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Women's Cinema in Contemporary Portugal brings together scholars from Portugal, UK and the USA, to discuss 14 women film directors in Portugal, focussing on their production in both feature film and documentary genres over the last half-century. It charts the specific cinematic visions that these women have brought to the re-emergence of Portuguese national cinema in the wake of the 1974 Revolution and African decolonisation, and to the growing internationalisation of Portugal's arguably 'minor' or 'small nation' cinema, with significant young women directors such as Leonor Teles achieving prominence abroad.
The history of Portuguese women's cinema only begins systematically after the 1974 revolution and democratisation. This collection shows how female auteurs made their mark on Portugal's post-revolutionary conceptualisation of a differently 'national' cinema, through the ethnographic output of the late 1970s. It goes on to explore women's decisively gendered interventions in the cinematic memory practices that opened up around the masculine domain of the Colonial Wars in Africa. Feminist political issues such as Portugal's 30-year abortion campaign and LGBT status have become more visible since the 1990s, alongside preoccupations with global concerns relating to immigration, transit and minority status communities. The book also demonstrates how women have contributed to the evolution of soundscapes, the genre of essay cinema, film's relationship to the archive, and the adaptation of the written word. The result is a powerful, provocative and definitive challenge to the marginalisation of Portuguese female-directed film in terms of 'double minority'.
Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Portuguese Cinema, Women's Cinema, World Cinema
Mariana Liz, ICS-University of Lisboa, Portugal and Hilary Owen, University of Manchester, UK/University of Oxford, UK
Section 1: Histories
1. Unfinished: The Cinema of Noémia Delgado
Manuela Penafria, University of Beira Interior, Portugal
2. Four Decades on Screen: The Fiction Films of Margarida Gil
Ana Isabel Soares, CIAC - Universidade do Algarve, Portugal
Section 2: Feminisms
3. Monsters, Mutants and Maternity: The Politics of the Posthuman in Teresa Villaverde, Raquel Freire and Solveig Nordlund
Hilary Owen, University of Manchester, UK/University of Oxford, UK
4. Urban homes and urban families: Teresa Villaverde's Colo and Susana Nobre's Ordinary Time
Mariana Liz, ICS-University of Lisboa, Portugal
5. Natural Women? Nature and Femininity in Noémia Delgado's Masks and Teresa Villaverde's Trance
Patrícia Vieira, Georgetown University, USA
Section 3: Archives
6. Image, Historical Memory, Politics: Margarida Cardoso's Kuxa Kanema and Susana de Sousa Dias's 48
Estela Vieira, Indiana University, USA
7. Affect and the Archival Turn: Recent Documentaries by Inês de Medeiros and Susana de Sousa Dias
Alison Ribeiro de Menezes, University of Warwick, UK
8. The Essay Film and Rita Azevedo Gomes's Correspondences
Ana Cabral Martins, ICS-University of Lisboa, Portugal
Section 4: Transnationalisms
9. Women's Cinema, World Cinema: Margarida Cardoso's Yvone Kane
Sally Faulkner, University of Exeter, UK
10. Portugal's Year Zero: Emergent Women Directors, 2013-2017
Filipa Rosário, University of Lisboa, Portugal
Bibliography
List of contributors
Index
