Herminia Sol

• PhD American Literature;
• Professor (Associate) at Polytechnic Institute of Tomar

While fairly established in several western countries, military tourism is still in a grey area in Portugal. In order to bolster the notion that this concept can be a major contributor to tourism activation, an Information System is being developed with the Templar Order as basis. This project is a direct result of the work of the Polytechnic Insti...

This article shares collaborative scientific work done by researchers from the Centre for Social Studies (University of Coimbra, Portugal) and from the Technology, Restoration and Arts Enhancement Center (Polytechnical Institute of Tomar, Portugal) within the REDE ARTÉRIA in cooperation with MOVTOUR. REDE ARTÉRIA is an action research project that...

The New Past. 2021. № 3. С. 75-89.

The documentary film Watermark is being developed within the context of an international project, entitled PAPER TRAILS: Post-industrial histories, technical memories and art practices in Tomar, and that results from a research partnership between the R&D unit TECHN&ART, which is based at the Polytechnic Institute of Tomar (Portugal) and the Valais...

The evaluation of the impact that the images perceived by the spectators have in the destination choices they make as tourists is a growing research field, not only in Tourism and Marketing Management but also among the Behavioural Sciences. Based on a questionnaire previously developed on a Film Tourism sub-project, with qualitative variables in n...

Science fiction has taken upon itself the mission of speculating about the future of humanity in an array of possible scenarios. One such scenario is the cityscape. Several projections have been made in science fiction films regarding the type of city we may come to inhabit in the future. As suggested by Smiljanic and Mlinar (2016), the possibiliti...

Twenty years have passed since the release of Tomás Gutiérrez Alea and Juan Carlos Tabio road movie Guantanamera (1995). Set in the yearly 1990s, during the collapse of the USSR and at a time when the impact of the US embargo was most severely felt, Guantanamera 's humorous register depicts the emergence of internal tensions resulting from the econ...

Purpose With fierce competition in capturing tourists, it is crucial that destinations be prepared to adapt and to refresh their event portfolio. The purpose of this paper is to look into the decision-making process that led to the development of a new festival in a middle-sized city, Tomar, in Portugal. Design/methodology/approach This study an...

In recent years Paul Bowles's short stories have received a considerable amount of attention, specially those commonly categorized as the Moroccan stories. This is mostly due to the renovated interest in Middle East and North Africa-related themes triggered by the 9/11 events, the ongoing warfare in Afghanistan and, more recently, to the many polit...

In the early 1980s the music video came to prominence thanks to a phenomenon that would change American pop culture irrevocably — MTV. Born out of the necessity to stimulate record sales in a recession ridden America, music videos’ impact on contemporary film, fashion and radio quickly became a reality. Based on this premise, we aim to analyze the...

Paul Bowles’s peripatetic life-style has been significantly considered by critics and admirers alike. Though not the only artist affected by the travelling bug, he has singled himself out in 20th century American letters by developing a culture of estrangement, both in relation to his own country and to the many countries he visited and lived in. T...

Este estudo é uma análise alternativa à apresentada por Luís de Pina em "Plano para a Educação de uma Menina Portuguesa no Século XVIII" [1968], acerca do presumível visionarismo e vanguardismo contidos nas propostas avançadas por António Ribeiro Sanches em relação ao modelo de educação que deveria ser ministrado, na época, às futuras Mulheres de P...

Oral tradition is still looked down upon by academia as it is not yet considered fit to be either object or subject of scientific scrutiny. In an attempt to change this state of affairs, this article aims to reflect upon the role of proverbs and sayings as keepers of cultural and national values. As such, it will look into the didactic nature of th...

David Lodge chama a atenção para as dificuldades que ocorrem durante o processo de adaptação de obras de Henry James ao cinema. Dificuldades que advêm, sobretudo, da densidade psicológica das personagens, da complexidade estilística resultante do recurso ao stream of consciousness e da incompatibilidade entre as linguagens verbal e fílmica. No enta...