Dr. Livia Azevedo Lima

Biography

Livia Azevedo Lima is a cross-disciplinary scholar, nonfiction editor, and film curator whose research focuses on the aesthetic forms related to social political issues, particularly inequality. She completed her PhD in Cinema and Media Studies at the University of São Paulo, where she developed the concept of the filmmaker-reader using genetic criticism to analyze unfinished works such as novels, scripts, and films by the leftist filmmaker Paulo César Saraceni and the queer author Lúcio Cardoso, particularly his well-known novel 'Chronicle of the Murdered House' (1959). With a decolonial feminist perspective, Lima explores how various authors have conceived female characters in patriarchal contexts across Brazil's historical contexts, including the authoritarianism of the Estado Novo (1937-1945) and the civil-military dictatorship (1964-1985), as well as neoliberal politics of the 1990s. Her recent essays critically reassess the representations of gendered death and visual motifs of precarity and stagnation in Latin American cinema and visual culture. With a decade of experience in publishing, Lima has edited books and magazines for numerous publishing houses and research institutes, including the Brazilian Center of Analysis and Planning (Cebrap). Additionally, she has served as the program coordinator for the Los Angeles Review Books Publishing Workshop and has curated the Travessias–Brazilian Film Festival at the Northwest Film Forum in Seattle, WA.

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