Rethinking Third Cinema

by Dissanayake,Wimal

• ISBN13: 9780415213530
• ISBN10: 0415213533
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-09-09
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

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 politicized 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 significant, 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.

Table of Contents

Contributors	ix
Acknowedgments	xi
Introduction: rethinking Third Cinema	1	(28)
ANTHONY R. GUNERATNE
PART I Third Cinema theory and beyond	29	(20)
1 Beyond Third Cinema: the aesthetics of hybridity	31	(18)
ROBERT STAM
PART II Challenging Third World legacies: issues of gender, culture, and representation	49	(52)
2 Post Third Worldist culture: gender, nation, and the cinema	51	(28)
ELLA SHOHAT
3 The erotics of history: gender and transgression in the new Asian cinemas	79	(22)
SUMITA S. CHAKRAVARTY
PART III Alternative cinemas in the age of globalization	101	(44)
4 Authorship, globalization, and the new identity of Latin American cinema: from the Mexican "ranchera" to Argentinian "exile"	103	(23)
MARVIN D'LUGO
5 Video booms and the manifestations of "first" cinema in anglophone Africa	126	(19)
N. FRANK UKADIKE
PART IV The relocation of culture: social specificity and the "Third" question	145	(36)
6 What's "oppositional" in Indonesian cinema?	147	(19)
KRISHNA SEN
7 The seductions of homecoming: place, authenticity, and Chen Kaige's Temptress Moon	166	(15)
REY CHOW
PART V Receiving/retrieving Third (World) Cinema: alternative approaches to spectator studies and critical history	181	(45)
8 Theorizing "Third World" film spectatorship: the case of Iran and Iranian cinema	183	(19)
HAMID NAFICY
9 Rethinking Indian popular cinema: towards newer frames of understanding	202	(24)
WIMAL DISSANAYAKE
Index	226