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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

Third World Film Making and the West

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      Publisher University of California Press
      Published 29 July 1987
      ISBN-13 9780520056909
      978-0520056909
      ISBN-10 0520056906
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      Film, TV and Radio industries

      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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