Cinema of Undevelopment
The name for the group of cinema movements that sought to create social change in Latin America.
What is New Latin American Cinema?
The European film movement that most influenced Third Cinema production techniques.
What is Italian Neo-Realism?
The view that people alone possess intrinsic value. Animals don’t die ‘properly’ according to western philosophies at the time, because they can’t conceive of their own death.
What is Anthropocentrism?
Argentine film maker and theorist. Father of the new latin american cinema.
Who is Fernando Birri?
The 1960s term for countries with poorer economics and less industrialization.
What is developing or underdevelopment?
Vidas Secas subjectivizes the characters through these four methods.
What is camera movement, exposure, focus, and camera angles?
Awareness of internal and external existence, which can include the subjective experience of sensations, feelings, and death.
What is Consciousness?
Director of Vidas Secas.
Who is Nelson Pereira dos Santos?
The theory term for revolutionary cinemas of the Third World in the 1960s and 70s.
What is Third Cinema?
The total production cost for Vidas Secas.
What is $25,000?
Type of filmmaking that explores the poor and lower working class, recognizing survival as the primary objective. Usually uses nonprofessional actors and poorer areas as sets.
What is Neorealism (in filmmaking)?
Coined the "Esthetic of Hunger".
Who is Glauber Rocha?
Birri makes his films for this social class.
What is the working class?
Stam and Johnson compare Vida Secas to this Hollywood film.
What is Grapes of Wrath?
A movement of film with an emphasis on social equality and intellectualism that rose to prominence in Brazil during the 1960s and 1970s.
What is Cinema Novo?
Analyzed the way hunger shows up in Vidas Secas.
Who is Robert Stam and Randal Johnson?
Two styles of cinema that Birri says are best for Latin America.
What is Social Documentary and Realist Cinema?
What is critical realism, austerity, and production methods?
Opposed to the colonizer.
What is Anti-colonial?
Described big budget commercial costume musicals and comedies by mainstream studios replicating Hollywood productions as "cultural prostitution"
Who is Diegues?
The idea that consciousness arises from language, therefore, an animal who can’t speak can’t understand death or pain.
What is Anthropocentrist/Western view?