Women's Cinema in Contemporary Portugal

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).

• AcknowledgementsIntroduction: Portuguese Cinema, Women’s Cinema, World Cinema Mariana Liz, ICS-University of Lisboa, Portugal and Hilary Owen, University of Manchester, UK/University of Oxford, UKSection 1: Histories1. Unfinished: The Cinema of Noémia DelgadoManuela Penafria, University of Beira Interior, Portugal2. Four Decades on Screen: The Fiction Films of Margarida GilAna Isabel Soares, CIAC - Universidade do Algarve, PortugalSection 2: Feminisms3. Monsters, Mutants and Maternity: The Politics of the Posthuman in Teresa Villaverde, Raquel Freire and Solveig NordlundHilary Owen, University of Manchester, UK/University of Oxford, UK4. Urban homes and urban families: Teresa Villaverde’s Colo and Susana Nobre’s Ordinary TimeMariana Liz, ICS-University of Lisboa, Portugal5. Natural Women? Nature and Femininity in Noémia Delgado’s Masks and Teresa Villaverde’s TrancePatrícia Vieira, Georgetown University, USASection 3: Archives6. Image, Historical Memory, Politics: Margarida Cardoso’s Kuxa Kanema and Susana de Sousa Dias’s 48Estela Vieira, Indiana University, USA7. Affect and the Archival Turn: Recent Documentaries by Inês de Medeiros and Susana de Sousa Dias Alison Ribeiro de Menezes, University of Warwick, UK8. The Essay Film and Rita Azevedo Gomes’s Correspondences Ana Cabral Martins, ICS-University of Lisboa, PortugalSection 4: Transnationalisms9. Women’s Cinema, World Cinema: Margarida Cardoso’s Yvone Kane Sally Faulkner, University of Exeter, UK10. Portugal’s Year Zero: Emergent Women Directors, 2013-2017 Filipa Rosário, University of Lisboa, PortugalBibliographyList of contributorsIndex

This landmark collection offers an extraordinarily rich and nuanced tour d’horizon of women’s cinema in Portugal since the 1974 April Revolution. The volume’s collaborative design, stellar roster of contributors, and sophisticated theoretical framing guarantee that its impact will be as lasting as it is groundbreaking.