Portuguese Film, 1930–1960 The Staging of the New State Regime

• Main Author: Vieira, Patricia
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York Bloomsbury Publishing Plc 2013; Bloomsbury Academic & Professional; Bloomsbury Academic
• Edition: 1
• Subjects: 1930-1939; 1940-1949; 1950-1959; 20th century; European Cinema; Fascism and motion pictures; Film & Media; Film criticism; Film History; Film Industry, The; Film Producing/Film Production; Gender; History; Motion pictures; Motion pictures in propaganda; National Cinema, National Identity; PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / General. bisacsh; Politics; Portugal

Portuguese Film, 1930–1960: The Staging of the New State Regime provides groundbreaking analysis of Portuguese feature films produced in the first three decades of the New State (Estado Novo), a right-wing totalitarian regime that lasted between 1933 and 1974. These films, sponsored by the National...