Third Cinema and Its Legacies

6 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)

Lecture/screenings, six hours; discussion, one hour. Focus on films drawn mainly from cinema of Africa, Asia, and Latin America, with additional films encompassing Third Cinema and diasporas that complement and contextualize thinking about these regions and various cinema movements they have generated. Examination of the influences and socioeconomic conditions in which they emerge, and how they revolutionized film aesthetics. These films diverge from, as well as respond to, the language and visual idiom of Hollywood and popular European Cinema, and therefore, may challenge expectations. Study is concerned with how cinema interprets history, conveys cultural beliefs, and comes to terms with identity, history, and politics caused by colonialism, nationalism, and traditionalism. P/NP or letter grading.