Lúcia Nagib

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Lúcia Nagib (* 1956 ) is a Brazilian film scholar . Her research focus is on a polycentric approach to world cinema . She also looks at “New Wave” and “New Cinema” movements, cinematic realism and intermediality .

Life

Nagib studied film studies at the Universidade de São Paulo and received a Mestrado em Artes there in 1989 . In 1994 she did her doctorate there on the Japanese film director Nagisa Ōshima .

She taught as the Centenary Professor of World Cinemas at the University of Leeds . In April 2013 she was appointed professor in the Department of Film, Theater and Television at the University of Reading . As such, she is director of the Center for Film Aesthetics and Cultures .

In 2000 she was a Ministry of Culture Visiting Fellow at the Center for Brazilian Studies at the University of Oxford . From 2003 to 2004 she was a Leverhulme Trust Visiting Professor at the School of History of Art, Film and Visual Media of Birkbeck College of the University of London . In 2008 she was a Distinguished Visitor at the Department of English and Film Studies at the University of Alberta .

Nagib is the editor of the book series World Cinema Series of the publisher IB Tauris . She is also co-editor there, together with Tiago de Luca, of the Film Thinks Series book series .

She is a member of the European Network for Cinema and Media Studies , the Society for Cinema and Media Studies , and the Association of British and Irish Lusitanists .

Nagib is married to the British prehistorian Stephen Shennan .

Publications (selection)

  • Lúcia Nagib [ed.]: Mestre Mizoguchi: uma lição de cinema. (1990, Navegar, São Paulo)
  • Lúcia Nagib [Ed.]: Ozu: o extraordinario cineasta do cotidiano. (1990, Marco Zero, São Paulo)
  • Lúcia Nagib: Werner Herzog: o cinema como realidade. (1991, Estação Liberdade, São Paulo)
  • Lúcia Nagib: Em torno da nouvelle vague japonesa. (1993, Editora da Unicamp, Campinas)
  • Lúcia Nagib: Nascido das cinzas: author e sujeito nos filmes de Oshima. (1995, Edusp, São Paulo)
  • Lúcia Nagib: The New Cinema meets Cinema Novo: new trends in Brazilian cinema. (2001, Framework, 42)
  • Lúcia Nagib: O cinema da retomada: depoimentos de 90 cineastas dos anos 90. (2002, Editora 34, São Paulo)
  • Lúcia Nagib [Ed.]: The new Brazilian cinema. (2003, IB Tauris, London)
  • Lúcia Nagib: A utopia no Cinema Brasileiro: matrizes, nostalgia, distopias. (2006, Coleção Ensaios. CosacNaify, São Paulo)
  • Lúcia Nagib: Brazil on screen: Cinema Novo, new cinema and utopia. (2007, Tauris World Cinema Series. IB Tauris, London)
  • Lúcia Nagib, Cecília Mello [Eds.]: Realism and the audiovisual media. (2009, Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke)
  • Lúcia Nagib: World cinema and the ethics of realism. (2011, Continuum, London)
  • Lúcia Nagib, Chris Perriam, Rajinder Dudrah [Eds.]: Theorizing world cinema. (2012, Tauris World Cinema Series. IB Tauris, London)
  • Lúcia Nagib, Anne Jerslev [Eds.]: Impure cinema: intermedial and intercultural approaches to film. (2013, Tauris World Cinema Series. IB Tauris, London)

Web links

  • Entry on the website of the University of Reading

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Short entry on the website of the Universidade Estadual de Campinas
  2. ↑ Lúcia Nagib: Brazil on screen: Cinema Novo, new cinema and utopia (2007, Tauris World Cinema Series. IB Tauris, London)
  3. ^ A b New Chair in Film: Professor Lúcia Nagib , March 25, 2013, website of the University of Reading
  4. ↑ Spotlight on Stephen Shennan , March 1, 2012, UCL Institute of Archeology
  5. ↑ Lúcia Nagib: World Cinema and the Ethics of Realism (2011, Bloomsbury Publishing USA, page xiv)
personal data
SURNAME Nagib, Lucia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Brazilian film scholar
DATE OF BIRTH 1956