"Cuban Image is written from a Marxist perspective. "If anyone wants to call this book a partisan history, I will make no apology for it, " Chanan says of this study of Cuban film and its place in the social and political structure, which resulted from his visit there at the invitation of the Cuban Film Institute, the ICAIC. "Trekking through the historical undergrowth in order to answer the question how it was that the Cuban revolutionaries learnt to place such a high value on cinema," he traces it from the pre-Castro period to the present against the background of Cuban history in general, with emphasis on the cultural and political history of the revolutionaries who promoted cinema through governmental decree and charnels. Throughout, he analyzes the films themselves, stressing both political and social qualities." (Eleanor Blum, Frances G. Wilhoit: Mass media bibliography. 3rd ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990 Nr. 1198)