Monstros E Arquivos. Textos Críticos Reunidos

Not Child's Play: Tactics and Strategies inViva CubaandHabanastation

“…This comment simultaneously invokes ‘universal’ qualities whilst also turning them back into the particularly Cuban by recalling concepts of political spectatorship propounded by Cuban polemicists and filmmakers such as Tomás Gutiérrez Alea and Julio García Espinosa. This parallel between critical, cultural reception and political views recalls one aspect of Alea's famous dialectic: ‘Film not only diverts and informs, it also shapes taste, intellectual criteria and states of consciousness’ (Gutiérrez Alea, ). However, whereas for Alea, film had the possibility actively to transform taste, Cremata figures his film as a pretext for the proud demonstration of the viewer's existing tastes.…”