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East Timor in Margarida Gil’s bitter flowers : the power of the unrooted underdog
| dc.contributor.author | Soares, Ana Isabel | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-02-06T13:18:11Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2025-02-06T13:18:11Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2024 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Flores Amargas [Bitter Flowers] (1989) is a medium feature made for television and Margarida Gil’s fifth film. It appeared after Gil had released her first feature film for the big screen, Relação Fiel e Verdadeira [True and Faithful] (1987) and a documentary series for television, Olho de Vidro: Uma História da Fotografia [Glass Eye: A History of Photography] codirected with António Sena (1979 to 1982). Bitter Flowers originated from a commission by the Portuguese State TV broadcast company (RTP) for a series of television programmes, Fados, achieving ‘o casamento do Cinema com a Televisão’ [the marriage of TV and Cinema].1 This combination is at the core of much of the director’s work2 — in the particular case of Bitter Flowers, it was clear that Margarida Gil wanted to set a personal point of view on a topic that was not central to the concerns of the average Portuguese citizen, but which she deemed relevant. The film responded to the need Gil identified for a Portuguese awareness or awakening to the problem of East Timor; the television format served this aim. | eng |
| dc.identifier.doi | 10.1353/port.00015 | |
| dc.identifier.eissn | 2222-4270 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10400.1/26750 | |
| dc.language.iso | eng | |
| dc.peerreviewed | yes | |
| dc.publisher | Modern Humanities Research Association | |
| dc.relation.ispartof | Portuguese Studies | |
| dc.rights.uri | N/A | |
| dc.title | East Timor in Margarida Gil’s bitter flowers : the power of the unrooted underdog | eng |
| dc.type | journal article | |
| dspace.entity.type | Publication | |
| oaire.citation.endPage | 201 | |
| oaire.citation.issue | 2 | |
| oaire.citation.startPage | 189 | |
| oaire.citation.title | Portuguese Studies | |
| oaire.citation.volume | 40 | |
| oaire.version | http://purl.org/coar/version/c_970fb48d4fbd8a85 | |
| person.familyName | Soares | |
| person.givenName | Ana Isabel | |
| person.identifier.ciencia-id | D210-8245-81AB | |
| person.identifier.orcid | 0000-0003-2324-8319 | |
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