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

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 rev...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Amaya, Hector
Format: Licensed eBooks
Language:English
Published: Urbana : University of Illinois Press [2010]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Online Access:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5406/j.ctt1xcpq5
Table of 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.