Memories of Underdevelopment

by Edmundo Desnoes, Thomas Gutierrez, Michael Chanan, et al.

Book Overview

Memories of Underdevelopment was the first great international success of Cuban cinema. The film provides a complex portrait of Sergio, a disaffected bourgeois intellectual who remains in Havana after the Revolution, suspended between two worlds. He can no longer accept the values of his family's reactionary past and yet boredom and the conditioning of his early life prevent him from committing himself to the new revolutionary society. Sergio's story...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813515378
• ISBN13: 9780813515373
• Release Date: June 1990
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 274 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Good Book for cinema's students

For the ones who are interested in learning more about Latin American Cinema and specifically about Tomás Gutierréz Alea. The book offers many information about the director and the context where the film Memorias del Subdesarrollo was produced with many specialized author's commentaries and interviews with the director. Add to that, it offers a translation of the script materials authorized by Alea that enriches the reading of this book and the comprehension of the film.