%0 Book
%A Maria do Carmo Piçarra
%D 2025
%C Oxford, United Kingdom
%I Peter Lang Verlag
%T Easterly Wind
%B Luso-Orientalisms in Portuguese Dictatorship Films
%U https://www.peterlang.com/document/1418250
%X 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.
%K 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
%G English