Fernando Arenas

Biographic Data

ID193859
NAMEFernando Arenas
GIVEN NAMESFernando
FAMILY NAMEArenas
SIGNATUREARENAS F
AFFILIATIONSInstituto Politécnico Nacional, Centro Interdisciplinario de Ciencias Marinas, México
ORCID0000-0001-9338-7125
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS12
TOTAL CITATIONS15
AUTHOR COUNT12
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2006
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2022
H-INDEX2

  • Africanos e Afrodescendentes no Cinema Português Contemporâneo

    Open AccessFernando Arenas, FERNANDO ARENAS FERNANDO ARENASARTICLEPortuguese Literary and Cultural…2022

    O presente ensaio oferece uma panorâmica crítica de longas-metragens e documentários ligados às experiências de africanos e afrodescendentes no Portugal contemporâneo, visando investigar como a dita produção cultural reflete uma nação portuguesa em plena mutação, onde as fronteiras entre o Portugal pós-colonial e as ex-colónias africanas, tal como as noções acerca do que é "ser africano" ou "ser europeu," estão a ser redefinidas. As longa-metrage…

  • Paleoenvironmental reconstruction in La Paz Bay, Gulf of California

    Open AccessFernando Arenas, Harumi Fujita et al.ARTICLEThe Holocene2021References: 5

    Oceanic characteristics of the Holocene are used to understand climatic patterns and phenomena that affect marine and human communities. Likewise, past marine conditions can be reconstructed from surface sea temperature (SST), using stable oxygen isotopes in bivalve shells. The objective of this study was to calculate Holocene summer SSTs for La Paz Bay, by analyzing δ 18 O of 14 C dated bivalve shells ( Chione californiensis) from a Holocene cam…

  • The Filmography of Guinea-Bissau's Sana Na N'Hada

    Open AccessFernando Arenas, Fernando Ramos ArenasARTICLEPortuguese Literary and Cultural…2018Cited by: 1

    This essay offers a critical assessment of the work of Sana Na N'Hada, one of the most important cultural producers of Guinea-Bissau, centering on his documentaries, The Return of Amílcar Cabral (1976) and Bissau d'Isabel (2005), as well as the feature films, Xime (1994) e Kadjike (2013). Through his feature films and documentaries, Sana has been creating an audiovisual archive spanning the late colonial and early postcolonial periods that is key…

  • Sana Na N’Hada, director. Kadjike.2013. 115 minutes. Bissau-Guinean- Portuguese Kriol. Lx Filmes. No price reported

    Open AccessFernando Arenas, Fernando Ramos ArenasARTICLEAfrican Studies Review2016

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  • Sérgio Graciano, director. Njinga

    Open AccessFernando Arenas, Fernando Ramos ArenasARTICLEAfrican Studies Review2016

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  • Portuguese-Brazilian (Dis)Connections

    Open AccessFernando Arenas, Fernando Ramos ArenasARTICLEPortuguese Literary and Cultural…2016

    Focusing on Luso-Brazilian cultural relations through recent history, this essay offers a series of reflections from within the realm of mentalities and the symbolic regarding the current state of the relationship between Portugal and Brazil, with special attention given to the fields of high and popular culture, media, and geopolitics

  • The Renaissance of Angolan Cinema

    Open AccessFernando Arenas, Fernando Ramos ArenasARTICLEPortuguese Literary and Cultural…2016

    This article offers a critical review of recent Angolan films that together constitute a renaissance of cinema in Angola, thanks to the normalization that has been made possible during the post-war years. The films The Hero by Zézé Gamboa (2004) and Hollow City by Maria João Ganga (2004) are discussed within the context of the emergence of cinema in Angola, which is indissociable from the larger historical and political context since independence

  • Migrations and the Rise of African Lisbon

    Fernando Arenas, Fernando Ramos ArenasARTICLEPostcolonial Studies2015Cited by: 5

    Portugal is arguably the European nation with the longest experience with “colonialism” in a variety of configurations, historical moments, and geographical contexts. Yet, given its perennially peripheral status from a geopolitical and economic standpoint, the Portuguese (post-)colonial experience has not been an object of attention outside of the field of Lusophone Studies. This essay provides a brief historical overview to understand the breadt…

  • Annual Index Volume XC (2013)

    Alonso Veloso, Mara Jos et al.ARTICLEBulletin of Spanish Studies2013

  • Cinematic and Literary Representations of Africans and Afro-descendants in Contemporary Portugal

    Open AccessFernando Arenas, Fernando Ramos ArenasARTICLECadernos de Estudos Africanos2012References: 2

    This article ofers an analysis of feature ilms and literary iction related to sub-Saharan African immigrants and their descendants in contemporary Portugal. I investigate how this cultural production relects the changing Portuguese nation, where the boundaries between postcolonial Portugal and its former African colonies, as well as the notions of what constitutes being "frican or being European , are being redeined

  • Lusophone Africa

    Fernando Arenas, Fernando Ramos ArenasBOOKLusophone Africa2011Cited by: 9

    This book is a study of the contemporary cultural production of Portuguese-speaking Africa and its critical engagement with globalization in the aftermath of colonialism, especially since the advent of multiparty politics and market-oriented economies. Exploring the evolving relationship of Lusophone Africa with Portugal, its former colonial power, and Brazil, this book situates the countries on the geopolitical map of contemporary global forces.…

  • Lusosex

    Vanessa K Valdés, Susan Canty Quinlan et al.ARTICLEHispania2006