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- Aplicação de técnicas pedagógicas ativas em cursos da área de Ciências de Engenharia e Tecnologias ministrados no Ensino Superior PolitécnicoPublication . Caeiro, Luisa; Lopes, Elisabete; Miranda, P.; Justino, Júlia; Macedo, Patricia; Rafael, Silviano
- Técnicas de aprendizagem ativa aplicadas em unidades curriculares da ESTSetúbal/IPSPublication . Caeiro, Maria Luisa Pedro Brito da Torre; Lopes, Elisabete; Miranda, P.; Justino, Júlia; Macedo, Patricia; Rafael, Silviano
- The ‘Gutted’ Author: A Reflection on Chuck Palahniuk’s Horror Short Story “Guts”Publication . Lopes, Elisabete
- Lovecraftian landscapes and cosmic horror in HBO’s True Detective (2014)Publication . Lopes, Elisabete
- Witchcraft and ‘Bitchcraft’: A Portrayal of the Witch Character in American Horror Story: CovenPublication . Lopes, ElisabeteAmerican Horror Story: Coven (2013-2014) is an original TV series created by Ryan Murphy and Brian Falchuk that revolves around a group of witches who dwell in a private school owned and run by Cordelia. This teacher is the prototype of the good witch. She is also the daughter of Fiona Goode, the so-called ‘supreme’ among the witches’ community, meaning she is the most talented and powerful witch alive. This character, played on screen by Jessica Lange, is the most vivid embodiment of the evil mother that haunts traditional fairy tales: she is egocentric and her ultimate goal is to keep her physical appearance intact. Undoubtedly the universe within the series appears markedly feminine and overtly addresses gender issues which range from the traditional relation that femininity has with patriarchy to the way female characters are depicted in fairy tales. Within this framework, the purpose of this chapter is to examine how gender issues are dealt with in the series, namely the relation between peers, the bond between mothers and daughters, and the ways femininity develops taking into account the obstacles brought by the counter-power of patriarchy. In this context, it will be challenging to explore how the witch characters are grounded on female stereotypes and clichés, and how they express female anxieties and fears that have roots in the past and continue to afflict them in the present. This analysis also aims at exploring how the traditional fairy tale conventions are manipulated, parodied and subsequently integrated into the filmic narrative. In an original fashion, we can say that American Horror Story: Coven engenders an eerie atmosphere, offering the spectator a universe where the horrors of the past meet the terrors of the present in a harmonious and dark account.
- The Curious Case of Vanessa Ives: The Portrait of a Witch in Penny Dreadful.Publication . Lopes, Elisabete
- Trouble in the Psychosphere: HBO’s True Detective (2014) as a Hybrid Genre.Publication . Lopes, ElisabeteRecently, many contemporary TV shows have raised the stakes as far as the quality of their contents is concerned. They welcomed certain challenges that contributed to lend them the status of cult series. True Detective (2014) certainly forms part of this selective group. Nic Pizzolatto, the creative mind behind True Detective (2014), decided to take up all these challenges and ended up by creating a hybrid show in the sense that it gathers elements of Gothic genre, weird fiction, criminal investigation, and film noir that, once mixed up, paved the way to the upcoming success. Other feature that fuels True Detective‟s allure lies precisely in the ties that it openly shares with literature, since it purports references that point to well-known oeuvres or authors. In this light, it is the purpose of this essay to examine how Pizzolatto‟s eclectic recipe combine its ingredients that result in a TV show anchored upon the parameters of originality and quality. The undeniable quality of True Detective (2014) goes beyond the well-thought script, Adam Arkapaw‟s mesmerizing photography, the protagonists‟ amazing performance, and the careful direction of Cary Fukunaga. It has become a true postmodern visual monster that unexpectedly came straight from the Lousiana bayous to haunt us, bringing along an aura of cosmic horror that, interlinked with suspense and criminal investigation, will relentlessly take a grip on us.
- Suburban Gothic Revisited in Jeffrey Eugenides’s The Virgin SuicidesPublication . Lopes, Elisabete
- Edgar Allan Poe’s Gothic Revisited in André Øvredal’s The Autopsy of Jane DoePublication . Lopes, ElisabeteThe Autopsy of Jane Doe (2016), directed by André Øvredal, is a horror film that was widely acclaimed by the critics and audiences alike, due to the originality with which it tackled horror and manipulated both its Gothic features and the supernatural. The plot is quite simple, but its underlying implications are far more complex. Two men, father and son, both coroners, are asked to examine the body of a young woman whose origins are unknown. The corpse, named Jane Doe (because its origins are unknown), is supposedly connected with a crime, since it was found partially unearthed in the cellar of a house whose owners appear to have been brutally murdered. What contributes to render Øvredal´s cinematic narrative interesting, is the mise-en-scène of certain tropes and references that tie in with the American Gothic tradition. Eerie ambiances, psyches on the verge of disintegration, latent family tension, doppelgängers, and the house itself seem to carry echoes of Edgar Allan Poe’s tales, such as “The Fall of the House of Usher”, “Ligeia” or “The Black Cat”. Moreover, we must not forget that at the centre of this visual narrative, lies the inert body of a young woman, recently unburied, an image that is quite recurrent in Poe’s literary works. Within this suggestive framework, the purpose of this paper is to underscore the Gothic influence of Poe’s fiction upon Øvredal’s film, highlighting the relevance of the feminine presence (connoted with a female monster) as a crucial engine that propels the visual narrative forward, eventually turning a medical act, an autopsy, into a horror tale.
- Stranger than Ficition: Thomas Ligotti's Deceptive Realities in Horror FictionPublication . Lopes, ElisabeteThomas Ligotti é hoje considerado um escritor de culto no âmbito da chamada weird fiction, sendo o horror o seu terreno literário privilegiado. Levando o Gótico e a escuridão cósmica de H.P. Lovecraft mais longe, os temas de Ligotti envolvem quase sempre a desconstrução da realidade tal como a conhecemos. Esta é-nos apresentada como uma espécie de máscara aceitável que cobre a verdadeira realidade que, segundo as premissas da ficção do autor, se assume como algo de sinistro e hostil face ao ser humano. Nas narrativas de Thomas Ligotti, a realidade das personagens é desestabilizada e as suas crenças e e valores desmoronam-se, dando lugar à dúvida, ao caos,ao desespero e ao pânico. Neste universo pautado pelo horror, as personagens experimentam uma sensação de estranhamento oriunda de uma escuridão cósmica, habitada por criaturas maléficas, cuja função primordial consiste em desacreditar o ser humano, fragilizar as suas crenças e estilhaçar a sua perceção de identidade. Este confronto entre o humano e o Outro modifica completamente a natureza das personagens, trazendo no seu encalço consequências irremediáveis. De uma forma implacável, Ligotti introduz o Real Lacaniano no universo do simbólico, ameaçando aniquilar a sua coerência e fazendo vacilar as suas estruturas, deixando as personagens perdidas num mundo que já não sentem como seu, à beira de um precipício que se projeta sobre uma vastidão cósmica onde o Inferno tem o seu berço.