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Tag: Miscelana in English
Selected Miscelana articles available in English. Here you’ll find cultural analysis, reviews, and essays on cinema, television, literature, and pop culture, translated from the original Portuguese to reach a wider international audience
ANAlista: psychoanalytic readings of cinema
Psychoanalytic readings of cinema grounded in what escapes the plot: reactions, repetitions, and images that continue to operate after the ending
Modern Times Turns 90: Chaplin’s Legacy and Lasting Relevance
From the silent era to the age of algorithms, the 1936 classic remains an unsettling portrait of the relationship between humans and machines.
Marilyn Monroe exhibition at the Academy Museum: what Hollywood Icon reveals
The centennial show reframes Monroe’s legacy as an image-maker — and highlights the Academy’s long-standing omission
The Rose (1979): the Janis Joplin portrait that could not be made
When biography was still impossible, fiction revealed more than any official portrait ever could
Michael: The film avoids controversy and turns Jackson’s life into a spectacle
The film impresses in recreating the artist, but chooses to remain in the most comfortable territory of his story
Coconut: from Harry Nilsson’s absurd song to the ritual of Practical Magic
From a one-chord experiment in 1971 to the iconic midnight margaritas scene, how Harry Nilsson’s “Coconut” was reshaped by film, television, and pop culture into a shared emotional ritual across generations.
Queen Elizabeth II at 100: a legacy between myth and revision
How history is repositioning Britain’s longest-reigning monarch between stability, empire, and contradiction
Michael: a grand spectacle, a carefully controlled narrative
The biopic moves as a celebration of the artist, but it avoids confronting what truly defines his story
Notorious at 80: why Hitchcock’s film remains one of the most modern in cinema
Between love, censorship, and moral ambiguity, the 1946 film reveals why it still speaks directly to the present
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