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Screening Cuba : film criticism as political performance during the Cold War / Hector Amaya.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, (c)2010.Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780252090028
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • PN1993 .S374 2010
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Contents:
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.
Subject: 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.
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Online Book (LOGIN USING YOUR MY CIU LOGIN AND PASSWORD) Online Book (LOGIN USING YOUR MY CIU LOGIN AND PASSWORD) G. Allen Fleece Library ONLINE Non-fiction PN1993.5.8 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Link to resource Available ocn709664706

Includes bibliographies and index.

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.

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.

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