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In this dissertation, I will seek to review how historical homophobic repression has been de... more In this dissertation, I will seek to review how historical homophobic repression has been depicted both within and outside of Cuba by cultural productions. This dissertation will explore three films as a means of exploring the relationship between institutional homophobia and memory politics in Cuba. I will analyse the representation of homophobic repression in Néstor Almendros and Orlando Jiménez-Leal’s documentary Conducta Impropia (1984), Tomás Gutiérrez Alea and Juan Carlos Tabío’s Fresa y chocolate released by the ICAIC (1993), and the American film interpretation of Cuban exile Reinaldo Arenas’s autobiography Before Night Falls (Julian Schnabel 2000). I will explore differing popular and academic critiques of homophobia in Cuba to gain a deeper understanding of the socio-political context of homophobic repression during the period 1965-1980. The dissertation will conclude by balancing progressive policies granting Cubans with LGBTQ Rights with an understanding of the continued significance of the representation of homophobia in cultural productions during the period 1980-2000. These films have contributed to collective memories, and hence contemporary socio-political understanding of, institutional homophobic repression during the period 1965-1980.
In this dissertation, I will seek to review how historical homophobic repression has been de... more In this dissertation, I will seek to review how historical homophobic repression has been depicted both within and outside of Cuba by cultural productions. This dissertation will explore three films as a means of exploring the relationship between institutional homophobia and memory politics in Cuba. I will analyse the representation of homophobic repression in Néstor Almendros and Orlando Jiménez-Leal’s documentary Conducta Impropia (1984), Tomás Gutiérrez Alea and Juan Carlos Tabío’s Fresa y chocolate released by the ICAIC (1993), and the American film interpretation of Cuban exile Reinaldo Arenas’s autobiography Before Night Falls (Julian Schnabel 2000). I will explore differing popular and academic critiques of homophobia in Cuba to gain a deeper understanding of the socio-political context of homophobic repression during the period 1965-1980. The dissertation will conclude by balancing progressive policies granting Cubans with LGBTQ Rights with an understanding of the continued significance of the representation of homophobia in cultural productions during the period 1980-2000. These films have contributed to collective memories, and hence contemporary socio-political understanding of, institutional homophobic repression during the period 1965-1980.