Humphreys Laura-Zoe Humphreys

Fidel between the Lines (eBook, PDF)

Paranoia and Ambivalence in Late Socialist Cuban Cinema

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Produktbeschreibung

In Fidel between the Lines Laura-Zoe Humphreys traces the changing dynamics of criticism and censorship in late socialist Cuba through a focus on cinema. Following the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Cuban state strategically relaxed censorship, attempting to contain dissent by giving it an outlet in the arts. Along with this shift, foreign funding and digital technologies gave filmmakers more freedom to criticize the state than ever before, yet these openings also exacerbated the political paranoia that has long shaped the Cuban public sphere. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork, textual analysis, and archival research, Humphreys shows how Cuban filmmakers have historically turned to allegory to communicate an ambivalent relationship to the Revolution, and how such efforts came up against new forms of suspicion in the 1990s and the twenty-first century. Offering insights that extend beyond Cuba, Humphreys reveals what happens to public debate when freedom of expression can no longer be distinguished from complicity while demonstrating the ways in which combining anthropology with film studies can shed light on cinema's broader social and political import.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Oktober 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781478007142
• Artikelnr.: 66282465

Autorenporträt

Laura-Zoë Humphreys is Assistant Professor of Communication at Tulane University.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments  vii
Introduction: Criticism from Within  1
1. Symptomologies of the State  27
2. Paranoid Readings and Ambivalent Allegories  60
3. Faith without Fidel  90
4. Staying and Suspicion  127
5. Montage in the Parenthesis  166
Coda: "Cuba está de moda"  209
Notes  231
References  265
Index  281