Imágenes patriarcalizadas y codificacíon fílmica en el cine cubano

Abstract

This study explores social political and cultural change and transformation in Cuba, looking to the movie Lucía (Humberto Solás, 1968). The ‘nation’ concept projects itself in this film as a sexual gender category, in which
patriarchalized images and their filmic codifications force the spectator to reflect about the eloquent dialectics between gender and nation. Lucía shows three independent stories with a common theme, all of them introduce one
woman ‘in revolution’. These three women reveal themselves in constant personal liberation from the restrictive roles imposed on them by class and gender, as a metaphor of the decolonization and transformation of Cuba. The movie also represents a defying attempt to define a film style apart from the models imposed by the cultural imperialism of the eastern world.