Articles and Resources Sara Gómez
Context (Cuban Revolution, Cuban Society)
Aviva Chomsky: A History of the Cuban Revolution.
Julio García Ruiz (ed.): Cuban Revolution Reader: A Documentary History of Fidel Castro’s Revolution.
Miguel A de la Torre: “Beyond Machismo: A Cuban Case Study.”
Orlando Luis Pablo Lazo: “Representations of the Cuban Revolution in the American Gaze: The Case of African-American Activists.”
Joseph Hansen: The Theory of the Cuban Revolution.
Pedro Pérez Sarduy: Culture and the Cuban Revolution.
Samuel Farber: “Cuba in 1968.”
Cuban Cinema and the ICAIC (Instituto Cubano de Artes e Industria Cinematográficos)
Dennis West: “Julio García Espinosa’s Film and Revolution: A Cuban Perspective.”
Julianna Burton: “Revolutionary Cuban Cinema.”
John King: Cuban Cinema: A Reel Revolution?
Mariana Johnson: “THE REVOLUTION WILL BE ARCHIVED: Cuba’s Noticiero ICAIC Latinoamericano.”
Guy Baron: “The Illusion of Equality: “Machismo” and Cuban Cinema of the Revolution.”
Paul A. Schroeder Rodríguez: “After New Latin American Cinema.”
Amberly Alene Ellis: “Our Cuba: Afrocuban Women, Filmmaking and Equality.”
Kalamu ya Salaam: “Cuban Cinema.”
Guy Baron. “Cuban Cinema, Crisis or Transition? Negotiating a Cultural Tightrope.”
Sara Gómez Monographies, Interviews, and Online Archives
Susan Lord and María Caridad Cumaná (eds.): The Cinema of Sara Gómez: Reframing Revolution.
Lourdes Martínez-Echazábal: “¡Sara es mucha Sara!“
Afro Cuba Web: Sara Gómez.
Richard Brody: “The Brief and Brilliant Career of Sara Gómez.”
Adrienne Rochetti: “Remembering AfroCuban Filmmaker Sara Gomez.”
Marguerite Duras: “Un cuestionario de Marguerite Duras para la cineasta revolucionaria Sara Gómez (Cuba, 1943-1974).”
Leticia Berrizbeitia Añez: “Where intimacy displaces violence: The Cinema of Sara Gómez.”
Brian Beadie: “Sara Gómez – Her Contribution.”
Sara Gómez’s Short Documentaries
Devyn Spance Benson: “Sara Gómez: Afrocubana (Afro-Cuban Women’s) Activism after 1961.”
Kelsey Wardlaw: “Filmación Intencional: The Relationship Between Race and Space in the Works of Sara Gómez.”
Haseenah Ebrahim: “Sarita and the Revolution: Race and Cuban Cinema.”
Rachel Pronger: “‘Chronic Dissidence’: IDFA Artistic Director Orwa Nyrabia on the Revolutionary Films of Sara Gómez (Spotlight on Cuba).”
Andrew S. Vargas: “A Look Back at the Afro-Cuban Films of Sara Gomez, Cuba’s First Female Director.”
Yasmina Price: “Shooting the Cuban Revolution.”
Valentín Roma: “Sara Gómez y el cine documental cubano de los sesenta y setenta.”
Luna Hupperetz: “Spotlight on Cuba: Writing Sara Gómez Back Into Militant Film History.”
Ana Maria Veiga: “Radicalizar o “Cine Imperfecto” cubano – Sara Gómez.”
“A Feminist, Neorrealist, Communist Film, and a Plain Great Movie.“
B. Ruby Rich: “Hacia una demanda feminista en el nuevo cine latinoamericano.”
Elena Chavez Goycochea: “Las distintas Sara Gómez. Recepción crítica de su filmografía a nivel local y las disputas en torno a la raza, el género y la nación.“
Nils Longueira Borrego and Yelsy Hernández Zamora: “Islas dentro de la isla: Repensando la ‘otredad’ en dos documentales de Sara Gómez.”
Olga García: “Sara Gómez: la formación de una cineasta afrocubana (primera parte).”
One Way or Another, 1974
Ruby Rich: “One Way or Another: Sara Gómez and the Cuban Experience.”
Alison Fraunhar: “Mulata Cubana: The Problematics of National Allegory.”
Odette Casamayor-Cisneros: “Inquisitive Gazes: Sara Gómez’s Perspectives on Social Marginality from and within the Cuban Revolution.”
Sara Gómez: Cuba’s first female film director
Annie Geng: “One Way or Another.”
Rafael Ocasio: “Ethnicity and Cuban Revolutionary Ideology in Sara Gómez’s De cierta
manera.”
Cláudia Mesquita: “O feminismo de Sarita: limiar, dialética e interseccionalidade em De Cierta Manera.”
Afro-Cuban Religion and Culture, Abakuá
Haseenah Ebrahim: “Afrocuban religions in Sara Gomez’s One Way or Another and Gloria Rolando’s Oggun.”
Special Issue of Cuban Studies, on Afro-Cuban movement No. 48 (2019).
Shubi L. Ishemo: “From Africa to Cuba: An Historical Analysis of the Sociedad Secreta Abakuá (Ñañiguismo).”
Paula Amad: “Visual Riposte: Looking Back at the Return of the Gaze as Postcolonial Theory’s Gift to Film Studies.”
Lourdes Martínez-Echazábal: “The Politics of Afro-Cuban Religion in Contemporary Cuban Cinema.”
Review of African Political Economy, Vol. 29, No. 92, Africa, the African Diaspora and Development (Jun., 2002), pp. 253-272 (20 pages).
Lydia Cabrera, P. González Gómez-Cásseres, Ivor L. Miller: “Sample Translation: The Sacred Language of the Abakuá.”
Afro-Hispanic Review, Vol. 35, No. 2 (FALL 2016), pp. 124-141 (18 pages) Special Section on Abakuás.
Ivor L. Miller: “The Ékpè ‘Leopard’ Society of Africa and Its Cuban Diaspora: A Conversation between Cultural Leaders.”
