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Patrícia Silveirinha Castello Branco is a Portuguese researcher and academic, currently serving as the coordinator of the CineLab at IFILNOVA, the NOVA Institute of Philosophy, Lisbon. She specializes in film studies, philosophy, the sensory perception of visual media, and Portuguese cinema, with a particular focus on haptic visuality, the interaction between technology and the body, and posthumanist thought 
Education
'Patrícia Silveirinha Castello Branco earned her Ph.D. in 2009, focusing on haptic visuality in technological images. Her doctoral thesis, which explored how technology shapes the sensory perception of images, was awarded publication by Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian'.
Research
Patrícia’s research focuses on embodied perception, examining how films and other visual media engage viewers through haptic visuality, a concept that refers to touch-like sensory interactions with visual images. Her studies intersect philosophy, art, technology, and Portuguese cinema, with contributions to the fields of posthumanism, ecological cinema, and philosophy of the sublime.
She is also the co-editor and co-founder of Cinema: Journal of Philosophy and the Moving Image, an academic journal that fosters interdisciplinary dialogue between philosophy and cinema. The journal examines the aesthetic, political, and ethical implications of film and is indexed in Scopus. Notable issues include:
- 2022 - Film and Non-Western Thought. Issue 14.
- 2017 - Cinema. Issue 9. Co-edited with Sérgio Dias Branco and Saeed Zeydabadi-Nejad.
- 2014 - Portuguese Cinema and Philosophy. Issue 5. Co-edited with Susana Viegas.
- 2012 - Embodiment and the Body. Issue 3.
Selected Publications
Books
- 2024 - Patrícia Castello Branco & Susana Viegas (Coord.). Cinema e Filosofia - Encontros e Reflexões. Lisbon: Tinta da China.
- 2013 - Imagem, Corpo, Tecnologia. A Função Háptica das Novas Imagens Tecnológicas. Lisbon: Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian.
Articles and Book Chapters (Selection)
- 2022 - Haptic visuality, sensation and politics in Eisenstein’s film theory. Studies in Russian and Soviet Cinema, 1-17].
- 2022 - Kant and Burke’s Sublime in Werner Herzog’s Films. Film-Philosophy 26(2), pp. 149–170.
- 2020 - The Titans at the Heart of the Anthropocene. Diving into the non-human imagery of Leviathan. In Communicating in the Anthropocene: Intimate Relations, edited by Alexa M. Dare & M. Fletcher, pp. 299-320. Lexington Books.
- 2020 - The awakening of the body: “Film as Sensation” in the first French avant-garde. The Senses and Society 15(2), pp. 125-138. .
- 2020 - Herzog’s Sublime and Ecstatic Truth. From Burke’s Physiological Aesthesis to the Dionysian Unveiling. In The Philosophy of Werner Herzog, edited by Blake Wilson & Christopher Turner, pp. 21-38. Lexington Books, Rowman & Littlefield.
References
[edit]- IFILNOVA - Instituto de Filosofia da NOVA. “Patrícia Silveirinha Castello Branco.” IFILNOVA (accessed October 2024).
- Silveirinha Castello Branco, Patrícia. Imagem, Corpo, Tecnologia. A Função Háptica das Novas Imagens Tecnológicas. Lisbon: Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, 2013.
- Castello Branco, Patrícia. “Haptic visuality, sensation and politics in Eisenstein’s film theory.” Studies in Russian and Soviet Cinema (2022): 1-17. DOI: 10.1080/17503132.2022.2056992.
- Castello Branco, Patrícia. “Kant and Burke’s Sublime in Werner Herzog’s Films.” Film-Philosophy 26(2) (2022): 149-170. DOI: 10.3366/film.2022.0193.
- Castello Branco, Patrícia. “The awakening of the body: ‘Film as Sensation’ in the first French avant-garde.” The Senses and Society 15(2) (2020): 125-138. DOI: 10.1080/17458927.2020.1719745.
- Wilson, Blake, and Christopher Turner (Eds). The Philosophy of Werner Herzog. Lexington Books, 2020.
- Castello Branco, Patrícia. “Háptico, Corpo e Paisagem em três filmes chave do cinema português.” Cinema & Território 4 (2019): 2-12. DOI: 10.34640/universidademadeira2019castellobranco.
- Edwards, Matthew (Ed). Klaus Kinski, Beast of Cinema. McFarland & Company, 2016.
- Cinema: Journal of Philosophy and the Moving Image. Official website (accessed October 2024).
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