Portugal's Global Cinema : Industry, History and Culture
Portuguese cinema has become increasingly prominent on the international film festival circuit and yet can still be described as a 'small nation cinema'. From box-office hit 'La Cage Doré' to the prestige of directors Manúel de Oliveira, Pedro Costa and Miguel Gomes, aspects of Portuguese national cinema are widely visible although the output is comparatively small compared to European players like the UK, Germany and France. Considering this strange discrepancy begs the question: how can Portuguese cinema be characterised and thought about in a global context? Accumulating expertise from an international group of scholars, this book investigates the shifting significance of the nation, Europe and the globe for the way in which Portuguese film is managed on the international stage
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1 online resource (306 pages)
9781786732750, 1786732750
1022792727
Cover; Author bio; Series information; Title page; Copyright information; Dedication; Table of contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Contributors; Introduction: Framing the Global Appeal of Contemporary Portuguese Cinema; 1 Filming Narratives Becoming Events: Documentary and the â#x80;#x98;Emplotmentsâ#x80;#x99; of the Carnation Revolution; Narratives of the Carnation Revolution: an introduction; Scenes from the class struggle in Portugal; Revolution as narrative; 2 Our Beloved Month of August: Between the Filming of the Real and the Reality of Filming; The reality of filming; Filming of the real. Just so: love for reality, desire for cinemaConclusion: the section which isnâ#x80;#x99;t there; 3 Political Oliveira; Legacy of the empire; 4 Portugal, Europe and the World: Geopolitics and the Human Condition in Manoel de Oliveiraâ#x80;#x99;s Films; Regional/National; Supranational/Transnational/Global; Universal/Local; Conclusion; 5 Amália (2008): Stories of a Singer and Tales of a National Cinema; Amália and fado biographies; Between Hollywood melodrama and national Portuguese cinema; 6 La Cage Dorée/The Gilded Cage: A Franco-Portuguese Comedy of Integration; French comedy of integration. Negotiating Portuguese stereotypesMusic, nostalgia, modernity; Conclusion; 7 Cinema and the City in European Portugal; The complex relationship between Portugal and Europe; Lisbon Story and European postcards; Portugal, Europe and heritage in Porto of My Childhood; Conclusion; 8 Contextualizing Pedro Costaâ#x80;#x99;s Digital Filmmaking; Digital cinema as a (low-budget) production paradigm; Filmmaking at the interstices; Authorship renegotiated; Conclusion; 9 Broken Links: The Cinema of Teresa Villaverde; The holy family; Forms and transformations; Figures and feelings. 10 Mysteries of Raúl Ruizâ#x80;#x99;s Portugal: Territory, Littoral, City and Memory BridgePortugal as Ruizian territory; Three Crowns of a Sailor (1982), City of Pirates (1983) and impossible cartographies; Mysteries of Lisbon and mysteries of enchantment; 11 White Faces/Black Masks: The White Womanâ#x80;#x99;s Burden in Pedro Costaâ#x80;#x99;s Down to Earth; Remaking Hollywood? Volcanoes, zombies, crazy women; Neo-colonial gaze, desire and sexuality; Female embodiment of male masochism: between science and sexuality; Conclusion: a dystopian Island of Love? 12 Light Drops: Portugal Critically Reviewing the Colonial Past?Light Drops as post-colonial film; Rui Pedroâ#x80;#x99;s two families; Post-colonialism and nostalgia?; 13 Colonialism as Fantastic Realism in Tabu; Historical detours; The non-story and the index; Fantasy as truth procedure; 14 Luso-Brazilian Co-Productions: Rescue and Expansion; Globalization and the national cinemas of Brazil and Portugal; Role of co-productions in Brazilian and Portuguese cinema; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index