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Record Nr.

UNINA9910784104103321

Autore

Chanan Michael

Titolo

Cuban cinema [[electronic resource] /] / Michael Chanan

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2003

ISBN

0-8166-9066-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (558 p.)

Collana

Cultural studies of the Americas ; ; 14

Disciplina

791.43/097291

Soggetti

Motion pictures - Cuba - History

Motion pictures - Social aspects - Cuba

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Originally published: The Cuban image. London : British Film Institute ; Bloomington, Ind. : Indiana University Press, 1985.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Pt. I. Before the Revolution: cinema at the margins ; 1. For the first time ; 2. Back to the beginning ; 3. The nineteenth-century heritage ; 4. Melodrama and white horses ; 5. Amateurs and militants -- pt. II. The Revolution takes power: a cinema of euphoria ; 6. The coming of socialism ; 7. The first feature films ; 8. Beyond neorealism ; 9. The documentary in the Revolution ; 10. The Revolution in the documentary ; 11. The current of experimentalism ; 12. Four films ; 13. Imperfect cinema and the seventies ; 14. One way or another -- pt. III. New generations: a cinema of readjustment ; 15. Reconnecting ; 16. Return of the popular ; 17. Wonderland.

Sommario/riassunto

Michael Chanan provides a comprehensive and absorbing account of Cuban cinema both before and after the revolution, deftly setting individual films and filmmakers within the larger framework of Cuba's social, political, and cultural history. The only book-length study of Cuban cinema written in English, this indispensable work offers a unique perspective on the Cuban experience in the twentieth century.