Cuban Cinema

Preface ix Coppola on Cuban Film xv Introduction: Forty Years On 1(24) PART I Before the Revolution: Cinema at the Margins For the First Time 25(13) Back to the Beginning 38(18) The Nineteenth-Century Heritage 56(12) Melodrama and White Horses 68(22) Amateurs and Militants 90(27) PART II The Revolution Takes Power: A Cinema of Euphoria The Coming of Socialism 117(27) The First Feature Films 144(19) Beyond Neorealism 163(21) The Documentary in the Revolution 184(34) The Revolution in the Documentary 218(29) The Current of Experimentalism 247(26) Four Films 273(32) Imperfect Cinema and the Seventies 305(27) One Way or Another 332(23) PART III New Generations: A Cinema of Readjustment Reconnecting 355(40) Return of the Popular 395(49) Wonderland 444(53) Notes 497(22) Distribution Information 519(2) Index of Film Titles 521(8) Index of Names 529