1st Edition

Cinema and the Political Imagination Third Cinema and Its After-Image

By Robin Truth Goodman Copyright 2025
186 Pages 16 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

186 Pages 16 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

186 Pages 16 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Highlighting the importance of Third Cinema on twenty-first-century political filmmaking, this book examines films that have adopted Third Cinema’s experimental film techniques for the purpose of political intervention. The text explores the legacy of Third Cinema on more traditional cinema, and Robin Truth Goodman examines how Third Cinema’s cinematic reinvention of the image as a political... Read more

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Biography

Robin Truth Goodman is Distinguished Research Professor of English at Florida State University, USA. Her most recent published works include: Feminism as World Literature (2023); Gender Commodity: Marketing Feminist Identities and the Promise of Security (2022); Understanding Adorno, Understanding Modernism (2020); The Bloomsbury Handbook of 21st Century Feminist Theory (2019); Promissory Notes: On the Literary Conditions of Debt (2018); Gender for the Warfare State: Literature of Women in Combat (2016); and Literature and the Development of Feminist Theory (2015).