Role: Professor in Film
School: Arts and Communication Design
Department: Film, Theatre & Television
Theme: Heritage and Creativity
Expertise: Nagib specialises in world cinema, realism and intermediality, which she has explored in books such as Realist Cinema as World Cinema: Non-cinema, Intermedial Passages, Total Cinema (Amsterdam University Press, 2020),World Cinema and the Ethics of Realism (Bloomsbury, 2011) and Brazil on Screen: Cinema Novo, New Cinema, Utopia (IB Tauris, 2007).
About me: Lúcia Nagib is an internationally recognised specialist in world cinema, cinematic realism and cinematic intermediality, as well as in a number of national cinemas, such as Brazilian, Japanese and German cinemas. She has been at the forefront of major research projects in Brazil and the UK and organised dozens of conferences, symposia and workshops. She is the editor, with Julian Ross, of the World Cinema Series, and, with Tiago de Luca, of the Film Thinks Series, both with Bloomsbury. She has been Leverhulme Visiting Professor at Birkbeck College (London), Distinguished Visitor at the University of Alberta (Canada) and Ministry of Culture Research Fellow at the Centre for Brazilian Studies, University of Oxford. Her monographs include Realist Cinema as World Cinema: Non-cinema, Intermedial Passages, Total Cinema (Amsterdam University Press, 2020), World Cinema and the Ethics of Realism (Bloomsbury, 2011) and Brazil on Screen: Cinema Novo, New Cinema, Utopia (I.B. Tauris, 2007). Her edited books include Towards an Intermedial History of Brazilian Cinema (with Luciana Araújo and Tiago de Luca, Edinburgh University Press, 2022), Impure Cinema: Intermedial and Intercultural Approaches to Film (with Anne Jerslev, I.B. Tauris, 2013), Theorizing World Cinema (with Chris Perriam and Rajinder Dudrah, I.B. Tauris, 2011), Realism and the Audiovisual Media (with Cecília Mello, Palgrave, 2009) and The New Brazilian Cinema (I.B. Tauris, 2003). She is the writer and director, with Samuel Paiva, of the award-winning feature-length documentary, Passages (UK 2019).
Weblink: https://www.reading.ac.uk/ftt/about/staff/l-nagib.aspx
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