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Author Amaya, Hector

Title Screening Cuba : film criticism as political performance during the Cold War / Hector Amaya
Published Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2010]
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Contents Staging film criticism. Cuban culture, institutions, policies, and citizens -- The Cuban revolutionary hermeneutics : criticism and citizenship -- The U.S. field of culture -- U.S. criticism, dissent, and hermeneutics -- Performing film criticism. Memories of underdevelopment -- Lucia -- One way or another -- Portrait of Teresa -- Conclusion
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-214) and index
Notes English
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Subject Motion pictures, Cuban -- United States
Motion pictures -- Cuba -- History -- 20th century
Motion pictures -- Political aspects -- Cuba
Film criticism -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Film criticism -- Cuba -- History -- 20th century
ART -- Film & Video.
PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video -- Reference.
PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video -- History & Criticism.
Film criticism
Motion pictures
Motion pictures, Cuban
Motion pictures -- Political aspects
Cuba
United States
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2019718340
ISBN 9780252090028
0252090020
1283028719
9781283028714
9786613028716
6613028711