Third Cinema in Latin America

Marx considered religion to be the opium of the people, but had he witnessed the mass appeal of Hollywood movies, he would have rated these "sugarcoated pills" as an equally powerful drug. Just as new interpretations of the Gospel have made religion in Latin America a weapon in the class struggle, so new interpretations of cinema have liberated popular perceptions by explaining how cultural forms are used by the ruling class to maintain the exploitation of the oppressed. The concept of Third Cinema is built on a rejection of Hollywood's retrograde commercialism that stimulates the consumer's interest in order to create greater demand. Commercial film formulas make money. Third Cinema films make revolution on the ideological level with a new film style. This essay will present a critical overview of four recent works assessing Third Cinema with a focus on Latin America. Of the works written on the New Latin American Cinema in the last five years, these four permit an in-depth evaluation of critical approaches to the "new" art that is now almost thirty years old

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• Latin American Film Studies

  Open Access•Dennis West, Dennis P West•Latin American Research Review•1983

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