue Collar" (1978) in the group Religious Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1849681/ Sun, 18 Jun 2023 02:24:14 -0400 “The company builds cars and destroys men” was the promotional tagline of one of the posters for “Blue Collar” (1978). Shot in Detroit and Kalamazoo, Michigan, the film stars Richard Pryor, Harvey Keitel, and Yaphet Kotto playing three Detroit auto workers in financial despair who break into and rob the offices of their own union. “Blue Collar”…[Read more]

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]]> 0 447c9cb628ea2877859f31a45fcf2de2 Sérgio Dias Branco changed their profile picture https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1817286/ Wed, 12 Oct 2022 12:53:55 -0400 0 c342421f18e5788710dda6449a656b2e Sérgio Dias Branco deposited Religion and Film: Representation, Experience, Meaning in the group Theology https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1776911/ Mon, 04 Apr 2022 02:24:02 -0400 This is a book review of Stefanie Knauss, “Religion and Film: Representation, Experience, Meaning” (Brill, 2020).

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]]> 0 d91ba6ebd8606a6f7e2535b75749d722 Sérgio Dias Branco deposited Together in the Midst of War: Muslim and Christian Coexistence in Lebanese Cinema in the group Religious Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1740513/ Fri, 04 Jun 2021 02:24:25 -0400 This chapter presents a comparative analysis of four Lebanese films in order to understand how they portray Muslim and Christian coexistence in midst of war.

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]]> 0 d2382845987511c9b9b9a85d069c4481 Sérgio Dias Branco deposited Conversations: The Journal of Cavellian Studies, no. 8 in the group Philosophy https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1727411/ Sat, 13 Feb 2021 02:23:53 -0500 This issue focuses on philosophical dispensations of seeing the world in a “mooded” way.

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]]> 0 3be751269aecc3e6711ca800e69cf90e Sérgio Dias Branco deposited Laughing in Friendship: The Intimate Ensemble Comedy of “Friends” in the group Television Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1722341/ Sat, 09 Jan 2021 02:23:46 -0500 This paper analyses the sitcom “Friends” (1994-2004) and its performance motifs.

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]]> 0 27182a57d18c533db04dc1169c4f417f Sérgio Dias Branco deposited Being Her/She in “Who Are You?” in the group Television Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1722126/ Fri, 08 Jan 2021 02:24:24 -0500 Analysis of the episode from television series “Buffy the Vampire Slayer”, “Who Are You?” (4.16).

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]]> 0 36e3f0d55442c3ed0f685e00a408ba69 Sérgio Dias Branco deposited “The Urban and the Domestic: Spaces of American Film Noir” in the group Film Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1722124/ Fri, 08 Jan 2021 02:24:13 -0500 Urban and domestic spaces are at the core of the American film noir developed in the 1940s and 50s. The connection between such spaces and noir cannot be considered only as motivational (an association between city and crime) or protective (a separation between home and violence). The context of this genre must be considered more largely as the…[Read more]

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]]> 0 f2e28083dfe3f8e27efe5542524f2510 Sérgio Dias Branco deposited “‘Being Open to Possibilities That We Can’t Know Yet’: An Interview with Catherine Grant” in the group Film Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1722121/ Fri, 08 Jan 2021 02:23:53 -0500 Interview with Catherine Grant about her move to Birkbeck, teaching and research, the project [in]Transition, changes in scholarship, and technology and the humanities.

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]]> 0 51c653d02300473e91495308a5520059 Sérgio Dias Branco deposited Being Her/She in “Who Are You?” https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1721998/ Thu, 07 Jan 2021 11:28:34 -0500 Analysis of the episode from television series “Buffy the Vampire Slayer”, “Who Are You?” (4.16).

]]> 0 352ad6c18462489ade2d61d07db1c652 Sérgio Dias Branco deposited “The Urban and the Domestic: Spaces of American Film Noir” https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1721997/ Thu, 07 Jan 2021 11:13:35 -0500 Urban and domestic spaces are at the core of the American film noir developed in the 1940s and 50s. The connection between such spaces and noir cannot be considered only as motivational (an association between city and crime) or protective (a separation between home and violence). The context of this genre must be considered more largely as the…[Read more]

]]> 0 c987a73530ddc959d21fc0f2c01e3689 Sérgio Dias Branco deposited “The Class of Images: Sketch for a Research Project” https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1721996/ Thu, 07 Jan 2021 11:09:44 -0500 The concept of class has been progressively erased in contemporary discussions around art — and other topics. The explanatory power of this economic and social category, as articulated by Karl Marx, has been annulled precisely at a time when the contradictions of late capitalism are growing, composing an ideological background that creates c…[Read more]

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]]> 0 6cf64b33cb2190efc5e72d70ae1c335d Sérgio Dias Branco deposited Divinely Human: Robert Bresson's Spiritual Reflections in the group Theology https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1721958/ Thu, 07 Jan 2021 02:24:14 -0500 This talk reads Robert Bresson’s Notes on the Cinematographer, not as a mere collection of thoughts, but as spiritual reflections. These brief meditations record aspects of his film practice in condensed form and reveal the connection between contemplation and action. The contemplative tone of the book becomes perceptible through the careful o…[Read more]

]]> 0 bfbd65c9dec9307bcd73add5e49c3a67 Sérgio Dias Branco deposited Divinely Human: Robert Bresson's Spiritual Reflections in the group Religious Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1721957/ Thu, 07 Jan 2021 02:24:05 -0500 This talk reads Robert Bresson’s Notes on the Cinematographer, not as a mere collection of thoughts, but as spiritual reflections. These brief meditations record aspects of his film practice in condensed form and reveal the connection between contemplation and action. The contemplative tone of the book becomes perceptible through the careful o…[Read more]

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]]> 0 68e53159f81e641304cc0028212a3537 Sérgio Dias Branco deposited On Essentialism: Thoughts Between Nöel Carroll and Stanley Cavell in the group Philosophy https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1721955/ Thu, 07 Jan 2021 02:23:51 -0500 Nöel Carroll has been one of the most eloquent proponents of an anti-essentialist view of art, in particular, of cinema. He seems to think that Stanley Cavell holds an essentialist view of film, put forward in his foundational work, The World Viewed, and developed in later essays and books. While Carroll admires Cavell’s philosophical readings of…[Read more]

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]]> 0 093e2603e343e6569bf200de08626730 Sérgio Dias Branco deposited On Essentialism: Thoughts Between Nöel Carroll and Stanley Cavell in the group Film-Philosophy https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1721953/ Thu, 07 Jan 2021 02:23:45 -0500 Nöel Carroll has been one of the most eloquent proponents of an anti-essentialist view of art, in particular, of cinema. He seems to think that Stanley Cavell holds an essentialist view of film, put forward in his foundational work, The World Viewed, and developed in later essays and books. While Carroll admires Cavell’s philosophical readings of…[Read more]

]]> 0 aa088d7d3ee6762e83633cc281133ca7 Sérgio Dias Branco deposited Labyrinths of the Self: Different Characters, Identical Bodies in “Battlestar Galactica” in the group Film Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1721952/ Thu, 07 Jan 2021 02:23:39 -0500 Paper on performance and personal identity in the television series “Battlestar Galactica”.

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