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National Identity in 21st-Century Cuban Cinema tours 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.

Culture --- Ethnology --- Film genres. --- Motion pictures, American. --- Latin America --- Cultural and Media Studies. --- Latin American Cinema. --- Latin American Culture. --- Popular Culture. --- Genre. --- Latin American Politics. --- American motion pictures --- Moving-pictures, American --- Foreign films --- Genre films --- Genres, Film --- Motion picture genres --- Motion pictures --- Cultural studies --- Study and teaching. --- Latin America. --- Politics and government. --- Plots, themes, etc. --- Cuba --- In motion pictures. --- National characteristics, Cuban. --- Motion pictures, Cuban --- History --- Cuban motion pictures --- Cinema --- Feature films --- Films --- Movies --- Moving-pictures --- Audio-visual materials --- Mass media --- Performing arts --- Cuban national characteristics --- History and criticism --- Ethnology-Latin America. --- Latin America-Politics and gover. --- Latin American Cinema and TV. --- Popular Culture . --- Culture, Popular --- Mass culture --- Pop culture --- Popular arts --- Communication --- Intellectual life --- Mass society --- Recreation --- Ethnology—Latin America. --- Latin America—Politics and government.

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National Identity in 21st-Century Cuban Cinema tours 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.

Motion pictures --- National characteristics in motion pictures. --- History