Luanda e Sua Gente, Cidade Feiticeira: Representations of an Eternal Empire¹.

WORLD War I; IMPERIALISM; PROPAGANDA; WAR films

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. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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