TY - JOUR
T1 - Playing for the nation, fighting for the revolution
T2 - Documentaries on Cuban sports
AU - Rodriguez, Juan Carlos
PY - 2014/6/1
Y1 - 2014/6/1
N2 - Sports have played a dual role in the Cuban Revolution. International sport competitions symbolize the revolution's success and compose a strategy for creating social cohesion. This essay explores how Cuban sports documentaries (as well as documentaries on Cuban sports made by foreign filmmakers) represent and problematize these complementary roles. It argues that Cuban sport documentaries offer insights about the Cuban Revolution over time and provide occasions to explore the sociocultural, economic, and political challenges that Cubans have faced in the revolution's socialist and post-Soviet stages.
AB - Sports have played a dual role in the Cuban Revolution. International sport competitions symbolize the revolution's success and compose a strategy for creating social cohesion. This essay explores how Cuban sports documentaries (as well as documentaries on Cuban sports made by foreign filmmakers) represent and problematize these complementary roles. It argues that Cuban sport documentaries offer insights about the Cuban Revolution over time and provide occasions to explore the sociocultural, economic, and political challenges that Cubans have faced in the revolution's socialist and post-Soviet stages.
KW - Cuba
KW - Cuban Revolution
KW - Documentary
KW - Nationalism
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84908596808&partnerID=8YFLogxK
M3 - Artículo de revisión
AN - SCOPUS:84908596808
SN - 0094-1700
VL - 41
SP - 225
EP - 231
JO - Journal of Sport History
JF - Journal of Sport History
IS - 2
ER -