Vision machines
Subtitle: cinema, literature, and sexuality in Spain and Cuba, 1983-93
By: Paul Julian Smith.
Series: Critical studies in Latin American and Iberian cultures
Publisher: Verso
Published: 1996
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 179
Subjects: Motion pictures -- Social aspects -- Spain; Motion pictures -- Social aspects -- Cuba; Social problems in motion pictures; Motion pictures and literature -- Spain; Motion pictures and literature -- Cuba
Description: Over the last decade, visibility and sexuality have become a major theme in Spanish and Cuban cinema, literature and art. This book explores this development in the light of contemporary history and recent theoretical accounts of sight by writers, including Paul Virilio and Teresa de Lauretis.
Notes: Filmography: p. 153-162.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 163-170) and index.