Questions of Third Cinema

264 Pages·1990·12.39 MB·English

by  Jim Pines (editor), Paul Willemen (editor)

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QUESTIONS OF
THIRD CINEMA
Edited by Jim Pines and Paul Willemen
BFI PUBLISHING
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First published in 1989 by the
British Film Institute
21 Stephen Street
London W1P 1PL
Copyright © British Film Institute 1989
Reprinted 1991
British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
Questions of third cinema
1. Developing countries cinema films, 1960-1981
I. Pines, Jim II. Willemen, Paul
791.43'09172'4
ISBN 0-85170-230-9
Cover design: Julia King
Typeset in 10 on 11 '/ipt Sabon by
Fakenham Photosetting Limited, Fakenham, Norfolk
Printed in Great Britain by
St Edmundsbury Press Ltd, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk
Contents
Preface and Acknowledgments vii
The Third Cinema Question: Notes and Reflections
Paul Willemen 1
Towards a Critical Theory of Third World Films
Tesbome H. Gabriel 30
Third Cinema as Guardian of Popular Memory: Towards a Third
Aesthetics
Tesbome H. Gabriel 53
Triangular Cinema, Breaking Toys, and Dinknesh vs Lucy
Haile Gerima 65
Black Cinema in the Post-aesthetic Era
Clyde Taylor 90
The Commitment to Theory
Homi K. Bbabha 111
Outside In Inside Out
Trinb T. Minb-ba 133
Speaking of ‘Ceylon’, a clash of cultures
Laleen Jayamanne 150
Debating the Third Cinema
Asbisb Rajadbyaksba 170
Articulating the Self into History: Ritwik Ghatak’s Jukti takko
argappo
Geeta Kapur 179
African Cinema: Solidarity and Difference
Paulin Soumanou Vieyra 195
Oral Literature and African Film: Narratology in Wend Kuuni
Mantbia Diawara 199
Black Independents and Third Cinema: The British Context
Reece AuguistelBlack Audio Film Collective 212
The Study of Third Cinema in the United States: A Reaffirmation
Scott Cooper 218
Inner City Blues
Charles Burnett 223
Mediawork’s Representation of the Other: The Case of Iran
Hamid Naficy 227
Bibliography 240