Third Cinema: The Way Forward

The term ‘Third Cinema’ is accredited to Argentine Filmmakers, Fernando Solanas and Octavio Getino, who introduced new ways of categorising cinema traditions in their 1969 manifesto Hacia un tercer cine – Towards a third cinema. They discussed the films and industries within recently decolonised countries and proposed a new framework.
This new movement opposes the notion of Cinema as a consumer good, as with so-called ‘First Cinema’- perpetuated by, but not limited to, the Hollywood system. Under this {mass entertainment} Production model, Cinema has been established as a predominantly commercial enterprise. Filmmakers conceive films for entertainment, ‘projecting bourgeois values to a passive audience through escapist spectacle and individual characters.’ (Leach) They do so using studio controlled modes of production, distribution and exhibition, generic genre placing and the star-system.
‘Second cinema’ is often referred to as......

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