Redefining Cuban Film and the Imagined Community: A Close-up on Nuevo realizador Aram Vidal
| Author(s) | Farrell, Michelle Leigh | |
| Date Accessioned | 2016-09-27T04:46:51Z | |
| Date Available | 2016-09-27T04:46:51Z | |
| Publication Date | 2014-12-31 | |
| Abstract | With the introduction of inexpensive and digital filmmaking alternatives a young generation of Cuban filmmakers is creating a distance from the centralized state ICAIC using non-theatrical distribution, and digital technology to change the audiovisual landscape. I explore how young filmmaker Aram Vidal has added another dimension to this generation creating critical films on Cuban identity and its diaspora from within Cuba and abroad. I argue that through films like Vidal’s this generation is re-defining what Anderson calls Cuba’s imaginary community to include a more fluid definition of Cuban identity, while also challenging the definition of film and the audiovisual field. | en_US |
| ISSN | 1536-1837 | |
| URL | http://udspace.udel.edu/handle/19716/19748 | |
| Language | en_US | en_US |
| Publisher | Latin American Studies Program, University of Delaware, Newark, DE | en_US |
| dc.rights | Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike | |
| dc.rights.uri | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ | |
| Keywords | Cuba | en_US |
| Keywords | Young filmmakers/Nuevos realizadores | en_US |
| Keywords | Audiovisual field | en_US |
| Keywords | Aram Vidal | en_US |
| Keywords | Muestra Joven-ICAIC | en_US |
| Keywords | Imagined community | en_US |
| Title | Redefining Cuban Film and the Imagined Community: A Close-up on Nuevo realizador Aram Vidal | en_US |
| Type | Article | en_US |