Launching of the book "The City of After - History(s), Images, Cinema, Politics"

This publication gathers the transcripts of three conversations held at the end of 2020 within the scope of the Forum of the Real, organised by Porto/Post/Doc, around the theme "The City of After". Taking as its reference a set of programmed films, and involving artists, critics and academics, the conversations focused on the city as the epicentre of transformations in social and cultural relations in the 20th century; the movement from a culture of a public character to one of the private sphere, as well as the critical character of the city, in the sense of it being a gathering point of possible dissidences, even if against its grain. The conversations also address the visual history of the city – and its rural and/or peripheral counterpoint – with a particular focus on cinematographic representations and their political and aesthetic implications. The presentation of the e-book, edited in collaboration between Porto/Post/Doc and Universidade Autónoma de Lisboa/NIP-C@M, will count upon the presence of the editors Alexandra Martins and Luís Lima.