Migration in Lusophone Cinema [electronic resource] /
Rêgo, C.editor.
Brasileiro, M.editor.
With more than 250 million speakers globally, the Lusophone world has a rich history of filmmaking. This edited volume explores the representation of the migratory experience in contemporary cinema from Portuguese-speaking countries, exploring how Lusophone films, filmmakers, producers, studios, and governments relay narratives of migration.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Imagining Migration: ; 2 Thinking of Portugal, Looking at Cape Verde: ; 3 Outros Bairros and the Challenges of Place in Postcolonial Portugal; 4 Deterritorialization Processes in the Portuguese Emigratory Context: ; 5 Performing Criminality: Immigration and Integration in Foreign Land and Fado Blues; 6 Two Hungaries and Many Saudades: ; 7 Reverse Migration in Brazilian Transnational Cinema: ; 8 Otherness and Nationhood in Tizuka Yamasaki's Gaijin I and Gaijin II; 9 Cinema, Aspirins, and Vultures:
10 European Immigrants and the Estado Novo in Contemporary Brazilian Cinema11 The Migrant in Helena Solberg's Carmen Miranda: Bananas Is My Business; Filmography; Notes on Contributors; Index
Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters, filmographies and index.
With more than 250 million speakers globally, the Lusophone world has a rich history of filmmaking. This edited volume explores the representation of the migratory experience in contemporary cinema from Portuguese-speaking countries, exploring how Lusophone films, filmmakers, producers, studios, and governments relay narratives of migration.
Motion pictures—Production and direction.
Motion pictures—History.
Arts.
Motion pictures and television.
Romance languages.
Directing.
Film History.
Arts.
Screen Studies.
Romance Languages.