Issue 22
Vanishing Points

The Statuary Condition in Contemporary Portuguese Cinema

Glòria Salvadó Corretger
Universitat Pompeu Fabra
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Fran Benavente Burian
Universitat Pompeu Fabra
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Published 2016-07-31

Keywords

  • Cinema,
  • Portugal,
  • Statue,
  • Body,
  • Word,
  • theatricality,
  • History.
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How to Cite

Salvadó Corretger, G., & Benavente Burian, F. (2016). The Statuary Condition in Contemporary Portuguese Cinema. L’Atalante. Journal of Film Studies, (22), 131–142. https://doi.org/10.63700/290

Abstract

This article explores the importance of the statue as a key figure in certain poetics of contemporary Portuguese cinema. The statuesque component is deployed from the way of filming bodies and from the interpretive register. It’s studied in different modalities of appearance according to categories that we propose: the monument, human statue and picture-statue. This statuesque phenomenology of Portuguese cinema articulates key concepts in the definition of Portuguese film poetics: the anti-naturalism, theatricality, historical archeology and long takes.

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