New Waves: Memories of Underdevelopment
- Episode aired Jul 22, 2019
Scholars Cristina Venegas (UC Santa Barbara) and María Caridad Cumaná (Miami Dade College) discuss the political, literary, and biographical backgrounds of Tomás Guitiérrez Alea's 1968 class... Read allScholars Cristina Venegas (UC Santa Barbara) and María Caridad Cumaná (Miami Dade College) discuss the political, literary, and biographical backgrounds of Tomás Guitiérrez Alea's 1968 classic film Memories of Underdevelopment. While examining the style of the film, Venegas and C... Read allScholars Cristina Venegas (UC Santa Barbara) and María Caridad Cumaná (Miami Dade College) discuss the political, literary, and biographical backgrounds of Tomás Guitiérrez Alea's 1968 classic film Memories of Underdevelopment. While examining the style of the film, Venegas and Cumaná analyze Alea's skillful adaptation of the plot of Edmundo Desnoes' original 1965 nov... Read all