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Title

Identity and difference : postcoloniality and transnationality in Lusophone films / Carolin Overhoff Ferreira.

Author

Ferreira, Carolin Overhoff.

Publication

Zürich : Lit, c2012.

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Description

262 p. : ill.; 22 cm.

Summary

The Carnation Revolution in 1974 ended Portugal's dictatorship and empire and opened up a new chapter in film history. Besides national productions, transnational films that result from agreements with the ex-colonies Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, Guinea Bissau and Mozambique now engage with the legacy of Portugal's colonial history and its powerful myths of cultural unity such as lusophony and lusotropicalism. This volume is the first to analyze the negotiations of ideas on identity and difference in both production modes.

Series Statement

Filmwissenschaft ; Band 13

Uniform Title

Filmwissenschaft (Berlin, Germany); Bd. 13.

Alternative Title

Postcoloniality and transnationality in Lusophone films

Subject

• Motion pictures > Portugal > History > 20th century
• Motion picture industry > Portugal > History > 20th century
• Postcolonialism in motion pictures
• Motion pictures and transnationalism
• Africa, Portuguese-speaking > In motion pictures

Genre/Form

History

Note

• Collection of texts published previously.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

List of figures -- List of tables -- Preface and acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I. Facing authoritarianism and the end of the empire: in search for an alternative identity -- Non-canonical adaptations: Non-inscription and dictatorship in A Bee in the Rain (1968-71) and The Dauphin (2001) / Fernando Lopes -- Attempts to decolonize the mind: The representation of the African colonial war in Portuguese cinema -- The discovery of paradox: the European expansion in six films / Manoel de Oliveira -- The adolescent as post-colonial allegory: Strategies of inter- subjectivity in Portuguese films of the 1990s -- Part II. Facing past and present from a transnational perspetive: between identity and difference -- Ambivalent transnationality: Luso-African co-productions after independence (1988-2010) -- Lusophone monologues or transnational dialogues: the Luso-Brazilian literary adaptations (1995 -- 2008) -- The limits of Luso-Brazilian brotherhood: Fortress Europe in Foreign Land (1995) by Walter Salles and Daniela Thomas -- Identities adrift: lusophony and migration in national and transnational films -- Works cited -- Index.

ISBN

9783643902177 (pbk.)

OCLC

801200594

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library