Title   Retratos da emigração em Ganhar a vida e Gaiola dourada (Original)
          Portraits of emigration in Ganhar a Vida and Gaoiola Dourada (EN)
Author  Manuel João Gaspar Ferreira Paulo
Advisor  Luísa Afonso Soares
Year  2019
Institution Faculty of Arts, University of Lisbon  
Degree  Masters
Area  Culture and Communication
Keywords  Cinema, Emigration, Clash of Cultures, Hybridism, Transculturality 
URI http://hdl.handle.net/10451/37299

Abstract

This dissertation focus on the representation of Portuguese migration to France in the Portuguese cinema. In this sense, we started by searching for previous works connected to this theme. We found some works that reveals the history of Portuguese population in France since the final fifties until nowadays, which is very important for our work. After that, we defined a film corpus, in order to compare the movies with the research. In the following task, we proceeded to the selection of two movies, and the chosen were: A Gaiola Dourada (2013) de Rúben Alves, and Ganhar a Vida (2001) de João Canijo. In order to get a more transparency in the film analysis, we found important present some social-historical contextualization. With this goal, we develop a brief history of Portuguese migration to France, which includes a reference to Salazarism, and its perspective on migration. Within the Accented Cinema section, we exposed the way these minorities´ emigrants are represented in cinema and as they have transformed the cultural identity of the European continent into a transcultural identity. Therefore, we also develop a chapter about Portuguese cinema, and its relation with the alterity, we set the hypothesis that, within these last years, Portuguese cinema has evolved to a transcultural and transnational stage. Perting from this perspective, we analysed the elected films convicted that they present visions about Portuguese migration. In the end, we compared both films, using some of the concepts developed in the previous chapters, with a single goal, bringing light about what have been life of these Portuguese emigrants in France.