Erica de Abreu Malchow

Biographical note

The researcher holds a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from the State University of Santa Catarina (2010), a post-graduate degree in film production from FAP – Faculdade de Artes do Paraná (2012) and a master’s degree in cultural and social history from the University of Versailles Saint-Quentin- Yvelines (2014). She worked as Curator and International Fellow at the Frankfurt am Main Historical Museum in Germany (2016-2017). From September to December 2019 worked as a guest researcher at the Deutsches Schiffahrtsmuseum (German Maritime Museum) Currently is a PhD Candidate in museology at the Lusophone University of Humanities and Technologies.

Areas of academic and scientific interest

Museology
Cultural History

PhD project

Museum, cinema and society: participatory films as a sociomuseology tool, the case of the Frankfurt Historical Museum: Title
Judite Primo: Advisor

Abstract

Cinema and museums have had implications of diverse characters and have already been analyzed by diverse fields of science. This dissertation seeks to deepen the theoretical discussions around such an interdisciplinary relationship by analyzing cinema as a sociomuseological tool applied to participatory film processes held at the Frankfurt Historical Museum in the period 2016-2018.