Cuban CinemaU of Minnesota Press, 2004 - 538 Seiten The earliest films made in Cuba—newsreel footage of the Cuban-Spanish-American War—date from the end of the nineteenth century, but Cuba cannot be said to have had an indigenous film industry before the revolution of 1959. The melodramas, musicals, and comedies made until then reflected Hollywood’s—and the United States’s—cultural domination of the island, but the revolution precipitated urgent debates about the role of cinema in a socialist country and the kinds of films best suited to the needs of the people and their rulers. Among the feature films, documentaries, and short subjects made in accordance with revolutionary principles are celebrated works by Tomás Gutiérrez Alea, Humberto Solás, and other filmmakers who have had a profound influence on both Latin American and world cinema.Michael Chanan provides a comprehensive, authoritative, 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. First published as The Cuban Image in 1984 to wide acclaim, Cuban Cinema now appears in a new, expanded edition that updates Chanan’s discussion to the beginning of the twenty-first century. New chapters address ongoing concerns about freedom of expression; Havana’s restored importance within the Latin American film industry through the Havana Film Festival, before state support for filmmakers dwindled in the economic collapse that followed the fall of the Soviet Union; Cuban cinema’s place within the globalized cultural market; and the changing audience for Cuban films. The only book-length study of Cuban cinema written in English, this indispensable work on one of the world’s most vital national cinemas offers a unique perspective on the Cuban experience in the twentieth century.Michael Chanan is a documentary filmmaker and professor of cultural and media studies at the University of the West of England in Bristol. |
Im Buch
Ergebnisse 1-5 von 81
Seite ix
... thing , both in Latin America and beyond . This book is offered in the conviction that Cuban cinema , even in its weakened con- dition , provides primary evidence of the complex factors at play in this extraordinary situation , and that ...
... thing , both in Latin America and beyond . This book is offered in the conviction that Cuban cinema , even in its weakened con- dition , provides primary evidence of the complex factors at play in this extraordinary situation , and that ...
Seite x
... thing about the asymmetrical nature of the cultural distances contained in political geography , of the invisible divide to be crossed when travel- ing from the first world to the third , which only fully registered not on going but on ...
... thing about the asymmetrical nature of the cultural distances contained in political geography , of the invisible divide to be crossed when travel- ing from the first world to the third , which only fully registered not on going but on ...
Seite xi
... things , on where you see it . Log- ically speaking , the film is exactly the same wherever you watch it , but the ... thing struck me most vividly two weeks after arriving in Cuba . I had watched Octavio Cortázar's marvelous documentary ...
... things , on where you see it . Log- ically speaking , the film is exactly the same wherever you watch it , but the ... thing struck me most vividly two weeks after arriving in Cuba . I had watched Octavio Cortázar's marvelous documentary ...
Seite xv
... thing . Yet here you have Cuba , which is a small place by comparison , and they have healthy , real , ambitious films . Are they doing experimental things ? A person who considers himself an artist approaches a socialist society ...
... thing . Yet here you have Cuba , which is a small place by comparison , and they have healthy , real , ambitious films . Are they doing experimental things ? A person who considers himself an artist approaches a socialist society ...
Seite xvi
... things better , what's unfair , and stuff like that . So , in other words , there are channels that allow you not to criticize the idea of the society but to figure out how to make it better . I like the honesty of it . They say no ...
... things better , what's unfair , and stuff like that . So , in other words , there are channels that allow you not to criticize the idea of the society but to figure out how to make it better . I like the honesty of it . They say no ...
Andere Ausgaben - Alle anzeigen
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
actors aesthetic Alea's Alfredo Guevara artistic audience become bourgeois called camera Castro character comedy Communist critical Cuba Cuba's Cuban cinema Cuban films Cuban Revolution cultural Daniel Díaz Torres Díaz director documentary economic festival fiction Fidel film industry film's filmmakers foreign Fornet Fraga Fresa y chocolate genre Havana Hollywood Humberto Solás ICAIC ideological imperfect cinema intellectual Ivens Jorge José Juan Juan Carlos Tabío Julio García Espinosa kind Latin American Lucía machismo Manuel Octavio Gómez Mario Martí ment montage movie narrative newsreel North American Óscar Pérez play political popular problem production Quin radio reality revolutionary Rodríguez Rolando Díaz Santiago Álvarez Sara Gómez says scene screen script Sergio Sergio Giral shot social socialist society Soviet Spanish story struggle style symbolic Tabío television Teresa theme things tion Tomás Gutiérrez Alea underdeveloped Valdés viewer woman workers