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Author Biography

Fernão Pessoa Ramos is a professor at the State University of Campinas (Unicamp) and coordinator of the Centre for Research in Documentary Cinema at the same university (Cepecidoc). He was the president of the Brazilian Society of Cinema and Audiovisual Studies (Socine) and worked as a guest professor at the University Sorbonne Nouvelle, New York University, University of California (Los Angeles), University of Montreal and University of Chicago. In the 1980s he published Marginal Cinema (1968-1973): Representation at its Limit and the first edition of the History of Brazilian Cinema. In the 2000s he organized the Encyclopedia of Brazilian Cinema and Contemporary Theory of Cinema I and II. More recently, he wrote What’s a documentary, anyway? (2008) and The Camera Image (2012).

Sheila Schvarzman PhD in social history from the State University of Campinas (Unicamp) and post-doctorate at the same university with a research on Octávio Gabus Mendes and the cinema in São Paulo in the 1920s-1930s. She was a guest professor at the Institute of Arts of Unicamp, a professor at the Audiovisual course of the Senac University Centre, and a historian at Condephaat, in São Paulo. She is currently a full professor at the University Anhembi Morumbi and dedicates herself to the study of the relation between cinema and history, as well as the history of Brazilian cinema. She is the author of Humberto Mauro and the Images of Brazil (2004).