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Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Instituto de Artes (IA) (Institutional affiliation from the last research proposal) Birthplace: Brazil
Edson Costa Jr. is a postdoctoral fellow at the Arts Institute at Unicamp, with a grant from FAPESP (21/02448-5). He was a visiting scholar at the Department of Romance Studies at Duke University (2023-2024). He holds a PhD in Media and Audiovisual Processes from the School of Communication and Arts at the University of São Paulo (USP), with funding from FAPESP, and was a visiting student researcher at Université Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris 3. He completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Department of Fine Arts at USP (2018-2021) with a grant from the National Postdoctoral Program/CAPES. His research focus on aesthetics and politics of body; counter-colonization; visual arts; Brazilian cinema; world cinema; realism. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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This research project aims to develop first analytical parameters for the study of the body in Brazilian audiovisual works made in 2010s, primarily in productions starring or directed by historical subjects who are victims of class, race and ethnic violence. As far as we know, the centrality of social issues in such cinematography limited previous research to thematic analysis and, conseq…
This research project proposes a systematic study of the human figure representation in cinema. Considering the film language, the cinematographic "dispositif" and the figurative structure of the filmic image, we intend to infer and analyze different composition modes of the human figure. Our research project makes a counterpoint to the idea of conformation between the treatment given to …
The research focus on the film-essay Sans Soleil (1982, Sunless), directed by the french filmmaker Chris Marker. It aims to study the possibilities of audiovisual format which mediates the relationship between the subject and the different manifestations of the past. In order to accomplish this objective, this paper analyses two aspects of the film: the formal and the thematic. On the fir…
This project presents the expected contributions from the research internship at Duke University to the postdoctoral research I am conducting at the Unicamp Arts Institute (FAPESP 21/02448-5). The research proposes to elaborate parameters for the analysis of the interface between body and social experience in independent Brazilian audiovisual (2014-2022). The interest lies in works in whi…
This research project proposes a systematic study of the human figure representation in cinema. Considering the film language, the cinematographic "dispositif" and the figurative structure of the filmic image, we intend to infer and analyze different composition modes of the human figure. Our research project makes a counterpoint to the idea of conformation between the treatment given to …
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