Esther Império Hamburger

Professor of History and Theory of Cinema and Television at the Department of Film, Radio and Television of the School of Communication Arts at the University of São Paulo (USP). Current Vice-director of the Museu de Arte Contemporânea, MAC, USP. Member of Unesco Milid coordination. With a background in social anthropology (Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1999), Professor Hamburger has published in a wide range of journals and book anthologies, including the journals Framework and Television and New Media in the U.S., and Folha de São Paulo newspaper. She published O Brasil atenado, a study of the Brazilian telenovela. Research-in-progress includes expressions of violence, race, and poverty, in contemporary Brazilian film, with an approach that encompasses aesthetic forms, modes of exhibition, and viewer response. This work analyses the ways in which films have come to play a strategic role in the poetic and political expression of the Brazilian social inequality. It does so by tracing interlocutions between certain films, which capture and express different perspectives. Ongoing research on film director Arne Sucksdorff. Currently Researcher of the Advanced Research Institute of the University of São Paulo. She was Tinker Visiting Professor School of the Arts /Ilas Columbia University; Visiting Scholar at DRCLAS Harvard University among others. She directed the CINUSP Paulo Emilio, was coordinator of the Laboratory of Audiovisual Investigation and Critique (LAICA). Research interests include culture industry, criticism, theory, and history of modern and contemporary audiovisual forms, gender relations, television, cinema and digital media. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)