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Book Synopsis
Memories 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 Review
Here 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 Contents
Introduction -
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

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      Publisher: Rutgers University Press
      Publication Date: 6/1/1990 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780813515373, 978-0813515373
      ISBN10: 0813515378

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Memories 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 Review
      Here 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 Contents
      Introduction -
      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

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