This title is a thorough introduction to the film of Tomas Gutierrez Alea, Cuba's leading filmmaker. It covers all of Alea's 12 feature films, examining in depth his three best films within the context of revolutionary Cuba.
This title is a thorough introduction to the film of Tomas Gutierrez Alea, Cuba's leading filmmaker. It covers all of Alea's 12 feature films, examini...
This book charts a comparative history of Latin America's national cinemas through ten chapters that cover every major cinematic period in the region: silent cinema, studio cinema, neorealism and art cinema, the New Latin American Cinema, and contemporary cinema. Schroeder Rodriguez weaves close readings of approximately fifty paradigmatic films into a lucid narrative history that is rigorous in its scholarship and framed by a compelling theorization of the multiple discourses of modernity. The result is an essential guide that promises to transform our understanding of the region's cultural...
This book charts a comparative history of Latin America's national cinemas through ten chapters that cover every major cinematic period in the region:...