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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.
Contents
CoverTitle PageCopyrightTable of ContentsPrefaceIntroductionPart I: Staging Film Criticism: The Cuban and American Historical and Political Backgrounds1. Cuban Culture, Institutions, Policies, and Citizens2. The Cuban Revolutionary Hermeneutics: Criticism and Citizenship3. The U.S. Field of Culture4. U.S. Criticism, Dissent, and HermeneuticsPart II: Performing Film Criticism5. Memories of Underdevelopment6. Lucia7. One Way or Another8. Portrait of TeresaConclusion: Film Criticism in Cuba and the United StatesNotesBibliographyIndex
