Easterly Wind : Luso-Orientalisms in Portuguese Dictatorship Films (Reconfiguring Identities in the Portuguese-speaking World)

Piçarra, Maria do Carmo/ Medeiros, Paulo de (EDT)/ Pazos-Alonso, Cláudia (EDT)

Peter Lang International Academic Publishers（2025/08発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 164 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781803744025
• DDC分類 791.430946

Full Description

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.

Contents

Contents - Introduction: «Luso-orientalism(s)» or an illusion enfolded by ruins - Chapter 1: Filmed Luso-orientalism(s) - Chapter 2: «Portuguese India» in film: Shot/reverse shot - Chapter 3: «Portuguese Timor»: From «Cabinet of Scientific Curiosities» to «Timor-Amor» - Chapter 4: Macau, (narrowly) open city: The paucity and reactivity of Portuguese films - Chapter 5: Imagined projections of Portugueseness and ruins - Bibliography - Index