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Curtain of Water Understanding the U.S. Trade Embargo Against Cuba
Title
Curtain of Water [electronic resource (video)] : Understanding the U.S. Trade Embargo Against Cuba / Road Warrior Productions, LLC.
Published
New York, N.Y. : Infobase, [2014], c2013.
Physical Description
1 streaming video file (52 min.) : sd., col.
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
Encoded with permission for digital streaming by Infobase on January 19, 2014.
Films on Demand is distributed by Infobase for Films for the Humanities & Sciences, Cambridge Educational, Meridian Education, and Shopware.
Portions in Spanish with English subtitles.
Title from distributor's description.
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Access restricted by licensing agreement.
Summary
After several trips to Cuba, photographer Joe Guerriero felt the need to more fully understand the United States' trade embargo against the island nation-a policy still in force more than five decades after the Cuban revolution. Is the embargo a justifiable reaction to the revolutionary government's Marxist ideology or an outdated act of reprisal? In this documentary, Guerriero inquires into the reasons for the embargo and seeks to identify the opposing interests of the two countries while also illustrating the embargo's effects on the Cuban people. He presents multiple perspectives through conversations with Cuban exiles and American activists in the U.S. and personal reflections of everyday Cubans caught in a situation of acute material and cultural privation in order to shed light on the political and human sides of this situation.
Variant and related titles
Understanding the U.S. Trade Embargo Against Cuba
Films on demand.
Other formats
Originally produced: Road Warrior Productions, LLC, 2013.
Format
Images / Online / Video & Film
Language
English; Spanish
Added to Catalog
May 20, 2019
System details note
Mode of access: Internet.
System requirements: FOD playback platform.
Audience
9 & up.
Contents
Introduction to El Bloqueo (2:48)
Embargo in Popular Opinion (2:22)
Distinguishing Embargo from Blockade (5:16)
Retribution for Revolution (2:36)
Personal Embargo Stories (4:26)
Embargo Consequences (4:07)
Lifting the Embargo (4:09)
Cultural Blockade (5:01)
Psychological Embargo (4:46)
Political Embargo (6:23)
Globalizing Cuba (4:41)
Hope for Cuban Freedom (3:27)
Credits: Curtain of Water: Understanding the U.S. Trade Embargo Against Cuba (2:23)
Videorecording number
55431 Infobase
Subjects
Genre/Form
Educational films.
Internet videos.
Also listed under
Films for the Humanities & Sciences (Firm)
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