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The Censorship of Portuguese Cinema in the Second Republic

by João de Freitas Leal
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Estado Novo (New State), was established after the 28 May 1926 coup d’état, marked by an anti-parliamentary and anti-liberal conception of the Portuguese state. In this sense, the New State ended the period of liberalism in Portugal, it not only covering the First Republic, as well as the monarchical constitutionalism.

The Estado Novo was a fascist system and that your system was also considered Salazarism, which refers to Antonio de Oliveira Salazar, the founder and leader of the Estado Novo.

As we all know, the fascist ideology was censor anything that is against the governament for its governance. It is likely that...


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