Cinema and the Sandinistas: Filmmaking in Revolutionary Nicaragua (Texas Film and Media Studies Series)

Professor of Media Studies and is also a member of the Film Studies Certificate Program doctoral faculty at the CUNY Graduate Center. Educated at the University of Pennsylvania (B.A., Economics), Harvard University (M.Ed.) and New York University (M.A., Ph.D., Cinema Studies), Professor Buchsbaum teaches "Principles of Sound and Image," "African Americans in Film and Television," "Styles of Cinema," and "Latin American Cinema." His publishing concentrates on political filmmaking, in the United States , Latin America , and France . His doctoral dissertation, Cinema Engagé: Film in the Popular Front , was published by the University of Illinois Press in 1988. His most recent book is Cinema Sandinista: Filmmaking in Revolutionary Nicaragua , 1979-1990 ( University of Texas Press, 2003). His current research focuses on the government support system for cinema in France, and its relation to the liberalizing pressures of the European Union and the World Trade Organization.

Current book project: Exceptional Times: National Cinema and Global Culture.

bbaum@bway.net

Translation of plaque text:

In this station, in 1895, the learned Louis Lumière, by photographing
the arrival of a train, made one of the first films, which were at the
beginnings of the cinematograph, [invented by] Auguste and Louis
Lumière.

Placed here on November 22, 1942 through the offices of the Lumière
Committee of the town and the Union Initiative of La Ciotat.

Train station, La Ciotat, France.