VM101 Lecture 11: Hist. 1-28-16

• School: Emerson College
• Department: Visual and Media Arts (VM)
• Course: VM101
• Professor: Miranda Banks

Document Summary

Cinema as agent of ideological practices, a tool of social change and a weapon of political liberation. Colonial era"s division of the world: center (europe) and the margins (all the rest) Post wwii phenomenon developing nations (most former euro colonies) were counter- posed to free world of the western democracies dominated by usa and the. Socialist world of the communist countries dominated by the soviet union: first: market economies (us, canada, western europe, japan, australia, nz, second: centrally planed economies ( soviet union, eastern europe, china, north. Korea, vietnam: third: developing countries with mixed market economies (latin america, rest of. Industrialization spread- so did lm culture and audiences. In uenced by: eisenstein, italina neorealism, french new wave, direct cinema, art. Third world: forefront of revolutionary cinema- idea: era of socialist revolution dawning throughout third world (cuba, algeria) Struggle to emerge from history produces creative and vital cinema. Film as an agent of ideological action and a weapon of political liberation.