Third world cinema and political hegemony: the social role of cinema

Abstract

Cinema is one more of the various modes of cultural expression of contemporary industrial and technological society. From its earliest days, film producers and directors considered it a powerful tool for human instruction, education and reflection. The efforttoimpresstheaudience canevenbeunderstood as an operation of ideological nature. We highlight in the commentary how much cinema can be and is political through the analysis of three moments in cinematographic production: the ideological propaganda made by the media having ideological orientation, both Nazi, of the Nazi Party of 1934, in Nurenberg, and Russian Socialist of 1929; the massively produced Hollywood films; the clash between two research Brazilian institutes, CPC andIPES, on the eve of the 1964 military coup in Brazil.