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Easterly Wind

Luso-Orientalisms in Portuguese Dictatorship Films

by Maria do Carmo Piçarra (Author)
©2025 Monographs 0 Pages

Summary

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.

Details

Pages
Publication Year
2025
ISBN (PDF)
9781803744032
ISBN (ePUB)
9781803744049
ISBN (Softcover)
9781803744025
DOI
10.3726/b21600
Language
English
Publication date
2025 (August)
Keywords
Maria do Carmo Piçarra Easterly Wind: Luso-Orientalisms in Portuguese Dictatorship Films Luso-orientalism Luso-tropicalism Orientalism film studies Film propaganda and censorship Portuguese India Timor Goa Macau Estado Novo dictatorship
Published
Oxford, Berlin, Bruxelles, Chennai, Lausanne, New York, 2025. 164 pp., 30 fig. b/w.
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Biographical notes

Maria do Carmo Piçarra (Author)

Maria do Carmo Picarra is a full researcher at ICNOVA-Institute of Communication at Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Assistant Professor at Universidade Autonoma de Lisboa, and a film curator. Her research interests include (post)colonial cinematic representations, film propaganda and censorship, and women in decolonisation movements.

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