The Cinema of Sara Gómez
Reframing Revolution
- 440 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
Throughout the 1960s until her untimely death in 1974, Afro-Cuban filmmaker Sara Gómez engaged directly and courageously with the social, political, economic, and cultural transformations promised by the Cuban Revolution.
Gómez directed numerous documentary films in 10 prolific years. She also made De cierta manera (One way or another), her only feature-length film. Her films navigate complex experiences of social class, race, and gender by reframing revolutionary citizenship, cultural memory, and political value. Not only have her inventive strategies become foundational to new Cuban cinema and feminist film culture, but they also continue to inspire media artists today who deal with issues of identity and difference. The Cinema of Sara Gómez assembles history, criticism, biography, methodology, and theory of Gómez's work in scholarly writing; interviews with friends and collaborators; the film script of De cierta manera; and a detailed and complete filmography.
Featuring striking images, this anthology reorients how we tell Cuban cinema history and how we think about the intersections of race, gender, and revolution. By addressing Gómez's entire body of work, The Cinema of Sara Gómez unpacks her complex life and gives weight to her groundbreaking cinema.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: New Women, Old Worlds
- 1. “We Have a Vast Public”
- 2. “Sara Is So Very Sara!”
- 3. Inquisitive Gazes: Sara Gómez’s Perspectives on Social Marginality from and within the Cuban Revolution
- 4. Sergio Giral Interviewed by María Caridad Cumaná
- 5. Neither Farms nor Coffee Plantations: Urban Spaces and Cultural Contours in the Script and on the Screen
- 6. Residential Miraflores (Script for De cierta manera
- 7. Luis García Mesa Interviewed by Lourdes Martínez-Echazábal and María Caridad Cumaná
- 8. Sara Gómez: AfroCubana (Afro-Cuban Women’s) Activism after 1961
- 9. Racial Identity and Collisions: Gómez and Guillén Landrián
- 10. Rigoberto López Interviewed by Víctor Fowler Calzada
- 11. Information and Education: Sara Gómez and Nonfiction Film Culture of the 1960s
- 12. Virtual Heroes in the Midst of Shortage: Sara Gómez Confronts the New Man
- 13. Iván Arocha Montes de Oca Interviewed by Ricardo Acosta
- 14. Sabor and Punctum: Music in Sara Gómez’s Films
- 15. The Santiago of Two Pilgrims: F. G. Lorca and Sara Gómez in Search of Eastern Cuba
- 16. Her Contribution
- 17. Conclusion: Transculturation, Gender, and Documentary
- Epilogue: “As Time Goes By, We Are Less of a Polite, Aesthetic, Static, Sexual, and Passive Object”
- Filmography
- Index