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Offers a comprehensive account of film production in the Third World. This work considers the paradoxes of social structure and cultural life in the post-independence world, where even such basic concepts as 'nation', 'national culture', and 'language' are problematic.

Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Note on Titles
Introduction

Part One The Social, Cultural, and Economic Context
1. Third World Societies
2. Culture and National Identity
3. Cinema and Capitalism

Part Two Theory and Practice of Third World Film
Making
4. The Beginnings of Non-Western Film Production
5. Individual Authorship
6. "Third Cinema"
Part Three National Film Industries
7. The Indian Subcontinent
8. East and Southeast Asia
9. Latin America
10. The Middle East and Africa

Part Four Cinema Astride Two Cultures
11. Satyajit Ray
12. Youssef Chahine
13. Glauber Rocha
14. Y1lmaz GOney
15. Ousmane Sembene
16. Jorge Sanjines

Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Sources for Photographs
Index

Third World Film Making and the West

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    Publisher: University of California Press
    Publication Date: 29/07/1987
    ISBN13: 9780520056909, 978-0520056909
    ISBN10: 0520056906
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    Description

    Book Synopsis
    Offers a comprehensive account of film production in the Third World. This work considers the paradoxes of social structure and cultural life in the post-independence world, where even such basic concepts as 'nation', 'national culture', and 'language' are problematic.

    Table of Contents
    Acknowledgments
    Note on Titles
    Introduction

    Part One The Social, Cultural, and Economic Context
    1. Third World Societies
    2. Culture and National Identity
    3. Cinema and Capitalism

    Part Two Theory and Practice of Third World Film
    Making
    4. The Beginnings of Non-Western Film Production
    5. Individual Authorship
    6. "Third Cinema"
    Part Three National Film Industries
    7. The Indian Subcontinent
    8. East and Southeast Asia
    9. Latin America
    10. The Middle East and Africa

    Part Four Cinema Astride Two Cultures
    11. Satyajit Ray
    12. Youssef Chahine
    13. Glauber Rocha
    14. Y1lmaz GOney
    15. Ousmane Sembene
    16. Jorge Sanjines

    Conclusion
    Notes
    Bibliography
    Sources for Photographs
    Index

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