Toward A Third Cinema
Toward A Third Cinema
Toward A Third Cinema
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Mass communications tend to completethe destruc- Lackingan awarenessof howto utilize whatis
tion of a national awarenessand of a collective ours for our true liberation - in a word,lacking
subjectivity on the wayto enlightenment, a destruc- politici zation -- all of these 'progressive' alter-
tion whichbegins as soon as the child has access to natives cometo formthe Leftish wingof the System,
these media, the educationand culture of the ruling the improvement of its cultural products. Theywill
classes. In Argentina26 television channels; one be doomedto carry out the best workon the Left
million television sets; morethan 50 radio stations; that the Rightis able to accept today and will thus
hundredsof newspapers,periodicals, and magazines; only serve the survival of the latter. "Restore
and thousandsof records, films, etc., join their words,dramaticactions, and imagesto the places
acculturatingrole of the colonialization of taste wheretheycan carry out a revolutionaryrole, where
and consciousnessto the process of neocolonial ed- theywill be useful, wheretheywill becomeweapons
ucation which begins in the university. "Mass comm- in the struggle. Insert the workas an original
unications are moreeffective for neocolonialism fact in the process of liberation, place it first
thannapalm. Whatis real, true, and rational is at the service of life itself, ahead of art;
to be foundon the marginof the Law, just as are dissolve aesthetics in the life of society: only in
the people. Violence, crime,and destructioncome this way, as Fanonsaid, can decolonizationbecome
to be Peace, Order,and Normality. "5 Truth
, then, possible and culture, cinema,and beauty--at least,
amountsto subversion. Anyformof expressionor (6) Observethe newcustomof somegroupsof the
communication that tries to shownational reality is upperbourgeoisie fromRomeand Paris who
subversion. spendtheir weekendstraveling to Saigon to
(3) ReneZavaleta Mercado,Bolivia: Growth of get a close-up view of the Vietcongoffensive.
the National Concept (7) IrwinSilber, "USA:The Alienation of Culture
(*+) THEHOUR OF THEFURNACE, ibid. Culture", Tricontinental10.
(5) Ibid. (8) The organizationVanguardArtists of Argentina.
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