{"title":"Luanda e Sua Gente, Cidade Feiticeira: Representations of an Eternal Empire","authors":"A. Ramos","doi":"10.3138/cjh-56-2-2021-0029","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:After World War I, cinema emerged as a powerful instrument of (counter) information for the colonial cause in the service of the European colonial powers, and Portugal was no exception. In fact, the use of cinema by the Portuguese authorities for colonial propaganda is the subject of this article. The aim of this study is to show how the post-war \"winds of change\" shifted the paradigm of the Portuguese colonial cinema by comparing the representation of Luanda in two colonial films about Angola produced in the 1950s and 1970s: Luanda, Cidade Feiticeira, (1950) and Luanda e a sua Gente (1973), respectively.Résumé:Après la Première Guerre mondiale, le cinéma est devenu un puissant instrument de (contre-) information pour la cause coloniale au service des puissances coloniales européennes, y compris au Portugal. Le présent article porte sur l'utilisation du cinéma par les autorités portugaises comme outil de la propagande coloniale. Il vise à montrer comment les « vents du changement » de l'après-guerre ont modifié le paradigme du cinéma colonial portugais en comparant la représentation de Luanda dans deux films coloniaux sur l'Angola produits dans les années 1950 et 1970 : Luanda Cidade Feiticeira (1950) et Luanda e a sua Gente (1973), respectivement.","PeriodicalId":43085,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Journal of History-Annales Canadiennes d Histoire","volume":"56 1","pages":"110 - 135"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3000,"publicationDate":"2021-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Canadian Journal of History-Annales Canadiennes d Histoire","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.3138/cjh-56-2-2021-0029","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"HISTORY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract:After World War I, cinema emerged as a powerful instrument of (counter) information for the colonial cause in the service of the European colonial powers, and Portugal was no exception. In fact, the use of cinema by the Portuguese authorities for colonial propaganda is the subject of this article. The aim of this study is to show how the post-war "winds of change" shifted the paradigm of the Portuguese colonial cinema by comparing the representation of Luanda in two colonial films about Angola produced in the 1950s and 1970s: Luanda, Cidade Feiticeira, (1950) and Luanda e a sua Gente (1973), respectively.Résumé:Après la Première Guerre mondiale, le cinéma est devenu un puissant instrument de (contre-) information pour la cause coloniale au service des puissances coloniales européennes, y compris au Portugal. Le présent article porte sur l'utilisation du cinéma par les autorités portugaises comme outil de la propagande coloniale. Il vise à montrer comment les « vents du changement » de l'après-guerre ont modifié le paradigme du cinéma colonial portugais en comparant la représentation de Luanda dans deux films coloniaux sur l'Angola produits dans les années 1950 et 1970 : Luanda Cidade Feiticeira (1950) et Luanda e a sua Gente (1973), respectivement.
摘要:第一次世界大战后,电影作为为欧洲殖民大国服务的殖民事业(反)信息的有力工具出现,葡萄牙也不例外。事实上,葡萄牙当局利用电影进行殖民宣传是本文的主题。本研究的目的是通过比较1950年代和1970年代制作的两部关于安哥拉的殖民电影中罗安达的表现,展示战后“变革之风”如何改变葡萄牙殖民电影的范式:罗安达、Cidade Feiticeira(1950年)和罗安达和Sua Gente(1973年)。第一次世界大战后,电影成为殖民事业的有力(反)信息工具,为包括葡萄牙在内的欧洲殖民大国服务。本文讨论了葡萄牙当局利用电影作为殖民宣传工具的情况。它旨在通过比较1950年代和1970年代制作的两部关于安哥拉的殖民电影中对罗安达的描绘,展示战后“变革之风”如何改变葡萄牙殖民电影的范式:罗安达Cidade Feiticeira(1950年)和罗安达e a sua gente(1973年)。
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The Canadian Journal of History/Annales canadiennes d’histoire (CJH/ACH), published by University of Toronto Press, is a peer-reviewed journal of general history publishing in both English and French. Geared to all professional historians, as well as to anyone interested in historical scholarship, it features articles and reviews by experts, and invites contributions from all areas of history. The journal has resisted the trend toward increased specialization and offers an excellent way to keep up with developments across the discipline. The CJH/ACH publishes three issues annually in spring, fall, and winter. While the content of our issues varies seasonally, each issue may contain a maximum of four articles, one or two historiographical review articles, and approximately forty book reviews, including one or two longer “feature reviews,” which typically consider one or two books in somewhat greater depth. Our winter issue regularly features a guest editor and focuses on a specific theme or topic of their choosing.