We are happy to announce the new home for the Special Issue “Swan Songs: Philosophical Reflections on Death, Time, and Memory in Testament Films”! The editors have chosen to publish it in Arts, an international, peer-reviewed, open-access journal (also published online by MDPI) devoted to research on all facets of the visual and performing arts, […]
New publication by Marco Grosoli on Raul Ruizâs “Mysteries of Lisbon”
We are happy to announce a new publication by postdoctoral researcher Marco Grosoli. Titled “Anamorphosis of the Novelistic. Raul Ruizâs Mysteries of Lisbon“, and published in the journal Fata Morgana 57 (2026), the full issue is available for subscribers here. In Raul Ruizâs films, literature has always been of paramount importance: unsurprisingly, his most testamentary […]
New publication by our team: âDeath-Images: Revisiting Deleuzeâs âTime-Imageâ in Cinema after 1985â
As invited guest editors, Susana Viegas, Lucas Ferraço Nassif, Marco Grosoli and Vasco Baptista Marques are pleased to share âDeath-Images: Revisiting Deleuzeâs âTime-Imageâ in Cinema after 1985â (Revista de Comunicação e Linguagens | Journal of Communication and Languages no. 63), published by the NOVA Institute of Communication – ICNOVA of NOVA University Lisbon. Marking forty years since […]
New article published in our Arts Special Issue on Swan Songs
The editors of Swan Songs, Vasco Baptista Marques and Susana Viegas, are pleased to announce the publication of a new open-access article: âLola MontĂšs: Max OphĂŒlsâs Final Dive into Circularity and Repetitionâ by Carlos NatĂĄlio. This article provides a reading of âLola MontĂšsâ (1955), Max OphĂŒlsâ last work, in light of the idea of it possibly […]
“Whose Deaths Are Worth Mourning? Gendered Death in a Turkish TV Series” by GĂŒlce Zeynep BektaĆ
Whose Deaths Are Worth Mourning? Gendered Death in a Turkish TV Series By GĂŒlce Zeynep BektaĆ (Yeditepe University) https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18198472 One of Turkeyâs most-watched TV series, the mafia-themed Valley of the Wolves (Kurtlar Vadisi, 2003-2005) and its sequel series, Valley of the Wolves: Ambush (Kurtlar Vadisi Pusu, 2007â2016) frequently portray death, but not all of them […]