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Third Cinema-...?Introduction The ability to depict specific ideals about a culture through film is one which is inclusive of several philosophies and expressions. One of the concepts used for film makers is Third Cinema, which expresses the social and political conditions that are prevalent in a country. This specific aspect can be seen best through Ousmane Sembene’s films of “Xala I The Cure” and “Moolade.” Both of these films depict the ideals of Third Cinema and become a representation not only of film as an art and expression, but also as a way to enforce social change within the country. The aspects of Third Cinema which are expressed by Sembene...
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Film theory, Third Cinema, First Cinema...of the French and Indochinese societies as punctuated in sweeping cinematography wherein one basks in a scene of grandeur and the other in desolation. It showed the Eurocentrism, which imply that an being or becoming European is the only way to begin the onward march to reason or an elevation towards better values (Stam and Shohat, 15-16). 2. It is important to highlight first that the Third Cinema differentiates itself from the Hollywood (First Cinema) and the European films (Second Cinema). It focuses on a political position, particularly those about independence, decolonization and imperialism as opposed to cinema as a capitalist product or as an art...
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Third Cinema...The Battle of Algiers: An example of Third Cinema 2008 Filled with newsreel clippings, Director Gillo Pontecorvo's 1967 film, The Battle of Algiers, based on the violent Algerian struggle for independence from France during the 1950s, is hailed by several film critics, researchers and Left Wingers as a glowing example of Third Cinema1. Especially, the Black Panthers and other extreme leftist groups greeted considered the film as a guide to urban revolution. It was banned in France for many years because of the vivid descriptions of riots, torture and terrorism, which showed its former rulers in a negative manner. The film was released when the world was divided - through the Warsaw Pact...
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Is Memories of Underdevelopment Uniquely Cuban? If So, How?
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Latin American Cinema (mexico)...Bunuel choose the streets as his location and non-actors to speak his mind because he wanted this film to be made for general mass of Latin America . The film is about common man and so it displays all that a common man may relate with it.
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The film Y tu Mama Tambien is a true national cinema that attended global audience and critics. But the film in texture, theme and tone is completely Mexican. The hostility of the government, the boom-to-bust-cycles, the period of cinematic famine are all displayed and in a very much Mexican context. The film celebrates local talents of Mexico before they migrate to Hollywood. The film is quite reminiscent to Los Olivadados as it also displays...
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