Conference Papers
Accepted
“Televisual Works”. “Screen” Studies Conference 2009. University of Glasgow, 4 Jul. 2009. PDF
“Super Style: Heroes and Television Aesthetics”. The Politics of Super-Heroes: Renegotiating the Super-Hero in Post-9/11 Cinema. Yale University, 31 Jan. 2009. PDF
“Borrowed Sounds, Appropriated Images: Music Videos and Found Footage”. Cultural Borrowings: A Study Day on Appropriation, Reworking and Transformation. University of Nottingham, 19 Mar. 2008. PDF
“Laughing in Friendship: The Intimate Ensemble Comedy of Friends”. Playing for Laughs: On Comedy in Performance. De Montfort University, 9 Feb. 2008. PDF
“Labyrinths of the Self: Different Characters, Identical Bodies in Battlestar Galactica”. BSG 2007: The Politics, Poetics and Philosophy of “Battlestar Galactica”. Bucks New University, 28 Jul. 2007. PDF
“Being Her/She in ‘Who Are You?’”. It’s the End of the World. Again?!?: Why Buffy Still Matters. University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 16 Mar. 2007. PDF
Invited
“Cowboys no Espaço: Convergências de Géneros em Firefly e Serenity”. Fórum Fantástico 2008. Faculdade de Belas-Artes - Universidade de Lisboa, 4 Out. 2008. PDF
Essays
Chapters in Books
“Dead Inside: Allegory and Subjectivity in Abel Ferrara’s The Addiction”. In Renegade Visions: Films and Filmmakers that Defy Popular Cinema, ed. Matthew Edwards. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2010. PDF
“Kino Kino Kino Kino Kino: Guy Maddin’s Cinema of Artifice”. In Renegade Visions: Films and Filmmakers that Defy Popular Cinema, ed. Matthew Edwards. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2010. PDF
“Sci-Fi Ghettos: Battlestar Galactica and Genre Aesthetics”. In Reading “Battestar Galactica”: Flesh, Spirit, and Steel, ed. Roz Kaveney and Jennifer Stoy, pp. 185-98. London: I.B. Tauris, 2010. PDF
Refereed Articles
“Music Videos and Reused Footage”. Scope: An Online Journal of Film & TV Studies, “Cultural Borrowings: Appropriation, Reworking, Transformation” e-book, ed. Iain Robert Smith (2009): pp. 111-21. http://www.scope.nottingham.ac.uk/cultborr/chapter.php?id=10 [University of Nottingham] PDF PDF(E-Book)
“The Mosaic-Screen: Exploration and Definition”. Refractory: A Journal of Entertainment Media 14 (2008). http://blogs.arts.unimelb.edu.au/refractory/2008/12/27/the-mosaic-screen-exploration-and-definition-–-sergio-dias-branco/ [University of Melbourne] PDF
Other Essays
“O Cinema Justo”. AO: Boletim da Ordem dos Advogados 21 (2002): pp. 85-86. Link
“Estranhos Dias”. Festa V-Ludo, Instituto Superior de Ciências do Trabalho e da Empresa (2001). Link
“Rituais do Indecifrável”. V-Ludo 3 (2000): pp. 61-65. Link
“Intensidade e Segredo”. Folha 7 (1997): p. 4. Link