From Havana to Hollywood - Slave Resistance in the Cinematic Imaginary

Centers Cuban cinema to explore how films produced in Havana or Hollywood differently represent Black resistance to slavery.

About the author

Philip Kaisary is the 2023-2025 Ruth and Mark Phillips Professor of Cultural Mediations and Associate Professor in the Department of Law and Legal Studies, the Department of English Language and Literature, and the Institute for Comparative Studies in Literature, Art, and Culture at Carleton University. He is the author of The Haitian Revolution in the Literary Imagination: Radical Horizons, Conservative Constraints.

Product details

• Authors: Philip Kaisary, Kaisary Philip
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.07.2024
• EAN: 9781438498492
• ISBN: 978-1-4384-9849-2
• No. of pages: 256
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 25 mm
• Series: SUNY series, Afro-Latinx Futures
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Photography, film, video, TV; Ethnic Studies, Cuba, HISTORY / Caribbean & West Indies / Cuba, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Black Studies (Global), Film, TV & radio, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / History & Criticism, History of the Americas, Film: styles & genres, Black & Asian Studies, Film Theory & Criticism, Film, television, radio genres: Historical, Film: styles and genres, Film history, theory or criticism, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / Genres / Historical, Relating to people of the African diasporas / heritage