Rethinking Third Cinema / edited by Anthony R. Guneratne and Wimal Dissanayake.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Guneratne, Anthony R.

Dissanayake, Wimal.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures--Developing countries.

Motion pictures.

Developing countries.

Physical Description:

xii, 240 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2003.

Summary:

This innovative and timely anthology addresses established notions about Third Cinema theory and its impact on the cinematic practices of developing and postcolonial nations. Emerging from the activism of Che Guevara and Frantz Fanon, the Third Cinema movement called for a politicized, tri-continental approach to film-making in Africa, Asia, and Latin America which would foreground issues of social justice, class division, ethnicity, and national identity. The films that best represented the movement, including those of such internationally respected directors as Ousmane Sembene, Satyajit Ray, Fernando Solanas, Tomas Gutierrez Alea, and Nelson Pereira dos Santos, are among the most culturally significant and politically sophisticated texts of the 1960s and 1970s. Yet despite the popularity and critical attention enjoyed by its acknowledged masterpieces, Third Cinema and its critical framework -- notably the only major body of film theory that did not originate in a specifically Euro-American context -- appear to have lost their momentum. Rethinking Third Cinema returns Third Cinema and its theory to the critical spotlight. The contributors address the most difficult questions Third Cinema posed and continues to pose in the age of globalization, suggesting new methodologies and redirections of existing ones, while also rereading the phenomenon of film-making in a fast-vanishing "Third World". Ranging over a terrain that encompasses the majority of the world's cinemas, they offer case studies within and beyond the national cinemas of Brazil, Egypt, Indonesia, Argentina, China, Iran, Ghana, and India.

Contents:

Introduction: Rethinking Third Cinema / Anthony R. Guneratne 1

Part I Third Cinema theory and beyond 29

1 Beyond Third Cinema: the aesthetics of hybridity / Robert Stam 31

Part II Challenging Third World legacies: issues of gender, culture, and representation 49

2 Post-Third-Worldist culture: gender, nation, and the cinema / Ella Shohat 51

3 The erotics of history: gender and transgression in the new Asian cinemas / Sumita S. Chakravarty 79

Part III Alternative cinemas in the age of globalization 101

4 Authorship, globalization, and the new identity of Latin American cinema: from the Mexican "ranchera" to Argentinian "exile" / Marvin D'Lugo 103

5 Video booms and the manifestations of "first" cinema in anglophone Africa / N. Frank Ukadike 126

Part IV The relocation of culture: social specificity and the "Third" question 145

6 What's "oppositional" in Indonesian cinema? / Krishna Sen 147

7 The seductions of homecoming: place, authenticity, and Chen Kaige's Temptress Moon / Rey Chow 166

Part V Receiving/retrieving Third (World) Cinema: alternative approaches to spectator studies and critical history 181

8 Theorizing "Third World" film spectatorship: the case of Iran and Iranian cinema / Hamid Naficy 183

9 Rethinking Indian popular cinema: towards newer frames of understanding / Wimal Dissanayake 202.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0415213541

OCLC:

61423748