Introduction : Havana, Hollywood, and the politics of slave resistance in the cinematic imaginary
"Our first cry of freedom" : from revolution to liberation in Gillo Pontecorvo's Burn!
"Cinema must be revolutionary in itself" : Afro-Cuban resistance, the Haitian Revolution, and Black comedy in Tomás Gutiérrez Alea's La última cena
Sergio Giral's 'Negrometrajes' : subverting sentimental abolitionism and reconstructing the history of slavery
The slave narrative in Hollywood : Steve Mcqueen's adaptation of Solomon Northup's Twelve years a slave.