National Identity in 21st-century Cuban Cinema: Screening the Repeating Island , by Dunja Fehimović
In: New West Indian guide: NWIG = Nieuwe west-indische gids, Band 96, Heft 3-4, S. 401-402
ISSN: 2213-4360
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In: New West Indian guide: NWIG = Nieuwe west-indische gids, Band 96, Heft 3-4, S. 401-402
ISSN: 2213-4360
In: New West Indian guide: NWIG = Nieuwe west-indische gids, Band 95, Heft 1-2, S. 138-139
ISSN: 2213-4360
In: Bulletin of Latin American research: the journal of the Society for Latin American Studies (SLAS), Band 32, Heft 2, S. 228-229
ISSN: 1470-9856
In: Bulletin of Latin American research: the journal of the Society for Latin American Studies (SLAS), Band 29, Heft 3, S. 354-366
ISSN: 1470-9856
This article attempts to show how certain Cuban films both reflect and construct behaviour concerning male–female relations. In so doing, they illustrate how Cuban cinema provided a mainstream cultural forum for controversial and contradictory debates on gender relations. At times, films that attempt to produce images of gender equality, or at least the possibility of this, merely provide the illusion of equality while maintaining the status quo of patriarchy. That is, the images they present of male–female relations appear on the surface to represent an increasing desire to achieve absolute equality between men and women. However, close analysis of these films, using various tools of feminist and feminist film theory, reveals a continuation of certain patriarchal tendencies that the films themselves are attempting to criticise. The films to be discussed are: De cierta manera (Sara Gómez, 1974–1978), Retrato de Teresa (Pastor Vega, 1979) and Hasta cierto punto (Tomás Gutiérrez Alea, 1983).
In: Bulletin of Latin American research: the journal of the Society for Latin American Studies (SLAS), Band 34, Heft 3, S. 340-355
ISSN: 1470-9856
This article examines the restrictions on internet access in Cuba and asks to what extent the lack of access to the World Wide Web has helped to maintain (with some evident changes), the socialist status quo on the island. The article will also examine how the internet is used to represent the nation externally and ultimately argues that the Cuban government is negotiating a fine line between taking full economic advantage of what the internet can offer and hampering its use as a mechanism for the subversion of the Revolution in the face of continued US aggression.