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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Philip KaisaryPublisher: State University of New York Press Imprint: State University of New York Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.227kg ISBN: 9781438498492ISBN 10: 1438498497 Pages: 256 Publication Date: 01 July 2024 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of Contents"List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Havana, Hollywood, and the Politics of Slave Resistance in the Cinematic Imaginary 1. ""Our First Cry of Freedom"": From Revolution to Liberation in Gillo Pontecorvo's Burn! 2. ""Cinema Must Be Revolutionary in Itself"": Afro-Cuban Resistance, the Haitian Revolution, and Black Comedy in Tomás Gutiérrez Alea's La última cena 3. Sergio Giral's ""Negrometrajes"": Subverting Sentimental Abolitionism and Reconstructing the History of Slavery 4. The Slave Narrative in Hollywood: Steve McQueen's Adaptation of Solomon Northup's Twelve Years a Slave Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index"Reviews"""In bringing Cuban films to the fore, From Havana to Hollywood expands our understanding of films about slavery globally and illuminates the distinctive perspectives and contributions of Afro-Latin American histories and cultures. The book's lessons about depictions of oppressive regimes and resistance to them will be pertinent for students of Black cinema across national contexts."" — Reighan Gillam, author of Visualizing Black Lives: Ownership and Control in Afro-Brazilian Media ""From Havana to Hollywood offers a fascinating examination of Black agency and resistance as portrayed in film. The study is a joy to read, recuperating lesser-known films and offering important critiques of more famous ones such as 12 Years a Slave. Overall, Kaisary shows that, when films make slavery's evils seem individual rather than systemic, they hamper efforts to achieve reparative justice in the present."" — Alyssa Goldstein Sepinwall, author of Slave Revolt on Screen: The Haitian Revolution in Film and Video Games ""From Havana to Hollywood reshapes how we think about the history of slavery. It can be read by a range of publics, from film fans to undergraduates to professional scholars. Anyone who does not know the films here will go on a mission to see them. Anyone who knows the films will learn far more about them."" — Jerry W. Carlson, The City College and Graduate Center CUNY" """In bringing Cuban films to the fore, From Havana to Hollywood expands our understanding of films about slavery globally and illuminates the distinctive perspectives and contributions of Afro-Latin American histories and cultures. The book's lessons about depictions of oppressive regimes and resistance to them will be pertinent for students of Black cinema across national contexts."" — Reighan Gillam, author of Visualizing Black Lives: Ownership and Control in Afro-Brazilian Media ""From Havana to Hollywood offers a fascinating examination of Black agency and resistance as portrayed in film. The study is a joy to read, recuperating lesser-known films and offering important critiques of more famous ones such as 12 Years a Slave. Overall, Kaisary shows that, when films make slavery's evils seem individual rather than systemic, they hamper efforts to achieve reparative justice in the present."" — Alyssa Goldstein Sepinwall, author of Slave Revolt on Screen: The Haitian Revolution in Film and Video Games ""From Hollywood to Havana reshapes how we think about the history of slavery. It can be read by a range of publics, from film fans to undergraduates to professional scholars. Anyone who does not know the films here will go on a mission to see them. Anyone who knows the films will learn far more about them."" — Jerry W. Carlson, The City College and Graduate Center CUNY" Author InformationPhilip Kaisary is the 2023–2025 Ruth and Mark Phillips Professor of Cultural Mediations and Associate Professor in the Department of Law and Legal Studies, the Department of English Language and Literature, and the Institute for Comparative Studies in Literature, Art, and Culture at Carleton University. He is the author of The Haitian Revolution in the Literary Imagination: Radical Horizons, Conservative Constraints. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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