Cuba
reference information
English
165CL: Caribbean Literature (Winter 2002)
Department of English
University of California, Santa Barbara
Soy Cuba/Ya Kuba (Dir. Mikheil
Kalatozishvili, 1964; 141 min.)
Original Movie
Poster (Portocarrero)
Commentary and Reviews: Dennis West, Cineaste;
The
Nation; Images;
San
Francisco Chronicle; Film.com;
LA
Times
Student comments: 'amazing cinematography'; 'an element of coercion
in the representation of the nobility of the peasant, legitimizing the
Revolution'; 'unique in that people in the film could have been playing
themselves'; the nightclub-drum scene with Betty was fascinating in
that it suggested a kind of nativism or primitivism''; 'notable in that
it tells the story of the individual people and of Cuba at the same
time'; 'the episodes seem unrelated but they are in fact united'; 'very
much like Battleship Potemkin'; 'aestheticizing of politics';
'sometimes easier to pay attention to a shot than to what is happening
in the scene'; 'definitely propaganda, but interesting'; 'I couldn't
believe the poverty; did people really live like that?'
Alejo
Carpentier, The
Lost Steps/Los Pasos Perdidos (1953)
---. Explosion
in a Cathedral
---. The
Kingdom of This World
---. Music
in Cuba (1946)
Guillermo
Cabrera Infante, Three
Trapped Tigers/Tres Tristes Tigres

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