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    Tomas G. Alea was a Cuban film director who co-founded Cuba's film department and film institute after the 1959 revolution. In 1966, he wrote and directed the comedy film "La muerte de un burócrata" ("The Death of a Bureaucrat"), which paid homage to films by Charlie Chaplin, Laurel and Hardy, and Luis Buñuel. While featuring typically Cuban themes of humor and social critique, the film's references to earlier works and use of comedy helped project Alea's work and Cuba's revolutionary films to international audiences.

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    Tomas G. Alea was a Cuban film director who co-founded Cuba's film department and film institute after the 1959 revolution. In 1966, he wrote and directed the comedy film "La muerte de un burócrata" ("The Death of a Bureaucrat"), which paid homage to films by Charlie Chaplin, Laurel and Hardy, and Luis Buñuel. While featuring typically Cuban themes of humor and social critique, the film's references to earlier works and use of comedy helped project Alea's work and Cuba's revolutionary films to international audiences.

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    The Death of A Bureaucrat

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    Tomas G. Alea was a Cuban film director who co-founded Cuba's film department and film institute after the 1959 revolution. In 1966, he wrote and directed the comedy film "La muerte de un burócrata" ("The Death of a Bureaucrat"), which paid homage to films by Charlie Chaplin, Laurel and Hardy, and Luis Buñuel. While featuring typically Cuban themes of humor and social critique, the film's references to earlier works and use of comedy helped project Alea's work and Cuba's revolutionary films to international audiences.

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    The Death of a

    Bureaucrat
    September 9, 2019
    Tomas G. Alea
    Cuban, born in 1928.

    Co-founded the film department of the Rebel


    Army in 1959.

    Co-founded the Cuban Film Institute ICAIC.

    Co-wrote and directed the first feature film


    produced after the revolution, Historias de la
    Revolución, with input from Che Guevara.

    https://ecommerce.umass.edu/defa/people/4
    32 University of Massachusetts Amherst, Defa
    Film Library
    The Death of a Bureaucrat
    “[C]omedy and social critique are a constant in
    Alea’s work. “ (Craig 520)

    La muerte de un burócrata is an homage to Alea’s


    favorite filmmakers and actors, including Charlie
    Chaplin, Laurel and Hardy, and Buñuel.

    The film was well received in Cuba and projected


    Alea’s work abroad.

    “[I]t was the earliest film from the revolutionary


    project to truly address a transnational audience”
    (Craig 519)
    What are the film’s main themes?

    Do these themes make it more or less


    appealing to foreign audiences?
    The local and the global

    Choteo - typically Cuban; use of humor to address a theme or situation that is


    not supposed to be fun

    The themes, the references (intertextuality- Craig 525) , the affect

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