Overview

The fortieth anniversary of the independence of the African countries colonized by Portugal presents a valuable opportunity to reassess how colonialism has been ""imagined"" through the medium of the moving image. The essays collected in this volume investigate Portuguese colonialism and its filmic and audio-visual imaginaries both during and after the Estado Novo regime, examining political propaganda films shot during the liberation wars and exploring the questions and debates these generate. The book also highlights common aspects in the emergence of a national cinema in Angola, Mozambique and Guinea-Bissau. By reanimating (and decolonizing) the archive, it represents an important contribution to Portuguese colonial history, as well as to the history of cinema and the visual arts.

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Author:   Maria do Carmo Picarra ,  Teresa Castro
Publisher:   Peter Lang Ltd
Imprint:   Peter Lang Ltd
Edition:   New edition
Volume:   8
Weight:   0.420kg
ISBN:  

9781787073180

ISBN 10:   1787073181
Pages:   292
Publication Date:   31 May 2017
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

CONTENTS: Lucia Nagib: Foreword - Maria do Carmo Picarra/Teresa Castro: Colonial Reflections, Post-Colonial Refractions: Film and the Moving Image in the Portuguese (Post-)Colonial Situation - Maria do Carmo Picarra: Ruy Duarte: A Cinema of the Word Aspiring to Imagine Angolanness - Raquel Schefer: Between the Visible and the Invisible: Mueda, Memoria e Massacre (1982) by Ruy Guerra and the Cultural Forms of the Makonde Plateau - Ros Gray: Clear Lines on an Internationalist Map: Foreign Filmmakers in Angola at Independence - Robert Stock: The Many Returns to Wiriyamu: Audiovisual Testimony and the Negotiation of Colonial Violence - Afonso Ramos: ""Rarely penetrated by camera or film"": NBC's Angola: Journey to a War (1961) - Rui Lopes: The US and Portuguese Colonialism as Imagined through Television Drama - Iolanda Vasile: African Independence and the Socialist Republic of Romania's Photographic Archive - Jose Manuel Costa: Colonial Collection of the Portuguese Film Archive: Shot, Reverse Shot, Off-Screen - Ana Balona de Oliveira: A Decolonizing Impulse: Artists in the Colonial and Post-Colonial Archive, Or the Boxes of Departing Settlers between Maputo, Luanda and Lisbon - Teresa Castro: In-Between Memory and History: Artists' Films and the Portuguese Colonial Archive - Daniel Barroca: Drawing and Undrawing my Genealogy - Filipa Cesar: A Grin without Marker - Monica de Miranda: Hotel Globo.

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This edited volume certainly constitutes an important contribution to the studies of film, image and visual arts concerned with state propaganda during the Portuguese Estado Novo, the early days of Angolan and Mozambican film and their memory. With a multitalented team of contributors whose work often involves more than one area in the production and circulation of images, this book conjugates the views of academics, filmmakers, artists and curators. The volume's numerous perspectives are also reflected in the wide range of angles taken by the different contributors, who are not only capable of competently analysing the specificities of Portuguese colonialism and anti-colonialism of Portuguese-speaking Africa, but who can also place them beyond the `lusophone' confines and within world history, through their currency in the Cold War. (Emanuelle Santos, Portuguese Studies , 34/2 2018)

This edited volume certainly constitutes an important contribution to the studies of film, image and visual arts concerned with state propaganda during the Portuguese Estado Novo, the early days of Angolan and Mozambican film and their memory. With a multitalented team of contributors whose work often involves more than one area in the production and circulation of images, this book conjugates the views of academics, filmmakers, artists and curators. The volume's numerous perspectives are also reflected in the wide range of angles taken by the different contributors, who are not only capable of competently analysing the specificities of Portuguese colonialism and anti-colonialism of Portuguese-speaking Africa, but who can also place them beyond the 'lusophone' confines and within world history, through their currency in the Cold War. (Emanuelle Santos, Portuguese Studies , 34/2 2018)

«This edited volume certainly constitutes an important contribution to the studies of film, image and visual arts concerned with state propaganda during the Portuguese Estado Novo, the early days of Angolan and Mozambican film and their memory. With a multitalented team of contributors whose work often involves more than one area in the production and circulation of images, this book conjugates the views of academics, filmmakers, artists and curators. The volume’s numerous perspectives are also reflected in the wide range of angles taken by the different contributors, who are not only capable of competently analysing the specificities of Portuguese colonialism and anti-colonialism of Portuguese-speaking Africa, but who can also place them beyond the ‘lusophone’ confines and within world history, through their currency in the Cold War.» (Emanuelle Santos, Portuguese Studies , 34/2 2018)

Author Information

Maria do Carmo Picarra is an FCT Postdoctoral Researcher at the Centre for Communication and Society Research at the University of Minho and the Centre for Film Aesthetics and Cultures at the University of Reading. Teresa Castro is Associate Professor in Film Studies and Image Theory at the Universite Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3.

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