Hollywood in Havana : US cinema and revolutionary nationalism in Cuba before 1959 /
In the 1940s and '50s, Havana was a locus for American movie stars, with glamorous visitors including Errol Flynn, Bette Davis, Joan Crawford and Marlon Brando. In fact, Hollywood was seemingly everywhere in pre-Castro Havana, with movie theaters three to a block in places, widely circulated si...
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Chicago :
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2019.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction. Looking up: Hollywood and revolutionary Cuban nationalism
- The film business that unites: early US cinema in Havana, 1897-1928
- Teaching eyes to see: the advent of Cuban film criticism, 1928-1934
- Our men in Havana: Hollywood and good neighborly bonds, 1934-1941
- You are men! fight for liberty! Hollywood heroes and the pan-American bonds of World War II
- Breaking the chains: Hollywood noir in postwar Havana, 1946-1952
- Rebel idealism: Hollywood in Havana during the Batistato, 1952-1958
- Epilogue: the show goes on: Hollywood in Havana after 1958.