Screening Cuba : film criticism as political performance during the Cold War / Hector Amaya.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Amaya, Hector.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures, Cuban--United States.

Motion pictures, Cuban.

Motion pictures--Cuba--History--20th century.

Motion pictures.

Motion pictures--Political aspects--Cuba.

Film criticism--United States--History--20th century.

Film criticism.

Film criticism--Cuba--History--20th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (249 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Hector Amaya advances into new territory in Latin American and U.S. cinema studies in this innovative analysis of the differing critical receptions of Cuban film in Cuba and the United States during the Cold War. Synthesizing film reviews, magazine articles, and other primary documents, Screening Cuba compares Cuban and U.S. reactions to four Cuban films: Memories of Underdevelopment, Lucia, One Way or Another, and Portrait of Teresa. In examining cultural production through the lens of the Cold War, Amaya reveals how contrasting interpretations of Cuban and U.S. critics are the result of the political cultures in which they operated. While Cuban critics viewed the films as powerful symbols of the social promises of the Cuban revolution, liberal and leftist American critics found meaning in the films as representations of anti-establishment progressive values and Cold War discourses. By contrasting the hermeneutics of Cuban and U.S. culture, criticism, and citizenship, Amaya argues that critical receptions of political films constitute a kind of civic public behavior.

Contents:

Staging film criticism. Cuban culture, institutions, policies, and citizens

The Cuban revolutionary hermeneutics : criticism and citizenship

The U.S. field of culture

U.S. criticism, dissent, and hermeneutics

Performing film criticism. Memories of underdevelopment

Lucia

One way or another

Portrait of Teresa

Conclusion.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613028716

9781283028714

1283028719

9780252090028

0252090020

OCLC:

709664706