Las historias cubanas de este siglo. Análisis del discurso de una muestra intencionada de películas de ficción de la última década

Jennifer  Véliz Gutiérrez; Ayrén  Velazco Díaz; Salvador  Salazar Navarro

doi:10.4185/RLCS-2014-1023

Authors

Jennifer Véliz Gutiérrez University of Havana https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5971-8744
Ayrén Velazco Díaz University of Havana
Salvador Salazar Navarro University of Havana https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0782-3942

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.4185/RLCS-2014-1023

Keywords:

cuban cinema, film production, discursive features

Abstract

Introduction. This article presents the partial results of a research study on the discursive features of contemporary Cuban cinema, based on the analysis of the thematic and formal components of a sample of national productions. The selection of filmmakers and films is based on various research techniques and consultation to film experts from Cuba and eight other countries. Method. The study is qualitative and is based on bibliographic-documental reviews, semi-structured interviews and discourse analysis of a sample of film productions. Results and discussion. After offering an outline of the history of Cuba and its national cinema, the article critically deconstructs the works of two Cuban directors who are great exponents of the contemporary national productions. Conclusions. The analysis highlights the main features and genuineness of the film narrative of the selected sample of films and the key generational approaches and concerns among the filmmakers under study.

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Author Biographies

Jennifer Véliz Gutiérrez, University of Havana

Jennifer Véliz Gutiérrez holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Journalism from the School of Communication of the University of Havana.

She is an assistant professor and researcher in the area of Conceptual problems of Journalism since 2014. She teaches “Journalism Studies” and specifically “Cultural and information policies”.

She is also a collaborator at the website of Casa de las Américas. Founder and coordinator of the “60 segundos” Audiovisual Festival of the School of Communication of the University of Havana. Member of the research group of the Cuban Media Observatory (AMM).

Ayrén Velazco Díaz, University of Havana

Ayrén Velazco Díaz holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Journalism and a Master’s Degree in Communication Sciences from the School of Communication of the University of Havana. Assistant professor and researcher in the area of Communication theory and research since 2005.

Professor of Communication Theory II and III (2008-2013). Member of the National Commission of the Bachelor’s degree programme in Social Communication and Cuba’s Union of Journalists (UPEC).

Substitute Vice-Dean of Postgraduate Studies, International Relations and Research at the School of Communication of the University of Havana (2006-2010).

Collaborator (in the area of methodology) at the Postgraduate Studies Department of the University of Havana. Visiting professor and research fellow at important universities in Spain, France, Portugal and Venezuela.

Author, speaker and tutor of more than twenty works related to the following lines of research: a) theoretical studies in communication; b) historical-structural studies of Cuban television and Latin American audiovisual media; c) sociology of news production; d) management, administration and evaluation of online scientific journals.

Former editor at various Cuban and foreign publications and institutions, including: the Center for Research and Advanced Studies in Social Anthropology of the University of Guadalajara (Mexico) and the UNESCO Regional Office of Culture for Latin America and the Caribbean at the Havana. Editor of the book titled Universidad, conocimiento, innovación y desarrollo local (“University, knowledge, innovation and local development”), coordinated by Jorge Núñez Jover, Editorial Félix Varela, 2014.

Salvador Salazar Navarro, University of Havana

Salvador Salazar Navarro Assistant holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Journalism, a Master’s Degree in Communication Sciences from the University of Havana, and a Master’s Degree in Oriental Studies from the University of Salamanca. Assistant professor at the University of Havana. Researcher in the fields of historical studies in communication, the Latin-American audiovisual media, and oriental studies (mainly on China).

PhD student in Latin American Studies at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). His PhD thesis is titled “International Festival of New Latin American Cinema of La Havana as a space of cultural resistance to Latin American dictatorships (1979-1989)”.

Main author of Antología de grandes periodistas cubanos (1902-1959) (“Anthology of great Cuban journalists”) and co-author of the textbooks titled “History of the press and the media in Cuba (20th century)” and “History and social communication. Supplementary readings”.

Member of the group of authors of the Encyclopedia of History and Culture of the Caribbean (ENCARIBE), a project sponsored by the Democracy and Development Global Foundation (FUNGLODE), of the Dominican Republic. Tutor of more than one dozen of postgraduate research studies.

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