A Dialogue with Tomás Gutiérrez Alea on the Dialectics of the Spectator in "Hasta Cierto Punto"

MacBean, James Roy; Alea, Tomás Gutiérrez

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“…3 3 In an interview with MacBean (1985), Gutiérrez Alea confirms that Tabío wrote La permuta based on an idea that came from him, and that ‘we were very conscious of the many relations between the play and the film. And we hoped that the spectator of the film would be aware of these relations.’ …”

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Tomás Gutiérrez Alea and the Art of Revolutionary Cinema

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2009

Bull Latin American Res

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Tomás Gutiérrez Alea has been widely acclaimed for his cinematic production and for his role as a key figure in the elaboration of a distinctively Cuban aesthetic. Drawing on notions such as Martín‐Barbero's mediations, Billig's banal nationalism, and Gutiérrez Alea's own viewer's dialectic, consideration is given here to the mutual influences of the Revolution's cultural policies on cinema, and of cinema on the Revolution. Analysis will focus on the films Memorias del subdesarrollo (1968), Hasta cierto punto (1983), Fresa y chocolate (1993) and Guantanamera (1995), which will allow for discussion of some of the director's key themes, including gender issues, the place and role of intellectuals and artists in relation to the Revolution, and the defence of a critical space in which to explore such issues.

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