Cuban Cinema

Chanan performed extensive archival research and conducted in-depth interviews with film critics, directors, historians, and producers. Chanan deftly recounts the major debates surrounding the role of art and the artist within a revolutionary socialist state, discusses Castro's oft-cited 1961 s...

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Published inNew West Indian Guide Vol. 80; no. 1/2; pp. 114 - 116
Main Author Falicov, Tamara L.
Format Book Review Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Leiden KITLV/Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies 01.01.2006
KITLV, Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies
Subjects
Archival research
Artists
Debates
Historians
Motion pictures
Speech
Speeches
Valdes, Oscar
Cuba
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Summary:Chanan performed extensive archival research and conducted in-depth interviews with film critics, directors, historians, and producers. Chanan deftly recounts the major debates surrounding the role of art and the artist within a revolutionary socialist state, discusses Castro's oft-cited 1961 speech entitled "Words to the Intellectuals," and compares differing accounts of the series of speeches given at the National Library. The final speech in that series culminated in the famous statement that "within the Revolution, everything, outside it, nothing" (p. 140), signaling that if artists were clearly adherents of the revolutionary project, they could be critical (in dialectical fashion) of how society was developing, but that those working outside the system should not create art to potentially undermine the revolutionary project.
ISSN:1382-2373
2213-4360