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Migration in Lusophone Cinema

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  1. Cacilda Rêgo
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  2. Marcus Brasileiro
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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Introduction

    • Cacilda Rêgo, Marcus Brasileiro
    Pages 1-16

  3. Imagining Migration: A Panoramic View of Lusophone Films and Tabu (2012) as a Case Study

    • Carolin Overhoff Ferreira
    Pages 17-40

  4. Thinking of Portugal, Looking at Cape Verde: Notes on Representation of Immigrants in the Films of Pedro Costa

    • Nuno Barradas Jorge
    Pages 41-57

  5. Outros Bairros and the Challenges of Place in Postcolonial Portugal

    • Derek Pardue
    Pages 59-75

  6. Deterritorialization Processes in the Portuguese Emigratory Context: Cinematic Representations of Departing and Returning

    • Fátima Velez de Castro
    Pages 77-92

  7. Performing Criminality: Immigration and Integration in Foreign Land and Fado Blues

    • Frans Weiser
    Pages 93-112

  8. Two Hungaries and Many Saudades: Transnational and Postnational Emotional Vectors in Contemporary Brazilian Cinema

    • Jack A. Draper III
    Pages 113-129

  9. Reverse Migration in Brazilian Transnational Cinema: Um passaporte húngaro and Rapsódia Armênia

    • Nadia Lie
    Pages 131-149

  10. Otherness and Nationhood in Tizuka Yamasaki’s Gaijin I and Gaijin II

    • Álvaro Baquero-Pecino
    Pages 151-165

  11. Cinema, Aspirins, and Vultures: A Double Escape from a Global Conflict

    • Ursula Prutsch
    Pages 167-185

  12. European Immigrants and the Estado Novo in Contemporary Brazilian Cinema

    • Carolina Rocha
    Pages 187-202

  13. The Migrant in Helena Solberg’s Carmen Miranda: Bananas is My Business

    • Regina R. Félix
    Pages 203-219

  14. Back Matter

    Pages 221-232
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With more than 250 million speakers globally, the Lusophone world has a rich history of filmmaking. This edited volume explores the representation of the migratory experience in contemporary cinema from Portuguese-speaking countries, exploring how Lusophone films, filmmakers, producers, studios, and governments relay narratives of migration.

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"This is the first book about how migration has been represented in Lusophone cinema in the last decades. Rêgo and Brasileiro have moved beyond the mere confines of the field of film studies and enriched the text with thought-provoking essays written by academics from several disciplines. The result is a fascinating volume containing essays that inquire deeply about issues involving identity, immigration, transnationalism, and the meaning of 'home' in an increasingly complex world." - Eva Paulino Bueno, Professor of Spanish and Portuguese, St. Mary's University, USA

"This important volume breaks fresh ground, not only by being the first detailed study of migration in films of the Portuguese-speaking world, but also by showing a healthy disregard for the constraints of disciplinary boundaries. It offers a valuable and timely critique of cinematic representations of the migratory experience that is informed and nuanced by a variety of scholarly perspectives and approaches." - Lisa Shaw, Reader in Portuguese and Brazilian Studies, University of Liverpool, UK

"The visual power of film, as film circulates globally, provides an excellent opportunity for viewers to obtain a more nuanced understanding of a society. The Portuguese films examined here reveal the conflicted ways in which a long-closed country like Portugal has been impacted by foreign immigration. And while many know Brazil to be a country of immigrants, the films examined here show the effect of socially and economically driven out-migration. The highly affective nature of film, as presented in these high-quality essays, shows how much more complicated the demographics of Brazil and Portugal are than foreign viewers may have thought." - David William Foster, Regents Professor of Portuguese and Spanish, Arizona State University, USA

About the authors

Nuno Barradas Jorge, University of Nottingham, UK Álvaro Baquero-Pecino, College of Staten Island of The City University of New York, USA Jack A. Draper III, University of Missouri, USA Regina R. Félix, University of North Carolina at Wilmington, USA Nadia Lie, University of Louvain, Belgium Carolin Overhoff Ferreira, Federal University of São Paulo, Brazil Derek Pardue, Wesleyan University, USA Ursula Prutsch, University of Munich, Germany Carolina Rocha, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, USA Fátima Velez de Castro, University of Coimbra, Portugal Frans Weiser, University of Georgia, USA

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