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OS FANTASMAS DA FOTOGRAFIA E DO CINEMA PHOTOGRAPHY, CINEMA, and the GHOSTLY Processo De Revisão N RCL — Revista de Comunicação e Linguagens e Linguagens Comunicação de — Revista RCL 53 ISSN 2183-7198 ISSN Journal of Communication and Languages Communication of Journal 2020 Fall/Winter N.53 (2020) ISSN 2183-7198 N.53 (2020) ISSN Outono/Inverno OS FANTASMAS DA FOTOGRAFIA E DO CINEMA PHOTOGRAPHY, CINEMA, AND THE GHOSTLY José Bértolo Margarida Medeiros (Eds.) 1 FICHA TÉCNICA EDITORIAL INFORMATION Revista de Comunicação Frequência Frequency e Linguagens Semestral bi-annual Journal of Communication Publicação em acesso livre and Languages Publication in open access — OS FANTASMAS DA FOTOGRAFIA E DO CINEMA PHOTOGRAPHY, CINEMA, AND THE GHOSTLY Processo de revisão N. 53 Review process Revisão cega por pares double blind peer review Direcção Editors-in-Chief ISSN Margarida Medeiros 2183-7198 ICNOVA e Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas da Universidade DOI Nova de Lisboa https://doi.org/10.34619/55s6-rw65 [email protected] Teresa Mendes Flores Endereço da Redação ICNOVA e Faculdade de Ciências Journal address Sociais e Humanas da Universidade Nova Instituto de Comunicação da NOVA de Lisboa e Universidade Lusófona Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas [email protected] Universidade Nova de Lisboa Avenida de Berna, 26-C | 1069-061 Lisboa E-mail: [email protected] Editores deste número URL: www.icnova.fcsh.unl.pt This issue Editors José Bértolo Design Universidade de Lisboa, Tomás Gouveia Faculdade de Letras Centro de Estudos Comparatistas Capa Cover [email protected] Fotografia de Staveley Bulford, 1921 Margarida Medeiros Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Faculdade Revista de Comunicação e Linguagens de Ciências Sociais e Humanas. Journal of Communication and Languages Instituto de Comunicação da NOVA www.fcsh.unl.pt/rcl/index.php/rcl/index [email protected] Edições anteriores a 2017 Last issues www.icnova.fcsh.unl.pt/revista-de- comunicacao-e-linguagens/ Este trabalho está licenciado sob a Licença Creative Commons Atribuição-NãoComercial 4.0 Internacional. Para ver uma cópia desta licença, visite http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ ©2020, ICNOVA Todos os direitos reservados. All rights reserved. CONSELHO CIENTÍFICO INTERNACIONAL INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC BOARD Ana Lúcia Mandelli de Marsillac (Federal University of Santa Catarina) — Portugal António Fernando Cascais (Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Faculty of Social and Human Sciences) — Portugal Carlos Smaniotto Costa (Lusophone University of Humanities and Technologies) — Portugal Christoph Breser (Institute of Urban and Architectural History, Graz University of Technology, Graz) — Áustria Gail Day (University of Leeds) — Reino Unido Geoffrey Batchen (University of Oxford) — Reino Unido Jeremy Stolow (University of Concordia, Montreal) — Canadá João Borges da Cunha (Lusophone University of Humanities and Technologies) — Portugal John Tagg (University of Bighampton) — EUA Jorge Ribalta (Independent researcher) — Spain José Bragança de Miranda (Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Faculty of Social and Human Sciences) — Portugal José Gomez-Isla (University of Salamanca) — Espanha José Pinheiro Neves (University of Minho, Institute of Social Sciences) — Portugal Luis Deltell Escolar (Complutense University of Madrid Michelle Henning (University of Liverpool) — Reino Unido Maria Augusta Babo (Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Faculty of Social and Human Sciences) — Portugal Maria Lucília Marcos (Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Faculty of Social and Human Sciences) — Portugal Maria Teresa Cruz (Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Faculty of Social and Human Sciences) — Portugal Michiel de Lange (Media and Cultural Studies, Utrecht University, Utrecht) — Holanda Michelle Henning (Universidade de Liverpool) — Reino Unido Philippe Dubois (Sorbonne Nouvelle University, Paris III) — França Steve Edwards (Birbeck College, University of London) — Reino Unido Teresa Castro (Sorbonne Nouvelle University, Paris III) — França Tom Gunning (University of Chicago) — EUA Ulrich Baer (New York University) — EUA Victor del Río Garcia (University of Salamanca) — Espanha CONSELHO CONSULTIVO — N.53 ISSUE 53 — ADVISORY BOARD Amândio Reis (CEC/Universidade de Lisboa) — Portugal André Silveira (Universidade Nova de Lisboa) — Portugal Cecilia Mello (Universidade de São Paulo) — Brasil Clara Rowland (Universidade Nova de Lisboa) — Portugal Daniel Ribas (Universidade Católica do Porto) — Portugal Ehler Voss (Universidade de Bremen) — Alemanha Elisabete Marques (ILCML/Universidade do Porto) — Portugal Geoffrey Batchen (Universidade de Oxford) — Reino Unido