22/01/2026

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: “Lola Montès: Max Ophüls’s Final Dive into Circularity and Repetition” by Carlos Natálio.

This article provides a reading of “Lola Montès” (1955), Max Ophüls’ last work, in light of the idea of it possibly being seen as a testament film. Within the conceptual framework of Gilles Deleuze’s “crystal image”, it is argued there is a sort of arrival point in terms on movement, both in narrative and technical terms.

You can read the full article here. More articles in full open access will be released soon!

And a reminder that our call for papers remains open until 1 April 2026. Please click here for complete information about the call for papers and submission requirements.

📷 Lola Montès [1955], by Max Ophüls

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17/09/2026

New Open Access article by Susana Viegas on Cavell and Deleuze

What can death reveal about the unexpected connection between Cavell and Deleuze? Susana Viegas has published the open-access article ‘Cavell and Deleuze: Genre as Medium, Death as Image’, part of the Philosophies dossier ‘Film-Philosophies of Stanley Cavell and Gilles Deleuze’, edited by Jeroen Gerrits & Sandra Laugier. Following her recent presentation at ‘Stanley Cavell at 100: An […]
24/08/2026

New Open Access article by Lucas Ferraço Nassif

We are happy to share that Lucas Ferraço Nassif, our post-doc researcher and FILM AND DEATH team member, has just published a new article titled “The epistemology of dizziness in psychoanalysis and schizoanalysis: Individuation, screen-based media, and the production of unconsciouses” in Revista Latinoamericana de Psicopatologia Fundamental (2026), no. 29. Concerned with the reconceptualization of […]
17/08/2026

New publication by Susana Viegas

Can a firefly and a toxic spore make us think differently about death? In her latest book chapter, Susana Viegas explores how Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind and Grave of the Fireflies invite us to reflect on mortality through what she calls the death-image. Spores and fireflies, one commonly associated with toxicity, the other […]
07/08/2026

“Swan Songs: Philosophical Reflections on Death, Time, and Memory in Testament Films” is out now!

We are pleased to announce the completion of the Special Issue “Swan Songs: Philosophical Reflections on Death, Time, and Memory in Testament Films”, guest edited by Vasco Baptista Marques and Susana Viegas for Arts. The Special Issue brings together seven original articles examining testament films from a philosophical perspective. Rather than approaching filmmakers’ final works merely as […]
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