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

• Autore: Chanan Michael
• Pubblicazione: Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2003
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (558 p.)
• Disciplina: 791.43/097291
• Soggetto topico: Motion pictures - Cuba - History; Motion pictures - Social aspects - Cuba
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Cuban cinema
• ISBN: 0-8166-9066-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910807640503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Cultural studies of the Americas ; ; v. 14.