Pedro Camacho Costa holds a bachelor’s degree in Comparative Arts and Cultures from the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Lisbon (2014). He holds a master's degree in Comparative Studies from the same institution (2016), with a dissertation entitled On the Demiurge Filmmaker: an analysis of the work of João César Monteiro. Currently, he is a PhD student in Arts, at the University of Lisbon, developing a thesis about Sacred and Transgression in Portuguese Cinema: Manoel de Oliveira, João César Monteiro, António Reis and Margarida Cordeiro, with a PhD scholarship directly financed by the Foundation for Science and Technology – FCT (SFRH/BD/143776/2019). He is a member in training at the Center for Comparative Studies, collaborating with “Cinema, Audiovisual and Contemporary Imaginaries” research group (from CITCOM).
Areas of research
Film studies
Interarts studies
Studies on sacred and transgression
Selected publications
Costa, Pedro Camacho. 2020. “João César Monteiro ou o Moderno Prometeu: considerações sobre o sagrado, o cinema e a figura do monstro”. In Paulo Cunha et al. (eds). Cinema em Português – XII Jornadas. Covilhã: Labcom. Pp. 151-167.
Costa, Pedro Camacho. 2019. “Para uma leitura do espaço em João César Monteiro”. In REBECA - Revista Brasileira de Estudos de Cinema e Audiovisual, v. 8 n. 2: 16. Pp. 155-176. DOI: https://doi.org/10.22475/rebeca.v8n2.597
