The profound transformations of the cinema and audiovisual industries (indeed their growing interdependence) that present new challenges in the 1990s have not as yet provoked a global, coherent response nor, it seems, jarred Portuguese policymakers from their silent policy of disregard. This study shows how, in the doldrums of neglect, the crisis of Portuguese cinema grows ever deeper.
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