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Aesthetics and the Revolutionary City : Real and Imagined Havana / / by James Clifford Kent



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Autore: Kent James Clifford Visualizza persona
Titolo: Aesthetics and the Revolutionary City : Real and Imagined Havana / / by James Clifford Kent Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2019
Edizione: 1st ed. 2019.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xi, 226 pages) : illustrations
Disciplina: 972.9123
Soggetto topico: Latin America—Politics and government
Ethnology—Latin America
Popular Culture
Photography
Sociology, Urban
International relations
Latin American Politics
Latin American Culture
Urban Studies/Sociology
International Relations Theory
Nota di contenuto: 1. Introduction: Real and Imagined Havana -- 2. Mapping the City: Walker Evans in Havana -- 3. Burt Glinn, Magnum Photos and the Cuban Revolution -- 4. David Bailey’s Havana and the “Post-Special Period” Photobook -- 5. Advertising the City: “Nothing Compares to Havana” -- 6. Buena Vista Social Club’s Afterimage -- 7. The Music Film and the City: Our Manics in Havana.
Sommario/riassunto: Aesthetics and the Revolutionary City engages in alternative ways of reading foreign visual representations of Havana through analysis of advertising images, documentary films, and photographic texts. It explores key narratives relating to the projection of different Havana imaginaries and focuses on a range of themes including: pre-revolutionary Cuba; the dream of revolution; and the metaphor of the city “frozen-in-time.” The book also synthesizes contemporary debates regarding the notion of Havana as a real and imagined city space and fleshes out its theoretical insights with a series of stand-alone, important case studies linked to the representation of the Cuban capital in the Western imaginary. The interpretations in the book bring into focus a range of critical historical moments in Cuban history (including the Cuban Revolution and the “Special Period”) and consider the ways in which they have been projected in advertising, documentary film and photography outside the island. James Clifford Kent is Lecturer in Hispanic Studies at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK.
Titolo autorizzato: Aesthetics and the Revolutionary City  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 3-319-64030-5
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910338043503321
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Serie: Studies of the Americas