Guillaume Bourgois (Universidade de Grenoble) — França Humberto Brito (Universidade Nova de Lisboa) — Portugal Jean-Pierre Montier (Universidade de Rennes) — França Jeffrey Childs (Universidade Aberta) — Portugal Jeremy Stolow (Universidade de Concordia/Montréal) — Canadá Jimmy McRoy (Universidade de Wisconsin) — EUA João Luz (Instituto Politécnico de Tomar) — Portugal Júlia Garraio (Centro de Estudos Sociais/Universidade de Coimbra) — Portugal Luis Mendonça (ICNOVA/Universidade Nova de Lisboa) — Portugal Maria Irene Aparício (Universidade Nova de Lisboa) — Portugal Maria Lucília Marcos (Universidade Nova de Lisboa) — Portugal Michelle Henning (Universidade de Liverpool) — Reino Unido Murray Leeder (Universidade de Manitoba) — Canadá Neil Matheson (Universidade de Westminster) — Reino Unido Nélio Conceição (IFILNOVA/Universidade Nova de Lisboa) — Portugal Nelson Araújo (Escola Superior Artística do Porto) — Portugal Paulo Cunha (Universidade da Beira Interior) — Portugal Raquel Schefer (CEC/Universidade de Lisboa) — Portugal Rita Novas Miranda (Universidade de Nanterre) — França Rosana Monteiro (Universidade de Goiás) — Brasil Sandra Vieira Jürgens (IHA/Universidade Nova de Lisboa) — Portugal Sérgio Dias Branco (Universidade de Coimbra) — Portugal Stefanie Baumann (IFILNOVA/Universidade Nova de Lisboa) — Portugal Susana Lourenço Marques (Universidade do Porto) — Portugal Susana Martins (IHA/Universidade Nova de Lisboa) — Portugal Temenuga Trifonova (Universidade de Nova Iorque) — EUA Teresa Castro (Sorbonne Nouvelle — Universidade de Paris III) — França Teresa Mendes Flores (Universidade Nova de Lisboa/Universidade Lusófona) — Portugal Victor Flores (Universidade Lusófona) — Portugal Victor Fan (King’s College) — Reino Unido Coordenação electrónica A Revista de Comunicação e Linguagens Technical staff (ISSN: 2183-7198) está incluída nos catálogos Patrícia Contreiras LATINDEX e ProQuest / CSA (Cambridge Scientific Abstracts). ICNOVA — Instituto de Comunicação da NOVA, Portugal The Journal of Communication and Languages [email protected] (ISSN: 2183-7198) is index in LATINDEX and ProQuest/CSA (Cambridge Scientific Abstracts). ÍNDICE INDEX José Bértolo & Margarida Medeiros 7 Os Fantasmas da Fotografia e do Cinema: uma breve introdução 15 Photography, Cinema, and the Ghostly: a short introduction ARTIGOS ARTICLES 23 Anthony Winslow Enns Preserving the Dead: Postmortem Photographs and Funeral Practices in 19th-Century America 39 Mei Gao Between Ontology and Hauntology: Magic Realism in Contemporary Chinese Cinema 57 Murray Leeder The Scene of Haunting in Silent Adaptations of A Christmas Carol 73 Robert George White Ghosts beneath the Surface: Remnants and Revenants of Palestine in the Cinema of the Interior 93 Fernando Guerreiro “O Fantasma é o Futuro do Homem” — Da Espectralidade das Imagens no Cinema de Kiyoshi Kurosawa: Kairo (2001) 109 Dulce da Rocha Gonçalves De Geest van Maju: The Ghost Lecture in the Netherlands 132 Sara Castelo Branco A Lanterna Mágica nas Obras de Renato Ferrão e Francisco Tropa: Da Reprodução à Apresentação 150 Gianmarco Bocchi Photographic Encounters with (In)visible Mothers in Roland Barthes’ Camera Lucida, W. G. Sebald’s Austerlitz and Erri de Luca’s Non ora, Non qui 168 Benjamim Picado O Fantasma da Teoria: O que Significa “Ver-através” de Fotografias? 188 Josh Grant-Young “To Look at Oneself and All the While See Nothing”: Haunting, Testimony and Mediated Memory in I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House 206 Ricardo Vieira Lisboa Bostofrio: A Recusa Fotográfica como Evocação 220 Marisa Mourinha Haunted Tapes, Killer Copies: Cinematic Ghosts in Ringu and The Ring 237 Pedro Florêncio Caindo no Real: Notas sobre Welfare, de Frederick Wiseman 254 Luciana Martinez Fantasmas à Deriva: Travessias da Escravidão rumo ao Brasil Contemporâneo RECENSÕES BOOK REVIEWS 272 Pierre Jailloux Zernik, Clélia et Eric Zernik. 2019. L’Attrait des fantômes. Crisnée: Yellow Now. 275 Diogo Ferreira Leeder, Murray. 2017. The Modern Supernatural and the Beginnings of Cinema. London: Palgrave Macmillan. 281 Elisabete Marques Guerreiro, Fernando e José Bértolo (ed.). 2019. Morte e Espectralidade nas Artes e na Literatura. V.N. Famalicão: Húmus. 284 Madalena Miranda Peraica, Ana. 2019. The Age of Total Images: Disappearance of a Subjective Viewpoint in Post-Digital Photography. Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures. RCL — Revista de Comunicação e Linguagens e Linguagens Comunicação de — Revista RCL Os Fantasmas da Fotografia e do Cinema: uma breve introdução JOSÉ BÉRTOLO Universidade de Lisboa, Faculdade de Letras, Centro de Estudos Comparatistas [email protected] and Languages Communication of Journal MARGARIDA MEDEIROS Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas. Instituto de Comunicação da NOVA [email protected]
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