Ambivalent transnationality

Luso-African co-productions after independence (1988–2010)

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ID9402773
AuthorsCarolin Overhoff Ferreira (0000-0002-2299-024X, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, corresponding author)
Year2012
Volume3
Issue2
Pages221-245
Publication date2012-03-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of African Cinemas (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1754-9221 • E-ISSN: 1754-923X
PublisherIntellect (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1386/jac.3.2.221_1
OpenAlexW2322802760
LanguageEN
Citations received6

In the sequence of its adhesion to the European Community in 1986 and in search for a place in an increasingly globalized film market, Portugal established a vast amount of transnational cinematographic partnerships with the Luso-African countries Cape Verde, Mozambique, Angola and Guinea Bissau. The partnerships, which have resulted in twenty co-productions so far, have also had a profound meaning for the discussion of colonialism and post-colonialism that cannot be overemphasized. Since the aim of this article is to give a general overview of the Luso-African feature film landscape, it discusses the films in a resumed fashion within the context of the four co-producing PALOP (Países de Língua Oficial Portuguesa – Countries with Portuguese as Official Language). According to my understanding of transnationality as ambivalent, I will try to comprehend how the co-productions negotiate the elements of national and transnational identity. Are they capable of holding the post-colonial tensions? Are new and multilateral perspectives that confront outdated discourses the exception or the rule

Ambivalence · Colonialism · Context (archaeology · Linguistics · Media studies · Negotiation · Political science · Portuguese · Social science · Sociology · Transnationality · African history and culture studies · Gender Studies · History · Law

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