TY - GEN T1 - Screening Cuba : film criticism as political performance during the Cold War T2 - Book collections on Project MUSE. A1 - Amaya, Hector LA - English PP - Urbana PB - University of Illinois Press YR - 2010 UL - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_ocn709664706 AB - In examining cultural production through the lens of the Cold War, Amaya reveals how contrasting interpretations by 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"--Publisher CN - PN1993.5.C8 SN - 9780252090028 SN - 0252090020 SN - 1283028719 SN - 9781283028714 SN - 9786613028716 SN - 6613028711 SN - 9780252035593 SN - 9780252077487 SN - 0252035593 SN - 0252077482 KW - Motion pictures, Cuban : United States. KW - Motion pictures : Cuba : History : 20th century. KW - Motion pictures : Political aspects : Cuba. KW - Film criticism : United States : History : 20th century. KW - Film criticism : Cuba : History : 20th century. KW - Cinéma cubain : États-Unis. KW - Cinéma : Cuba : Histoire : 20e siècle. KW - Critique cinématographique : États-Unis : Histoire : 20e siècle. KW - Critique cinématographique : Cuba : Histoire : 20e siècle. KW - Cinéma : Aspect politique : Cuba. KW - ART : Film & Video. KW - PERFORMING ARTS : Film & Video : Reference. KW - PERFORMING ARTS : Film & Video : History & Criticism. KW - Film criticism KW - Motion pictures KW - Motion pictures, Cuban KW - Motion pictures : Political aspects KW - Cuba KW - United States KW - 1900-1999 KW - History ER -