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Portugal´s Global Cinema: Industry, History and Culture
Liz Mariana
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Description for Portugal´s Global Cinema: Industry, History and Culture
Hardcover. Editor(s): Liz, Mariana. Series: Tauris World Cinema Series. Num Pages: 288 pages, 30 black and white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DSP; APF. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 156. .
Portuguese cinema has become increasingly prominent on the international film festival circuit, proving the country's size belies its cultural impact. From the prestige of directors Manoel de Oliveira, Pedro Costa and Miguel Gomes, to box-office hit La Cage Doree, aspects of Portuguese national cinema are widely visible although the output is comparatively small compared to European players like the UK, Germany and France. Considering this strange discrepancy prompts the question: how can Portuguese cinema be characterised and thought about in a global context? Accumulating expertise from an international group of scholars, this book investigates the shifting significance of the nation, ... Read more
Portuguese cinema has become increasingly prominent on the international film festival circuit, proving the country's size belies its cultural impact. From the prestige of directors Manoel de Oliveira, Pedro Costa and Miguel Gomes, to box-office hit La Cage Doree, aspects of Portuguese national cinema are widely visible although the output is comparatively small compared to European players like the UK, Germany and France. Considering this strange discrepancy prompts the question: how can Portuguese cinema be characterised and thought about in a global context? Accumulating expertise from an international group of scholars, this book investigates the shifting significance of the nation, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Series
Tauris World Cinema Series
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781784531980
SKU
V9781784531980
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99-5
About Liz Mariana
Mariana Liz is a Research Fellow at ICS-ULisboa, in Portugal. She is the author of Euro-Visions: Europe in Contemporary Cinema (2016) and co-editor of Women’s Cinema in Contemporary Portugal (2020) and The Europeanness of European Cinema: Identity, Meaning, Globalization (2015).
Reviews for Portugal´s Global Cinema: Industry, History and Culture
This collection of essays on Portuguese cinema is both proof of how studies of Portuguese cinema by now can be seen as constituting an established field, as well as an indispensable tool for further inquiries into a growing body of works ... it is certain to be considered required reading for some time to come.
Portuguese Studies
Portuguese Studies