A literacia audiovisual no contexto educacional português

entrevista com Ana Isabel Soares

Abstract

Prof. Dr. Ana Isabel Soares has a degree in Modern Languages and Literatures (Portuguese/English) from the Faculty of Letters of the University of Lisbon, a PhD from the Program in Theory of Literature and a post-doctorate in Theory of Literature, on relations between Portuguese documentary films and poetry, all from the same Faculty. She has been an Associate Professor at the University of Algarve since 1996, where she teaches History of Cinema, Image Theory, Cultural Studies, Literature and Cinema, and English Literature. She has been vice-director of the Department of Arts and Humanities at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Algarve since February 2024 and is an integrated member of the Research Center for Arts and Communication. She was part of the founding team of AIM - Association of Moving Image Researchers, of which she was the first President (2010-2014). She was Assistant Secretary of State for Primary and Secondary Education at the Portuguese Ministry of Education and Science, where she took part in the launch of the National Film Plan (2011-2012). In this interview, she talks about her academic career, how she got closer to literature and cinema, the stages in the creation and implementation of the National Film Plan in Portugal and the importance of audiovisual literacy for a more critical consumption of the moving images that circulate in today's various media, as well as their importance for more creative uses of these same media in the production of content.