A film-maker is a professional from the movie industry who, as the name indicates, makes a movie, he is the responsible for the creation of the film. However, as is commonly known, it is hard if not impossible for a single individual to make a movie, at least in a professional environment, and the current […]

Genius loci is a concept that goes back to the ancient classical Rome, and it can be translated has the “spirit of the place”; originally, the term was used to refer to the protective spirit of a place, an entity that is present in every place human beings are. The religious notion has suffered changes […]

In the artistic context, the genre can be defined as a main style, that clusters a wide range of similar characteristics, and that allows to classify and distinguish different art productions that share a common base. Whether in music, literature, painting, cinema, sculpture, or any other art, the division by genre can be made regarding […]

Gongorism, also known as Culteranismo, is a literary style created in the XVII by the Spanish poet Luis de Góngora y Argote, from whom this specific style was named after. This form of writing, used mainly in poetry but also in some prose texts, was a huge trend throughout the XVII and XVIII centuries in […]

David Llewelyn Wark Griffith, commonly known as D. W. Grifftith, was an American film maker who developed new directing techniques, being considered by many the “father” of Hollywood. Born in 1875 in Crestwood, Kentucky, Griffith came from a rural poor family, and during his childhood and adolescence he suffered from the economic difficulties his family […]

Harry Potter is a literary saga that belongs to the fantastic genre, and that is composed by seven book, written by the British author J. K. Rowling. The books tell the story of a young orphan, Harry Potter, who at 11 years old finds out he is a wizard. Harry had lived so far with […]

Werner Herzog Stipetić is a famous German film maker, commonly known as Werner Herzog, the name he choose to use in the early beginning of his career, since he considered it more striking and memorable than his real last name. Born in 1942 in Munich, Germany, Werner has Croatian origins, and spend a big part of […]

HIIT (High Intensity Interval Training) is a type of workout constituted by periods of high intensity effort, as the name indicates, and during those periods the individual must make exercises that push their body capability to the limit, followed by short intervals, that can be total pauses of a few seconds, or periods where an […]

The History of Music is the study of the origins and evolution of music over time. It can be seen as an historical discipline, within the field of History of Art in general and in the study of the cultural evolution of population, and it is studied by historians, or it can be classified as […]

The History of Television in Portugal begins a few decades after the birth of Television, which began its development worldwide in the mid 20’s. In Portugal, the official date of the implementation of television is the 15th December 1955, the day when Radiotelevisão Portuguesa (RTP) was founded and designated as official public television service, being […]