Presented by the Centre for Cinema Studies and Cinema Thinks the World, the Critical Thinkers Series features research talks by notable and emerging scholars in Cinema and Media Studies. First up for Fall 2024 is a talk by Dr. Alessandra Santos, “Down the Drain: Urban Planning, Filmmaking, and the Politics of Precarity in Jorge Furtado’s Satirical Sewer“.
About Dr. Alessandra Santos:
Alessandra Santos is Associate Professor in the Department of Theatre and Film at UBC. Her research area is Latin American cinema and performance, and comparative studies in the hemispheric Americas. She is interested in utopias, technology, gender, Indigeneity, race, and social justice. Her interdisciplinary research applies postcolonial and decolonial theories, combining film studies and performance studies. Her research and teaching aim to address some of the main concerns of our era: anticolonial, antiracist, feminist and queer issues, social class and the environment. Her research has been supported by multiple grants, including a current SSHRC Insight Grant to examine intersections of African Diaspora and technology in Brazil and the Americas; the project includes a component on Afrofuturism cinema with a focus on cyberculture and embodiment. Read more here.
