Overview

Throughout the 1960s until her untimely death in 1974, Afro-Cuban filmmaker Sara Gomez engaged directly and courageously with the social, political, economic, and cultural transformations promised by the Cuban Revolution. Gomez directed numerous documentary films in 10 prolific years. She also made De cierta manera (One way or another), her only feature-length film. Her films navigate complex experiences of social class, race, and gender by reframing revolutionary citizenship, cultural memory, and political value. Not only have her inventive strategies become foundational to new Cuban cinema and feminist film culture, but they also continue to inspire media artists today who deal with issues of identity and difference. The Cinema of Sara Gomez assembles history, criticism, biography, methodology, and theory of Gomez's work in scholarly writing; interviews with friends and collaborators; the film script of De cierta manera; and a detailed and complete filmography. Featuring striking images, this anthology reorients how we tell Cuban cinema history and how we think about the intersections of race, gender, and revolution. By addressing Gomez's entire body of work, The Cinema of Sara Gomez unpacks her complex life and gives weight to her groundbreaking cinema.

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Author:   Susan Lord ,  Inés María Martiatu Terry ,  Lourdes Martínez-Echazábal ,  Odette Casamayor-Cisneros
Publisher:   Indiana University Press
Imprint:   Indiana University Press
Weight:   0.644kg
ISBN:  

9780253057051

ISBN 10:   0253057051
Pages:   440
Publication Date:   06 July 2021
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

"Introduction: New Women, Old Worlds, by Susan Lord 1. We have a vast public . . . ."": Interview for Pensamiento Critico by Sara Gómez Yera 2. ""Sara is so very Sara!"": Inés María Martiatu Terry Interviewed by Lourdes Martínez-Echazábal, by Inés María Martiatu Terry and Lourdes Martínez-Echazábal 3. Inquisitive Gazes: Sara Gómez's Perspectives on Social Marginality from and within the Cuban Revolution, by Odette Casamayor-Cisneros 4. Sergio Giral Interviewed by María Caridad Cumaná, by Sergio Giral and María Caridad Cumaná 5. ""Neither Farms nor Coffee Plantations . . ."": Urban Spaces and Cultural Contours in the Script and on the Screen, by Víctor Fowler Calzada 6. Residential Miraflores: (Script for De cierta manera/One way or another), by Sara Gómez Yera and Tomás Gonzalez 7. Luis García Mesa Interviewed by Lourdes Martínez-Echazábal and María Caridad Cumaná, by Luis García Mesa, Lourdes Martínez-Echazábal, and María Caridad Cumaná 8. Sara Gómez: AfroCubana (Afro-Cuban Women's) Activism after 1961, by Devyn Spence Benson 9. Racial Identity and Collisions: Gómez and Guillén Landrián, by María Caridad Cumaná 10. Rigoberto López Interviewed by Victor Fowler Calzada, by Rigoberto López and Víctor Fowler Calzada 11. Information and Education: Sara Gómez and Nonfiction Film Culture of the 1960s, by Joshua Malitsky 12. Virtual Heroes in the Midst of Shortage: Sara Gómez Confronts the New Man, by Ana Serra 13. Iván Arocha Montes de Oca Interviewed by Ricardo Acosta, by Iván Arocha Montes de Oca and Ricardo Acosta 14. Sabor and Punctum: Music in Sara Gómez's Films, by Alan West-Durán 15. The Santiago of Two Pilgrims: F. G. Lorca and Sara Gómez in Search of Eastern Cuba, by Lourdes Martínez-Echazábal 16. Her Contribution, by Sandra Abd'Allah-Alvarez Ramírez 17. Conclusion: Transculturation, Gender, and Documentary, by Susan Lord Epilogue: ""As time goes by, we are less of a polite, aesthetic, static, sexual, and passive object . . ."": Sara Gómez Yera Interviewed by Marguerite Duras Filmography Index"

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The release of this important critical anthology, alongside the release of the restorations, reinstates the work of Sara Gomez in the living archive of women film-makers and allwos her reintroduction into archives and counterarchives of Latin American cinema. -- Juana Suarez - NYU MAP * Film Quarterly *

Author Information

"Susan Lord is Professor of Film and Media in the Cultural Studies Graduate Program and Director of the Vulnerable Media Lab at Queen's University. She is co-editor of Killing Women: The Visual Culture of Gender and Violence; New World Coming: The Sixties and the Shaping of Global Consciousness; and Fluid Screens, Expanded Cinema. As a member of the editorial collective for the journal Public: Art, Culture, Ideas, she has co-edited the issues ""Havana"" and ""Archive/Counter-Archives"". María Caridad Cumaná taught Film and Television at the University of Havana for 15 years. She was Chief Coordinator for the Audiovisual Portal for Latin American and Caribbean Cinema at the Foundation of New Latin American Cinema, co-authored A Look at Cuban Cinema, Latitudes of the Margin: Latin American Cinema before the Third Millennium, and co-edited My Havana: The Musical City of Carlos Varela. She was Field Producer in Havana for the documentary Out My Windows (NFB). She is currently an Adjunct Faculty at Miami Dade College."

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