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Informationen zum Autor Walter Fernandes was born in 1979 in Luanda, the capital of Angola. He lives and works in Luanda and studied Social Sciences. Since 2002, he has worked in audiovisual media and has participated in various prize-winning advertising campaigns as a producer and photographer. He won the National Photojournalism Award in 2010, and currently works freelance from his digital photography studio (Estúdio PHOTO ATELIER) in Luanda. Miguel Hurst was born in 1967 in Germany. He studied at the Lisbon Theater and Film School and was a founder of the Pau Preto Theater Group in Lisbon. Since 2003 he has lived in Luanda. He was director of the Angolan Institute of Cinema, Audiovisual and Multimedia. As an actor and director he has participated in a great many TV drama series, films and theater pieces in Angola and Portugal. Klappentext Angola Cinema honors the fantastic! unique and unknown architecture of movie theaters in Angola! built in the decades before the end of Portuguese colonial rule in 1975. Initially designed as traditional closed spaces! later in the 1960s open air cinemas with terrace bars became the order of the day! so much better adapted as they were to the tropical climate. The arrival of these cinemas brought elegance to the business of going to the movies.But it is not only this exceptional architecture which impresses us and mirrors the experimental spirit of its ambitious and visionary builders. Visiting the cinema was a communal act-it was a place where young met old! where people fell in love and where liberation from colonialism was a feasible option.Examining the architectural history of these buildings! this book is also a document of urban organization in the 20th century! as well as the changing mentalities of a society living with the possibility of its foreseen independence. What has changed since then! and what is the future of these urban cathedrals? Angola Cinema poses such questions in a book that both preserves these architectonic treasures and reflects on their cultural! social and affective heritage. Zusammenfassung Angola Cinema honors the fantastic! unique and unknown architecture of movie theaters in Angola! built in the decades before the end of Portuguese colonial rule in 1975. Initially designed as traditional closed spaces! later in the 1960s open air cinemas with terrace bars became the order of the day! so much better adapted as they were to the tropical climate. The arrival of these cinemas brought elegance to the business of going to the movies.But it is not only this exceptional architecture which impresses us and mirrors the experimental spirit of its ambitious and visionary builders. Visiting the cinema was a communal act-it was a place where young met old! where people fell in love and where liberation from colonialism was a feasible option.Examining the architectural history of these buildings! this book is also a document of urban organization in the 20th century! as well as the changing mentalities of a society living with the possibility of its foreseen independence. What has changed since then! and what is the future of these urban cathedrals? Angola Cinema poses such questions in a book that both preserves these architectonic treasures and reflects on their cultural! social and affective heritage. ...
