Abstract

PICARRA, Maria do Carmo. White skin or dark skin: mask(s) of the woman "imagined" by colonial cinema. OBS* [online]. 2015, vol.9, n.2, pp.173-187. ISSN 1646-5954.

What I want to comprehend is how, during Portuguese Estado Novo, colonial cinema “imagined” woman. I lay out in “shot” women representations on the propaganda film Feitiço do Império (Empire's spell, 1940), directed by António Lopes Ribeiro, before I examine, in “reverse shot”, the ones presented in forbidden films by the Censorship Commission: Catembe (1965) e Deixem-me ao menos subir as palmeiras... (At least let my climb the palmtrees..., 1972). Finally I will analyse the woman filmic representation when cinema became the “eye of freedom” in militant films such as Sambizanga (1972), directed by Sarah Maldoror.

Keywords : Gender studies; film studies; colonial cinema; Estado Novo; censorship; colonial representations of women.

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