Acknowledgements List of Contributors Foreword by Lúcia Nagib Introduction A proposal for approaching Film Theory and filmmakers - André Rui Graça, Manuela Penafria & Eduardo Tulio Baggio I FILMMAKERS ON FILM: SETTING THE FIELD 1. From the Concept of Author to the Concept of Filmmaker - Eduardo Tulio Baggio (Paraná State University, Brazil) 2. Film as thought: notes on the role of the researcher in the Filmmakers on Film approach, from the perspective of Karim Aïnouz's films and interviews - Marcelo Carvalho (Paraná Tuiuti University, Brazil) 3. The spectator and the filmmaking process: reflections based on case studies- André Rui Graça (Lusófona University, Portugal) & Manuela Penafria (University of Beira Interior, LabCom-Communication and Arts, Portugal) II POETICS AND FILMMAKING PROCESSES 4. The dark light of poetry: Víctor Gaviria's poetics of childhood - Liliana Galindo Orrego (Johns Hopkins University, USA) 5. Music in Kleber Mendonça Filho's Feature Films: An Analysis of the Creative Process - Rodrigo Carreiro (Pernambuco Federal University, Brazil) & Breno Alvarenga (Pernambuco Federal University, Brazil) 6. Films on Filmmaking: Jean-Luc Godard and Abbas Kiarostami's Auto-Commentaries Scénario du Film Passion (1982) and Ten on Ten (2004) - Karel Pletinck (Theatre, Film and Literature Studies, University of Antwerp, Belgium) 7. Andy Warhol's legacy and body representation in contemporary cinema - Edson Pereira da Costa Júnior (University of São Paulo, Brazil) 8.

Madame Cinéma: Agnès Varda, or a Portrait of the Artist as an Ageless Woman - Fátima Chinita (Lisbon Polytechnic Institute, Portugal) 9. The Struggles and Rise of the Dalit Protagonists - Cinematic Representations in the Tamil Films of the Director Pa. Ranjith - Amutha Manavalan (Institute of Communications and Media Studies, St. Joseph's College, India) 10. From Photographic Servitude to Cinematic Emancipation: The Poetic Films of Maya Deren - Amresh Sinha (The School of Visual Arts, USA) 11. Establishing reality: mode of production and surrealism in the cinema of Nuri Bilge Ceylan - Sezen Gürüf Basekim (Kastamonu University, Turkey) III FILMS AND FILMMAKERS' WRITINGS AS ACTS OF THEORY 12. Reflecting on a public debate and its aftermath: Jiang Hao, his writings in the 1980s and his film practices in the 1990s - Lingling Yao (School of Foreign Studies at the Capital University of Economics and Business in Beijing, China) 13. Alexander Kluge's 'Film in the mind of the spectator' or after-(dialectical)-images in News from Ideological Antiquity: Marx - Eisenstein - Capital - James Hellings (University of Reading, UK) 14.

The multi-image: cinematic collage as revelation and revolution - Chris Gerrard (Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design, Scotland) 15. Seeing through the kaleidoscope - Wim Wenders and his collaborators in Lisbon Story and Inventing Peace: A Dialogue on Perception - Olivier Delers (University of Richmond, USA) 16. Chantal Akerman's Words and Images: the avant-garde of theory and filmmaking - André Rui Graça (Lusófona University, Portugal) 17. 'Sculpting everyday life' and the lake as a metaphor: towards a documentary filmmaking history - Manuela Penafria (University of Beira Interior, LabCom-Communication and Arts, Portugal) 18. To Contest the Deafness of the Gaze: The Miseducation of the Senses and the Unreliable Reality in Lucrecia Martel's Films - Natalia Christofoletti Barrenha (UNICAMP-Campinas State University, Brazil) Bibliography Filmography Index.