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Screening Cuba
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._x000B__x000B_In examining cultural production through the lens of the Cold War, Amaya reveals how contrasting interpretations by 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.
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Hollywood in Havana : US cinema and revolutionary nationalism in Cuba before 1959
From the turn of the twentieth century through the late 1950s, Havana was a locus for American movie stars, with glamorous visitors including Errol Flynn, John Wayne, and Marlon Brando. In fact, Hollywood was seemingly everywhere in pre-Castro Havana, with movie theaters three to a block in places, widely circulated silver screen fanzines, and terms like \"cowboy\" and \"gangster\" entering Cuban vernacular speech. Hollywood in Havana uses this historical backdrop as the catalyst for a startling question: Did exposure to half a century of Hollywood pave the way for the Cuban Revolution of 1959?
Megan Feeney argues that the freedom fighting extolled in American World War II dramas and the rebellious values and behaviors seen in postwar film noir helped condition Cuban audiences to expect and even demand purer forms of Cuban democracy and national sovereignty. At the same time, influential Cuban intellectuals worked to translate Hollywood ethics into revolutionary rhetoric—which, ironically, led to pointed critiques and subversions of the US presence in Cuba. Hollywood in Havana not only expands our notions of how American cinema was internalized around the world—it also broadens our view of the ongoing history of US-Cuban interactions, both cultural and political.
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JFK in the classroom
Sturma and MacCallum focus on the way Oliver Stone's \"JFK\" was incorporated into a twentieth-century American history course and examine the film's effect on students' learning and critical thinking.
Journal Article
\JFK\: Why Were We in Vietnam?
JFK was deemed controversial in its conspiratorial speculation about the Kennedy assassination, but his main purpose should be clear to anyone who has followed Oliver Stone's career as filmmaker, as the director attempts to answer the question: \"Why were we in Vietnam?\" Stone begins his film with archive footage of Dwight David Eisenhower's warning to the nation to beware of the \"military-industrial complex\" that Eisenhower feared might become powerful enough to dictate policy.
Journal Article
Forget the film, it was American military muscle that resolved the Cuban missile crisis
Then there was American superiority in strategic nuclear weapons. Khrushchev could have responded to the blockade by putting pressure on West Berlin, where he had local superiority just as Kennedy did in the sea around Cuba. Khrushchev did not. The United States went on full nuclear alert during the crisis. The Soviet Union did not. True, Khrushchev could have waited until he had put enough missiles into Cuba to lay waste the United States. But the Soviet Union would also have been lain waste.
Magazine Article
Special Air Staff Briefing Program
U.S. Department of the Air Force presents Motion pictures comprised of Classified information on the [U.S. Air Force. Strategic Air Command; Cuban Crisis] to senior Military officers
Government Document