{"id":828,"date":"2014-07-16T15:51:20","date_gmt":"2014-07-16T15:51:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stage2.comparatistas.umadesign.com\/en\/2014\/07\/16\/rita-benis\/"},"modified":"2019-03-21T11:34:22","modified_gmt":"2019-03-21T11:34:22","slug":"rita-benis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cec.letras.ulisboa.pt\/en\/research-team\/rita-benis\/","title":{"rendered":"Rita Benis"},"content":{"rendered":"

PhD Student \"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

E-mail:<\/strong>\u00a0ritabritobenis@hotmail.com<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Biographical Note<\/strong><\/p>\n

Rita Benis is a researcher at the CEC \u2013 Centre for Comparative Studies, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Lisbon. She is currently finishing her Ph.D on the screenplays of Manoel de Oliveira and Jo\u00e3o C\u00e9sar Monteiro. Her master\u2019s thesis was on cinematographic adaptation (Manoel de Oliveira). She has taught screenwriting <\/em>(University of Lisbon) and film history<\/em> (Modern University). Member of the team of the project Cinema and the World \u2013 Studies on Space and Cinema<\/em>. She belongs to the editorial board of the electronic magazine False Movement \u2013 studies on writing and image<\/em>. She has translated books and organized workshops\/seminaries on the relation of image and writing, having several publications on the theme. Award-winning screenwriter, she has been working in cinema since 2000. She has worked, among others, with the film directors: Teresa Villaverde, Margarida Gil, Ant\u00f3nio da Cunha Telles, In\u00eas Oliveira, Vicent Gallo andCatherine Breillat.<\/p>\n

Main areas of research<\/strong><\/p>\n