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CINEMA 4.5? LEGACIES OF THIRD CINEMA AT THE AGE OF INFORMATIONAL
CAPITALISM
by
Sourav Roychowdhury
A Dissertation Presented to the
FACULTY OF THE USC GRADUATE SCHOOL
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
In Partial Fulfillment of the
Requirements for the Degree
DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY
(CINEMA – TELEVISION - CRITICAL STUDIES)
December 2010
Copyright 2010 Sourav Roychowdhury
Object Description
| Title | Cinema 4.5? Legacies of third cinema at the age of informational capitalism |
| Author | Roychowdhury, Sourav |
| Author email | sourav_rc@hotmail.com; souravroychowdhurynew@gmail.com |
| Degree | Doctor of Philosophy |
| Document type | Dissertation |
| Degree program | Cinema-Television (Critical Studies) |
| School | School of Cinematic Arts |
| Date defended/completed | 2010-09-03 |
| Date submitted | 2010 |
| Restricted until | Unrestricted |
| Date published | 2010-09-13 |
| Advisor (committee chair) | Lippit, Akira M. |
| Advisor (committee member) |
Jaikumar, Priya Hoskins, Janet |
| Abstract | This dissertation studies continuities and changes in the praxis of Third Cinema over last two decades. I start from an analytic historiography of Third Cinema in the first generation, i.e. late 60s onwards, and try to rethink the politics and theoretical positions of contemporary filmmakers, vis-à-vis their call for de-colonization, quest for a new cinematic language as well as their use of national imagery. I argue that frequent conflation between the terms Third Cinema and Third World Cinema derives from a politics espousing the welfare state as the vehicle of regional development within the world capitalist system. This is a politics of domestic class alliance in the peripheral areas of global capitalism as a means of resistance to imperialist exploitation. Paradoxically, it is also a politics of regional capitalist development, rather than socialism. The dual thirst for a welfare state and regional prosperity finds expression in the positive utopias built around the imaginary/emerging nation state that Third Cinema projects in the early years, especially when assisting radical movements questioning Fordist capitalism around the world.; The second part of this dissertation studies the structural changes global capitalism went through in the last few decades, particularly with rise of informational capitalism, globalization and receding power of the nation state. I argue that with diminished importance of nation state as an institution as well as disintegration of the Third World as a territorial referent, the new Third Cinema exercises a politics of absence questioning representations in the dominant mediascape, rather than proposing alternative positive imagery. This politics foregrounds processes of structural exclusions integral to neo-liberalism, alluding to the disavowed world outside globally connected spaces of ‘flows’. I focus on how in absence of other perspective or identities, the excluded physical bodies, especially of children, function as the precarious ‘other’ of the global network space in these films. I also trace the locational shift in the diegetic space of these films from rural/natural landscapes to marginal urban spaces, a shift that correlates with the new urban explosion characteristic of late capitalism. I argue that even though the new Third Cinema does not have the emancipatory rhetoric of the 60s, it continues the critical function and politically informed formal innovation through strategies of contextualization. In a way, lack of a positive referent makes the new Third Cinema more radical at a time when marginal positive identities are subject to be co-opted as niche markets in post-Fordist flexible accumulation. |
| Keyword | third cinema; nation-state and cinema; globalization; informational capitalism; bodies and cities; urbanization; death of cinema; political art; neo-liberalism. |
| Language | English |
| Part of collection | University of Southern California dissertations and theses |
| Publisher (of the original version) | University of Southern California |
| Place of publication (of the original version) | Los Angeles, California |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
| Provenance | Electronically uploaded by the author |
| Type | texts |
| Legacy record ID | usctheses-m3432 |
| Rights | Roychowdhury, Sourav |
| Repository name | Libraries, University of Southern California |
| Repository address | Los Angeles, California |
| Repository email | http://www.usc.edu/isd/libraries/services/ask_a_librarian/email/ |
| Filename | etd-Roychowdhury-4077 |
| Archival file | uscthesesreloadpub_Volume32/etd-Roychowdhury-4077.pdf |
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| Full text | CINEMA 4.5? LEGACIES OF THIRD CINEMA AT THE AGE OF INFORMATIONAL CAPITALISM by Sourav Roychowdhury A Dissertation Presented to the FACULTY OF THE USC GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (CINEMA – TELEVISION - CRITICAL STUDIES) December 2010 Copyright 2010 Sourav Roychowdhury |
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