Drawing on archival materials held in the Portuguese Ministry of Foreign Affairs and other contemporary resources, Dr. Anna M. Klobucka will discuss the highlights of New Portuguese Letters’ unexpected notoriety in the United States before and around the 1974 Carnations Revolution.
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Women’s Cinema in Contemporary Portugal brings together scholars from Portugal, UK and the USA, to discuss 14 women film directors in Portugal, focusing on their production in both feature film and documentary genres over the last half-century. It charts the specific cinematic visions that these women have brought to the re-emergence of Portuguese national cinema in the wake of the 1974 Revolution and African decolonization, and to the growing internationalization of Portugal’s arguably ‘minor’ or ‘small nation’ cinema, with significant young women directors such as Leonor Teles achieving prominence abroad.
The history of Portuguese women’s cinema only begins systematically after the 1974 revolution and democratization. This collection shows how female auteurs made their mark on Portugal’s post-revolutionary conceptualization of a differently ‘national’ cinema, through the ethnographic output of the late 1970s. It goes on to explore wo