Abstract
This article explores Manoel de Oliveira's travelogue film Um Filme Falado/A Talking Picture, released in 2003, the year in which Portugal joined the US-led coalition in the Iraq War. Here I discuss the ways in which the film recycles and subverts Portugal's fifteenth-century maritime expansionist narrative and Sebastianist mythologies of the Crusade, as a means of exposing and criticizing Portugal's late twentieth-century global alignment with post-9/11 anti-Islamicism. The result of this is a subtle remapping of the conventional West-to-East voyage of discovery in terms that actually underscore the origins of what the sociologist Boaventura de Sousa Santos terms the 'abyssal lines' delineating a globalizing North against a globalized South. © 2011 Intellect Ltd Article. English language.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 115-126 |
Number of pages | 11 |
Journal | New Cinemas |
Volume | 9 |
Issue number | 2-3 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - Nov 2012 |
Keywords
- 9/11
- Empire
- Filme Falado/Talking
- Islam
- Manoel de Oliveira
- Picture
- Portuguese cinema