{"product_id":"memories-of-underdevelopment-paperback-softback-9780813515373","title":"Memories of Underdevelopment (Paperback \/ softback) 9780813515373","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eMemories of Underdevelopment\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eMichael Chanan (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780813515373\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 1 June 1990\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e274 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2 cm, 0.313 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHere is a film that is wise, sad, and often funny... effective and moving... complete in the way very few ever are. - Vincent Canby\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eMemories of Underdevelopment was the first great international success of Cuban cinema. The film provides a complex portrait of Sergio, a disaffected bourgeois intellectual who remains in Havana after the Revolution, suspended between two worlds. He can no longer accept the values of his family's reactionary past and yet boredom and the conditioning of his early life prevent him from committing himself to the new revolutionary society. Sergio's story is played out in the turbulent period of the Bay of Pigs invasion and the 1962 missile crisis, events he can only watch on his television screen or from his apartment balcony.The film, initially banned by the U.S. government as part of its trade quarantine of Cuba, was shown here five years after its original release. But American critics responded enthusiastically to it and the National Society of Film Critics bestowed an award on its director.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e This double volume includes the complete continuity script of Memories, as well as the complete novel, Inconsolable Memories, upon which the film is based. An interview with Alea is reproduced here, as well as documentation of the political controversy that surrounded the film in this country. Michael Chanan's introduction places the film in the context of Cuban political and cultural history. The volume also includes a biographical sketch of Alea, a chronology of the Cuban Revolution, reviews, commentary, a filmography, and a bibliography.Michael Chanan lives in England, where he teaches and writes on film. He is the author of The Cuban Image: Cinema and Cultural Politics in Cuba.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eIntroduction - \u003cbr\u003e Lessons of Experience \u003cbr\u003e Tomas Gutierrez Alea: A Biographical Sketch\u003cbr\u003e Chronology\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Memories of Underdevelopment - \u003cbr\u003e Credits and cast\u003cbr\u003e The Continuity Script\u003cbr\u003e Notes on the Continuity Script\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Contexts - \u003cbr\u003e Source :\u003cbr\u003e Inconsolable Memories \u003cbr\u003e Aftermath: Politics and Cinema : \u003cbr\u003e Federal Agents Seize Cuban Festival Films Here\u003cbr\u003e Film Critics' Letter\u003cbr\u003e U.S. Refuses Visa to Cuban Director to get Film Award\u003cbr\u003e Editorial: Celluloid Menace\u003cbr\u003e Telegram from Tomas Gutierrez\u003cbr\u003e Personal Recollections of T.G. Alea :\u003cbr\u003e Individual Fulfillment and Collective Achievement: An Interview with Tomas Gutierrez Alea\u003cbr\u003e Memories of \u003ci\u003eMemories\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Reviews and Commentaries - \u003cbr\u003e Reviews:\u003cbr\u003e New York Times\u003cbr\u003e The New Republic\u003cbr\u003e The New Yorkers\u003cbr\u003e Sight and Sound [London]\u003cbr\u003e Cinema 74 [Paris]\u003cbr\u003e Cinema \u0026amp;\u003cbr\u003e Film [Rome]\u003cbr\u003e Commentaries:\u003cbr\u003e A Dialectal and Partisan Film\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMemories of Underdevelopment\u003c\/i\u003e in the Land of Overdevelopment \u003cbr\u003e \"\u003cbr\u003eWitnesses Almost Everywhere\"\u003cbr\u003e: The Rhetorical Strategies of \u003ci\u003eMemories of Underdevelopment\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Filmography and Bibliography - \u003cbr\u003e Alea Filmography, 1950-1988\u003cbr\u003e Selected Bibliography\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Rutgers University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52559276146968,"sku":"9780813515373","price":24.98,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/memories-of-underdevelopment-paperback-softback-9780813515373","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}