Mariana Liz is Assistant Professor in Film Studies at the School of Arts and Humanities at the University of Lisbon in Portugal (FLUL) and research fellow at Centro de Estudos Comparatistas. She received a PhD from King’s College London in 2012 and taught at King’s, Queen Mary University of London and the University of Leeds in the UK. After moving to Portugal in 2016, she was a Research Fellow at the the Institute of Social Sciences at the University of Lisbon (ICS-ULisboa). Between 2020 and 2021 she was an adviser to the Secretary of State for Film, Audiovisual and Media, working closely with the film literacy initiative Plano Nacional de Cinema (PNC). In 2024, she coordinated two editions of the course “O 25 de Abril Através do Cinema”.
Her main research interests are the idea of Europe in contemporary fiction and the transnational history of Portuguese film. She is the author of Euro-Visions (2016), editor of Portugal's Global Cinema (2018), and co-editor of Women's Cinema in Contemporary Portugal (with Hilary Owen, 2020), which was published in Portuguese as Realizadoras Portuguesas: Cinema no Feminino na Era Contemporânea (2023). She is co-editor of Film International: Journal of World Cinema and Book Reviews Editor (Portugal) for International Journal of Iberian Studies.
Mariana is the Director of FLUL’s Masters programme in Culture and Communication.
Areas of research
Film Studies
European Cinema
Contemporary Portuguese Film
Film Literacy
Gender and the Moving Image
Selected publications
Liz, M. (2024) ‘New Directive, Old Principles: EU Film Policy, Small Nation Cinemas and the Portuguese Case’, European Cinema in the Streaming Era: Policy, Platforms and Production, eds. C. Meir & R. Smits, Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan/Springer, pp. 23-41. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-42182-2_2
Liz, M. (2023) ‘Espectros do Feminismo no Cinema Português’, Faces de Eva 50, pp. 135-156. DOI: https://doi.org/10.34619/wif7-zlwa
Liz, M. (2023) ‘Marginality, Resilience and Escape: Home in Ana Rocha de Sousa’s Listen’, Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media, no. 26, pp. 25–38. DOI: https://doi.org/10.33178/alpha.26.02
Liz, Mariana (2023) ‘Desigualdade no Cinema e Audiovisual: E Agora?’ Opinião, Público, 4 dezembro. Também online: https://www.publico.pt/2023/12/04/culturaipsilon/opiniao/desigualdade-cinema-audiovisual-2072251
Liz, Mariana (2023) ‘A Mulher Sem Cabeça/ La Mujer Sin Cabeza (2008) – Lucrecia Martel: Cinema no lugar do morto’, Os 100 Melhores Planos do Cinema, org. Nelson Araújo, Lisboa: Edições 70, pp. 307-310.
Liz, Mariana (2022). ‘Vitalina’s (in)visibility: contemporary Portugal and the cinema of human mobility’, Transnational Screens, 13:1, pp. 1-15. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/25785273.2022.2034218.
Liz, Mariana (2022). ‘Lisbon on Film 1985-2020: Locating Europe’, In Routledge Companion to European Cinema, org. Gábor Gergely & Susan Hayward, pp. 385-393, London: Routledge.
Liz, Mariana (2022) Educação para o cinema em Portugal. Policy Report, OPJ: Observatório Permanente da Juventude. Instituto de Ciências Sociais da Universidade de Lisboa.
See also: https://www.cienciavitae.pt/en/7415-05F8-BC5E
