Browsing by Author "Martins, Adriana"
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- Caring for the common home and calling for a diverse future: Pope Francis and Byung-Chul Han in dialoguePublication . Martins, AdrianaThe first few decades of the twenty-first century have posed various challenges to humankind such as the worldwide impact of the changing patterns of globalization processes, economic crises, the pandemic, the war in Ukraine, and the specter of deglobalization illustrate. The unknown and unpredictable future is a reason for utmost concern for the contemporary society that Byung-Chul Han characterizes as an “achievement society”—one that is dominated by “excessive positivity” and that has evolved into a “doping society”. This “palliative society” is such because it is unable to cope with pain, and it is marked by a kind of permanent analgesia that prevents urgent reforms from taking place. In this essay, I examine how Pope Francis’s encyclical letters Laudato Si’ (2015) and Fratelli Tutti (2020)—by calling for an integral ecology (which connects environmental, economic, political, social, cultural, and ethical issues), social friendship, solidarity, and the common good—instill hope in the burnout society that Han reflects upon, urge action toward, and encourage changes to overcome in the current environmental and human crisis, as well as to building a diverse future that is not palliative.
- El jornal português y la falacia de la neutralidad portuguesa en el cine portuguésPublication . Martins, AdrianaIn this essay, I analyze the Jornal Português, the official non-mandatory newsreel that complemented the screening of national and international films, with the aim of demonstrating how the mediation of neutrality in World War II contributed to converting Salazar into the protective father of the nation, sparing the Portuguese people from experiencing the horrors of conflict. Furthermore, this also reveals how relative Portugal’s neutrality proved since it was convenient not only to the country but also to the Allies and the Axis forces.
- Fernando Meirelle's The constant gardener at the crossroads of hegemonic and counter-hegemonic globalizationPublication . Martins, AdrianaJohn Le Carré’s novel The Constant Gardener (2001) focuses on the ongoing exploitation of former African colonized people by international interests in a post-colonial time marked by globalization. Despite the novelist’s attempt to render the complex machinations among multinationals, Britain and underdeveloped states visible, his focus is mainly placed on characters connoted with power. This essay analyzes Fernando Meirelles’s 2005 filmic remediation of Le Carré’s novel and demonstrates how Meirelles transforms Le Carré’s representation of multifold conflicts into a reflection on the complexity of the phenomenon of globalization and of its impact on the Global South. I claim that Meirelles transforms his film into a stage on which the hegemonic and counter-hegemonic forces of globalization (Santos, “The Processes”) are confronted and interrogated from an ethical perspective. The latter highlights the relevance of a globalization from below (Appadurai “Grassroots”) and cinema’s role in denouncing the evils of globalization.
- Ficções do real no cinema português: um país imaginadoPublication . Martins, AdrianaRecensão de Leonor Areal. 2011. Cinema Português: Um País Imaginado. Lisboa: Edições 70. 2 vols., 549+477 pp.
- Going beyond oblivion in António Lobo Antunes's O Esplendor de PortugalPublication . Martins, Adriana
- Quando o arquivo vomita Salazar: representações da mulher no cinema português contemporâneoPublication . Martins, AdrianaPartindo da provocadora tela de Paula Rego, “Salazar a Vomitar a Pátria”, este ensaio discute algumas representações fílmicas da mulher portuguesa do Estado Novo, a partir de uma seleção de filmes de realizadoras portuguesas contemporâneas que lançam mão de memórias públicas e privadas e de diferentes materiais de arquivopara questionar a representação pública da ditadura. A partir de uma perspetiva feminina e comparada, o ensaio examina as lacunas epistemológicas do arquivo e reflete sobre como estas, para além de desvelarem intrincados processos de manipulação ideológica que ilustram a violência do arquivo e o seu caráter disciplinador (Derrida 1995; Foucault 1972), interrogam o cinema como médiumprivilegiado de formação, circulação e reconfiguração da memória cultural.
- A resposta resiliente europeia à liderança atrativa inteligente chinesaPublication . Martins, Adriana