The topic of memory is frequent in contemporary thinking about art and aesthetic experience. More than a revivalist drive, a revaluation of the old, a hypervaluation of the present (and its archiving), a historical detachment or a chronic nostalgia in the age of postmodern disenchantment, the influence of reflections on memory in the course of the arts suggests, above all, a profound complicity – perhaps unavoidable – between the notions of temporality and aesthetic experience. The dimension of time (and the corresponding “movement”) is claimed as an essential ingredient for an integral art realism and, in this sense, can contribute to aesthetic authenticity. But temporality influences artistic expression in different ways: here are inscribed the dialectics of life and death, of immediate and deferred, of actual and virtual, of presence and non-presence. The various contributions brought together in this book intend to stimulate the debate on the role of memory in the poetics and politics of the cinematic art and the audiovisual across platforms. Authors: Jaimie Baron / Nelson Araújo / Luís Umbelino / Filipe Martins / Susana Nascimento Duarte / Dale Hudson and Patricia R. Zimmermann Publisher: Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto / Faculty of Arts of the University of Porto Language: Inglês/English Collection: Estética, Política e Artes / Aesthetics, Politics and Arts Coordinators of the collection: Eugénia Vilela, Né Barros

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Filipe Martins is a film director, professor at the School of Media Arts and Design (ESMAD, Porto, Portugal) and researcher at the Institute of Philosophy of the University of Porto, in the Research Group Aesthetics, Policy and Knowledge. His filmography includes films in the genres of fiction, documentary and videodance, selected and awarded in several film festivals. Codirector and programmer of the Family Film Project - International Film Festiva since 2012. PhD in Social Semiotics (UM), master’s degree in Contemporary Culture (UNL) and degree in Art and Communication (ESAP). Wrote and edited several books. His PhD thesis, entitled Sentido Narrativo (Narrative Sense), is published by Afrontamento (2016). He currently coordinates the Master´s degree in Audiovisual Communication at ESMAD.

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