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By Jonathan Buchsbaum

ISBN-10: 0292705239

ISBN-13: 9780292705234

ISBN-10: 0292705247

ISBN-13: 9780292705241

Following the Sandinista Revolution in 1979, younger bohemian artists rushed to the newly shaped Nicaraguan nationwide movie institute INCINE to give a contribution to "the restoration of nationwide id" during the construction of a countrywide movie venture. Over the subsequent 11 years, the filmmakers of INCINE produced over seventy films—documentary, fiction, and hybrids—that jointly demonstrate a distinct imaginative and prescient of the Revolution drawn no longer from legitimate FSLN directives, yet from the filmmakers' personal cinematic interpretations of the Revolution as they have been dwelling it.

This ebook examines the INCINE movie undertaking and assesses its achievements in improving a Nicaraguan nationwide id in the course of the construction of a countrywide cinema. utilizing a wealth of firsthand documentation—the movies themselves, interviews with a number of INCINE group of workers, and INCINE archival records—Jonathan Buchsbaum follows the evolution of INCINE's venture and situates it in the greater ancient undertaking of militant, innovative filmmaking in Latin the USA. His learn additionally increases an important questions about the viability of nationwide cinemas within the face of increasing globalization and technological adjustments which reverberate some distance past Nicaragua's test in innovative filmmaking.

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