Film Movements
The broad theoretical category for revolutionary cinemas of the Third World in the 1960s and 1970s
What is Third Cinema?
The year Ousmane Sembene released his first feature film
What is 1966?
The idea that a film should expose the felt conditions of misery
What is the esthetic of hunger?
The Senegalese film that uses visual and musical contrasts to articulate the relationship between urban poor and urban rich in Dakar in the immediate post-independence period
What is Borom Sarret [The Cart Driver]?
The Argentinian filmmakers who coined the term Third Cinema
Who are Solanas and Getino?
The film movement begun in the 1960s that rejected Brazilian cinema's investment in expensive production values
What is Cinema Novo?
The year Garcia Espinosa made what would come to be recognized as the first Third Cinema film
What is 1955?
The title of the manifesto that declares that cinema should expose the facts and causes of inequality
What is "Cinema and Underdevelopment"?
The 1963 Brazilian film that refuses to romanticize the rural poverty it depicts
What is Vidas Secas [Barren Lives]?
The Argentinian filmmaker who called for cinematic realism as the best theory and practice to lead to social-political transformation
Who is Fernando Birri?
The politically engaged art cinema of French-speak African nations
What is Sub-Saharan Francophone African Cinema?
The year the Castro brothers and Che Guevara ousted the Batista regime allowing the Cuban Revolution to come to power
What is neocolonialism?
The Cuban film that uses an animated sequence to satirize the role of the artist in society and unsettle the spectator
What is Death of a Bureaucrat?
The Cuban filmmaker who wanted an imperfect, not elite cinema
Who is Garcia Espinosa?
The name for a collection of politically engaged anti-neocolonial film movements in Latin America
What is New Latin American Cinema?
The year Senegal gained independence from France
What is 1960?
The cultural form that records and transmits knowledge through the spoken work
What is orality?
The film by which Sembene, as a modern-day screen griot, comments on the way French neocolonialism dehumanizes African migrants
What is La noire de... [Black Girl]?
The Cuban filmmaker who used choteo to critique the machine of bureaucracy in his 1966 film
Who is Tomas Gutierrez Alea?
The acronym for the revolutionary Cuban film institute founded in 1959
What is ICAIC?
The year Argentinian filmmakers coined the term Third Cinema
What is 1969?
The idea that cinema should encourage an active spectator that interacts with the film event
What is the viewer's dialectic?
The Cuban short film known as the first Third Cinema film
What is El megano [The swamp]?
The filmmaker who wanted his cinema to be a "night school" for newly liberated Africans to become politically conscious
Who is Ousmane Sembene?