Question for Xavier Introduction
Is Cinema Novo a concomitant of the political environment in 1960s? How does the politics influence the Third Cinema?How does Brazilian National Identity emerge in Cinema Novo?
posted by Mingyang Chen at
5:23 PM
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Yes, Cinema Novo is a concomitant of the political environment in the 1960's because, for example, as social struggles developed and guerrilla warfare increased in Latin America, other oppositional cinema projects emerged on the continent, sometimes with more concrete links to political activism. In 1968, Fernando Solanas and Octavio Getino wrote the manifest "Towards a Third Cinema," in which they criticized the art cinema premises accepted by some politically engaged filmmakers, arguing for a more radical and, in their own view, more politically consistent guerrilla cinema, which obviously had an influence on Third Cinema because it was accepted by some of the political community which only strengthened it. Cinema Nova helps to express Brazils national debate involving aesthetics and politics, a debate inscribed in the productive, often conflictual, interaction between the leftist engagement within history and that constellation of phenomena formed by youth culture, and the will to explore national reality.
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