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Record Nr.

UNINA9910300031903321

Autore

Fehimović Dunja

Titolo

National Identity in 21st-Century Cuban Cinema : Screening the Repeating Island / / by Dunja Fehimović

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2018

ISBN

3-319-93103-2

Edizione

[1st ed. 2018.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (290 pages)

Disciplina

305.80097291

Soggetti

Motion pictures, American

Ethnology—Latin America

Popular Culture

Film genres

Latin America—Politics and government

Latin American Cinema and TV

Latin American Culture

Genre

Latin American Politics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

1. Introduction: Screening the Repeating Island -- 2. A Cuban Zombie Nation?: Monsters in Havana -- 3. Not Child's Play: Tactics, Strategies, and Heterotopias -- 4. Time 'Out of Joint': Icons, Images, and Archives -- 5. Of Moles and Giraffes: Recluses, Drifters, and Disconnection -- 6. Conclusion: Shipwrecks and Seasickness.

Sommario/riassunto

National Identity in 21st-Century Cuban Cinema tours early 21st-century Cuban cinema through four key figures—the monster, the child, the historic icon, and the recluse—in order to offer a new perspective on the relationship between the Revolution, culture, and national identity in contemporary Cuba. Exploring films chosen to convey a recent diversification of subject matters, genres, and approaches, it depicts a changing industrial landscape in which the national film institute (ICAIC) coexists with international co-producers and small, ‘independent’ production companies. By tracing the



reappearance, reconfiguration, and recycling of national identity in recent fiction feature films, the book demonstrates that the spectre of the national haunts Cuban cinema in ways that reflect intensified transnational flows of people, capital, and culture. Moreover, it shows that the creative manifestations of this spectre screen—both hiding and revealing—a persistent anxiety around Cubanness even as national identity is transformed by connections to the outside world.