A Companion to Portuguese Cinema

Erscheinungsjahr 2026
ISBN: 978-1-85566-368-8
Verlag: Boydell & Brewer Ltd

Buch, Englisch, Band 9, 178 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 430 g

Reihe: Tamesis Companions

A compelling history of Portuguese cinema that reveals how politics, culture and technology shaped a national film tradition with international reach.

The book focuses on the relationship between the major political, technological, and cultural movements in Portugal and the construction of a film industry, a national cinema, an international cinema, an auteur's cinema, and a Portuguese cinephile culture. After an introduction presenting a brief overview of Portuguese cinema in the context of Portuguese history and culture since the nineteenth century, the following chapters delve into silent film and the development of genres between 1896 and 1934; sound film and the construction of a national cinema under Portugal's newly established Estado Novo in the 1930s; the golden age and waning of the Portuguese comedy and class dramas in the 40s and 50s; the emergence of Cinema Novo between 1955 and 1979; cinematic responses to Portugal's political transitions in the late twentieth century; and Portuguese cinema in the contexts of private television and European cinema between the 1980s and the present day. The afterword reflects on the history, character, and function of Portuguese Cinema that Portuguese producers, directors, actors, critics, politicians, scholars, artists, and singers have made over the last 120 years and proposes Portuguese cinema as an international cinema.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Colvin, Michael

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword
Introduction: An Overview of the History of Portuguese Cinema
1.Silent Film in Portugal: 1896-1931
2.The Development of Sound Film in Portugal: 1931-1948
3.Mainstream Portuguese Cinema and Cinema Novo: 1948-1968
4.Revolution and National Cinema: 1968-1991
5.Portuguese Cinema in a European Context: 1991-2025
Afterword: Portuguese Cinema as an International Cinema
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Colvin, Michael
MICHAEL COLVIN is Professor of English and World Literatures at Marymount Manhattan College in New York City and author of Las últimas obras de José Donoso: Juegos, roles y rituales en la subversión del poder (2001); The Reconstruction of Lisbon: Severa's Legacy and the Fado's Rewriting of Urban History (2008), and Fado and the Urban Poor in Portuguese Cinema of the 1930s and 1940s (2016).