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Website Skype Contact: d1128r8@kiewit.dartmouth.eduOther library resource(s)
Digitalia Film Library is another streaming service to which the Library subscribes. They have several collections in their library including one for Cuban cinema.
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Cuban cinema from Oxford Bibliographies Online by
Call Number: Electronic resourceThe Cuban viewing public developed a healthy appetite for cinema during the first half of the twentieth century, but in spite of many efforts and some notable early films by Cuban filmmakers and producers, a national cinema initially failed to develop as fully in Cuba as in some other Latin American countries. It was only after the revolution came into power on 1 January 1959 that a national film industry was set in motion and a national cinema developed in earnest. -
Internet resource(s)
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Cuban Cinema ClassicsThe Cuban Cinema Classics series showcases Cuba's internationally-acclaimed film tradition in documentaries featuring the island's people, places and politics.
Searching the online catalog
You can use the subject headings below to find resources on Cuban cinema in the online catalog. A call number range is also included.
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motion pictures cubaCall number range PN 1993.5 .C8
Introductory reading(s)
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Afro-Cuban identity in postrevolutionary novel and film : inclusion, loss, and cultural resistance by
Call Number: Baker/Berry PQ 7372 .M67 2012ISBN: 1611484227Afro-Cuban Identity in Post-Revolutionary Novel and Film examines the changing discourse on race as portrayed in Cuban novels and films produced after 1959. -
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Cuban Cinema by
Call Number: Baker/Berry PN 1993.5 .C8 C48 2004ISBN: 0816634238The earliest films made in Cuba--newsreel footage of the Cuban-Spanish-American War-date from the end of the nineteenth century, but Cuba cannot be said to have had an indigenous film industry before the revolution of 1959. The melodramas, musicals, and comedies made until then reflected Hollywood's--and the United States'--cultural domination of the island, but the revolution precipitated urgent debates about the role of cinema in a socialist country and the kinds of films best suited to the needs of the people and their rulers.
Selected book titles
Click here for more resources on Cuban cinema.
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Cuban Cinema after the Cold War: a critical analysis of selected films by
Call Number: Baker/Berry PN 1993.5 .C8 G28 2015ISBN: 9780786499106The changes Cuba experienced following the collapse of the Soviet Union compelled Cuban filmmakers to rethink the values developed after the 1959 Castro revolution. Long-forgotten genres re-emerged, established auteurs incorporated new aesthetics into their films and an influx of foreign capital led to the repackaging of revolutionary ideology into more visually attractive narratives. -
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On location in Cuba : street filmaking [sic] during times of transition by
Call Number: Baker/Berry PN 1993.5 .C8 S86 2009ISBN: 0807859400The 1990s were a time of dramatic transformation for Cuba. With the collapse of its Cold War relationship with the Soviet Union, the island nation plummeted into an era of scarcity and uncertainty known as the Special Period, a time from which it emerged only slowly in the new century. On Location in Cuba views these pivotal decades through the lens of cinema. -
Screening Cuba : film criticism as political performance during the Cold War by
Call Number: Baker/Berry PN 1993.5 .C8 A63 2010ISBN: 0252035593Hector Amaya advances into new territory in Latin American and U.S. cinema studies in this innovative analysis of the differing critical receptions of Cuban film in Cuba and the United States during the Cold War.
Finding journal articles
Although our collection does not include a journal title that looks exclusively at Cuban cinema, you can use Film & Television Literature Index to find articles or use the search box at the top of the page.
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Film & television literature index by
Call Number: Electronic resourceUse this index to find articles about Cuban cinema.
Selected movie titles
Click here for more Cuban movie titles.
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Chico & Rita by
Call Number: Jones Media DVD #15512ISBN: 1422921700Cuba, 1948. Chico is a young piano player with big dreams. Rita is a beautiful singer with an extraordinary voice. Music and desire unite them as they chase their dreams and each other from Havana to New York, Paris, Hollywood and Las Vegas. With an original soundtrack by legendary Cuban pianist and five-time Grammy-winning composer Bebo Valdés, Chico & Rita captures a defining moment in the evolution of history and jazz. -
Cuba libre by
Call Number: Jones Media DVD #8035After being evicted from their cultural center, a group of squatters enter the Cuban Embassy in Madrid at the same time that Fidel Castro announces the first free elections. This creates unwanted attention for the squatters who find themselves the target of the police and a beautiful reporter who will stop at nothing to get the exclusive of the year. -
El otro Francisco by
Call Number: Jones Media DVD #15838A revisionist version of the novel by Anselmo Suárez y Romero about the impossible love between two slaves persecuted and tortured by their master, the film seeks to criticize the romantic and idealistic (albeit humanistically motivated) literary vision of the bourgeois author concerning slavery, confronting, step by step, the reality of the economic, social and political framework of colonial society, striving to show an authentic picture of slavery and class struggle. -
La anunciación by
Call Number: Streaming videoAmalia is an old woman who is a medium and who has recently widowed. She lives with her 10-year-old grandson, Cristóbal, and her youngest son, Mayito. Amalia brings together the divided family to read the moral wills of her recently deceased husband, Octavio. -
La edad de la peseta = The silly age by
Call Number: Jones Media DVD #15847In 1950's Havana, before the Revolution, Samuel is brought to Havana by his mother Alicia, a newly divorced woman, to live with her long-ignored mother Violeta. At first, Violeta teases and commands Samuel. She tries to intimidate him a little and threatens him with being sent away to school. But, rather suddenly he becomes Violeta's protégé. She's a portrait photographer and Samuel becomes her assistant. Gradually a nice relationship between Violeta and Samuel develops. Alicia meets Ramon, the plump and proper owner of a shoe store. Alicia goes to work at Ramon's shop, and eventually they marry. Meanwhile, Samuel receives some advanced kissing lessons. Samuel meets a beautiful woman delivering photo portraits. She is Violeta's most beautiful model, a movie star named film star Nuria. She turns out to be the girlfriend of one of the most famous heroes of the Cuban Revolution.
Keeping up with the journal literature
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Don't own or use a mobile device? You can still use BrowZine! It's now available in a web version. You can get to it here. The web version works the same way as the app version. Find the journals you like, create a custom Bookshelf, get ToCs and read the articles you want.