The omnipotent whiteness: the treatment of Civil Rights in the American Hollywood cinema. Three paradigmatic examples of commercial success by Cossalter, Javier

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Garbo laughs! by Fernández, Daniela

“…The great finding of the film lies in the invention of a way of expressing the feminine jouissance impossible to say, through Garbo´s unbridled laughter that produced one of the mythical scenes of Hollywood cinema.…”
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The repression of the desire in Cuban cinema: the sexual antiheroes of Memories of Underdevelopment, Cecilia and Strawberry and Chocolate by Guillén, Gabriel

“…Through a detailed analysis of the three films, it seeks to demonstrate that this repression of desire transcends the condemnation of a visual patriarchy, joining Hollywood cinema in the sanction of sexual appetite. The repressions of film protagonists Sergio, Leonardo and Diego represent a conservative and bourgeois morality, despite some legitimate intentions such as the irony over the male desire of the camera or the integration of the homosexuality in revolutionary Cuba.…”
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