World Cinema

                                                World Cinema

First Cinema

Hollywood          Mass entertainment Profit motivated

Second Cinema

Auteur/Avent Garde/National cinema   challenging more about Art than profit

Third Cinema

Third tries to reinvent cinema so that indigenous cultures can produce their own cinema

each locale should have its own cinema

rewriting basic rules of grammar

Sembene I consider cinema as a means of political action.

Characteristics

lack of attendance  geographical problems

Resources limited

Financial support  french speaking films in W Africa

About struggle

Third cinema challenged this objectification - colonial stereotypes

crowd extras remember events

conveys authenticity

not actors in my film

Includes news footage real location gritty realism.

Genre

Gangster What conventions of Gangster films does CoG have and how does it push the boundaries.

Narrative

Non-Linear.

Rise and Fall – values?

Narration

Exposition

Voice-over