UID:
almafu_9960117473302883
Format:
1 online resource (158 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
1-78204-668-2
Series Statement:
Colección Támesis. Serie A, Monografías ; 356
Content:
Colvin studies the evolution of Fado music as the soundtrack to the Portuguese talkie. He analyzes the most successful Portuguese films of the first two decades of the Estado Novo era to understand how directors used the national song to promote the values of the young Regime regarding the poor inhabitants of Lisbon's popular neighborhoods. He consides the aesthetic, technological, and social advances that accompany the progress of the Estado Novo---Futurism; the development of sound film; the inception of national radio broadcast; access to the automobile; and urban renewal---within a historical context that considers Portugal's global profile at the time of António de Oliveira Salazar's rise to power and the inauguration of António Ferro's Secretariado da Propaganda Nacional [Ministry of National Propaganda]; Portugal's role as a secret ally of the Falange during the Spanish Civil War; Lisbon's role as a neutral refuge during World War II; and the Portuguese Colonial Empire as an anachronism in the post-World War II years.〈BR〉 Colvin argues that Portuguese directors have exploited the growing popularity of the Fado and Lisbon's fadistas to dissuade citizens from alien values that promote individual ambitions and the notion of an easy life of poverty in the Capital. As the public image of the Fado evolves, the fadista's role in film becomes more prominent and eventually,the fadista is the protagonist and the Fado, the principal concern of national film. The author exposes the irony that as the social profile of the Lisbon fadista improves with the international fame of singer Amália Rodrigues, Portuguese film perpetuates and validates the outdated characterization of the fadista as a social pariah that Leito de Barros had proposed in the first Portuguese talkie, A Severa (1931).〈BR〉〈BR〉 Michael Colvin is Associate Professor of Hispanic Studies at Marymount Manhattan College.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 04 Jul 2016).
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Frontcover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: The fadista in Portuguese Film; 1 Images of Defeat: Early Fado Films and the Estado Novo's Notion of Progress; 2 The Musical War Against Lisbon: Aldeia da Roupa Branca's Rural Family Values in Conflict with an Easy fadista Life in the Capital; 3 A Return to marialvismo: O Costa do Castelo and the Comedies of the 1940s; 4 Lisbon (Fado) versus Coimbra (Fado): New Severas, the Colonial Enterprise, and Class Conflict in Capas Negras; 5 Fado, História d'uma Cantadeira: Construction and Deconstruction of the fado novo
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Conclusion: Fado Malhoa, etcAfterword: The Legacy of Fado Films; Bibliography; Filmography; Index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-85566-299-X
Language:
English
Subjects:
General works
DOI:
10.1515/9781782046684
URL:
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http://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/9781782046684/type/BOOK
