IDS 2375 – Spring 2027 – Goodman

TThis course addresses how colonialism and postcolonialism are shaped and mediated through images and the gaze. In 1969, Fernando Solanas and Octavio Getino coined the phrase "Third Cinema” to mark the emergence of a new aesthetic in filmmaking. Their manifesto "Towards a Third Cinema” reimagines film with a new aesthetic using the techniques of the European avant-garde, documentary, Soviet experimentation, and the narrative forms of Hollywood. This course starts by considering some of the products of what became a movement in cinema, asking questions about the relationships between aesthetic form, narrative content, and politics. It then goes on to reflect on the legacy of "Third Cinema” in subsequent filmmaking. Film selections may include but are not limited to canonical works like Solanas’ The Hour of the Furnaces, Ousmane Sembene's Black Girl, and Gilles Pontecorvo's The Battle of Algiers among others.
This course fulfills requirements for Diversity and Genre in LMC.