Matar Saudades, a film by director Fernando Lopes, was released in 1988. The is production inscribed contemporary Portuguese cinema (Cinema Novo), after April 25th 1974, and the plot brings to memory experience of colonial period. revolves around Abel, emigrant France man marked Colonial War. After period emigrated, Abel returns his village, Valpaços region, northern Portugal. In homeland many ...

There tends to be a moment in the development of cultural practices when discourses of the recent past become history; they are no longer just outdated but, like bell-bottom jeans, mini-skirts and platform shoes, acquire historicity. This is what seems to have happened with film theory of the 1970s and early 1980s, particularly as it revolved around the notion of 'the spectator'. I am thinking ...

The study of the USA cinema during World War II is interesting not only from point view forming image enemy, but also allies. This will allow us to determine more accurately what visual propaganda techniques were used by American directors. China was always significant for information discourse: through it they created and adjusted ideas about East as an arena struggle between Japan. paper reve...

Gilles Deleuze, in his two books on film, Cinema 1: The Movement-Image and Cinema 2: The Time-Image, proposes a revolutionary approach to film theory. Drawing on Deleuze's own philosophy of repetition and difference and the work of Henri Bergson, the Cinema books extend these theories to foreground those aspects that are most essential to the medium: that film unfolds in time, and is comprised ...