Notes on a Certain Trend in Portuguese Cinema

António Preto

doi:10.21471/jls.v2i1.156

Notes on a Certain Trend in Portuguese Cinema

António Preto Escola Superior Artística do Porto Centro de Estudos Arnaldo Araújo

DOI: https://doi.org/10.21471/jls.v2i1.156

Keywords: History, identity, postcolonialism, Manoel de Oliveira, Miguel Gomes, Pedro Costa

Abstract

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.

Author Biography

António Preto, Escola Superior Artística do Porto Centro de Estudos Arnaldo Araújo

António Preto received his PhD in Cinema Studies at the Université Paris-Diderot-Paris 7 (2011). He is a professor in the Escola Superior Artística in Porto and in the Universidade Lusófona in Porto. He is the author of Manoel de Oliveira/José Régio: Releituras e fantasmas (Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Serralves, 2009) and Manoel de Oliveira: o cinema inventado à letra (Fundação de Serralves/Jornal Público, 2008).

Published

2017-06-03

Issue

Vol 2 No 1 (2017): Special Dossier on Portuguese Cinema

Section

Special Dossier

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