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Portuguese film, 1930-1960 : the staging of the new state regime /

"Portuguese Film, 1930-1960: The Staging of the New State Regime provides groundbreaking analysis of Portuguese feature films produced in the first three decades of the New State (Estado Novo), a right-wing totalitarian regime that lasted between 1933 and 1974. These films, sponsored by the Nat...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Vieira, Patricia I., 1977- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2013.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Cover
  • Half Title
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • Dedication
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction Cinema in the New State
  • 1 Propaganda in the New State: The May Revolution (A Revolução de Maio)
  • Propaganda in Portuguese cinema
  • Salazar's truth as ideology
  • The primacy of art: António Ferro's politics of the spirit
  • The staging of the leader
  • 2 Poets on the Silver Screen : Bocage, Camões, and the Heroes of the Regime
  • Literature and film in the politics of the spirit
  • The heroes of the New State
  • Against political inconstancy: The hero as a serious man
  • 3 Rural Life in Cinema: In Defense of a Natural Society
  • Regional and folkloric films
  • A natural cinema
  • The countryside and the city
  • Capitalism, Communism, Corporatism
  • 4 The Miracle of Salazarism : Fátima, Land of Faith (Fátima, Terra de Fé)
  • Fátima in the New State
  • Reason, faith and politics in cinema
  • Balancing reason and religion
  • Beyond reason and faith: The danger of nihilism
  • 5 Gender Stereotypes in New State Cinema
  • Women in New State films
  • Singing as a transgression
  • Fado, fatalism and the Portuguese femme fatale
  • 6 The Empire as Fetish : Spell of the Empire (Feitiço do Império)
  • Portugal and its colonies
  • The magic of Africa
  • The empire as a fetish
  • Spell of the Empire and colonial propaganda
  • 7 The Spirit of the Empire in Chaimite
  • Spirituality and materiality in Salazarism
  • The spirit of Portuguese colonization
  • The politics of the spirit in Chaimite
  • Epilogue New State Cinema Today
  • Bibliography
  • Index.