Third Cinema, World Cinema and Marxism

[T]his elucidating book ... [highlights] the continued relevance and crucial importance of politically engaged film practices and scholarship in all their diversity. * Film-Philosophy Journal * Mazierska and Kristensen have put together a collection of bold, provocative and at times incendiary essays that challenge the alleged progressiveness of concepts such as world cinema and transnationalism by inviting Marxism back into the debate. The book succeeds in rescuing and reinvigorating the concept of Third Cinema by expanding it into other, hitherto unexplored avenues, and by opening its canon to overlooked works, past and present. In so doing, Third Cinema becomes Third Cinemas and World Cinema undergoes a fierce Marxist critique that puts its very relevance and validity to the test. * Ceclia Mello, Senior Lecturer in Film Studies and Film Editing, University of So Paulo, Brazil *

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 Skvde, 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: Brazils 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 Segu 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 Andr Dorc 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 prah Chapter 10: Listening to the Future: The Film- Philosophy of Abderrahmane Sissako William Brown Chapter 11: Class, Gender and Ethnicity in Alfonso Cuarns 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