{"id":6588,"date":"2024-01-31T09:36:16","date_gmt":"2024-01-31T14:36:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/icslac\/?p=6588"},"modified":"2026-04-22T10:02:49","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T14:02:49","slug":"brand-new-to-the-suny-press-dr-philip-kaisarys-book-from-havana-to-hollywood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/icslac\/2024\/brand-new-to-the-suny-press-dr-philip-kaisarys-book-from-havana-to-hollywood\/","title":{"rendered":"Brand new to the SUNY Press: Dr. Philip Kaisary&#8217;s book, From Havana to Hollywood"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Brand new to the SUNY Press: Dr. Philip Kaisary&#8217;s book, From Havana to Hollywood\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<div id=\"address-49fffee468493025b85ca244bd55e9ac-c08b171081fcd8b12f0f59b1253133ee\">\n<p class=\"section section-description\"><i>From Havana to Hollywood<\/i>&nbsp;examines the presence or absence of Black resistance to slavery in feature films produced in either Havana or Hollywood\u2014including Gillo Pontecorvo&#8217;s&nbsp;<i>Burn!<\/i>, neglected masterpieces by Cuban auteurs Tom\u00e1s Guti\u00e9rrez Alea and Sergio Giral, and Steve McQueen&#8217;s Oscar-winning&nbsp;<i>12 Years a Slave<\/i>. Philip Kaisary argues that, with rare exceptions, the representation of Black agency in Hollywood has always been, and remains, taboo. Contrastingly, Cuban cinema foregrounds Black agency, challenging the ways in which slavery has been misremembered and misunderstood in North America and Europe. With powerful, richly theorized readings, the book shows how Cuban cinema especially recreates the past to fuel visions of liberation and asks how the medium of film might contribute to a renewal of emancipatory politics today.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"block-separator\"><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/people\/kaisary-philip\/\"><b>Philip Kaisary<\/b><\/a>&nbsp;is the 2023\u20132025 <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/icslac\/ruth-and-mark-phillips-professorship-in-cultural-mediations\/\">Ruth and Mark Phillips Professor of Cultural Mediations<\/a> and Associate Professor in the Department of Law and Legal Studies, the Department of English Language and Literature, and the Institute for Comparative Studies in Literature, Art, and Culture at Carleton University. He is the author of&nbsp;<i>The Haitian Revolution in the Literary Imagination: Radical Horizons, Conservative Constraints<\/i>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Havana to Hollywood&nbsp;examines the presence or absence of Black resistance to slavery in feature films produced in either Havana or Hollywood\u2014including Gillo Pontecorvo&#8217;s&nbsp;Burn!, neglected masterpieces by Cuban auteurs Tom\u00e1s Guti\u00e9rrez Alea and Sergio Giral, and Steve McQueen&#8217;s Oscar-winning&nbsp;12 Years a Slave. 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