ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the historical interrogation of the New Latin American Cinema movement (NLAC) begun by Mestman. It focuses on the cultural practices and policies of Cuba's Instituto Cubano de Arte e Industria Cinematografica (ICAIC) in the 1960s and 1970s. The chapter establishes a crucial historiographical operation that should serve as a model for further inquiries of the intellectual influences and negotiations that formed the NLAC in general. It presents a far more complicated scenario of intellectual and political confrontations and negotiations than has ever been acknowledged in the formation and social and political longevity of the ICAIC as the premier Cuban cultural institution. The chapter also explores the understanding of particular transnational intellectual flows while igniting the scholarly curiosity for more research of this kind into the other intellectual strands that formed the theoretical basis of the amorphous, regional, and multifaceted NLAC and the Third Worldist movement in general.
