Restor(y)ing meaning: reading Manoel de Oliveira’s Non ou a Vã Glória de Mandar

Manoel de Oliveira’s Non ou a Vã Glória de Mandar (1990) is a landmark in Lusophone cinema’s revisitation of the history of Portuguese expansion and colonial conflicts. This article aims at analysing the film’s political import by extrapolating from Jacques Rancière’s meditation on the ‘aesthetic re...

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Main Author: Gonçalves Miranda, Rui
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Published: Taylor & Francis 2013
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description Manoel de Oliveira’s Non ou a Vã Glória de Mandar (1990) is a landmark in Lusophone cinema’s revisitation of the history of Portuguese expansion and colonial conflicts. This article aims at analysing the film’s political import by extrapolating from Jacques Rancière’s meditation on the ‘aesthetic regime’ and from Manoel de Oliveira’s references to Derridean deconstruction. Non and Oliveira’s filming praxis both exceed and disrupt the filmmaker’s personal logocentric and teleological theories of history and cinema.
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spelling nottingham-320922020-05-04T16:39:55Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/32092/ Restor(y)ing meaning: reading Manoel de Oliveira’s Non ou a Vã Glória de Mandar Gonçalves Miranda, Rui Manoel de Oliveira’s Non ou a Vã Glória de Mandar (1990) is a landmark in Lusophone cinema’s revisitation of the history of Portuguese expansion and colonial conflicts. This article aims at analysing the film’s political import by extrapolating from Jacques Rancière’s meditation on the ‘aesthetic regime’ and from Manoel de Oliveira’s references to Derridean deconstruction. Non and Oliveira’s filming praxis both exceed and disrupt the filmmaker’s personal logocentric and teleological theories of history and cinema. Taylor & Francis 2013-11-12 Article PeerReviewed Gonçalves Miranda, Rui (2013) Restor(y)ing meaning: reading Manoel de Oliveira’s Non ou a Vã Glória de Mandar. Hispanic Research Journal, 14 (1). pp. 49-66. ISSN 1468-2737 Manoel de Oliveira Portuguese Cinema Colonial Wars Aesthetics and Politics Deconstruction Jacques Rancière Jacques Derrida http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1179/1468273712Z.00000000033?journalCode=yhrj20 doi:10.1179/1468273712Z.00000000033 doi:10.1179/1468273712Z.00000000033
spellingShingle Manoel de Oliveira
Portuguese Cinema
Colonial Wars
Aesthetics and Politics
Deconstruction
Jacques Rancière
Jacques Derrida
Gonçalves Miranda, Rui
Restor(y)ing meaning: reading Manoel de Oliveira’s Non ou a Vã Glória de Mandar
title Restor(y)ing meaning: reading Manoel de Oliveira’s Non ou a Vã Glória de Mandar
title_full Restor(y)ing meaning: reading Manoel de Oliveira’s Non ou a Vã Glória de Mandar
title_fullStr Restor(y)ing meaning: reading Manoel de Oliveira’s Non ou a Vã Glória de Mandar
title_full_unstemmed Restor(y)ing meaning: reading Manoel de Oliveira’s Non ou a Vã Glória de Mandar
title_short Restor(y)ing meaning: reading Manoel de Oliveira’s Non ou a Vã Glória de Mandar
title_sort restor(y)ing meaning: reading manoel de oliveira’s non ou a vã glória de mandar
topic Manoel de Oliveira
Portuguese Cinema
Colonial Wars
Aesthetics and Politics
Deconstruction
Jacques Rancière
Jacques Derrida
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