Tomas Gutierrez Alea : the Dialectics of a Filmmaker.

First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Schroeder Rodríguez, Paul A., 1968-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2014.
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Online Access: Full text (Wentworth users only)
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Preface; Introduction; Chapter 1: Context; Tomás Gutiérrez Alea: A Sketch; The Immediate Context: ICAIC and the Cuban Revolution; The Broad Context: New Latin American Cinema; Chapter 2: The Early Years: Idealism and Experimentation; Stories of the Revolution; The Twelve Chairs; Cumbite; Death of a Bureaucrat; Chapter 3: Memories Of Underdevelopment: The Dialectics Of Identification and Alienation; Genesis and Reception; Description of the Film; The Viewer's Dialectic; Film as Tragedy.
  • Postmodern PostscriptChapter 4: The Search for Cuba's "Intra-Historia"; A Cuban Fight Against Demons; The Last Supper: Marxism Meets Christianity; The Survivors; Chapter 5: Up to a Certain Point: Turning the Lens on Himself; Chapter 6: Melodrama and the Crisis of the Revolution; Letters from the Park; Strawberry and Chocolate: Homosexuality, Marxism-Leninism, and Exile; Guantanamera; Chapter 7: Conclusions; The Intellectual; Religion; The Cuban Revolution; Notes; Select Bibliography; index.