Shades of Grey
Subtitle: 1960s Lisbon in Novel, Film and Photobook
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Published: 2010
Language: eng
Number of pages: 175
ISBN-13: 9781906540678
Subjects: Portuguese fiction, history and criticism
Description: Castro examines three case studies: JosT Cardoso Pires's novel Balada da Praia dos Cpes, Eduardo Gageiro's photobook Lisboa no Cais da Mem=ria, and Fernando Lopes's film Belarmino. Here we see literature, film and photography used to challenge received ideas of urban history in the declining years of Portugal's Estado Novo dictatorship. But here too we see the very personal figure of the flGneur, the mobile individual who provides a narrative mechanism, a way of reading the city. Castro's innovative readings are augmented by theoretical appraoches to topics such as history and postmodernists literature, street photography, everyday life, documentary film and urban space. --Book Jacket.