| Aesthetics and the Revolutionary City: Real and Imagined Havana Softcover Repri Edition Contributor(s): Kent, James Clifford (Author) |
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ISBN: 3030097072 ISBN-13: 9783030097073 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan OUR PRICE: $75.99 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: February 2019 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | World - Caribbean & Latin American - Social Science | Popular Culture - Photography |
| Dewey: 306 |
| Series: Studies of the Americas |
| Physical Information: 0.51" H x 5.83" W x 8.27" (0.64 lbs) 226 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Latin America - Demographic Orientation - Urban |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Aesthetics and the Revolutionary City engages in alternative ways of reading foreign visual representations of Havana through analysis of advertising images, documentary films, and photographic texts. It explores key narratives relating to the projection of different Havana imaginaries and focuses on a range of themes including: pre-revolutionary Cuba; the dream of revolution; and the metaphor of the city "frozen-in-time." The book also synthesizes contemporary debates regarding the notion of Havana as a real and imagined city space and fleshes out its theoretical insights with a series of stand-alone, important case studies linked to the representation of the Cuban capital in the Western imaginary. The interpretations in the book bring into focus a range of critical historical moments in Cuban history (including the Cuban Revolution and the "Special Period") and consider the ways in which they have been projected in advertising, documentary film and photography outside the island. |