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Cecília M Mello

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ID50
NAMECecília M Mello
GIVEN NAMESCecília M
FAMILY NAMEMello
SIGNATUREMELLO C M
AFFILIATIONSUniversidade de São Paulo
ORCID0000-0003-4354-7949
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS22
TOTAL CITATIONS4
AUTHOR COUNT22
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2005
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX1
  • Interconnected Cinemas: Teaching World Cinema from a Brazilian Perspective

    Cecília M Mello•ARTICLE•Studies in World Cinema•2026

    This article seeks to explore the evolution of my teaching of world cinema, tracing my journey from the University of Leeds to the University of São Paulo, enriched by experiences in China. I will examine how my pedagogical approach has been shaped by a confluence of English-language scholarship, local academic traditions, and the nuances of everyday classroom interactions. The discussion will commence with my tenure as a visiting fellow at the C…

  • Dossiê Televisão Parte I

    Open Access•Esther Hamburger, Cecília M Mello et al.•ARTICLE•Significação Revista de Cultura…•2025

  • Policentrismo, periferia e o lugar do cinema brasileiro no cinema mundial

    Open Access•Cecília M Mello•ARTICLE•Alceu•2025

    O objetivo deste texto é refletir sobre como a categoria “mundo”, aplicada ao cinema, se traduz no ambiente acadêmico e audiovisual brasileiro no século XXI, a partir de uma visão geral das principais teorias e conceitos relacionados à ideia de “cinema mundial/world cinema” no debate acadêmico em língua inglesa. Em termos gerais, a categoria “cinema mundial”, entendida como um rótulo de conveniência para designar filmes não produzidos nos EUA e n…

  • Notes on the state of Brazilian television archives: From scattered initiatives to an uncertain future

    Open Access•Esther Hamburger, Giancarlo Gozzi et al.•ARTICLE•Critical Studies in Television…•2025•References: 10

    In recent years, there has been a growing interest in past television programmes and television memory more broadly, a trend amplified by streaming platforms. This development highlights the critical issue of television archiving and content accessibility. As Brazilian television approaches its 75th anniversary in 2025, this article examines the current state of television archives in Brazil, their accessibility to the general public, and the rol…

  • As sementes da Ópera de Pequim: Entrevista com a Companhia Nacional de Ópera de Pequim

    Open Access•Esther Marinho Santana, Cecília M Mello•ARTICLE•Urdimento•2025•References: 2

    Realizada durante a turnê da Companhia Nacional de Ópera de Pequim no Brasil, em novembro de 2024, esta entrevista interpreta a oportunidade de escuta de seus artistas como uma espécie de arquivo vivo rumo à construção de uma memória do teatro chinês nos palcos brasileiros. Em suas falas, Guan Xiaohui, Liu Kuikui, Jiang Meiyi e Wu Zeyu refletem sobre o legado da trupe, o repertório escolhido para as apresentações, o papel da Ópera de Pequim na di…

  • A crítica cinematográfica nos filmes brasileiros Benzinho e A mãe

    Open Access•Cecília M Mello, Luna Gonçalves D'Alama•ARTICLE•Rumores•2024

    This study analyzes three journalistic reviews of the film Benzinho (2018), directed by Gustavo Pizzi, and another three of the film A Mãe (2022), by Cristiano Burlan, that were published in the mainstream media by critics such as Luiz Carlos Merten (O Estado de S. Paulo), Eduardo Escorel (piauí), and Flavia Guerra (UOL). To better elucidate this scenario, it introduces concepts from Pareyson on art critique; from Silva and Soares, and from Pagan…

  • The Demotic Impulse of the Kitchen-Sink Dramas

    Open Access•Cecília M Mello•ARTICLE•Journal of British Cinema and…•2024

    In this article, I suggest a historical and theoretical re-evaluation of the British New Wave from the point of view of its demotic impulse. I begin by situating the kitchen-sink films within a broader framework of post-war innovation, driven by an aspiration to realism that reinvigorated British cinema and television within a novel historical conjuncture. I then investigate the specificity of British New Wave’s realism – with an emphasis on the …

  • Chinese Soap Operas in the Reform Era

    Open Access•Cecília M Mello•ARTICLE•Revista Latinoamericana de…•2024

    This article aims to investigate the impact of the emergence of television soap operas during the 1980s and 1990s in the People’s Republic of China, with an emphasis on Yearnings (渴望, 1990) and Year after Year (一年又一年, 1998). This period comprises the first two decades of “reform and opening up” (Gaige kaifang 改革开放), when the country underwent a series of radical changes leading to market economy. As I will discuss, both soap operas employ a simil…

