Screening Queens 5

20 Março 2019, 10:00 • Ângela Fernandes

Presentation by the students of their papers related to representation of female sovereingty in modern film/visual media, relating to various aspects and problems that were discussed during the seminar: (1) Hélder Lopes on the Angolese/protuguese film Njinga: Rainha de Angola (2013); Bernardo Ferreira on politics, governance and friendship in The Favourite (2018); Jonas Prinzleve on the issue of biopolitics, agency and governance as represented in different films; Juan Alvarez Umbarila on the filmic and theatrical evocations of the figure of Evita Peron; Raluca Balan on age, bodily decay and solitude in filmic representations of Elizabeth and Victoria.