The Jornal Português and the Fallacy of Portugal’s Neutrality in Portuguese Film

Authors

  • Adriana Martins Universidade Católica Portuguesa Faculdade de Ciências Humanas Centro de Estudos de Comunicação e Cultura Lisbon,.

Keywords:

António Oliveira Salazar, Portuguese Film, Jornal Português de Actualidades Filmadas, Neutrality in World War II

Abstract

In this essay, I analyze the Jornal Português, the official non-mandatory newsreel that complemented the screening of national and international films, with the aim of demonstrating how the mediation of neutrality in World War II contributed to converting Salazar into the protective father of the nation, sparing the Portuguese people from experiencing the horrors of conflict. Furthermore, this also reveals how relative Portugal’s neutrality proved since it was convenient not only to the country but also to the Allies and the Axis forces.

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Author Biography

Adriana Martins, Universidade Católica Portuguesa Faculdade de Ciências Humanas Centro de Estudos de Comunicação e Cultura Lisbon,.

Assistant Professor at the Universidade Católica Portuguesa, and a Senior Member of the Research Centre for Communication and Culture. Her main research interests are comparative literature, culture studies, and film studies. Her most recent book is Plots of War: Modern Narratives of Conflict (co-edited with Isabel Capeloa Gil, Berlin/Boston: de Gruyter, 2012). In 2016 she will publish Mediations of Disruption in Post-Conflict Cinema (co-edited with Alexandra Lopes and Mónica Dias, Basingstoke: Palgrave).

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Published

2016-12-29

How to Cite

Martins, Adriana. 2016. “The Jornal Português and the Fallacy of Portugal’s Neutrality in Portuguese Film”. Quiroga. Revista De Patrimonio Iberoamericano, no. 10 (December):60-68. https://revistaseug.ugr.es/index.php/quiroga/article/view/16312.

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Núm. 10 (Julio-Diciembre 2016)

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