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Notes on a Certain Trend in Portuguese Cinema

Author(s) -

António Preto

Publication year - 2017

Publication title -

journal of lusophone studies

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.1

H-Index - 2

ISSN - 2469-4800

DOI - 10.21471/jls.v2i1.156

Subject(s) - portuguese , movie theater , modernity , perspective (graphical) , politics , identity (music) , sociology , aesthetics , art history , humanities , art , political science , visual arts , philosophy , law , linguistics

The present essay examines how contemporary Portuguese cinema critically dialogues with the historical representations upon which mythical images of Portugal have been founded. Analyzing films by Manoel de Oliveira, Pedro Costa, and Miguel Gomes, the essay highlights how these filmmakers problematize, within a postcolonial perspective, the political sense of understanding modernity as a crisis of identity.

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