Women's Cinema in Contemporary Portugal

Dr. Mariana Liz, Hilary Owen (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

272 Seiten

2020
Bloomsbury Academic USA (Verlag)
978-1-5013-4972-0 (ISBN)

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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’.

Mariana Liz is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at ICS-ULisboa, the Institute of Social Sciences at the University of Lisbon, in Portugal. She completed a PhD in Film Studies at King's College London in 2012 and taught at King's, Queen Mary and at the University of Leeds in the UK before moving to Portugal in 2016. She is the author of Euro-Visions (2016), editor of Portugal's Global Cinema (2018) and co-editor of The Europeanness of European Cinema (with Mary Harrod and Alissa Timoshkina; 2015). Her work on European film and contemporary Portuguese cinema has been published in Studies in European Cinema, New Cinemas and the Journal of Romance Studies, among other publications. Hilary Owen is Emeritus Professor of Portuguese and Luso-African Studies at the University of Manchester, UK, and Research Fellow in the Sub-Faculty of Portuguese at the University of Oxford, UK. She is the author of Mother Africa, Father Marx. Women's Writing of Mozambique, 1948-2002 (2007), co-author of Antigone's Daughters? Gender, Genealogy and the Politics of Authorship in 20th-Century Portuguese Women's Writing, (with Cláudia Pazos Alonso, 2011) and co-editor of Transnational Portuguese Studies (with Claire Williams, 2020).

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Portuguese Cinema, Women’s Cinema, World Cinema
Mariana Liz, ICS-University of Lisboa, Portugal and Hilary Owen, University of Manchester, UK/University of Oxford, UK

Section 1: Histories

1. Unfinished: The Cinema of Noémia Delgado
Manuela Penafria, University of Beira Interior, Portugal

2. Four Decades on Screen: The Fiction Films of Margarida Gil
Ana Isabel Soares, CIAC - Universidade do Algarve, Portugal

Section 2: Feminisms

3. Monsters, Mutants and Maternity: The Politics of the Posthuman in Teresa Villaverde, Raquel Freire and Solveig Nordlund
Hilary Owen, University of Manchester, UK/University of Oxford, UK

4. Urban homes and urban families: Teresa Villaverde’s Colo and Susana Nobre’s Ordinary Time
Mariana Liz, ICS-University of Lisboa, Portugal

5. Natural Women? Nature and Femininity in Noémia Delgado’s Masks and Teresa Villaverde’s Trance
Patrícia Vieira, Georgetown University, USA

Section 3: Archives

6. Image, Historical Memory, Politics: Margarida Cardoso’s Kuxa Kanema and Susana de Sousa Dias’s 48
Estela Vieira, Indiana University, USA

7. Affect and the Archival Turn: Recent Documentaries by Inês de Medeiros and Susana de Sousa Dias
Alison Ribeiro de Menezes, University of Warwick, UK

8. The Essay Film and Rita Azevedo Gomes’s Correspondences
Ana Cabral Martins, ICS-University of Lisboa, Portugal

Section 4: Transnationalisms

9. Women’s Cinema, World Cinema: Margarida Cardoso’s Yvone Kane
Sally Faulkner, University of Exeter, UK

10. Portugal’s Year Zero: Emergent Women Directors, 2013-2017
Filipa Rosário, University of Lisboa, Portugal

Bibliography
List of contributors
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	02.04.2020
Zusatzinfo	40 bw illus
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	526 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-10	1-5013-4972-4 / 1501349724
ISBN-13	978-1-5013-4972-0 / 9781501349720
Zustand	Neuware