Format:
1 Online-Ressource (310 pages)
ISBN:
9780226593722
Content:
From the turn of the 20th century through the late 1950s, Havana was a locus for American movie stars, with glamorous visitors including Errol Flynn, John Wayne, and Marlon Brando. In fact, Hollywood was seemingly everywhere in pre-Castro Havana, with movie theatres three to a block in places, widely circulated silver screen fanzines, and terms like 'cowboy' and 'gangster' entering Cuban vernacular speech. 'Hollywood in Havana' uses this historical backdrop as the catalyst for a startling question: Did exposure to half a century of Hollywood pave the way for the Cuban Revolution of 1959? Megan Feeney argues that the freedom fighting extolled in American World War II dramas and the rebellious values and behaviors seen in postwar film noir helped condition Cuban audiences to expect and even demand purer forms of Cuban democracy and national sovereignty
Content:
Introduction. Looking up : Hollywood and revolutionary Cuban nationalism -- The film business that unites : early US cinema in Havana, 1897-1928 -- Teaching eyes to see : the advent of Cuban film criticism, 1928-1934 -- Our men in Havana : Hollywood and good neighborly bonds, 1934-1941 -- You are men! Fight for liberty! Hollywood heroes and the pan-American bonds of World War II -- Breaking the chains : Hollywood noir in postwar Havana, 1946-1952 -- Rebel idealism : Hollywood in Havana during the Batistato, 1952-1958 -- Epilogue. The show goes on : Hollywood in Havana after 1958.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 022659372X
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780226593555
Additional Edition:
ISBN 022659355X
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780226593692
Additional Edition:
ISBN 022659369X
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780226593555
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Feeney, Megan Hollywood in Havana : US Cinema and Revolutionary Nationalism in Cuba before 1959 Chicago : University of Chicago Press, ©2019 ISBN 9780226593555
Language:
English
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https://www.degruyterbrill.com/isbn/9780226593722
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http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
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