"From the Space In Between to the Transcultural" -- A Talk by Denilson Lopes

In this talk Denilson Lopes discusses the theoretical basis of his current research called Transcultural Landscapes in Contemporary Cinema, establishing a dialogue with the ideas by Silviano Santiago, Néstor García Canclini and Arjun Appadurai. At this talk he also mentions the theoretical efforts of film criticism to address the issues of interculturality and multiculturalism. In exploring this issue, Denilson places Latin American critical theory in relation to authors who have addressed the topic of multiculturalism in film such as Robert Stam, Hamid Naficy, Laura Marks and Andréa Franca.

Denilson Lopes is a Professor at the School of Communications at Federal University Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) and President of Brazilian Society of Cinema and Audiovisual (SOCINE). He is the author of A Delicadeza: Estética, Experiência e Paisagens [Delicateness: Aesthetics, experience and landscapes] (2007), O Homem que Amava Rapazes e Outros Ensaios [The man who loved boys and other essays](2002), Nós os Mortos: Melancolia e Neo-Barroco [We the dead: melancholia and neo-baroque] (1999). He is co-editor of Imagem e Diversidade Sexual [Image and Sexual Diversity] (2004) and editor of O Cinema dos Anos 90 [Cinema in the nineties] (2005).