Abstract
Através da análise do caso de censura a Catembe pretendo evidenciar como a ditadura portuguesa pretendeu controlar totalmente a projecção cinematográfica do colonialismo considerado, após o início da guerra colonial, em 1961, um sustentáculo do regime e condição essencial da portugalidade e de uma ideia sobre o “modo português de estar no mundo”. Contextualizo o surgimento da Censura após a Revolução de Maio de 1926, caracterizando a sua aplicação ao cinema e particularizando como foi instrumentalizada pela “Política do Espírito”. Identifico, depois, as principais orientações com base nas quais os censores exerceram a sua função e descrevo a importância do cinema para projectar a nação e uma ideia de portugalidade que assentou que era seu desígnio a posse de colónias. Finalmente, sintetizo as mudanças no modelo colonial antes de aprofundar o estudo de caso em análise.
Through the analysis of the censorship of Catembe, I intend to show how the Portuguese dictatorship sought to fully control the cinematographic projection of colonialism, considered, after the beginning of the colonial war in 1961, a mainstay of the regime and an essential condition of Portugal and of an idea about the "Portuguese way of being in the world". I contextualize the emergence of censorship after the May Revolution of 1926, characterizing its application to cinema and particularizing how it was instrumentalized by the "Politics of the Spirit". I then identify the main guidelines on the basis of which the censors exercised their function and describe the importance of cinema to project the nation and an idea of Portugueseness that established that it was their purpose to possess colonies as a historical right. Finally, I summarize the changes in the colonial model before going deeper into the case study under analysis.
Through the analysis of the censorship of Catembe, I intend to show how the Portuguese dictatorship sought to fully control the cinematographic projection of colonialism, considered, after the beginning of the colonial war in 1961, a mainstay of the regime and an essential condition of Portugal and of an idea about the "Portuguese way of being in the world". I contextualize the emergence of censorship after the May Revolution of 1926, characterizing its application to cinema and particularizing how it was instrumentalized by the "Politics of the Spirit". I then identify the main guidelines on the basis of which the censors exercised their function and describe the importance of cinema to project the nation and an idea of Portugueseness that established that it was their purpose to possess colonies as a historical right. Finally, I summarize the changes in the colonial model before going deeper into the case study under analysis.
Translated title of the contribution | Margin in a way: the case of Catembe censorship |
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Original language | Portuguese |
Pages (from-to) | 62-82 |
Number of pages | 21 |
Journal | Dialogos |
Volume | 26 |
Issue number | 1 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - Jan 2022 |
Keywords
- Catembe
- Colonialism
- Mozambique
- New Cinema
- Policy of the Spirit
- Portugality
- “Política do Espírito”
- Novo Cinema
- Colonialismo
- Portugalidade
- Moçambique