Promising Paradise: Cuban Allure American Seduction - Couverture souple

Lowinger, Rosa; Luca, Francis

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0996869956 ISBN 13 : 9780996869959

Editeur : Wolfsonian-Florida International University, 2019

Synopsis

An exploration of America's fascination with Cuba, featuring more than 150 rare photographs, movie posters and ephemera that promoted Cuba as a glamorous paradise

Midcentury America witnessed a frenzy for Cuba and Latin culture. Beaches, nightclubs and casinos lured tourists south to a tropical playground, while Hollywood celebrities and Cuban performers fueled a craze for rumba, mambo and Afro-Cuban jazz in the States. Stars such as Lucille Ball, Marlon Brando, Frank Sinatra, Cab Calloway and Desi Arnaz flocked to Havana to let loose and enjoy the music of Pérez Prado, Celia Cruz and Chico O'Farrill, alongside writers such as Ernest Hemingway and Guillermo Infante Cabrera.

With more than 150 illustrations--rare photographs, magazines, advertisement, movie stills and more--from the Vicki Gold Levi Collection at the Wolfsonian-Florida International University, Promising Paradise offers visions of the people and places that made Cuba so important in the American imagination.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Wolfsonian-Florida International University
• Date d'édition: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0996869956
• ISBN 13: 9780996869959
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 112
• Éditeur: Mogul Jon
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible