Screening Cuba: Film Criticism as Political Performance During the Cold War

by Hector Amaya

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....

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252077482
• ISBN13: 9780252077487
• Release Date: September 2010
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.8"