This volume is the first fully comprehensive account of film production in the Third World. Although they are usually ignored or marginalized in histories of world cinema," Third World countries now produce well over half of the world's films. Roy Armes sets out initially to place this huge output in a wider context, examining the forces of tradition and colonialism that have shaped the Third World--defined as those countries that have emerged from Western control but have not fully developed their economic potential or ...
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This volume is the first fully comprehensive account of film production in the Third World. Although they are usually ignored or marginalized in histories of world cinema," Third World countries now produce well over half of the world's films. Roy Armes sets out initially to place this huge output in a wider context, examining the forces of tradition and colonialism that have shaped the Third World--defined as those countries that have emerged from Western control but have not fully developed their economic potential or rejected the capitalist system in favor of some socialist alternative. He then considers the paradoxes of social structure and cultural life in the post-independence world, where even such basic concepts as "nation," "national culture," and "language" are problematic. The first experience of cinema for such countries has invariably been that of imported Western films, which created the audience and, in most cases, still dominate the market today. Thus, Third World film makers have had to ssert their identity against formidable outside pressures. The later sections of the book look at their output from a number of angles: in terms of the stages of overall growth and corresponding stages of cinematic development; from the point of view of regional evolution in Asia, Africa, and Latin America; and through a detailed examination of the work of some of the Third World's most striking film innovators. In addition to charting the broad outlines of filmic developments too little known in Europe and the United States, the book calls into question many of the assumptions that shape conventional film history. It stresse the role of distribution in defining and limiting production, queries simplistic notions of independent "national cinemas," and points to the need to take social and economic factors into account when considering authorship in cinema. Above all, the book celebrates the achievements of a mass of largely unknown film makers who, in difficult circumstances, have distinctively expanded our definitions of the art of cinema. Roy Armes, who lives in London, has written nine books on film, his most recent being French Cinema . He spent more than three years researching this volume.
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VG. Wrappers. Neon lime green spine and rear cover, neon lime green, violet and photogaphic front cover are clean and shiny. Book has light bumping at the head and tail of the spine and at the tips of the spine with light accompanying rubbing in all the same places. There is a crescent shaped facial tear on the lower edge of the rear cover over the barcode of the book, most likely where a sticker was hastily removed. We've cleaned the book and have reinforced the outside edges of the front and rear covers and the lower edge of the rear cover (over the tear) with heavy but clear tape to give the book a longer life. Binding is still straight and tight. The extreme tips of the corners of the first couple pages have tiny dog-ears but the pages are otherwise clean, white and crisp. 381 pages. Illustrated with film stills. Book is not without it's wear, but is still a tight, clean relatively attractive copy.
