Third Cinema, World Cinema and Marxism

Ewa Mazierska is Professor of Film Studies at the University of Central Lancashire,UK. She has published over twenty monographs and edited collections on film and popular music, including From Self- Fulfillment to Survival of the Fittest: Work in European Cinema from the 1960s to the Present (2015) and European Cinema and Intertextuality: History, Memory, Politics (2011). She is principal editor of a journal Studies in Eastern European Cinema. Lars Kristensen is Lecturer in Media, Aesthetics and Narration at the University of Skövde, Sweden, where he teaches moving image theory to game developers. His research focuses on transnational and postcolonial filmmaking. He is the co-editor of Marx at the Movies (2014) and Marxism and Film Activism (2015).

Introduction: Ewa Mazierska and Lars Kristensen

Part 1: Revisiting Films

Chapter 1: Exporting Cinemarxism in the 1960s: The Case of Soy Cuba
Andrei Rogatchevski

Chapter 2: Brazil’s Open Cities: Mimicry, Sexuality, and Class Dynamics in the Urban Landscape of Cinema Novo
Bruce Williams

Chapter 3: “Unreal City”: The Aesthetics of Commitment in Pratidwandi and Interview
Koel Banerjee

Chapter 4: The Peruvian Kuntur Group: A Marxist- Indigenist Filmmaking Practice
Isabel Seguí


Part 2: Comparative Readings

Chapter 5: Third Cinema in the 21st century: political utopia in the new documentary films of Fernando Solanas
Mariano Paz

Chapter 6: Third Cinema after the turn of the millennium: Reification of the sign and the possibility of transformation
Paulina Aroch and André Dorcé

Chapter 7: We Have Never Been Transnational: The Female Condition in Socialist Realism, Postsocialism, and Third Cinema
Lucian Tion


Part 3: Third Cinema versus World Cinema

Chapter 8: Dialogical Encounters on the Cinema of Revolution: Save the Children Fund Film and Metalepsis in Black
David Archibald and Finn Daniels-Yeomans

Chapter 9: Newsreel Front: A Revived Vision of Third Cinema in Slovenia
Andrej Šprah

Chapter 10: Listening to the Future: The Film- Philosophy of Abderrahmane Sissako
William Brown

Chapter 11: Class, Gender and Ethnicity in Alfonso Cuarón’s Roma
Ewa Mazierska

Chapter 12: ‘After’ or Back to Third Cinema? Plebeian Film, the National Popular, Fingernails and the Resilient Behemoth
Enrique Uribe-Jongbloed and Toby Miller

Index