The Cinema of Cuba

Guy Baron is Senior Lecturer at Aberystwyth University, UK. He has published widely on Cuba, in particular on Cuban cinema - including his book Gender in Cuban Cinema (2011) - and his many articles have appeared in Hispanic Studies, Revista Cine Cubano and the Bulletin of Latin American Research amongst other publications.Ann Marie Stock is an award-winning Professor of Hispanic Studies and Film and Media, as well as a University Library Faculty Scholar, at the College of William & Mary in Virginia. She is the author of On Location in Cuba: Street Filmmaking during Times of Transition (2009, 2015) and editor of World Film Locations: Havana (2014). Dr. Stock is the founding director of Cuban Cinema Classics (www.cubancinemaclassics.org): a non-profit initiative designed to subtitle and disseminate Cuban documentaries.Antonio Alvarez Pitaluga is Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy and History at the University of Havana. He specialises in Cuban cultural history and is published widely including his book Revolucion, Hegemonia y Poder: Cuba 1985-1898 (2012).

Preface

PART ONE: CONTEXT

Introduction to Part One: The History of Cuban Cinema:
A Pending Task for the Social Sciences in the Twenty-First Century
ANTONIO ÁLVAREZ PITALUGA

Brief Notes on a History of Cuban Cinema (1959-2015)
ANTONIO ÁLVAREZ PITALUGA

2.Cuban Cinema at the Start of the New Millennium:
Dysfunction, Isolation and the Struggle for Identity
GUY BARON

3.Community Film and Audiovisual Production in Cuba
JESÚS GUANCHE

4.Cinema, Race and Revolution: Dialogue and Disagreements of a
Cuban Trilogy
ALEJANDRO L. FERNÁNDEZ CALDERÓN

PART TWO: TEXTS AND AUTEURS

Introduction to Part Two: Cuban Cinema: Crisis or Transition?
GUY BARON

5.Cubist Cuba: Memorias del desarrollo
(Memories of Overdevelopment, 2010)
ROB STONE

6.And Then Came the Special Period: The Cinema of Fernando Pérez
MICHAEL CHANAN

7.Zombie Nation: Monstrous Identities in Three Cuban Films
DUNJA FEHIMOVIC

8.The Director as Social Critic: Guantanamera and Barrio Cuba
JESSICA GIBBS

9.Within, Against, Inside, Out: Ian Padrón, Fuera de liga, Habanastation, and Music Video
RYAN PROUT

PART THREE: CLOSE UPS

Introduction to Part Three: Struggling against Separation: Cuban Filmmakers Create and Connect in the 21st Century
ANN MARIE STOCK

10.The Circular Road: National Cinema - Global Film
ARAM VIDAL

11.The Trains of Silence
ONEYDA GONZÁLEZ

12.From the Community to the World: The Perspective of an Individual Creator within the Televisión Serrana Audiovisual Collective
CARLOS Y. RODRÍGUEZ

13.From exilic to diasporic: new Cuban cinemas in the United States
ZAIRA ZARZA