BackManoel De Oliveira
(book in English)
- Type
- Studies
- Subject
- Director > Manoel de Oliveira
- Manoel de Oliveira
- Publishing Date
- 2007
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press
- Collection
- Contemporary Film Directors
- Language
- English
Relative size
- Physical desc.
- Paperback • 216 pages
5 ½ x 8 ¼ inches (14 x 21 cm)
Also available as an eBook. - ISBN
- 978-0-252-07442-4
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Book Presentation:
Understanding the iconoclastic work of a lifelong cinematic pioneer
Manoel de Oliveira's eighty-five year career made him a filmmaking icon and a cultural giant in his native Portugal. A lifelong cinematic pioneer, Oliveira merged distinctive formal techniques with philosophical treatments of universal themes--frustrated love, aging, nationhood, evil, and divine grace--in films that always moved against mainstream currents.
Randal Johnson navigates Oliveira's massive feature film œuvre. Locating the director's work within the broader context of Portuguese and European cinema, Johnson discusses historical and political influences on Oliveira's work, particularly Portugal's transformation from dictatorship to social democracy. He ranges from Oliveira's early concerns with cinematic specificity to hybrid discourses that suggest a tenuous line between film and theater on the one hand, and between fiction and documentary on the other.
A rare English-language portrait of the director, Manoel de Oliveira invites students and scholars alike to explore the work of one of the cinema's greatest and most prolific artists.
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