Cinematic Walls: Pedro Costa’s Mural Imagination

This essay offers a reading of Pedro Costa’s first feature-length film, O sangue (1989). It explores the representation of different sorts of walls, their semantic inferences and functions, arguing that Costa's "mural imagination" speaks to the limits—or perceived limitlessness—of con...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Estela Vieira
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Portuguese Studies Association (APSA) 2017-06-01
Series:Journal of Lusophone Studies
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Online Access:https://jls.apsa.us/index.php/jls/article/view/142