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Easterly Wind: Luso-Orientalisms in Portuguese Dictatorship Films

Easterly Wind: Luso-Orientalisms in Portuguese Dictatorship Films

Piçarra, Maria Do Carmo

Paperback

Series: Reconfiguring Identities in the Portuguese-Speaking World, Book 21

Film StudiesBritish HistoryPlaywriting

ISBN10: 1803744022
ISBN13: 9781803744025
Publisher: Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publis
Published: Aug 26 2025
Pages: 164
Weight: 0.51
Height: 0.35 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

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.

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