{"product_id":"fidel-between-the-lines-9781478006244","title":"Fidel between the Lines","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLaura-Zoë Humphreys tracks late-socialist Cuba's changing dynamics of social criticism and censorship through Cuban cinema and its cultural politics.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“By complicating notions of censorship, criticism, and participatory politics in a repressive nation-state such as Cuba, Laura-Zoë Humphreys challenges prevailing interpretations of Cuban films as either supporting or criticizing the Revolution and its leader or as simply negotiating Cuba's political crisis. Drawing on personal interviews with directors and audiences, and textual analysis of films, articles, and reviews, Humphreys shows how allegorical filmmaking and spectators' ‘reading between the lines’ operate through political paranoia where spectators impose a political meaning on cinematic texts forcing filmmakers to defend their artistic creations.” -- Yeidy M. Rivero, author of * Broadcasting Modernity: Cuban Commercial Television, 1950–1960 *\u003cbr\u003e“Based on many years of fieldwork, this book makes an important contribution to our understanding of Cuban cinema and its cultural politics. Laura-Zoë Humphreys addresses canonical texts, both artistic and political, within the context of some of the island's most important cultural and political developments. This impressive accomplishment is both timely and extremely useful to the understanding of contemporary Cuba and to socialist and postsocialist cultures more broadly.” -- Masha Salazkina, author of * In Excess: Sergei Eisenstein’s Mexico *\u003cbr\u003e\"Cinema has long held a privileged place in the Cuban public sphere, and this creative study represents a major advance in understanding the island’s cultural politics.\" -- D. West * Choice *\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eFidel between the Lines\u003c\/i\u003e is an examination of cinema and censorship, and it does an excellent job of trying to understand the various paradoxes and complications therein.... This is an energetic, highly readable, well-researched account that makes a valuable contribution to the field.” -- Guy Baron * New West Indian Guide *\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eFidel between the Lines\u003c\/i\u003e is backed by a sharp intellectual curiosity, deep observation, and meticulous research. It is the result of an anthropological effort that encompasses a wide-ranging assemblage of elements that contribute to a complete and well-informed analysis of the Cuban film-making reality during the past decades.” -- Hugo García González * Journal of Anthropological Research *\u003cbr\u003e“[\u003ci\u003eFidel between the Lines\u003c\/i\u003e] is an energetic, highly readable, well-researched account that makes a valuable contribution to the field.” -- Guy Baron * New West Indian Guide *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments  vii\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: Criticism from Within  1\u003cbr\u003e 1. Symptomologies of the State  27\u003cbr\u003e 2. Paranoid Readings and Ambivalent Allegories  60\u003cbr\u003e 3. Faith without Fidel  90\u003cbr\u003e 4. Staying and Suspicion  127\u003cbr\u003e 5. Montage in the Parenthesis  166\u003cbr\u003e Coda: \"Cuba está de moda\"  209\u003cbr\u003e Notes  231\u003cbr\u003e References  265\u003cbr\u003e Index  281","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408979304791,"sku":"9781478006244","price":25.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781478006244.jpg?v=1730504946","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/fidel-between-the-lines-9781478006244","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}