Third World Cinema aims to question structures of power like colonialism and liberate oppressed groups. It engages with issues of identity and community for diaspora populations. Third World films challenge history and reveal struggles of minorities. They show experiences of poverty to facilitate education and dialogue rather than imagine poverty. The document discusses defining Third World Cinema and provides tasks to analyze a Third World film's conventions, funding, distribution, marketing, and how it differs from Hollywood and British films.

1. What do you notice?

2. What is a Third World film?

3. Third World Film

4. What is Third World Cinema?
• Third Cinema questions structures of power, particularly colonialism and its
legacies.
• Third Cinema aims for liberation of the oppressed, whether this oppression is
based on gender, class, race, religion, or ethnicity.
• Third Cinema engages questions of identity and community within nations
and diaspora populations who have left their home countries because of exile,
persecution, or economic migration.
• Third Cinema opens a dialogue with history to challenge previously held
conceptions of the past, to demonstrate their legacies on the present, and to
reveal the “hidden” struggles of women, impoverished classes, indigenous
groups, and minorities.
• Third Cinema challenges viewers to reflect on by the experience of poverty
and subordination by showing how it is lived, not how it is imagined.
• Third Cinema facilitates interaction among intellectuals and the masses by
using film for education and dialogue.
• Third Cinema strives to recover and rearticulate the nation, using politics of
inclusion and the ideas of the people to imagine new models and new
possibilities.

5. Task 4: Third World Film
• What is a Third World film?
• Choose a Third World film
• What are the conventions of a Third World film?
• How is a Third World film funded?
• How is a Third World film distributed?
• How is a Third World film Marketed?
• What makes a Third World film different to a Hollywood film?
• What makes a Third World film different to a British film?
•Deadline 4th
December 2012

6. Task 4: Third World Film
• What is a Third World film?
• Choose a Third World film
• What are the conventions of a Third World film?
• How is a Third World film funded?
• How is a Third World film distributed?
• How is a Third World film Marketed?
• What makes a Third World film different to a Hollywood film?
• What makes a Third World film different to a British film?
•Deadline 4th
December 2012