Relaciones políticas y culturales entre América Latina y el Mundo Árabe a través del Cine del Tercer Mundo

Abstract

Between the 50s and the 70s both Latin America and the Arab world embarked upon projects of reconfiguration of their identities as unifiers of their respective countries. They also fraternized with each other in relation to a common ideal of autonomy and independence. In this process, the cinema thematically associated with the idea of the Third World stood as a developer, coherer and producer of images that meant to endure in the memory of the peoples. In the Arab world, such development took place in the aftermath of independence, imbued with the spirit of the Bandung Conference (1955) and the rising of a popular nationalism that vindicated the cultural and political unity of the Arab peoples. In Latin America, the so-called “New Latin American Cinema” started and proliferated in those years, inspired by the triumph of the Cuban Revolution. The aim of the article is to explore how the cultural and political relations between the two regions were built and reflected in the Third-World Cinema through new aesthetics, conceptual proposals, and mutual influences. In this context, new perceptions and performativities of gender were developed and immortalized in the productions of the time, creating new men and women on both sides of the screen.