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Roychowdhury, Sourav.

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Cinema 4.5? Legacies of Third Cinema at the age of informational capitalism.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Cinema 4.5? Legacies of Third Cinema at the age of informational capitalism./
Author:	Roychowdhury, Sourav.
Description:	206 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 72-02, Section: A, page: 0412.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International72-02A.
Subject:	Political Science, International Law and Relations. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3434507
ISBN:	9781124413747

Cinema 4.5? Legacies of Third Cinema at the age of informational capitalism.
Roychowdhury, Sourav.

Cinema 4.5? Legacies of Third Cinema at the age of informational capitalism. - 206 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 72-02, Section: A, page: 0412.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Southern California, 2010.

This dissertation studies continuities and changes in the praxis of Third Cinema over last two decades. I start from an analytic historiography of Third Cinema in the first generation, i.e. late 60s onwards, and try to rethink the politics and theoretical positions of contemporary filmmakers, vis-a-vis their call for de-colonization, quest for a new cinematic language as well as their use of national imageries. I argue that frequent conflation between the terms Third Cinema and Third World Cinema derives from a politics espousing the welfare state as the vehicle of regional development within the world capitalist system. This is a politics of domestic class alliance in the peripheral areas of global capitalism as a means of resistance to imperialist exploitation. Paradoxically, it is also a politics of regional capitalist development, rather than socialism. The dual thirst for a welfare state and regional prosperity finds expression in the positive utopias built around the imaginary/emerging nation state that Third Cinema projects in the early years, especially when assisting radical movements questioning Fordist capitalism around the world.

ISBN: 9781124413747Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017399
Political Science, International Law and Relations.

Cinema 4.5? Legacies of Third Cinema at the age of informational capitalism.
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520 $a The second part of this dissertation studies the structural changes global capitalism went through in the last few decades, particularly with rise of informational capitalism, globalization and receding power of the nation state. I argue that with diminished importance of nation state as an institution as well as disintegration of the Third World as a territorial referent, the new Third Cinema exercises a politics of absence questioning representations in the dominant mediascape, rather than proposing alternative positive imageries. This politics foregrounds processes of structural exclusions integral to neo-liberalism, alluding to the disavowed world outside globally connected spaces of 'flows'. I focus on how in absence of other perspective or identities, the excluded physical bodies, especially of children, function as the precarious 'other' of the global network space in these films. I also trace the locational shift in the diegetic space of these films from rural/natural landscapes to marginal urban spaces, a shift that correlates with the new urban explosion characteristic of late capitalism. I argue that even though the new Third Cinema does not have the emancipatory rhetoric of the 60s, it continues the critical function and politically informed formal innovation through strategies of contextualization. In a way, lack of a positive referent makes the new Third Cinema more radical at a time when marginal positive identities are subject to be co-opted as niche markets in post-Fordist flexible accumulation.
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