Third Cinema

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Third Cinema is a cinema which decries neocolonialism, the capitalist system and the Hollywood model of cinema as mere entertainment to make money.The term was coined in the manifesto Towards a Third Cinema, written by Latin American filmmakers Fernando Solanas and Octavio Getino.

[edit] Further reading

• Wayne, Mike Political Film:The Dialectics of Third Cinema. Pluto Press, 2001.
• Fernando Solanas and Octavio Getino, "Towards a Third Cinema" in: Movies and Methods. An Anthology, edited by Bill Nichols, Berkeley: University of California Press 1976, pp 44-64

[edit] External links

• "Towards a Third Cinema"available online.

Journals

• Jump Cut
• CinémAction