Válvula de escape : stories of the Puerto Rican diaspora / a project of Producciones Zaranda ; producer, Mariel C. Marrero García ; director-editor, Freddie Rodríquez ; script, Mariel C. Marrero García, Freddie Rodríquez.

Format:

• Video

Contributor:

• Marrero-García, Mariel, film producer, screenwriter, researcher.
• Rodríguez, Freddie, film director, screenwriter, editor of moving image work.
• Producciones Zaranda Inc., production company, publisher.
• Class of 1924 Book Fund.

Language:

• English
• Spanish

Subjects (All):

• Puerto Ricans--Emigration and immigration--History.
• Puerto Ricans--United States--Social conditions--History.
• Puerto Ricans.
• Social conditions.
• History.
• Emigration and immigration.
• United States.

Genre:

• Documentary films.
• Video recordings.

Physical Description:

• 4 videodiscs (467 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
• 4 3/4 in. stamping

Other Title:

Stories of the Puerto Rican diaspora

Place of Publication:

[Puerto Rico] : Producciones Zaranda, [2015?]

Language Note:

In English and Spanish; optional subtitles in English and Spanish.

System Details:

• Blu-ray disc, Region A; HDTV; required Blu-ray player.
• digital optical
• HDTV
• video file blu-ray disc

Summary:

"Valvula de escape - Stories of the Puerto Rican Diaspora, presents the history of the centennial exodus of the Puerto Rican people to the United States. In order to address the economic pressures and deficiencies caused by the colonial relationship, a migratory "escape valve" was instituted between the United States and Puerto Rico. This valve maintains the social peace and "stability" challenged by the pressures of unemployment, political unrest, fear, hostility and poverty. The Puerto Rican migration began before the Caribbean island became a territory of the United States after the Spanish American War in 1898 and has remained constant with intervals of highs and lows depending on the island economic conditions at a given time. Because of the aforementioned pressures described, Puerto Rico created an addiction to emigration, whose cost has been a high dependency on the movement of its population. This series explores several questions as: How has the immigration been handled and implanted at different times? What answers have been officially given? What are the causes, consequences and circumstances?"--Website.

Contents:

• disc 1. Island of passageway 1493-4898 (39 min.)
• Foreign in a domestic sense 1900-1920 (40 min.)
• Growth, dispersion, depression and repression 1920-1940 (33 min.)
• Hands to work or the surplus of hands? (57 min.)
• disc 2. The great migration : the valve fully open 1947-1960 (48 min.)
• disc. 3. Resistance from within 1960-1978 (82 min.)
• disc. 2 Returning migration : reversing the valve 1970-1990 (40 min.)
• disc 4. Disney and Puerto Rico : two wings of a bird 1990-2000 (34 min.)
• ¿Brain drain or brain robbery? 1990-2010 (47 min.)
• Identity, trauma and nostalgia... 2005-present (47 min.).

Credits:

Researcher, Mariel C. Marrero García; editor, Freddie Rodríquez.

Notes:

• Videodisc release of the series of documentary motion pictures produced in 2012.
• "The first major documentary series to chronicle the history of the over-a-century old exodus of the Puerto Rican people to the United States"--Container.
• Segment 5 and 7 are on one disc, segment 6 is on another disc. Discs are marked disc 1 of 3; seqments 5 and 7; segment 6.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1924 Book Fund.

OCLC:

960722618

Online:

The Class of 1924 Book Fund Home Page