  • Looking at China from Abroad: Intermediality as a tool for documentary

    Open Access•Cecília M Mello•ARTICLE•International Communication of…•2023

    In 2020, due to the Coronavirus Pandemic, travel to China and around the world was mostly suspended. In the face of such restrictions, the ‘Looking China Youth Film Project’ took a different approach by inviting students from around the world to make documentary short films in remote mode. This meant employing different expressive resources and a mixed-media format, including techniques such as animation, graphics, typography, photographs, and pa…

  • Interview with Giuliana Bruno

    Open Access•Esther Hamburger, Esther Império Hamburger et al.•ARTICLE•Significação Revista de Cultura…•2023

    Giuliana Bruno is Emmet Blakeney Gleason Professor of Visual and Environmental Studies at Harvard University, situated in the Carpenter Center for Visual Arts. For over three decades, her critical thinking has been characterized by sophistication, rigor and originality, placing her among the leading world academics exploring intersections between visual arts, art history, architecture, film, and visual culture studies. Bruno's interdisciplinary a…

  • Phantasmagorical realism in Memoria (Apichatpong Weerasethakul 2021)

    Cecília M Mello•ARTICLE•Moving Image Review & Art Journal…•2023

    This article proposes a close analysis of the film Memoria by Apichatpong Weerasethakul (2021). It begins by situating the film within a broader trend in contemporary East/South East Asian and Latin American cinemas, which incorporates elements of the phantasmagorical into an aesthetics of realism. The combination of these seemingly contradictory concepts gives rise to a sophisticated interplay of temporalities. This interplay comprises the prese…

  • Chinese Film in the Twenty-First Century: Movements, Genres, Intermedia

    Corey Kai Nelson Schultz, Cecília M Mello•BOOK•Chinese Film in the Twenty-First…•2023

  • País E Uma Cidade: Imigrantes brasileiros no cinema japonês do século XXI

    Open Access•Alexandre Nakahara, Cecília M Mello•ARTICLE•PÓS Revista do Programa de…•2023

    Os filmes The City of Lost Souls (2000) de Takashi Miike e Peixinho mágico (2012) de Shōhei Shiozaki têm em comum o tema da vida dos brasileiros no Japão. Ambos foram realizados por diretores japoneses em momentos distintos do contexto da imigração brasileira que ocorre no país desde 1990. Mas apesar de compartilharem um mesmo tema, os filmes apresentam visões estéticas diferentes, que levam a entendimentos contraditórios sobre a convivência entr…

  • A reinvenção intermidiática do cinema

    Open Access•Cecília M Mello•ARTICLE•Significação Revista de Cultura…•2021

    O livro de Ágnes Pethő Cinema and intermediality: the passion for the in-between encara a questão da intermidialidade no cinema com surpreendente profundidade e erudição e, como tal, ilumina e abre novos caminhos na teoria do cinema e da mídia

  • The Cinema of Jia Zhangke: Realism and Memory in Chinese Film

    Open Access•Cecília M Mello, Cecília Mello•BOOK•The Cinema of Jia Zhangke•2019

  • Insegurança perceptual e atmosferas do medo: Conexões Entre Realismo E Horror No Cinema Contemporâneo

    Open Access•Fernanda Sales Rocha Santos, Cecília M Mello et al.•ARTICLE•Ícone•2019•Cited by: 1

    O presente artigo pretende elaborar possíveis conexões entre um realismo de viés sensório e o gênero horror, a partir da ideia de que ambos compartilham um elemento comum: a insegurança perceptual que corrobora para a apreensão de atmosferas de suspense e de medo. Operando tanto na narrativa fílmica quanto na relação direta com o espectador, a insegurança perceptual foi debatida por Thomas Elsaesser (2015), sendo brevemente relacionada com filmes…

  • Permanência e desaparecimento: A cidade e o cinema de Tsai Ming-Liang

    Open Access•Cecília M Mello, Cecília Antakly Mello•ARTICLE•Rebeca - Revista Brasileira de…•2016

    Pensar no cinema como uma forma de arte afinada com o urbano e capaz de proporcionar uma flânerie imaginária através da cidade me parece ponto de partida para uma análise dos filmes do diretor malaio/taiwanês Tsai Ming-Liang. sua obra ocupa uma posição de centralidade no cinema contemporâneo devido a seu engajamento privilegiado com o espaço urbano e a arquitetura. Para conhecê-la melhor, este artigo traz uma análise juntamente com uma entrevista…

