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Luso-Orientalisms in Portuguese Dictatorship Films

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by Maria do Carmo Piçarra

Type: Studies
Subject: Countries > Europe
Keywords: Portugal, orientalism
Publishing date: 2025 (August 26, 2025)
Publisher: Peter Lang
Collection: Reconfiguring Identities in the Portuguese-Speaking World
Language: English

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Paperback • 164 pages
6 x 9 inches (15 x 23 cm)

ISBN

978-1-80374-402-5

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Book Presentation:
The filmography representing the ‘Portuguese Orient’ during the Estado Novo (1933–1974) is scarce and late, employing a simplified Luso- tropicalist rhetoric that repeatedly actualises the myth of a vast, long-lost, territory.

This book examines the impact of cinematographic representations of the former Portuguese territories in the Orient on socio-cultural memories and narrative identities, through a critical exhumation of the archives and analysis of existing filmography. The analysis reveals that films of the ‘Portuguese Orient’ depict this imagined community with a certain degree of vagueness. This is largely a consequence of the prolonged disintegration of the metropolis’ relationship with this imagined community, a relationship that was mainly based on projections (about their alleged Portuguese identity) and ruins.

About the Author:
Maria do Carmo Picarra is a full researcher at ICNOVA-Institute of Communication at Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Assistant Professor at Universidade Autonoma de Lisboa, and a film curator. Her research interests include (post)colonial cinematic representations, film propaganda and censorship, and women in decolonisation movements.

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