Aesthetics and the Revolutionary City Real and Imagined Havana /

• Main Author: Kent, James Clifford (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Studies of the Americas
• Subjects: Latin America-Politics and government.; Ethnology-Latin America.; Popular Culture.; Photography.; Sociology, Urban.; International relations.; Latin American Politics.; Latin American Culture.; Popular Culture .; Urban Studies/Sociology.; International Relations Theory.

Aesthetics and the Revolutionary City engages in alternative ways of reading foreign visual representations of Havana through analysis of advertising images, documentary films, and photographic texts. It explores key narratives relating to the projection of different Havana imaginaries and focuses o...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction: Real and Imagined Havana
• 2. Mapping the City: Walker Evans in Havana
• 3. Burt Glinn, Magnum Photos and the Cuban Revolution
• 4. David Bailey's Havana and the "Post-Special Period" Photobook
• 5. Advertising the City: "Nothing Compares to Havana"
• 6. Buena Vista Social Club's Afterimage
• 7. The Music Film and the City: Our Manics in Havana.