  • As mulheres de Jia Zhangke: Entrevista com Zhao Tao por Cecília Mello

    Open Access•Cecília M Mello, Cecília Mello•ARTICLE•Revista Laika•2014

    The name of Chinese actress and dancer Zhao Tao often accompanies that of

  • Space and Intermediality in Jia Zhang-ke’s Still Life

    Open Access•Cecília M Mello•ARTICLE•Aniki Revista Portuguesa da…•2014•Cited by: 1•References: 7

    This article is dedicated to an analysis of Chinese director Jia Zhang-ke’s film Still Life (San Xia Hao Ren 三峡好人, 2006) from the point of view of its intermedial relationship with Chinese landscape painting. As I will suggest, Jia’s discovery of a real landscape and a vanishing cityscape in this film, shot on location in the region of the Three Gorges of the Yangtze River, springs from a realist impulse and from an original aesthetic response to…

  • Thoughts on cinema: An Interview with Jia Zhang-ke

    Open Access•Cecília M Mello•ARTICLE•Aniki Revista Portuguesa da…•2014

    Interview with Chinese director Jia Zhang-ke, recorded in Beijing, in July 19, 2013

  • Entrevista com Laura Mulvey

    Open Access•Sônia Weidner Maluf, Cecília M Mello et al.•ARTICLE•Revista Estudos Feministas•2005

  • Políticas do olhar: Feminismo e cinema em Laura Mulvey

    Open Access•Sônia Weidner Maluf, Cecília M Mello et al.•ARTICLE•Revista Estudos Feministas•2005•Cited by: 2

  • Políticas do olhar: Feminismo e cinema em Laura Mulvey

    Open Access•Sônia Weidner Maluf, Cecília M Mello et al.•ARTICLE•Revista Estudos Feministas•2005•Cited by: 2

  • Insegurança perceptual e atmosferas do medo: Conexões Entre Realismo E Horror No Cinema Contemporâneo

    Open Access•Fernanda Sales Rocha Santos, Cecília M Mello et al.•ARTICLE•Ícone•2019•Cited by: 1

    O presente artigo pretende elaborar possíveis conexões entre um realismo de viés sensório e o gênero horror, a partir da ideia de que ambos compartilham um elemento comum: a insegurança perceptual que corrobora para a apreensão de atmosferas de suspense e de medo. Operando tanto na narrativa fílmica quanto na relação direta com o espectador, a insegurança perceptual foi debatida por Thomas Elsaesser (2015), sendo brevemente relacionada com filmes…

  • Space and Intermediality in Jia Zhang-ke’s Still Life

    Open Access•Cecília M Mello•ARTICLE•Aniki Revista Portuguesa da…•2014•Cited by: 1•References: 7

    This article is dedicated to an analysis of Chinese director Jia Zhang-ke’s film Still Life (San Xia Hao Ren 三峡好人, 2006) from the point of view of its intermedial relationship with Chinese landscape painting. As I will suggest, Jia’s discovery of a real landscape and a vanishing cityscape in this film, shot on location in the region of the Three Gorges of the Yangtze River, springs from a realist impulse and from an original aesthetic response to…

  • Entrevista com Laura Mulvey

    Open Access•Sônia Weidner Maluf, Cecília M Mello et al.•ARTICLE•Revista Estudos Feministas•2005

  • Políticas do olhar: Feminismo e cinema em Laura Mulvey

    Open Access•Sônia Weidner Maluf, Cecília M Mello et al.•ARTICLE•Revista Estudos Feministas•2005•Cited by: 2

  • As mulheres de Jia Zhangke: Entrevista com Zhao Tao por Cecília Mello

    Open Access•Cecília M Mello, Cecília Mello•ARTICLE•Revista Laika•2014

    The name of Chinese actress and dancer Zhao Tao often accompanies that of

  • Space and Intermediality in Jia Zhang-ke’s Still Life

    Open Access•Cecília M Mello•ARTICLE•Aniki Revista Portuguesa da…•2014•Cited by: 1•References: 7

    This article is dedicated to an analysis of Chinese director Jia Zhang-ke’s film Still Life (San Xia Hao Ren 三峡好人, 2006) from the point of view of its intermedial relationship with Chinese landscape painting. As I will suggest, Jia’s discovery of a real landscape and a vanishing cityscape in this film, shot on location in the region of the Three Gorges of the Yangtze River, springs from a realist impulse and from an original aesthetic response to…

  • Thoughts on cinema: An Interview with Jia Zhang-ke

    Open Access•Cecília M Mello•ARTICLE•Aniki Revista Portuguesa da…•2014

    Interview with Chinese director Jia Zhang-ke, recorded in Beijing, in July 19, 2013

