EAN: 9783319640297

AESTHETICS AND THE REVOLUTIONARY CITY - JAMES C...

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.

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