Description
Book SynopsisMemories of Undervelopment was the first great international success of Cuban cinema. This double volume includes the complete continuity script of ""Memories"", as well as the complete novel, ""Inconsolable Memories"", upon which the film is based.
Trade ReviewHere is a film that is wise, sad, and often funny... effective and moving... complete in the way very few ever are. -- Vincent Canby
Table of ContentsIntroduction -
Lessons of Experience
Tomas Gutierrez Alea: A Biographical Sketch
Chronology
Memories of Underdevelopment -
Credits and cast
The Continuity Script
Notes on the Continuity Script
Contexts -
Source :
Inconsolable Memories
Aftermath: Politics and Cinema :
Federal Agents Seize Cuban Festival Films Here
Film Critics' Letter
U.S. Refuses Visa to Cuban Director to get Film Award
Editorial: Celluloid Menace
Telegram from Tomas Gutierrez
Personal Recollections of T.G. Alea :
Individual Fulfillment and Collective Achievement: An Interview with Tomas Gutierrez Alea
Memories of
Memories Reviews and Commentaries -
Reviews:
New York Times
The New Republic
The New Yorkers
Sight and Sound [London]
Cinema 74 [Paris]
Cinema & Film [Rome]
Commentaries:
A Dialectal and Partisan Film
Memories of Underdevelopment in the Land of Overdevelopment
"Witnesses Almost Everywhere": The Rhetorical Strategies of
Memories of Underdevelopment Filmography and Bibliography -
Alea Filmography, 1950-1988
Selected Bibliography