Topic
V 1 First World
* 1.1 capitalist nations
* 1.2 Western Europe, US, Australia, Japan
V 2 Second World
* 2.1 socialist nations
* 2.2 USSR, Eastern Europe, China
V 3 Bandung Conference
V 3.1 Birth of "Third World" movement
* non-aligned nations
* (post) colonial nations
* Asia, Africa, and Latin America
V 4 Third World
V 4.1 Colonialism
* colonized
* neocolonized
* decolonized
V 4.2 "Minorities"
* political
* economic
V 4.3 Vocabulary
* backward
* primitive
* underdeveloped
V 4.4 Revolution against Western imperialism and neocolonialism
* Franz Fanon: "Colonial minds structured by Western Imperialism"
* Mao: "People of the world unite and defeat the US aggressors and all their running dogs!"
* Organization of Solidarity with the People of Asia, Africa and Latin America, Havana, 1966
V 5 Third World revolutions
* 5.1 Cuban Revolution 1959
* 5.2 Red China split with USSR 1960
* 5.3 Algerian independence 1962
* 5.4 Palestinian Liberation Organization 1964
* 5.5 Ho Chi Minh National Liberation Front 1960s
V 6 Age of "Three" Cinemas
V 6.1 First Cinema
* narrative
* Hollywood
V 6.2 Second Cinema
* non-narrative, avant-garde
* European modernist "new wave" movements
V 7 Third Cinema
V 7.1 more militant than neorealist movements around the world
* Egypt
* Turkey
* India
V 7.2 premises
* all art is deeply political
* domination of Hollywood in the Third World became a target
* reject the politics that masqueraded as entertainment
* offer the viewer a politically liberating film experience
V 7.3 Fernando Solanas and Octavio Getino
* cinema is part of a collective
* portrays truth and inspires action
* exist outside of state and commercial censorship
V 8 Third Cinema Genres
* 8.1 mass struggles against imperialism
* 8.2 exile film
* 8.3 plumbed indigenous cultures
V 9 Style
V 9.1 rejected the gloss of Hollywood spectacle
* Good Neighbor Years
* stereotypes
* 9.2 rawness was itself a political statement
V 9.3 Direct Cinema
* fast and inexpensive
* mobile camera
* using available light
V 9.4 Soviet Montage
* Cuba
* Argentina's Cine Liberation
* New Chilean Cinema
V 9.5 Neorealism
* non-professional actors
* location shooting
V 10 Theory
* 10.1 Solanas and Getino "Towards a Third Cinema" (1969)
* 10.2 Julio Garcia Espinosa "For an Imperfect Cinema" (1969)
V 11 Cuba
V 11.1 Revolution 1959
* expropriated land
* executed officials
* nationalized economy
* Soviet satellite state
V 11.2 ICAIC: Cuban Institute of Film Art and Industry
* center of Cuban film culture
* film archive
* film journal: Cine cubano
* vertical integrated: production, distribution, exhibition
* cine móviles: trucks screening films
V 11.3 Revolutionary Cinema
* peaked 1966-1971
* documentaries
* rejected Socialist Realism
V 11.4 Cinema Modernist influences
* flashbacks
* flashforwards
* elliptical editing
* collage forms
V 12 Argentina
V 12.1 Fernando Birrí
* critical and realistic "cinema of discovery"
V 12.2 fall of Juan Perón
V military coup 1966
* shut down legislature
* disbanded political parties
* suppressed labor movement
V film industry
* attempted to impose quota on US films
V commissioned sanctioned works
* folklore
* official histories
V 12.3 Hora de los Hornos (1968)
V collage form
* Direct Cinema
* staged scenes
* dense soundtrack
* revolutionary quotes in titles
V three parts
* Neocolonialism and Violence
* An Act for Liberation
* Violence and LIberation
V 12.4 Cine Liberation
* sympathetic towards Perón
* Peron's return in 1973
* Getino became head of film censorship board