International Talkies

 By:  Anshuman Tripathy 4MAIS  Post World War II, when most colonial powers fell short of their powers and had to give off colonies their independence globally, a new cultural movement arose worldwide: Third Cinema. The idea of the Third Cinema urges filmmakers to resist imperialism and colonialism/neocolonialism by telling stories of struggle from their own perspective.  In the 1960s, two Argentinian filmmakers, Fernando Solanas and Octavio Gettino, wrote a manifesto called “Toward a Third Cinema.” This inspired filmmakers in the Latin American region, Asia, and Africa. Third cinema aimed to get more stories of struggles out from the Third World. The concept of Third Cinema was Marxist: anti-imperialist, anti-capitalist, and anti-racist. It even developed its foundations from Antonio Gramsci’s theory of Cultural Hegemony.  The reason Third Cinema was called Third was also due to Solanas and Gettino’s critique of American Hollywood and European cinema. They poin...