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About

Tiago de Luca holds a BA in Communication Studies from the State University of São Paulo (UNESP), an MA in Film Studies from UCL and a PhD in World Cinemas from the University of Leeds. He is on the editorial board of the book series and is the editor, with Lúcia Nagib, of the book series (Bloomsbury).

Research Interests

My main research interests are: the global and the planetary in film and media; world cinema; cinematic realism; slow cinema; Brazilian and Latin American cinemas. I welcome PhD projects related to all of these areas.

My new single-authored book, Planetary Cinema: Film, Media and the Earth (Amsterdam University Press, 2022) explores the ways in which the Earth has been imaged and imagined in cinema and related media at the turns of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. This book is the main output of a British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship, which I was awarded in 2018-19. Planetary Cinema proposes that an exploration of nineteenth-century media culture (and beyond) can help us understand contemporary planetary imaginaries in times of environmental collapse. Engaging with a variety of media, genres and texts, the book sits at the intersection of film/media history and theory/ philosophy, and it claims that we need this combined approach and expansive textual focus in order to understand the way we see the world.

My first book, Realism of the Senses in World Cinema: The Experience of Physical Reality, examines current forms of realism in world cinema by looking at the work of Carlos Reygadas, Tsai Ming-liang and Gus Van Sant. This book explores how their films reconfigure realist filmmaking through a sensory mode of address premised upon the hyperbolic application of the long take. I am also the editor, with Nuno Barradas Jorge, of Slow Cinema: the first anthology to provide an examination of this concept in film studies, focusing on slowness both as a trend in contemporary global cinema and in terms of its previous manifestations in film history.

Teaching and Supervision

I teach across many areas related to global cinema, slow cinema, world cinema and transnational film history, including Brazilian and Latin American cinemas. I am interested in supervising postgraduate projects related to all of these areas.

Selected Publications

Single-Authored Books

• (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2022), open-access: download the book .
• (London and New York: I.B. Tauris, 2014)

Edited Books

• (co-edited with Lúcia Nagib and Luciana Corrêa de Araújo) (Edinburgh: Edinburgh: University Press, 2022).
• (co-edited with Nuno Barradas Jorge) (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2016), read the introduction .

Special Issue Journals

• Elemental World Cinema (guest editor, with Matilda Mroz, 2023), Studies in World Cinema 3:1-2,  and
• , Aniki: Portuguese Journal of the Moving Image, 4:2 (2017), guest-editor.

Journal Articles and Book Chapters

• ‘’, in Interfaces, special issue on ‘Re-scale’ (2023), open-access.
• ‘’, Studies in World Cinema 3: 2 (2023), pp. 242-264, pre-published version available .
• ‘’, in Julian Hanich & Martin Roussow (eds), What Film is Good For: The Ethics of Spectatorship (University of California Press, 2023), pp. 326-336.
• ‘Panoramic Views, Planetary Visions: An Intermedial Analysis of Medium Earth and Walden’ in Lúcia Nagib & Stefan Solomon (eds) The Moving Form of Film (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023), pp. 113-128.
• ‘’, Lúcia Nagib, Luciana Correa de Araujo & Tiago de Luca (eds) Towards an Intermedial History of Brazilian Cinema (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2022), pp. 71-93.
• ‘’, Studies in World Cinema, 1:1, pp. 47-52 (2021).
• ', in Discourse: Journal for Theoretical Studies in Media and Culture, 41:1 (Winter 2019)
• '' in NECSUS: European Journal of Media Studies, #Mapping issue, Autumn 2018.
• '’ in Louis Bayman and Natalia Pinazza (eds) Journeys on Screen: Theory, Ethics and Aesthetics (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2018) 
• ‘' in John Gibbs and Douglas Pye (eds) Critical Approaches to the Long Take (London: Palgrave, 2017).
•  '', Dossier: Long Duration, Aniki: Portuguese Journal of the Moving Image, 4:2 (2017)
•  â€˜â€™ in Mariana Cunha & Antonio M. da Silva (eds) Space and Subjectivity in Contemporary Brazilian Cinema (London: Palgrave, 2017).
• ‘’, Screen 58:1, Spring 2017.
• , Afterthoughts and Postscripts Cinema Journal 56.1 (Fall 2016).
• ‘’, Cinema Journal 56.1 (Winter 2016).
• ‘’ in Tiago de Luca & Nuno Barradas Jorge (eds) Slow Cinema (Edinburgh: EUP, 2016).
• ‘’ in Tiago de Luca & Nuno Barradas Jorge (eds), Slow Cinema (Edinburgh: EUP, 2016).
• ‘’, New Cinemas: Journal of Contemporary Film 12.1-2 (2014).
• ‘The Geography of Segregation: Violence and Class Division in Contemporary São Paulo Cinema’ in Natália Pinazza & Louis Bayman (eds) World Cinema Location Series: São Paulo (London: Intellect, 2013).
• ‘’, Cinephile 7.2 (2012).
• ‘’ in Lúcia Nagib, Chris Perriam & Rajinder Dudrah (eds) Theorizing World Cinema ( London and New York: I.B. Tauris, 2016), reprinted and translated into Portuguese in Cecília Mello (ed) Realismo Fantasmagórico (São Paulo, Cinusp, 2016)
• ‘’, Journal of Chinese Cinemas 5.2 (2011).
• ‘’, Senses of Cinema 55 (2010).

 

Reviews

• (video essay), [in] Transition: Journal of Videographic Film & Moving Image Studies, 3.3 (2016)
• David Martin Jones's Deleuze and World Cinemas and David Deamer's Deleuze, Japanese Cinema and the Atom Bomb, Screen 57:3 (2016)
• Lutz Koepnick’s On Slowness in Cinema Journal 54.2, In Focus dossier: ‘On Cinematic Speed’ (2016).
• ‘Book Review: David Lynch: Interviews’ in New Cinemas: Journal of Contemporary Film 8. 1 (2010)

 

Others

• ‘’ (article + video essay), In Media Res (2016)
• ‘’: an interview with Tsai Ming-liang in Close-up + short essay (2014).