Screening Cuba

Author : Anonim
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2010-10-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780252090028

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Hector Amaya advances into new territory in Latin American and U.S. cinema studies in this innovative analysis of the differing critical receptions of Cuban film in Cuba and the United States during the Cold War. Synthesizing film reviews, magazine articles, and other primary documents, Screening Cuba compares Cuban and U.S. reactions to four Cuban films: Memories of Underdevelopment, Lucia, One Way or Another, and Portrait of Teresa. In examining cultural production through the lens of the Cold War, Amaya reveals how contrasting interpretations of Cuban and U.S. critics are the result of the political cultures in which they operated. While Cuban critics viewed the films as powerful symbols of the social promises of the Cuban revolution, liberal and leftist American critics found meaning in the films as representations of anti-establishment progressive values and Cold War discourses. By contrasting the hermeneutics of Cuban and U.S. culture, criticism, and citizenship, Amaya argues that critical receptions of political films constitute a kind of civic public behavior.

Author : Dunja Fehimović
Publisher : Springer
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2018-08-10
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783319931036

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National Identity in 21st-Century Cuban Cinema by Dunja Fehimović Pdf

National Identity in 21st-Century Cuban Cinema tours early 21st-century Cuban cinema through four key figures—the monster, the child, the historic icon, and the recluse—in order to offer a new perspective on the relationship between the Revolution, culture, and national identity in contemporary Cuba. Exploring films chosen to convey a recent diversification of subject matters, genres, and approaches, it depicts a changing industrial landscape in which the national film institute (ICAIC) coexists with international co-producers and small, ‘independent’ production companies. By tracing the reappearance, reconfiguration, and recycling of national identity in recent fiction feature films, the book demonstrates that the spectre of the national haunts Cuban cinema in ways that reflect intensified transnational flows of people, capital, and culture. Moreover, it shows that the creative manifestations of this spectre screen—both hiding and revealing—a persistent anxiety around Cubanness even as national identity is transformed by connections to the outside world.

Author : Jean Stubbs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : History
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173018426980

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Cuba by Jean Stubbs Pdf

This book describes the mixture of achievement and obstacle that makes up modern Cuba, concentrating on the issues and dilemmas facing ordinary Cubans: availability of consumer goods, motivation at work, civil rights and decision-making and the country's involvement in war overseas.

Author : Ann Marie Stock
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2009-05-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0807894192

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On Location in Cuba by Ann Marie Stock Pdf

The 1990s were a time of dramatic transformation for Cuba. With the collapse of its Cold War relationship with the Soviet Union, the island nation plummeted into an era of scarcity and uncertainty known as the Special Period, a time from which it emerged only slowly in the new century. On Location in Cuba views these pivotal decades through the lens of cinema. Ann Marie Stock conducted hundreds of interviews and conversations in Cuba to examine individual artists' lives and creative output--including film, video, and audiovisual art. She explores the impact of the Cold War's end, the economic crisis that ensued, and the decentralization of the state's political, economic, and cultural apparatus. Stock focuses on what she calls Street Filmmaking--the production of emerging audiovisual artists who work outside the state film industry--to examine the island's transformation and changing notions of Cuban identity. Employing entrepreneurial approaches to producing art and to negotiating the exigencies of globalization, this younger generation of filmmakers offers fresh perspectives on what it means to be Cuban in an increasingly complex and connected world.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1908
Category : Cuba
ISBN : NYPL:33433081696886

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The Cuba Review and Bulletin by Anonim Pdf

Author : Ann Marie Stock,Guy Baron,Antonio Álvarez Pitaluga
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2017-06-30
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781786722539

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The Cinema of Cuba by Ann Marie Stock,Guy Baron,Antonio Álvarez Pitaluga Pdf

Contemporary Cuba is opening up to the rest of the world. Its colonial past and the Communist revolution have left a lasting imprint on society, yet there is a tangible sense of rapid change which is reflected in the island's national cinema. New screen technologies and digital distribution media have supported the efficacy and global reach of Cuban filmmakers whose work, somewhat in lieu of adequate distribution and traditional screening facilities in Cuba itself, is often disseminated via 'flash' (USB memory sticks).Channelling an energetic DIY attitude through grassroots movements and ad-hoc resourcefulness, the new filmmakers of Cuba have inspired the editors of this book to embrace their contagious enthusiasm through essays on authentic Cuban cinema. Whilst the book provides a comprehensive overview of the history behind current practices, it also moves beyond this to examine key case studies as well as 'snapshots' of individuals working within the industry today. Chapters celebrate the shared creativity as well as diversity of Cuban cinema, including both productions of the Cuban Film Institute's (ICAIC) as well as those from the industry margins. The films discussed demonstrate a driving cinematic force through social criticism, the emphasis of debate and historical change through film, reassessments of gender relations, the use of new technologies and much more.

