Fidel Between the Lines - Paranoia and Ambivalence in Late Socialist Cuban Cinema

Laura-Zoë Humphreys tracks late-socialist Cuba's changing dynamics of social criticism and censorship through Cuban cinema and its cultural politics.

List of contents

Acknowledgments  vii
Introduction: Criticism from Within  1
1. Symptomologies of the State  27
2. Paranoid Readings and Ambivalent Allegories  60
3. Faith without Fidel  90
4. Staying and Suspicion  127
5. Montage in the Parenthesis  166
Coda: "Cuba está de moda"  209
Notes  231
References  265
Index  281

About the author

Laura-Zoë Humphreys is Assistant Professor of Communication at Tulane University.

Summary

Laura-Zoë Humphreys tracks late-socialist Cuba's changing dynamics of social criticism and censorship through Cuban cinema and its cultural politics.

Product details

• Authors: Laura-zod Humphreys, Laura-Zoe Humphreys, Laura-Zoë Humphreys
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.10.2019
• EAN: 9781478006244
• ISBN: 978-1-4780-0624-4
• No. of pages: 304
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Kuba, Amerikanische Geschichte, Geschichte allgemein und Weltgeschichte, Fernsehen, TV