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Solanas and Getino's manifesto considers 'First Cinema' to be the Hollywood production model that promulgates Bourgeois values to a passive audience through escapist spectacle and individual characters. 'Second Cinema' is the European Art Film , which rejects Hollywood conventions but is centred on the individual expression of the Auteur director. Third Cinema rejects the view of cinema as a vehicle for personal expression, seeing the director instead as part of a collective; it appeals to the masses by presenting the truth and inspiring aggressive activity. Solanas and Getino argue that traditional exhibition models also need to be avoided: the films should be screened clandestinely, so that the viewer must take a risk to see them.David Bordwell and Kristin Thompson, ''Film History: An Introduction'', 2nd edtn. (McGraw-Hill, 2003), 545.


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  • Wayne, Mike ''Political Film:The Dialectics of Third Cinema''. Pluto Press, 2001.

  • Fernando Solanas and Octavio Getino, "Towards a Third Cinema" in: ''Movies and Methods. An Anthology'', edited by Bill Nichols , Berkeley: University of California Press 1976, pp 44-64



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