Edna M Rodríguez-Mangual
Biographic Data
| ID | 5686190 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Edna M Rodríguez-Mangual |
| GIVEN NAMES | Edna M |
| FAMILY NAME | Rodríguez-Mangual |
| SIGNATURE | RODRÍGUEZ-MANGUAL E M |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Fictual factions
In its most idealistic form a documentary film maintains a strict correspondence between the “outside world” and the resulting film. However, in the process of filmmaking some element of fiction must take place. Extrapolating on these representational slippages, I suggest that the documentary film style provides viewers with something of a “factual fiction.” To highlight this, I compare five films that have been classified as documentaries. The f…
Lydia Cabrera and the Construction of an Afro-Cuban Identity
Lydia Cabrera and the Construction of Afro-Cuban Cultural Identity
Lydia Cabrera (1900-1991), an upper-class white Cuban intellectual, spent many years traveling through Cuba collecting oral histories, stories, and music from Cubans of African descent. Her work is commonly viewed as an extension of the work of her famous brother-in-law, Cuban anthropologist Fernando Ortiz, who initiated the study of Afro-Cubans and the concept of transculturation. Here, Edna Rodriguez-Mangual challenges this perspective, proposi…
Suite Habana
Driving a Dead Body through the Nation
Humor is a serious affair. (Jacques Prevert) You laugh at your own risk. (Luis E. Aguilar) The first shot in the film presents a plane landing on the island of Cuba. As the aircraft approaches, and the initial extreme long shot transforms into a medium long shot, the camera pans from right to left in a foretelling of what the film's journey is about: a journey physically and metaphorically from east to west. The one and a half minute shot, with i…
Fictual factions
In its most idealistic form a documentary film maintains a strict correspondence between the “outside world” and the resulting film. However, in the process of filmmaking some element of fiction must take place. Extrapolating on these representational slippages, I suggest that the documentary film style provides viewers with something of a “factual fiction.” To highlight this, I compare five films that have been classified as documentaries. The f…
Driving a Dead Body through the Nation
Humor is a serious affair. (Jacques Prevert) You laugh at your own risk. (Luis E. Aguilar) The first shot in the film presents a plane landing on the island of Cuba. As the aircraft approaches, and the initial extreme long shot transforms into a medium long shot, the camera pans from right to left in a foretelling of what the film's journey is about: a journey physically and metaphorically from east to west. The one and a half minute shot, with i…
Suite Habana
Lydia Cabrera and the Construction of Afro-Cuban Cultural Identity
Lydia Cabrera (1900-1991), an upper-class white Cuban intellectual, spent many years traveling through Cuba collecting oral histories, stories, and music from Cubans of African descent. Her work is commonly viewed as an extension of the work of her famous brother-in-law, Cuban anthropologist Fernando Ortiz, who initiated the study of Afro-Cubans and the concept of transculturation. Here, Edna Rodriguez-Mangual challenges this perspective, proposi…
Lydia Cabrera and the Construction of an Afro-Cuban Identity
Fictual factions
In its most idealistic form a documentary film maintains a strict correspondence between the “outside world” and the resulting film. However, in the process of filmmaking some element of fiction must take place. Extrapolating on these representational slippages, I suggest that the documentary film style provides viewers with something of a “factual fiction.” To highlight this, I compare five films that have been classified as documentaries. The f…
Art (4 works) · Cuban History and Society (4 works) · Archaeology (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · History (2 works) · Humanities (2 works) · Latin American and Latino Studies (2 works) · Literature (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Suite (2 works)