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From film’s arrival on the island of Cuba in 1897 until the 1959 Revolution, Cuba made 80 feature-length films. In the first 62 years of male-dominated filmmaking on the island, Cuba’s film industry was not a frontrunner in Latin American film. In 1959, along with most aspects of Cuban life, film’s official role in the country radically changed.
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Farrell, M.L. (2015). Cuba. In: Nelmes, J., Selbo, J. (eds) Women Screenwriters. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137312372_45
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