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- Early Third Cinema and Third-Worldist filmmaking were predicated on nationalism assumed as “unproblematic,” which lead to the production of films that aspired to project “national imaginaries” (Stam 289). By making national films, the movie-makers of the Third Cinema saw themselves as part of national projects.
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Because of the reluctance of First-World feminists to acknowledge the importance of nationalism and geographic identity within differing struggles of women, the films made by the women of Third Cinema were usually seen as "burdened" from the Western feminist perspective by these identities.
Third Cinema is a revolutionary form of cinema that originated in the late 1960s, focusing on challenging traditional cinematic norms and sparking social activism through its content and approach to filmmaking. When Did Third Cinema Emerge?
Third Cinema began in Latin America in 1967 with the strong anticolonial emphasis at the Festival of Latin American Cinema in Viña del Mar, Chile, and the release of The Hour of the Furnaces, a radical and controversial rendering of Argentine history and politics in the 1960s, with its accompanying manifesto, “Towards a Third Cinema.”
The idea was to turn strategic weakness-the lack of infrastructure, funds, equipments-into tactical strength, turning poverty into a badge of honor, and scarcity, as Ismail Xavier put it, ‘into a national signifier.”. The hope was to give expression to national themes in national style” (100-101).
Third cinema was to be filmmaking that would aid nationalist movements in creating a new sociocultural solidarity in the struggle against Western imperialism and for national self-determination. Third Cinema and the Third World.
The movement was opposed to mainstream North American and European moviemaking both by its deliberate technical imperfections and by its label—the Third Cinema. One of the most notable film developments associated with the Third Cinema emerged in Latin America during the early 1960s.
Jul 30, 2017 · Early Third Cinema and Third-Worldist filmmaking were predicated on nationalism assumed as “unproblematic,” which lead to the production of films that aspired to project “national imaginaries” (Stam 289). By making national films, the movie-makers of the Third Cinema saw themselves as part of national projects.
