Essential Manifestos and Theories (not in chronological order):
“Toward a Third Cinema” (Argentina. 1969. Fernando Solanas and Octavio Getino. Tricontinental, N.14. October 1969, P.107-132)
“For an Imperfect Cinema” (Cuba. 1969. Julio Garcia Espinosa. Jump Cut, no. 20, 1979, pp.24-26)
“The Aesthetics of Hunger” (Brazil. Glauber Rocha. 1965)
“THE LUZ E AÇÃO MANIFESTO” (1973) Published in Portuguese in Arte em Revista: anos 60 (São Paulo: Centro de Estudos de Arte Contemporânea, 1979), 5–9. First published in English in Randal Johnson and Robert Stam, eds., Brazilian Cinema, exp. ed. (New York: Columbia University Press, 1995), 91–92. Trans. Randal Johnson and Robert Stam. Also included in Film Manifestos and Global Cinema Culture: A Critical Anthology, Scott MaxKenzie, Univ. Of California Press, 2014.
“The Viewer’s Dialectic”, part 1, 2, and 3. (Cuba. Tomás Gutierrez Alea. 1982) Translated by Julia Lesage. Jump Cut, no. 29, February 1984, pp. 18-21. Make sure to follow links to read all pt. 1, 2, and 3.
Some of the Texts and speeches that influenced the Third Cinema pioneers:
“CANNIBAL MANIFESTO” (1928) by Oswald de Andrade (Trans. Leslie Bary). Latin American Literary Review, Vol. 19, No. 38 (Jul. – Dec., 1991), pp. 38-47
The Wretched of the Earth, by Frantz Fanon. Originally in French, 1961. Trans. Richard Philcox with commentary by Jean-Paul Sartre and Homi K Bhabha. Grove Press, NY, 2004.
Black skin, White Masks by Frantz Fanon. Originally in French, 1952. Trans. Charles Lam Markmann. Forewards by Ziauddin Sardar and Homi K. Bhabha. Pluto Press. 1986/2008.
Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire, 1968
Discourse on Colonialism by Aimé Césaire. Originally in French, 1955. Monthly Review Press: NY/London, 1972
Return to the Source: Selected Speeches by Amilcar Cabral. Monthly Review Press: NY/London, 1973.
Unity and Struggle. Speeches and Writings of Amilicar Cabral. MOnthly Review Press: NY/London, 1979.
More contemporary scholarships on Third Cinema:
“One, Two… Third Cinemas.” Jonathan Buchsbaum. Third Text, Vol. 25, Issue 1, January, 2011, 13–28
“The Two Avant-Gardes: Solanas and Getino’s The Hour of the Furnaces” by Robert Stam. Originally appeared in Millennium (New York), Fall/Winter 1980/81 Issue 7-9, p151. Reprinted in Documenting the Documentaries Close Readings of Documentary Film and Video. Ed. Keith Grant and Jeannette Sloniowski. Wayne State University Press (September 1, 1998).
“Godard by Solanas. Solanas by Godard” by Jean-Luc Godard & Fernando Solanas. Cinema Comparat/ive Cinema, vol. 4, no. 9, 2016, pp. 15-19. Originally published in Cine del Tercer Mundo, year 1, no. 1, October 1969, pp. 48-63. (Talk between Godard & Solanas)
“A Closer Look at Third Cinema.” JONATHAN BUCHSBAUM. Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, Vol. 21, No. 2, 2001
“Light my fire: The Hour of the Furnaces.” Nicole Brenes. Sight and Sound, April 2012.
“Turning Cannibalism inside out: Re-Reading the Chronicles in ‘Como Era Gostoso O Meu Francês.’” by Nina Gerassi-Navarro. Chasqui. Vol. 34, Special Issue No. 2: Cinematic and Literary Representations of Spanish and Latin American Themes (2005), pp. 11-23.
Essential books for Third Cinema study
Rethinking Third Cinema. Ed. Anthony R. Guneratne and Wimal Dissanayake. Routledge. NY, 2003
Third Cinema on the Third World: The Aesthetics of Liberation.” Teshome Gabriel, 1979/1982. UMI Research Press, Studies in Cinema.
“Third Cinema Updated: Exploration of NomadicAesthetics & Narrative Communities.” Teshome Gabriel. Unpublished? Written before his death in 2010.
Question of Third CInema. Ed. by Jim Pines and Paul Willemen. BFI Publishing. 1989. Reprinted 1991.
“Young British & Black: A monograph on the work of Sankofa Film/Video Collective and Black Audio and Film Collective.” Coco Fusco. Hallwalls / Contemporary Arts Center, Buffalo, NY, 1988.
L.A. Rebellion: Creating a New Black Cinema. Ed. Allyson Nadia Field, Jan-Christopher Horak, and Jacqueline Najuma Stewart. Univ. of CA Press, 2015
Black Looks: Race and Representation. Boston, South End Press, 1992
Political Cinema by Mike Wayne. Pruto Press. London, Virginia. 2001.
“THE CHANGING GEOGRAPHY OF THIRD CINEMA.” Michael Chanan. From Screen Special Latin American Issue Volume 38 number 4 Winter 1997.
Unthinking Eurocentrism: Multiculturalism and the Media (Sightlines series). Ella Shohat/Robert Stam. Routledge; 2nd edition, 2014.