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Record Nr.

UNINA9910791095603321

Autore

Schroeder Paul A.

Titolo

Tomas Gutierrez Alea : the dialectics of a filmmaker / / Paul A. Schroeder

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Routledge, , 2013

ISBN

1-138-98573-2

0-203-95293-6

1-135-35075-2

1-135-35068-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (322 p.)

Collana

Latin American Studies

Disciplina

791.43/0233/092

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"First published 2002"--T.p. verso.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Preface; Introduction; Chapter 1: Context; Tomás Gutiérrez Alea: A Sketch; The Immediate Context: ICAIC and the Cuban Revolution; The Broad Context: New Latin American Cinema; Chapter 2: The Early Years: Idealism and Experimentation; Stories of the Revolution; The Twelve Chairs; Cumbite; Death of a Bureaucrat; Chapter 3: Memories Of Underdevelopment: The Dialectics Of Identification and Alienation; Genesis and Reception; Description of the Film; The Viewer's Dialectic; Film as Tragedy

Postmodern PostscriptChapter 4: The Search for Cuba's "Intra-Historia"; A Cuban Fight Against Demons; The Last Supper: Marxism Meets Christianity; The Survivors; Chapter 5: Up to a Certain Point: Turning the Lens on Himself; Chapter 6: Melodrama and the Crisis of the Revolution; Letters from the Park; Strawberry and Chocolate: Homosexuality, Marxism-Leninism, and Exile; Guantanamera; Chapter 7: Conclusions; The Intellectual; Religion; The Cuban Revolution; Notes; Select Bibliography; index

Sommario/riassunto

First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.