National Identity in 21st-Century Cuban Cinema Screening the Repeating Island /

• Main Author: Fehimović, Dunja (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, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Motion pictures, American.; Ethnology-Latin America.; Popular Culture.; Film genres.; Latin America-Politics and government.; Latin American Cinema and TV.; Latin American Culture.; Popular Culture .; Genre.; Latin American Politics.

National Identity in 21st-Century Cuban Cinema tours early 21st-century Cuban cinema through four key figures-the monster, the child, the historic icon, and the recluse-in order to offer a new perspective on the relationship between the Revolution, culture, and national identity in contemporary Cuba...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction: Screening the Repeating Island
• 2. A Cuban Zombie Nation?: Monsters in Havana
• 3. Not Child's Play: Tactics, Strategies, and Heterotopias
• 4. Time 'Out of Joint': Icons, Images, and Archives
• 5. Of Moles and Giraffes: Recluses, Drifters, and Disconnection
• 6. Conclusion: Shipwrecks and Seasickness.