  • Permanência e desaparecimento: A cidade e o cinema de Tsai Ming-Liang

    Open Access•Cecília M Mello, Cecília Antakly Mello•ARTICLE•Rebeca - Revista Brasileira de…•2016

    Pensar no cinema como uma forma de arte afinada com o urbano e capaz de proporcionar uma flânerie imaginária através da cidade me parece ponto de partida para uma análise dos filmes do diretor malaio/taiwanês Tsai Ming-Liang. sua obra ocupa uma posição de centralidade no cinema contemporâneo devido a seu engajamento privilegiado com o espaço urbano e a arquitetura. Para conhecê-la melhor, este artigo traz uma análise juntamente com uma entrevista…

  • The Cinema of Jia Zhangke: Realism and Memory in Chinese Film

    Open Access•Cecília M Mello, Cecília Mello•BOOK•The Cinema of Jia Zhangke•2019

  • Insegurança perceptual e atmosferas do medo: Conexões Entre Realismo E Horror No Cinema Contemporâneo

    Open Access•Fernanda Sales Rocha Santos, Cecília M Mello et al.•ARTICLE•Ícone•2019•Cited by: 1

    O presente artigo pretende elaborar possíveis conexões entre um realismo de viés sensório e o gênero horror, a partir da ideia de que ambos compartilham um elemento comum: a insegurança perceptual que corrobora para a apreensão de atmosferas de suspense e de medo. Operando tanto na narrativa fílmica quanto na relação direta com o espectador, a insegurança perceptual foi debatida por Thomas Elsaesser (2015), sendo brevemente relacionada com filmes…

  • A reinvenção intermidiática do cinema

    Open Access•Cecília M Mello•ARTICLE•Significação Revista de Cultura…•2021

    O livro de Ágnes Pethő Cinema and intermediality: the passion for the in-between encara a questão da intermidialidade no cinema com surpreendente profundidade e erudição e, como tal, ilumina e abre novos caminhos na teoria do cinema e da mídia

  • Looking at China from Abroad: Intermediality as a tool for documentary

    Open Access•Cecília M Mello•ARTICLE•International Communication of…•2023

    In 2020, due to the Coronavirus Pandemic, travel to China and around the world was mostly suspended. In the face of such restrictions, the ‘Looking China Youth Film Project’ took a different approach by inviting students from around the world to make documentary short films in remote mode. This meant employing different expressive resources and a mixed-media format, including techniques such as animation, graphics, typography, photographs, and pa…

  • Interview with Giuliana Bruno

    Open Access•Esther Hamburger, Esther Império Hamburger et al.•ARTICLE•Significação Revista de Cultura…•2023

    Giuliana Bruno is Emmet Blakeney Gleason Professor of Visual and Environmental Studies at Harvard University, situated in the Carpenter Center for Visual Arts. For over three decades, her critical thinking has been characterized by sophistication, rigor and originality, placing her among the leading world academics exploring intersections between visual arts, art history, architecture, film, and visual culture studies. Bruno's interdisciplinary a…

  • Phantasmagorical realism in Memoria (Apichatpong Weerasethakul 2021)

    Cecília M Mello•ARTICLE•Moving Image Review & Art Journal…•2023

    This article proposes a close analysis of the film Memoria by Apichatpong Weerasethakul (2021). It begins by situating the film within a broader trend in contemporary East/South East Asian and Latin American cinemas, which incorporates elements of the phantasmagorical into an aesthetics of realism. The combination of these seemingly contradictory concepts gives rise to a sophisticated interplay of temporalities. This interplay comprises the prese…

  • Chinese Film in the Twenty-First Century: Movements, Genres, Intermedia

    Corey Kai Nelson Schultz, Cecília M Mello•BOOK•Chinese Film in the Twenty-First…•2023

  • País E Uma Cidade: Imigrantes brasileiros no cinema japonês do século XXI

    Open Access•Alexandre Nakahara, Cecília M Mello•ARTICLE•PÓS Revista do Programa de…•2023

    Os filmes The City of Lost Souls (2000) de Takashi Miike e Peixinho mágico (2012) de Shōhei Shiozaki têm em comum o tema da vida dos brasileiros no Japão. Ambos foram realizados por diretores japoneses em momentos distintos do contexto da imigração brasileira que ocorre no país desde 1990. Mas apesar de compartilharem um mesmo tema, os filmes apresentam visões estéticas diferentes, que levam a entendimentos contraditórios sobre a convivência entr…

