Memory in contemporary Cuban film and digital media : entangled temporalities / edited by Dunja Fehimović, Reynaldo Lastre, Nils Longueira Borrego, and Isdanny Morales Sosa.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Fehimovic, Dunja, editor.

Lastre, Reynaldo, editor.

Longueira Borrego, Nils, editor.

Morales Sosa, Isdanny, editor .

Series:

Reframing Media, Technology, and Culture in Latin/o America

Reframing media, technology, and culture in Latin/o America

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures--Cuba--History.

Motion pictures.

Archives--Cuba.

Archives.

Motion pictures--Cuba--Archival resources.

Digital media--Cuba.

Digital media.

Collective memory--Cuba.

Collective memory.

Mass media--Political aspects--Cuba.

Mass media.

Cuba--In motion pictures.

Cuba.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Gainesville : University of Florida Press, [2026]

Summary:

How Cuba's contemporary mediascape is challenging official histories, recovering memories, and redefining identities This volume shows how Cuban filmmakers, journalists, and activists use film and other digital media to create competing notions of memory and history that challenge official narratives about Cuban society. In the wake of the economic and ideological crises of Cuba's Special Period, suppressed political differences and personal experiences have resurfaced in the contemporary mediascape, which has become a principal political arena for Cubans both inside and outside the island. In this volume, contributors examine topics including how filmmakers use audio to subvert official histories, media representations of sanatoriums and other settings at the margins of the Revolution, and a COVID-era digital archive that preserves personal memories outside government oversight. By tracing the interplay of film, digital technologies, and the internet, contributors reveal how alternative archives and online platforms resist state-sanctioned stories, circulate new materials, and broaden ideas of citizenship, time, and identity. Together, these essays offer fresh perspectives on the complexities of Cuba's late-socialist context. Publication of this work made possible by a Sustaining the Humanities through the American Rescue Plan grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Contents:

Thwarted communication and destinies: “Russia” in a twenty‑first‑century Cuban cinematographic repository

Bodily archives: the cinema of Alejandro Alonso as reenacted memories

A crisis of listening: the sonic afterlives of the Cuban Revolution in Eliecer Jiménez Almeida’s Isla

Interventions in the revolutionary past: working with memory in the documentaries Entre perro y lobo and Los puros

The archive on fire: past and present in Sueños al pairo and El caso Padilla

Specters, hauntology, and avatars in independent Cuban cinema

Persona and the invention of politics in contemporary Cuban cinema

The long slog of totalitarianism: contemporary Cuban cinema as dystopian regime

Confined spaces and the margins of Cuban revolutionary society in Pavel Giroud’s El acompañante

Interrupting Cuban cinema’s archontic power of consignation: Carlos Lechuga and Marco A. Castillo’s Generación and José Luis Aparicio Ferrera’s Tundra as anarchaeological and anarchivist narratives

Cine cubano en cuarentena: archives, databases, and variants of Cuban cinema

Cuban queer/trans and Black lives online: archives, anarchaeologies, and activisms

“Film me; I am also filming you”: livestreams, fake news, and Cuba’s (still) paranoid public sphere.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (JSTOR, viewed on June 9, 2026).

Other Format:

Print version: Memory in contemporary Cuban film and digital media

ISBN:

9781683405825

168340582X

OCLC:

1592614148

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license