Class Portuguese Film Heritage

In this curricular unit we proceed to an introduction to the history of Portuguese cinema from an archival perspective, considering in particular restored Portuguese films and Portuguese films that use archival images.

I. From early cinema until 25th April Revolution:

1. Silent cinema and the avant-gardes: the global 1920s
2. The transition to sound and the “classic period”
3. Propaganda cinema and colonial cinema
4. Other genres: the bulk of archival film collections
5. Modern cinema
6. Militant cinema and ethnographic documentary (1970s)

II. From the eighties to contemporary cinema

1. Public funding and film education. Film distribution and exhibition crisis in the 80’s
2. Paulo Branco and the rise of Portuguese cinema in Europe
3. Portuguese author cinema and spectatorship
4. Contemporary cinema and the use of film archive
5. Film festivals and short films
6. Animation film: from Filmógrafo to feature film public funding

The classes will be expository and will discuss the topic under analysis, using film screenings or other audiovisual documents.

AREAL, Leonor (2011). Cinema Português. Um país imaginado. Lisboa: Ed. 70
BAPTISTA, Tiago. “Nationally Correct: The Invention of Portuguese Cinema”. Portuguese Cultural Studies, vol. 3, Issue 1: 3.18.

COSTA, João Bénard da (1991). Stories of the cinema. Lisboa: INCM

GRILO, João Mário (2006). O Cinema da Não-Ilusão. Histórias para o cinema português. Lisboa: Livros Horizonte

OVERHOFF FERREIRA, Carolin (2013). O Cinema Português. Aproximações à sua história e interdisciplinaridade. São: Paulo: Alameda.

RIBAS, Daniel and Paulo Cunha, eds. (2020). Reframing Portuguese Cinema in the 21st Century. Vila do Conde: Agência da Curta Metragem