  • A crítica cinematográfica nos filmes brasileiros Benzinho e A mãe

    Open Access•Cecília M Mello, Luna Gonçalves D'Alama•ARTICLE•Rumores•2024

    This study analyzes three journalistic reviews of the film Benzinho (2018), directed by Gustavo Pizzi, and another three of the film A Mãe (2022), by Cristiano Burlan, that were published in the mainstream media by critics such as Luiz Carlos Merten (O Estado de S. Paulo), Eduardo Escorel (piauí), and Flavia Guerra (UOL). To better elucidate this scenario, it introduces concepts from Pareyson on art critique; from Silva and Soares, and from Pagan…

  • The Demotic Impulse of the Kitchen-Sink Dramas

    Open Access•Cecília M Mello•ARTICLE•Journal of British Cinema and…•2024

    In this article, I suggest a historical and theoretical re-evaluation of the British New Wave from the point of view of its demotic impulse. I begin by situating the kitchen-sink films within a broader framework of post-war innovation, driven by an aspiration to realism that reinvigorated British cinema and television within a novel historical conjuncture. I then investigate the specificity of British New Wave’s realism – with an emphasis on the …

  • Chinese Soap Operas in the Reform Era

    Open Access•Cecília M Mello•ARTICLE•Revista Latinoamericana de…•2024

    This article aims to investigate the impact of the emergence of television soap operas during the 1980s and 1990s in the People’s Republic of China, with an emphasis on Yearnings (渴望, 1990) and Year after Year (一年又一年, 1998). This period comprises the first two decades of “reform and opening up” (Gaige kaifang 改革开放), when the country underwent a series of radical changes leading to market economy. As I will discuss, both soap operas employ a simil…

  • Dossiê Televisão Parte I

    Open Access•Esther Hamburger, Cecília M Mello et al.•ARTICLE•Significação Revista de Cultura…•2025

  • Policentrismo, periferia e o lugar do cinema brasileiro no cinema mundial

    Open Access•Cecília M Mello•ARTICLE•Alceu•2025

    O objetivo deste texto é refletir sobre como a categoria “mundo”, aplicada ao cinema, se traduz no ambiente acadêmico e audiovisual brasileiro no século XXI, a partir de uma visão geral das principais teorias e conceitos relacionados à ideia de “cinema mundial/world cinema” no debate acadêmico em língua inglesa. Em termos gerais, a categoria “cinema mundial”, entendida como um rótulo de conveniência para designar filmes não produzidos nos EUA e n…

  • Notes on the state of Brazilian television archives: From scattered initiatives to an uncertain future

    Open Access•Esther Hamburger, Giancarlo Gozzi et al.•ARTICLE•Critical Studies in Television…•2025•References: 10

    In recent years, there has been a growing interest in past television programmes and television memory more broadly, a trend amplified by streaming platforms. This development highlights the critical issue of television archiving and content accessibility. As Brazilian television approaches its 75th anniversary in 2025, this article examines the current state of television archives in Brazil, their accessibility to the general public, and the rol…

  • As sementes da Ópera de Pequim: Entrevista com a Companhia Nacional de Ópera de Pequim

    Open Access•Esther Marinho Santana, Cecília M Mello•ARTICLE•Urdimento•2025•References: 2

    Realizada durante a turnê da Companhia Nacional de Ópera de Pequim no Brasil, em novembro de 2024, esta entrevista interpreta a oportunidade de escuta de seus artistas como uma espécie de arquivo vivo rumo à construção de uma memória do teatro chinês nos palcos brasileiros. Em suas falas, Guan Xiaohui, Liu Kuikui, Jiang Meiyi e Wu Zeyu refletem sobre o legado da trupe, o repertório escolhido para as apresentações, o papel da Ópera de Pequim na di…

  • Interconnected Cinemas: Teaching World Cinema from a Brazilian Perspective

    Cecília M Mello•ARTICLE•Studies in World Cinema•2026

    This article seeks to explore the evolution of my teaching of world cinema, tracing my journey from the University of Leeds to the University of São Paulo, enriched by experiences in China. I will examine how my pedagogical approach has been shaped by a confluence of English-language scholarship, local academic traditions, and the nuances of everyday classroom interactions. The discussion will commence with my tenure as a visiting fellow at the C…

Art (17 works) · Movie theater (10 works) · Humanities (9 works) · Art history (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Cinema and Media Studies (7 works) · Cultural, Media, and Literary Studies (7 works) · Asian Culture and Media Studies (5 works) · History (5 works) · Aesthetics (4 works)

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