Women's Cinema in Contemporary Portugal

Mariana Liz, Hilary Owen, Mariana Liz, Hilary Owen

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Year: 2020
• Print ISBN:
  9781501386886
• eBook ISBN:
  9781501349737
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Media & Performing Arts
• Subtopic: Film & Video

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'.

Index

11th Hour, The here

16 mm here, here

25 April 1974 here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here

35 mm here, here, here

48 here, here, here, here, here, here, here–here, here, here, here–here

abortion here, here, here, here, here, here–here, here–here, here

adaptation(s) here, here, here, here, here, here, here–here, here, here, here, here

Adriana here, here, here, here, here, here

affect here, here, here, here, here

Afonso, Zeca here

Africa here, here, here, here, here, here

African Independence here

Agamben, Giorgio here

ageing here, here

Aguilar, Sandro here

Airosa, José here

Alce Filmes here

Alegre, Manuel here

Alentejo here, here

Almeida, Acácio de here, here

Altar here

Alves Costa, Catarina here, here, here, here

Ama-San here, here, here, here, here–here, here, here

Andala, Mina here, here

Andresen, Sophia de Mello Breyner here, here–here, here, here–here, here, here, here

Angola here, here

ANIM here

anthropocentrism here

anticinema here

Antigone here, here

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Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-Title
• Dedication
• Title
• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• List of contributors
• Introduction: Portuguese cinema, women’s cinema, world cinema
• Section One Histories
• Section Two Feminisms
• Section Three Archives
• Section Four Transnationalisms
• Bibliography
• Index
• Copyright