National Identity in 21st-Century Cuban Cinema: Screening the Repeating Island

National Identity in 21st-Century Cuban Cinema tours early 21^st-century Cuban cinema through four key figures—the monster, the child, the historic icon, and the recluse—in order to offer a new perspective on the relationship between the Revolution, culture, and national identity in contemporary Cuba. Exploring films chosen to convey a recent diversification of subject matters, genres, and approaches, it depicts a changing industrial landscape in which the national film institute (ICAIC) coe...