Marginality, resilience and escape: Home in Ana Rocha de Sousa’s Listen

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dc.contributor.authorLiz, Marianaen
dc.contributor.editorSborgi, Anna Violaen
dc.contributor.editorPatton, Elizabethen
dc.date.accessioned2024-02-08T09:53:15Z
dc.date.available2024-02-08T09:53:15Z
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dc.description.abstractRepresentations of the home are a central point for discussion in contemporary Portuguese cinema. From being a prime site for the understanding of gender inequality, to allowing for examinations of untamed urban expansion, the home has also featured in Portuguese films of the past decades as a proxy for social identity. The significance of the home for marginalised communities is the focus of this article, which examines Ana Rocha de Sousa’s Listen (2020). A Portuguese and British coproduction, Listen tells the story of a Portuguese immigrant family to the UK and their battle against social services, who take their children into custody. By presenting it as their last resource, as the space in which they are attacked but also reorganise for retaliation, Listen values the home not only as built infrastructure, but also as a signifier for unity, family and cultural and linguistic identity. Structured around three key plot points of the film that coincide with keywords featuring in recent feminist scholarship (marginality, resistance and escape), this article argues a discussion about global Portuguese cinema, and this film in particular, illuminates ongoing debates about the significance of the home and its relationship to class and gender in contemporary European film.en
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dc.identifier.citationLiz, M. (2024) 'Marginality, resilience and escape: Home in Ana Rocha de Sousa’s Listen', Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media, 26, pp. 25-38. doi: https://doi.org/10.33178/alpha.26.02en
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.33178/alpha.26.02en
dc.identifier.endpage38en
dc.identifier.issued26
dc.identifier.journaltitleAlphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Mediaen
dc.identifier.startpage25en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/15513
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherFilm and Screen Media, University College Corken
dc.relation.ispartofAlphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Mediaen
dc.relation.ispartofAlphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Mediaen
dc.relation.urihttps://www.alphavillejournal.com/Issue26/HTML/ArticleLiz.html
dc.rights© 2024, the Author(s). This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.en
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
dc.subjectPortuguese cinemaen
dc.subjectHomeen
dc.subjectPlaceen
dc.subjectWomenen
dc.subjectFamilyen
dc.titleMarginality, resilience and escape: Home in Ana Rocha de Sousa’s Listenen
dc.typeArticle (peer-reviewed)en
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