Lovers, not fighters: Left politics and brandos costumes in Capitães de Abril

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Lovers, not fighters: Left politics and brandos costumes in Capitães de Abril

The popularity of Maria de Medeiros’s Capitães de Abril [April Captains] (2000) has made it a significant reference point in perceptions and post-memory of the Portuguese revolution. This essay argues that the film presents the 25 April 1974 coup as a restitution of social justice predicated on the...

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Main Author:	Sabine, Mark
Format:	Article
Published:	Liverpool University Press 2017
Subjects:	Portuguese 25th April Revolution Portuguese cinema post-conflict memory national identity
Online Access:	https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/39673/

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