Volume : 6, Issue : 1, January - 2017

Revolution by the way of Movies: A Case Study of Third Cinema

Dr. Syeda Afshana, Heeba Din

Abstract :

<p>&nbsp;<span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: justify;">Based on the ideology of anti capitalist system, neocolonialism and spectator cinema, Third cinema is a Latin American film movement started in 1960&rsquo;s-1970&rsquo;s that uses cinema as a tool which challenges structures of power and oppression . In its earliest stages, as articulated by the classic&nbsp;manifestoes and theories&nbsp;of the 1960s and 1970s, Third Cinema was produced with the intention of provoking discussion with and amongst its viewers and proposing alternative visions of the past, present, and future (Dodge, 2007).</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;&#10;line-height:200%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:200%;font-family:&#10;&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif">This paper seeks to understand the dynamics of using films to increase social consciousness and aim for liberation from cultural and political subordination. The sample will include; Gillo Pontecorvo&rsquo;s classic&nbsp;&ldquo; Battle of Algiers&rdquo; ,Sanjay Kak&rsquo;s &ldquo;Jashn-e- Azadi, or &ldquo;How We Celeate Freedom&rdquo; and Annemarie Jacir‘s &ldquo; When I Saw You&rdquo; based on the 1967 war in Palestine. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;&#10;line-height:200%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:200%;font-family:&#10;&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif">The idea behind the paper is to&nbsp; analyze how successfully third cinema challenges the structures of power and authority and using films initiates a dialogue that challenge previously held conceptions of the past, to demonstrate their legacies on the present, and to reveal the hidden struggles of oppressed.<o:p></o:p></span></p>