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Film & Moving Image · World Cinema

Latin American Cinema

A topic within World Cinema, itself one of 10 topics in that field and part of Film & Moving Image.

Reading on Latin American Cinema

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Essay1965

An Aesthetic of Hunger

Glauber Rocha

Argues Latin American poverty and violence should be filmed as they are rather than aestheticised, because only an unflinching 'aesthetics of hunger' can shock a comfortable audience into recognising it.

link checked 17 Sept 2026
Essay1969

Towards a Third Cinema

Fernando Solanas & Octavio Getino

Argues a genuinely Latin American cinema must reject both Hollywood spectacle and auteur art cinema in favour of a collective, revolutionary filmmaking made outside the commercial system entirely.

link checked 17 Sept 2026