Easterly Wind

Luso-Orientalisms in Portuguese Dictatorship Films
Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-1-80374-402-5
Verlag: Peter Lang Ltd. International Academic Publishers

Buch, Englisch, Band 21, 164 Seiten, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 252 g

Reihe: Reconfiguring Identities in the Portuguese-Speaking World

The filmography representing the ‘Portuguese Orient’ during the Estado Novo (1933–1974) is scarce and late, employing a simplified Luso- tropicalist rhetoric that repeatedly actualises the myth of a vast, long-lost, territory.

This book examines the impact of cinematographic representations of the former Portuguese territories in the Orient on socio-cultural memories and narrative identities, through a critical exhumation of the archives and analysis of existing filmography. The analysis reveals that films of the ‘Portuguese Orient’ depict this imagined community with a certain degree of vagueness. This is largely a consequence of the prolonged disintegration of the metropolis’ relationship with this imagined community, a relationship that was mainly based on projections (about their alleged Portuguese identity) and ruins.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Piçarra, Maria do Carmo

Über Autor(innen)

Maria do Carmo Picarra is a full researcher at ICNOVA-Institute of Communication at Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Assistant Professor at Universidade Autonoma de Lisboa, and a film curator. Her research interests include (post)colonial cinematic representations, film propaganda and censorship, and women in decolonisation movements.