Third_Cinema

Third Cinema THIRD CINEMA First cinema, according to Solanas’s definition, “expresses imperialist, capitalist [or] bourgeois ideas. … Any cinematographic expression [likely] to respond to the aspirations of big capital [is] first cinema” (Karpenko). Hollywood and commercial type films fit into this definition. Individualistic characters leads into the star system. The film language in first cinema is basic, structured, and understandable. Second cinema “expresses aspirations of the middle stratum, the petite bourgeoisie. Second cinema is often nihilistic, mystifactory. It runs in circles. It is cut off from reality” (Karpenko). Independent films in America are usually referred to as second cinema. “It is made outside the Hollywood system, but many times, it is outside looking in” (Karpenko). There is more experimentation and not such a regular film structure. Third Cinema films are films that the system can not be incorporated as visual pleasure. They are the most radical and extreme. They focus on causes, not effects, and embraces imperfection while being politically engaged. It is a repository of popular memory. In Espinosa’s For an Imperfect Cinema he says “Nowadays perfect cinema—technically and artistically masterful – is almost always reactionary cinema.” Third cinema, film, third, art, stam, miller, one, karpenko, films, very, second, first, underdevelopment, system, should, same, revolutionary, people, memories, meant, imperfect, form, filmmakers, can’t, between, artistic, always, visual, viewers, times, time, spectators, something, says, really