Description:
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.
Review Quotes:
"The Cinema of Sara Gómez: Reframing Revolution makes a notable contribution to the canon of film criticism related to Cuban revolutionary cinema, feminist filmmaking, representation and race, and Latin America's regional film movement. The study is as bold as it is nuanced, provoking a meaningful engagement with Cuba's dynamic filmmaking tradition, past and present."--Ann Marie Stock, author of On Location in Cuba: Street Filmmaking during Times of Transition
"It is only through work like this that we can begin to make sense of the profound contradictions of this period of Cuban history and art-making and, most importantly, of the decisively important interventions of Sara Gómez then and for the present."--Ana M. López, Tulane University
"The Cinema of Sara Gómez is an important and compelling volume. . . . It offers an enormous contribution to the fields of Cuban film studies and Afro-Cuban Studies and will undoubtedly be of interest to scholars of Cuban Studies more generally as well as those who work on women of color film studies."--Dara E. Goldman, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
"The release of this important critical anthology, alongside the release of the restorations, reinstates the work of Sara Gomez in the living archive of women film-makers and allwos her reintroduction into archives and counterarchives of Latin American cinema."--Juana Suarez - NYU MAP, Film Quarterly
"A must-read for those researching and teaching feminist documentaries, decolonial ethnography, and the histories of Latin American Cinema."--Leticia Berrizbeitia Añez, Jump Cut