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National Identity in 21st-Century Cuban Cinema
Screening the Repeating Island
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National Identity in 21st-Century Cuban Cinematours 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. Exploring films chosen to convey a recent diversification of subject matters, genres, and approaches, it depicts a changing industrial landscape in which the national film institute (ICAIC) coexists with international co-producers and small, ‘independent’ production companies. By tracing the reappearance, reconfiguration, and recycling of national identity in recent fiction feature films, the book demonstrates that the spectre of the national haunts Cuban cinema in ways that reflect intensified transnational flows of people, capital, and culture. Moreover, it shows that the creative manifestations of this spectre screen―both hiding and revealing―a persistent anxiety around Cubanness even as national identity is transformed by connections to the outside world.
About the Author:
Dunja Fehimović is Lecturer in Hispanic Studies at Newcastle University, UK. She holds a PhD from the University of Cambridge, UK. She is co-editor of the Screen Arts issue of the Hispanic Research Journal, and co-edited a volume entitled Branding Latin America: Strategies, Aims, Resistance (2018).
Press Reviews:
"Ultimately, this is a successful piece of work and should have a wide readership in Area Studies, Film Studies, and Cultural Studies … . It will mainly be suitable for postgraduate studies and will be of interest to all academics in Film Studies, Spanish and Latin American Studies, Cultural Studies, and Caribbean Studies. The book is coherent and very well researched … the quality of writing is high. … the book is rigorous, making a valuable addition to the field." (Guy Baron, New West Indian Guide, Vol. 96 (3-4), September, 2022)
See the publisher website: Palgrave MacMillan
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