Latino Studies - Cuba
| Title: | La Bella del Alhambra [videorecording]
= The Belle of |
| Abstract: | Rachel works as a chorus girl in a carnival atmosphere |
| Location: | Audio Center Videocassette S735-226 VC Non-Circulating |
| Title: | Bitter Sugar [videorecording] = Azucar amarga
/ Azucar |
| Abstract: | A love story set against the political and economic tensions of contemporary Havana. |
| Location: | Audio Center Videocassette I16-1VC |
| Title: | Cuba Va [videorecording] : the challenge of the next generation / produced, directed, and edited by Gail Dolgin, Vicente Franco. |
| Abstract: | Considers Cuba's future from the perspective of Cuban youth. Young people born after the 1959 Revolution discuss the challenge of Cuba's economic crisis in the nineties. Socialists and dissidents debate the merits of socialism vs. capitalism, the need for change, internal difficulties, and international politics. Documentary style interweaves interviews and spontaneous debates with rarely seen views of Cuban youth culture. |
| Location: | Campus Resources Media Resources 115 DeBartolo |
| Title: | De Cierta Manera [videorecording] / Instituto
Cubano de |
| Abstract: | Set in a new housing project replacing a slum area just outside Havana, three young people try to readjust their lives to the new social order of Fidel Castro's Cuba. |
| Location: | Audio Center Videocassette S735-237 VC Non-Circulating |
| Title: | Clandestinos [videorecording] / Instituto Cubano del Arte e Industria Cinematograficos ; director, Fernando Perez ; producer, Santiago Llapur ; screenplay by Jesus Diaz. |
| Abstract: | Variety, 8/24/88 lists alternative titles as Living Dangerously and Underground. |
| Location: | Audio Center Videocassette S735-241 VC Non-Circulating |
| Title: | Demasiado Miedo a la Vida, o, Plaff [videorecording]
= |
| Abstract: | This comedic film gives a nonconformist view about everything. The heroine is constantly attacked by a mysterious hand that throws eggs at her house. Limited by her prejudices and fears and incapable of finding a way out of her internal conflicts, she comes to a tragic and unexpected end. Apparently a comedy, Tabfo also shows and criticizes real characters and situations of contemporary Cuban society. |
| Location: | Audio Center Videocassette S735-232 VC Non-Circulating |
| Title: | Fresa y Chocolate [videorecording] = Strawberry
& |
| Abstract: | A young college kid meets a writer and a passionate woman who teach him the things that aren't taught in school. |
| Location: | Audio Center Videocassette G984-3 VC Non-Circulating |
| Title: | Gallego [videorecording] / El Instituto Cubano
del Arte |
| Abstract: | : "... an adolescent ... leaves his homeland to emigrate to Cuba in 1916. The film covers his life until the 1960s and at the same time reflects on the history of the country that becomes his second homeland." -- Catalog. |
| Location: | Audio Center Videocassette S735-228 VC Non-Circulating |
| Title: | El Hombre de Maisinic? / Instituto Cubano del
Arte e |
| Location: | Audio Center Videocassette S735-236 VC Non-Circulating |
| Title: | IA-- Kuba [videorecording] = I am Cuba / Mosfilm
(USSR) |
| Abstract: | Four stories show the rise of the Communist revolution in Cuba. Battista's Havana and the poverty and oppression of the Cuban people. |
| Location: | Audio Center Videocassette K14-1 VC |
| Title: | Lista de Espera [videorecording] = the waiting
list / guion, Arturo Arango, Juan Carlos Tabio con la colaboracion
de Senel Paz ; dirigida por Juan Carlos Tabio. |
| Abstract: | A diverse group of Cubans, including a young engineer going to work
on a farm, a young woman going to meet her Spanish fiancee, a blind
man, a couple whose marriage has long since lost its spark, and a
party official and his family, find themselves stuck at a remote bus
station when the much-repaired bus breaks down. The party official
leaves on foot, while the rest gradually find their shared situation
brings them together such that, when they can finally leave, they don't want to. |
| Location: | Audio Center Videocassette S735-205 VC Non-Circulating |
| Title: | Madagascar [videorecording] / [presenta] El Instituto Cubano del Arte e Industria Cinematograficos. |
| Abstract: | Set in contemporary Cuba, a bored physics professor is confronted with her lost idealism as her adolescent daughter's search for identity moves from typical teenage interests to an obsession with religion and good works. |
| Location: | Audio Center Videocassette S735-179 VC Non-Circulating |
| Title: | Marcadas por el Paraiso [videorecording] / Fuera
del |
| Abstract: | Political prisoners, wives, mothers, writers, artists, children lost at sea; once deprived of their voices, they now speak. |
| Location: | Audio Center Videocassette S735-99 VC Non-Circulating |
| Title: | Mauvaise Conduite [videorecording] = Improper conduct / [presente de] Margaret Menegoz, Barbet Schroeder, Les Films du Losange et Antenne 2 ; un film de Nestor Almendros, Orlando Jimenez Leal. |
| Abstract: | Anti-Castro documentary. Includes interviews of Cuban refugees and historical film footage. Among those considered "antisocial" by the Castro regime were political and artistic dissidents and homosexuals. |
| Location: | Audio Center Videocassette A448-1 VC Non-Circulating |
| Title: | Memorias del Subdesarrollo [videorecording] = Memories of underdevelopment / realizacion, Tomas Gutierrez Alea. |
| Abstract: | In the early 1960's a Europeanized Cuban intellectual is too idealistic (or lazy) to leave for Miami, but too decadent to fit into the new Cuban society. |
| Location: | Audio Center Videocassette G984-2 VC |
| Title: | La Otra Cuba [videorecording] = The other Cuba. |
| Abstract: | Recounts the political history of Cuba from Batista's coup d'etat
to the Mariel exodus, and interviews Cuban exiles. Narration in
English, interviews in Spanish with English subtitles. |
| Location: | Audio Center Videocassette S735-221 VC Non-Circulating |
| Title: | Retrato de Teresa [videorecording] = Portrait of
Teresa / El Instituto Cubano del Arte e Industria Cinematograficos; produccion, Evelio Delgado ; direccion, Pastor Vega. |
| Abstract: | Teresa is a housewife and mother whose involvement in political and cultural groups incurs the displeasure of her husband. |
| Location: | Audio Center Videocassette V422-1 VC Non-Circulating |
| Title: | Los Sobrevivientes [videorecording] = The Survivors
/ |
| Abstract: | "A bourgeois Cuban family, of aristocratic origin, locks itself into its mansion when the Cuban Revolution comes to power to sit out the bad times and preserve its class values. As time passes, the family and its servants regress through the different social systems of humanity, ending in their total destruction." -- Catalog. |
| Location: | Audio Center Videocassette S735-238 VC Non-Circulating |
| Title: | El Super [videocassette] / Max Mambru Films. |
| Abstract: | A humorous and touching view of Cuban exiles living in a basement apartment during a snowy winter in New York. El Super is the story of Roberto, a superintendent, who dreams of his warm and friendly homeland, and stubbornly refuses to assimilate into the new culture. |
| Location: | Audio Center Videocassette I16-2 VC Non-Circulating |
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