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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  

Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: February 2019
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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" L (0.64 lbs) 226 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - Latin America
- Demographic Orientation - Urban
 
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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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