Shades of Grey: 1960s Lisbon in Novel, Film and Photobook

Paul Melo e Castro

MHRA Texts and Dissertations 77

Maney Publishing for the Modern Humanities Research Association

25 March 2011  •  180pp

ISBN: 978-1-906540-67-8 (hardback)  •  RRP £34.99, $48.99, €41.99

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How is 1960s Lisbon represented? How, indeed, can the experience of any city be embodied in the artistic media? Castro examines three case studies: José Cardoso Pires's novel Balada da Praia dos Cães, Eduardo Gageiro's photobook Lisboa no Cais da Memória, and Fernando Lopes's film Belarmino. Here, in the declining years of Portugal's Estado Novo dictatorship, we see literature, film and photography used to challenge received ideas of national history. But here too we see the very personal figure of the flâneur, the mobile individual who provides a narrative mechanism, a way of reading the city. Castro's innovative readings are augmented by theoretical approaches to topics such as history and postmodernist literature, street photography, everyday life, documentary film and urban space.

Contents:

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Front Matter
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Table of Contents
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Acknowledgements
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Introduction
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Chapter 1 Lisbon in the 1960s
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Chapter 2 ‘That Twinkling Mass of Cold Lights’: the Representation of Salazar’s Lisbon in Balada Da Praia Dos Cães
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Chapter 3 Salazar’s Lisbon in the Dock: the Evidence of Eduardo Gageiro’s Photobook Lisboa No Cais Da Memória 1957–1974
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Chapter 4 ‘If Life Permits Me’: the Representation of Lisbon in Fernando Lopes’s Belarmino
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Conclusion
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Bibliography and Filmography
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INDEX
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Castro, Paul Melo e, Shades of Grey: 1960s Lisbon in Novel, Film and Photobook, MHRA Texts and Dissertations, 77 (MHRA, 2011)

First footnote reference: 35 Paul Melo e Castro, Shades of Grey: 1960s Lisbon in Novel, Film and Photobook, MHRA Texts and Dissertations, 77 (MHRA, 2011), p. 21.

Subsequent footnote reference: 37 Castro, p. 47.

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Castro, Paul Melo e. 2011. Shades of Grey: 1960s Lisbon in Novel, Film and Photobook, MHRA Texts and Dissertations, 77 (MHRA)

Example citation: ‘A quotation occurring on page 21 of this work’ (Castro 2011: 21).

Example footnote reference: 35 Castro 2011: 21.

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