Memories of the change: The post-revolutionary period and portuguese cinema

• Autor(a) principal: Dias, Sandra Guerreiro
• Data de Publicação: 2014
• Outros Autores: Graça, André
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12207/6257
• topic: Revolution; Change; Arts; Post-25th of April; Portuguese cinema

Almost four decades after the 1974 revolution, it seems increasingly imperious to carry out a critical analysis of the mainstream discourses on the transformations that occurred in the Portuguese cultural field. Following from recent researches regarding the arts of that period, this paper aims to revisit the continuities and changes in the national cinema produced since then. Simultaneously, it is intended to question the broader relation between political revolution and artistic/intellectual production in the post-revolutionary Portugal. In a first moment, a contextualisation concerning the diverging views of the role of the artists/intellectuals in the Portuguese public sphere after the 1974 revolution will be made. Then, those perspectives will be confronted with recent studies on post-25th-of-April Portuguese cinema, in order to analyse the relations between political change and cinema in the period under consideration.