Third World Cinema

This list is inspired by Ella Shohat and Robert Stam’s book, “Unthinking Eurocentrism: Multiculturalism and the Media,” and their classification of Third World Cinema:

“1. A core circle of “Third Worldist” films produced by and for Third World people (no matter where those people happen to be) and adhering to the principles of “Third Cinema”;
2. a wider circle of cinematic productions of Third World people (retroactively defined as such), whether or not the films adhere to the principles of Third Cinema and irrespective of the period of their making;
3. another circle...