Film Studies 1022 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Third Cinema, Neocolonialism, Transnationalism
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Nation is not an organic, homogenous, unitary entity. Part of cinema"s nation-building role has been to document the nation"s others as those held at the limit of national belonging. Cinema is far from being a commodity value the production of aesthetic or narrative form is to be seen as an ideological act . Many national cinemas translated hollywood genres into their own national contexts. Cinema was exploited by imperialist nations such as great britain to represent britannia"s globalizing domination. Third cinema is generally understood to engage the neo-neo colonial paradigm of a hegemonic. Films are shot with an american worldview. However, these films represent the genocidal destruction of indigenous nations for the. Bollywood has the second largest market share in global film distribution after the us. In 1993, hong kong was the world"s 3rd largest producer of films. National cinema is a multifaceted and conflicted object of study. Refers to a group of films produced in a specific national territory.