in various capacities since 2014. In 2020, in the XIII Congress of the CGTP-IN, he was elected for the National Council and its Executive Board, a possibility previously disclosed by the press. He is affiliated with the left-wing political association Democratic Intervention. Branco has run as a candidate for the Unitary Democratic Coalition. Publications Books O Trabalho das Imagens: Estudos sobre Cinema e Marxismo [The Work of Images: Studies on Cinema and Marxism]. Lisbon: Página a Página, 2020. [in Portuguese] Escrita em Movimento: Apontamentos Críticos sobre Filmes [Writing in Motion: Critical Notes on Films]. Lisbon: Documenta, 2020. [in Portuguese] Por Dentro das Imagens: Obras de Cinema, Ideias do Cinema [Within Images: Film Works, Cinema Ideas]. Lisbon: Documenta, 2016. [in Portuguese] Selected edited journal issues Cinema: Journal of Philosophy and the Moving Image, no. 9, “Islam and Images” (with Patrícia Silveirinha Castello Branco and Saeed Zeydabadi-Nejad). Cinema: Journal of Philosophy and the Moving Image, no. 8, “Marx’s Philosophy” (with Michael Wayne). Cinema: Journal of Philosophy and the Moving Image, no. 4, “Philosophy of Religion”. Selected articles and book chapters “The Urban and the Domestic: Spaces of American Film Noir”. In New Approaches to Cinematic Spaces, ed. Filipa Rosário and Iván Villarmea Álvarez, pp. 85–96. London: Routledge, 2018. “The Past Tense of Our Selves: Um Adeus Português in 1980s Portugal”. Journal of Lusophone Studies, vol. 2, no. 1, "Special Dossier on Portuguese Cinema", ed. Clara Rowland and Estela Vieira, pp. 41–58. “Sembène, Ousmane (1923-2007)”. In The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Imperialism and Anti-Imperialism, Vol. I, ed. Immanuel Ness and Zack Cope, pp. 218–222. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. "Kino Kino Kino Kino Kino: Guy Maddin’s Cinema of Artifice". L’Atalante: Revista de estudios cinematográficos, no. 19, coord. Pablo Hernández Miñano and Violeta Martín Núñez, pp. 105–10. Valencia: University of Valencia, 2015. “Situating Comedy: Duration and Inhabitation in Classical American Sitcoms”. In Television Aesthetics and Style, ed. Jason Jacobs and Steven Peacock, pp. 93–102. New York: Bloomsbury, 2013. References External links Sérgio Dias Branco’s faculty page at University of Coimbra Sérgio Dias Branco’s personal page 1977 births Catholic socialists Film theorists Lay Dominicans Marxist writers Portuguese film critics Portuguese Roman Catholics Portuguese trade unionists Christian communists Academic staff of the University of Coimbra Alumni of the University of Kent University of Lisbon alumni Living people