Film Studies 1022 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Cinema Of Brazil, Radical Change, Neocolonialism
6 Jun 2018
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Third Cinema
• Third cinema is a descriptive and a prescriptive concept that is linked/extends
eod the histoial eegee of Thid Wold iea i West, “outheaste
and Eastern Asia, African, Latin American
- Tied to processes of decolonization and nation-building and includes
industrial filmmaking in its scope
- An ideologically charged and aesthetically meaningful term that denotes the
adoption of an independent, often oppositional stance towards commercial
genre and auteurist cinemas emanating from the more developed (Western)
capitalist world
- Less geographically bound and more actively shaped by anti-imperialist and
counterculture movements that emerged during the 60s
o Points to the inherent power of cinema, as a modern medium of
communication, to effect sociopolitical transformation within nations
and across continents
o Feuetl leds a soialist oe ith okes ad othe
oppessed peoples eaipatio ad deoati aess to the
media with a commitment to cultural self-determination and artistic
innovation
• Spectators are enlightened as they critically confront their own reality through
a audioisual aalsis ad eogize othes stuggles, iustaes ad
aspirations that relate to their own
• Third cinema involves the search for a sustainable and socially relevant means of
artistic expression in under-industrialized and politically unstable/repressive
conditions, while striving to promote solidarity among all peoples
- Present among the struggles of dealing with racism, ethnocentrism, classist
and sexist underpinning
• Explores alternative modes of production, distribution and exhibition
Origins and Permutations
• First coined by the Argentine Cine Liberacion group
- Further developed by Fernando “olaas ad Otaio Getio i Toads a
Third Cinema: Notes and Experiences for the Development of a Cinema of
Lieatio i the Thid Wold
• Filakes eed to egi shapig a patie that dieges oth fo Fist
Ciea ad “eod Ciea:
- First Cinema: industrial cinema that is commercially distributed for profit,
which can only lead to a sense of inadequacy and impotence for neo-
colonized audiences
- Second Cinema: art cinema developed by talented individuals, some of
whom attempt to contest the status quo, yet whose work is ultimately
eupeated the “ste, if ol to epeset the possiilit of disset
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