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It is clear in the cinematography of the Portuguese
emblematic director Manoel de Oliveira the influence
of other arts, especially literature. Indeed, the literary
adaptation impregnates the filmmaker’s interest in
several filmic productions leading to works focusing
on various themes, where prevails the female figure
and Agustina Bessa-Luís texts. The involvement of
the director in this context of intertextual dialogue
goes back to his first fictional productions and remains
throughout his extensive career. Studying the fictional
universe of Oliveira is to rethink issues related to literary
adaptation and its peculiarities. It is similarly to reflect
on the role of adaptation in the Portuguese cinema and
at the same time, to place the Portuguese filmmaker in
the constellation of other paradigmatic filmmakers who
established a dialogic relationship with written sources.
In order to sustain the arguments, this reflection is
anchored in literature and film studies and, at the
same time, in the theory of adaptation. Highlighting
the dialogical relationship between literature and film
in the work of Manoel de Oliveira, this text seeks to
establish a reflection on the literary adaptation and,
in parallel, orientates the reader to the singularities of
filmic transmutation emphasizing the various literary
adaptations made by Oliveira that the Portuguese
cinema has witnessed. The literature within Manoel de
Oliveira’s films contributes to demonstrate the positive
link that historically has connected these two forms of
expression and offers an original exercise of rereading
that accentuates the independence and the creative
freedom of Manoel de Oliveira.
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Cinema Literature Adaptation Manoel de Oliveira
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Citation
Sobral, F. A. (2016). A literatura no cinema Oliveiriano. In A. C. Valente, R. Capucho (Coords.), AVANCA : Cinema 2016 Conferência Internacional Cinema – Arte, Tecnologia, Comunicação, Avanca Portugal, 27-31 de Julho 2016. (pp. 298-402). Avanca: Edições Cineclube de Avanca
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Edições Cineclube de Avanca