Archival images and audiovisual testimony – Negotiating the end of empire in the documentary films Guerra Colonial. Histórias de Campanha em Moçambique (1998) and Natal 71 (1999)

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Archival images and audiovisual testimony-Negotiating the end of empire in the documentary films Guerra Colonial. Hist6rias de Cam pan ha em Mo~ambique {1998) and Natal71 {1999) 1 ABSTRAa KEYWORDS This article analyses Portuguese documentary films from the 1990s, when public archive discussions about the war of decolonization gained a new dynamic. The video series documentary film

Transitions revisited: The end of the Portuguese colonial empire in Luso-African cinema (1974–2014)

“…Fictional dramas and documentaries use the power of moving images to revisit the past to make sense of the present (Thackway 2003;Cham 2004). Cinematic techniques and practices such as the integration of archival material, eyewitness accounts and voice-over (Stock 2014) are used to stress critical and challenging interpretations of the decolonization process in Luso-African cinema.…”