Portugal's Global Cinema

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).

• Introduction: Framing the Global Appeal of Contemporary Portuguese Cinema – Mariana Liz1. Filming Narratives Becoming Events: Documentary and the ‘Emplotments’ of the Carnation Revolution – Luís Trindade 2. Our Beloved Month of August: Between the Filming of the Real and the Reality of Filming – Rui Gonçalves Miranda 3. Political Oliveira – Randal Johnson 4. Portugal, Europe and the World: Geopolitics and the Human Condition in Manoel de Oliveira’s Films – Carolin Overhoff Ferreira 5. Amália: Stories of a Singer and Tales of a National Cinema – Anthony de Melo 6. La Cage dorée: a Franco-Portuguese Comedy of Integration – Ginette Vincendeau 7. Portugal and Europe: Cinema and the City in a Postcolonial Context – Mariana Liz 8. Contextualizing Pedro Costa’s Digital Filmmaking – Nuno Barradas Jorge 9. Broken Links: The Cinema of Teresa Villaverde – Cristina Álvarez López and Adrian Martin 10. Mysteries of Raúl Ruiz’s Portugal: Territory, Littoral and Memory Bridge – Michael Goddard 11. White Faces / Black Masks: The White Woman’s Burden in Pedro Costa’s Down to Earth – Hilary Owen12. Light Drops: Portugal Critically Reviewing the Colonial Past? – Paul Melo e Castro13. Colonialism as Fantastic Realism in Tabu – Lúcia Nagib 14. Luso-Brazilian Co-Productions: Rescue and Expansion – Natália Pinazza

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.