Cinema and the Sandinistas : filmmaking in revolutionary Nicaragua / Jonathan Buchsbaum.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Buchsbaum, Jonathan, 1946-

Series:

Texas film and media studies series.

Texas film and media studies series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures--Nicaragua--History.

Motion pictures.

Motion pictures--Political aspects--Nicaragua.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (344 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Austin : University of Texas Press, 2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Following the Sandinista Revolution in 1979, young bohemian artists rushed to the newly formed Nicaraguan national film institute INCINE to contribute to "the recovery of national identity" through the creation of a national film project. Over the next eleven years, the filmmakers of INCINE produced over seventy films—documentary, fiction, and hybrids—that collectively reveal a unique vision of the Revolution drawn not from official FSLN directives, but from the filmmakers' own cinematic interpretations of the Revolution as they were living it. This book examines the INCINE film project and assesses its achievements in recovering a Nicaraguan national identity through the creation of a national cinema. Using a wealth of firsthand documentation—the films themselves, interviews with numerous INCINE personnel, and INCINE archival records—Jonathan Buchsbaum follows the evolution of INCINE's project and situates it within the larger historical project of militant, revolutionary filmmaking in Latin America. His research also raises crucial questions about the viability of national cinemas in the face of accelerating globalization and technological changes which reverberate far beyond Nicaragua's experiment in revolutionary filmmaking.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Acronyms

Acknowledgments

Introduction

One The Creation of INCINE

Two The First Noticieros

Three The Second Year

Four The New Generation

Five In Search of Policy

Six Breaking the Mold: New Noticieros

Seven Documentaries

Eight The Reality of Fiction

Nine Dashed Ambitions: The Reach for Features

Ten Toward the End of Third Cinema

Appendix Diagrams, Plans, Charts, and Documents

Filmography

Interviews

Notes

Bibliographic Essay

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 303-310) and index.

ISBN:

0-292-79887-3

OCLC:

191953156