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Post-colonial films
BillieTheBot
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Does anyone have any examples of these? Im having enough trouble finding out what it is but having an even harder time finding films.
thanks.
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http://www.albany.edu/lacs/films.html
My tutor didn't say no so I guess it would be OK.
Cheers Yerascrote, you did me a big favour.
As a starting point I'd take a look at -
the Silences of the Palace by Moufida Tlatli
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0111055/
and the films of the staggeringly accomplished director Ousmane Sembène
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ousmane_Semb%C3%A8ne and Djibril Diop Mambéty as well as other Wolof artists and directors from Senegal.
For whatever reason Senegal's cinema really explored and highlighted many of the post colonial issues.
The main thing to get to the bottom of though is the concept of 'Third Cinema' - the originally Latin American political view of an alternative to the escapism of Hollywood's first cinema, the singual auteur art cinema of Europes second cinema in favour of a politically focused, collective third cinema.
It's a political movement that is so important in understanding reactions to colonialism and how wider issues have been expressed through film, as well as how film itself has been used as a political object to enact change itself - especially to overcome the sense of dependancy upon foriegn film and entertainment.
Here's the wikipedia overview as a starting point -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_Cinema
Check out the directors mentioned along with the links to other organisations the idea inspired or was inspired by.
Most importantly I'd check out the essay itself - 'Towards a Third Cinema' by Fernando Solanas and Octavio Getino
http://documentaryisneverneutral.com/words/camasgun.html
It's a great read though I'm not sure your course would necessarily want you to go into too much depth.
Venezula's film industry is also the best contempary point to look for the continuing idea of 'Third Cinema'.
And a word of warning - these films are fucking hard to find, disgracefully so and the difficulty in finding them only continues to highlight the problems they try to address.