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Title:Portuguese African cinema: historical and contemporary perspectives - 1969 to 1993
Author:Andrade-Watkins, ClaireISNI
Year:1995
Periodical:Research in African Literatures
Volume:26
Issue:3
Pages:134-150
Language:English
Geographic term:Portuguese-speaking Africa
Subjects:national liberation struggles
cinema
External link:https://www.jstor.org/stable/3820143
Abstract:Conceived ideologically and thematically in the spirit of the liberation struggle against the Portuguese during the 1960s and 1970s, films from Lusophone countries - particularly Mozambique and Angola - comprise an important chapter in the history of African cinema in general and the genre of 'guerrilla', or liberation, cinema in particular. For the purposes of this study, the period of liberation cinema begins in 1969 with 'Towards a Third Cinema', a pivotal manifesto written by the Argentinean filmmakers Solanas and Gettino. The subsequent development of 'guerrilla' cinema in Mozambique during the late 1960s and the 1970s is examined in the context of film production in sub-Saharan Africa, and the study concludes with a description of the transition in Mozambique in the late 1980s from State to private sector production and the emergence of international coproductions. The discussion of change in Mozambique and Portuguese-speaking Africa in general is placed in the wider context of film production in sub-Saharan Africa, while the historic and contemporary participation of Cape Verde, Angola, and Guinea-Bissau is also highlighted. Bibliogr., notes, ref.
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