Author : Linda M. Whiteford,Laurence G. Branch
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Community health services
ISBN : 0742559947

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Primary Health Care in Cuba by Linda M. Whiteford,Laurence G. Branch Pdf

As health care concerns grow in the U.S., medical anthropologist Linda M. Whiteford and social psychologist Larry G. Branch present their findings on a health care anomaly, from an unlikely source. Primary Health Care in Cuba examines the highly successful model of primary health care in Cuba following the 1959 Cuban Revolution. This model, developed during a time of dramatic social and political change, created a preventive care system to better provide equity access to health care. Cuba's recognition as a paragon of health care has earned praise from the World Health Organization, UNICEF, and the Pan American Health Organization. In this book, Whiteford and Branch explore the successes of Cuba's preventive primary health care system and its contribution to global health.

Author : Catherine Krull
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2014-01-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813048628

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Cuba in a Global Context by Catherine Krull Pdf

Cuba in a Global Context examines the unlikely prominence of the island nation's geopolitical role. The contributors to this volume explore the myriad ways in which Cuba has not only maintained but often increased its reach and influence in Latin America, Europe, Africa, and Asia. From the beginning, the Castro regime established a foreign policy that would legitimize the revolutionary government, if not in the eyes of the United States at least in the eyes of other global actors. The essays in this volume shed new light on Cuban diplomacy with communist China as well as with Western governments such as Great Britain and Canada. In recent years, Cubans have improved their lives in the face of the ongoing U.S. embargo. The promotion of increased economic and political cooperation between Cuba and Venezuela served as a catalyst for the Petrocaribe group. Links established with countries in the Caribbean and Central America have increased tourism, medical diplomacy, and food sovereignty across the region. Cuban transnationalism has also succeeded in creating people-to-people contacts involving those who have remained on the island and members of the Cuban diaspora. While the specifics of Cuba's international relations are likely to change as new leaders take over, the role of Cubans working to assert their sovereignty has undoubtedly impacted every corner of the globe.

Author : Marysol Quevedo
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780197552230

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Cuban Music Counterpoints by Marysol Quevedo Pdf

"This book tells readers: tracing the classical music networks that Cuban composers cultivated between 1940 and 1991 through examining compositions, ensembles, and cultural institutions with a microhistorical approach. It sets the foundation for investigating how aesthetics and politics intersected in the case studies explored throughout the book: individual points of view largely determined the degree to which composers engaged in various local and international artistic networks; and these networks were constantly being nurtured and shaped by their actors, who also had to contend with national and global political and economic circumstances. This chapter provides readers with working definitions of key concepts: modernism, avant-garde, experimentalism, and vanguardia. Key figures Fernando Ortiz and Alejo Carpentier and their contributions to the intellectual milieu that Cuban composers inhabited -especially the concepts of transculturation and lo real maravilloso, respectively-are also discussed. It contextualizes the book within existing scholarship on 20th-century classical music of the Americas, Eastern Europe, and the Cold War, as well as those dealing with Cuban music and Cuban studies more broadly"--

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1044 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : United States
ISBN : UCAL:B4292970

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Health by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1042 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : United States
ISBN : LOC:00186271828

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Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations for 1986 by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies Pdf

Author : Ann Marie Stock
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780807832691

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On Location in Cuba by Ann Marie Stock Pdf

This study focusses on what the author calls Street Filmmaking - the production of audiovisual artists who work outside the state film industry - to examine the island's transformation and changing notions of Cuban identity.

Author : Maturin Murray Ballou
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1854
Category : Cuba
ISBN : UOMDLP:agd8619:0001.001

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History of Cuba by Maturin Murray Ballou Pdf

Author : Margaret G. Frohlich
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2023-02-10
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783031189463

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Sexual Diversity in Young Cuban Cinema by Margaret G. Frohlich Pdf

This book explores how young Cuban filmmakers have expanded the range of sexual subjectivities on screen. It analyzes cine joven (films made by young directors) from the late 1980s to the early 2020s, film reviews, articles, and materials from the Cinematheque of Cuba's archive to illustrate the confluence of sexuality, cinema, and discourses of youth. While sexual and cinematic cultures have their own unique relation to the public sphere, state institutions, and transnational flows, this book explores tensions, debates, and expressions that unite them. In an investigation of how young filmmakers employ queer strategies of self-making to bring sexual diversity to the screen, Margaret G. Frohlich shows us how cine joven takes part in the socialization of power in Cuba.

Author : Enrique García
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2015-10-14
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476620602

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Cuban Cinema After the Cold War by Enrique García Pdf

The changes Cuba experienced following the collapse of the Soviet Union compelled Cuban filmmakers to rethink the values developed after the 1959 Castro revolution. Long-forgotten genres re-emerged, established auteurs incorporated new aesthetics into their films and an influx of foreign capital led to the repackaging of revolutionary ideology into more visually attractive narratives. Films such as Alice in Wondertown (1991), Strawberry and Chocolate (1993) and Juan of the Dead (2011) stirred controversy, criticized revolutionary discourse and helped establish new models that allowed post–Castro cinema to find global audiences on an unprecedented scale. This book offers a detailed analysis of key post–Cold War Cuban films. Recurrent sociopolitical tropes are examined to reveal how Cuban cinema reflects the turbulent changes in the island.