(Re)imagining African Independence: Film, Visual Arts and the Fall of the Portuguese Empire
Oxford et al.: Peter Lang (2017), xvi, 287 pp.
Contains illustrations
Series: Reconfiguring identities in the Portuguese-speaking World, 8
ISBN 9781787076389 (pdf); 9781787073180 (pbk)
"The fortieth anniversary of the independence of the African countries colonized by Portugal presents a valuable opportunity to reassess how colonialism has been «imagined» through the medium of the moving image. The essays collected in this volume investigate Portuguese colonialism and its filmic and audio-visual imaginaries both during and after the Estado Novo regime, examining political propaganda films shot during the liberation wars and exploring the questions and debates these generate. The book also highlights common aspects in the emergence of a national cinema in Angola, Mozambique and Guinea-Bissau. By reanimating (and decolonizing) the archive, it represents an important contribution to Portuguese colonial history, as well as to the history of cinema and the visual arts." (Publisher description)
Colonial Reflections, Post-Colonial Refractions: Film and the Moving Image in the Portuguese (Post-)Colonial Situation / Maria Do Carmo Piçarra and Teresa Castro, 1
I. THE BIRTH [THROUGH IMAGES] OF AFRICAN NATIONS
1 Ruy Duarte: A Cinema of the Word Aspiring to Imagine Angolanness / Maria Do Carmo Piçarra, 25
2 Between the Visible and the Invisible: Mueda, Memória e Massacre (1982) by Ruy Guerra and the Cultural Forms of the Makonde Plateau / Raquel Schefer, 47
3 Clear Lines on an Internationalist Map: Foreign Filmmakers in Angola at Independence / Ros Gray, 65
4 The Many Returns to Wiriyamu: Audiovisual Testimony and the Negotiation of Colonial Violence / Robert Stock, 87
II. THE FALL OF THE PORTUGUESE EMPIRE: FOREIGN GAZES DURING THE COLD WAR
5 'Rarely penetrated by camera or film': NBC's Angola: Journey to a War (1961) / Afonso Ramos, 111
6 The US and Portuguese Colonialism as Imagined through Television Drama / Rui Lopes, 131
7 African Independence and the Socialist Republic of Romania's Photographic Archive / Iolanda Vasile, 151
III. MOVING IMAGES, POST-COLONIAL REPRESENTATIONS AND THE ARCHIVE
8 Colonial Collection of the Portuguese Film Archive: Shot, Reverse Shot, Off-Screen / José Manuel Costa, 173
9 A Decolonizing Impulse: Artists in the Colonial and Post-Colonial Archive, Or the Boxes of Departing Settlers between Maputo, Luanda and Lisbon / Ana Balona de Oliveira, 185
10 In-Between Memory and History: Artists' Films and the Portuguese Colonial Archive / Teresa Castro, 205
IV. RETHINKING (POST-)COLONIAL NARRATIVES: ARTISTIC TAKES
11 Drawing and Undrawing my Genealogy / Daniel Barroca, 227
12 A Grin without Marker / Filipa César, 247
13 Hotel Globo / Mónica de Miranda, 261
I. THE BIRTH [THROUGH IMAGES] OF AFRICAN NATIONS
1 Ruy Duarte: A Cinema of the Word Aspiring to Imagine Angolanness / Maria Do Carmo Piçarra, 25
2 Between the Visible and the Invisible: Mueda, Memória e Massacre (1982) by Ruy Guerra and the Cultural Forms of the Makonde Plateau / Raquel Schefer, 47
3 Clear Lines on an Internationalist Map: Foreign Filmmakers in Angola at Independence / Ros Gray, 65
4 The Many Returns to Wiriyamu: Audiovisual Testimony and the Negotiation of Colonial Violence / Robert Stock, 87
II. THE FALL OF THE PORTUGUESE EMPIRE: FOREIGN GAZES DURING THE COLD WAR
5 'Rarely penetrated by camera or film': NBC's Angola: Journey to a War (1961) / Afonso Ramos, 111
6 The US and Portuguese Colonialism as Imagined through Television Drama / Rui Lopes, 131
7 African Independence and the Socialist Republic of Romania's Photographic Archive / Iolanda Vasile, 151
III. MOVING IMAGES, POST-COLONIAL REPRESENTATIONS AND THE ARCHIVE
8 Colonial Collection of the Portuguese Film Archive: Shot, Reverse Shot, Off-Screen / José Manuel Costa, 173
9 A Decolonizing Impulse: Artists in the Colonial and Post-Colonial Archive, Or the Boxes of Departing Settlers between Maputo, Luanda and Lisbon / Ana Balona de Oliveira, 185
10 In-Between Memory and History: Artists' Films and the Portuguese Colonial Archive / Teresa Castro, 205
IV. RETHINKING (POST-)COLONIAL NARRATIVES: ARTISTIC TAKES
11 Drawing and Undrawing my Genealogy / Daniel Barroca, 227
12 A Grin without Marker / Filipa César, 247
13 Hotel Globo / Mónica de Miranda, 261
