Rethinking Third Cinema

Rethinking Third Cinema

This important anthology addresses established notions about Third Cinema theory, and the cinema practice of developing and postcolonial nations. The Third Cinema movement called for a politicised film-making practice in Africa, Asia and Latin America, one which would take on board issues of race, class, religion, and national integrity. The films which resulted from the movement, from directors such as Ousmane Sembene, Satyajit Ray and Nelson Pereira dos Santos, are among the most culturally signficant, politically sophisticated and frequently studied films of the 1960s and 1970s. However, despite the contemporary popularity and critical attention enjoyed by films from Asia and Latin America in particular, Third Cinema and Third Cinema theory appears to have lost its momentum.
Crucially, they also re-examine the entire phenomenon of film-making in a fast-vanishing Third World, with case studies of the cinemas of India, Iran and Hong Kong, among others.