Cuban cinema
By: Michael Chanan.
Series: Cultural studies of the Americas ;; 14
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Minneapolis
Language: eng
Number of pages: 538
Subjects: Motion pictures -- Cuba -- History.; Motion pictures -- Social aspects -- Cuba.
Description: New chapters express ongoing concerns about freedom of expression, the role of the Havana Film Festival in restoring Havana's central position in Latin American cinema, & the changing audience for Cuban films.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Originally published: The Cuban image. London : British Film Institute ; Bloomington, Ind. : Indiana University Press, 1985.
Table of contents: title: Pt. I. Before the Revolution: cinema at the margins ; 1. For the first time ; 2. Back to the beginning ; 3. The nineteenth-century heritage ; 4. Melodrama and white horses ; 5. Amateurs and militants; title: pt. II. The Revolution takes power: a cinema of euphoria ; 6. The coming of socialism ; 7. The first feature films ; 8. Beyond neorealism ; 9. The documentary in the Revolution ; 10. The Revolution in the documentary ; 11. The current of experimentalism ; 12. Four films ; 13. Imperfect cinema and the seventies ; 14. One way or another; title: pt. III. New generations: a cinema of readjustment ; 15. Reconnecting ; 16. Return of the popular ; 17. Wonderland.