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Screening Cuba

Hector Amaya

2010,2014

Overview

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.

• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Subject: 20th century / Cinema / Cold War / Critical theory / Cuba / Film & Video / Film criticism / Film criticism - Cuba - History - 20th century / Film criticism -- United States -- History -- 20th century / Film Studies / History / History & Criticism / Motion pictures / Motion pictures -- Cuba -- History -- 20th century / Motion pictures -- Political aspects -- Cuba / Motion pictures, Cuban / Motion pictures, Cuban -- United States / PERFORMING ARTS / Political aspects / Political culture / Social behaviour / Socialism / U.S.A / United States
• ISBN: 0252035593, 9780252035593, 9780252077487, 0252077482, 9780252090028, 0252090020