Cinema and the Sandinistas: Filmmaking in Revolutionary Nicaragua

by Jonathan Buchsbaum

Following the Sandinista Revolution in 1979, young bohemian artists rushed to the newly formed Nicaraguan national film institute INCINE to contribute to "the recovery of national identity" through the creation of a national film project. Over the next eleven years, the filmmakers of INCINE produced over seventy films-documentary, fiction, and hybrids-that collectively reveal a unique vision of the Revolution drawn not from official FSLN directives,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0292705247
• ISBN13: 9780292705241
• Release Date: October 2003
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 343 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.2"