Examine the representational territories of the ‘Third World’ but also establish links between it and the larger history/ cultural politics of the West. As such, sample films from the regions indicated above, articulating the Third World ‘realities’, will be scrutinized to illuminate the social relations the films in form, their internal logic and the distinct forces which constitute them. In tandem with social, cultural and aesthetic analyses, the class will contemplate the complex dynamics through the ‘Third World’ constructs notions of society, identity and representation, as well as theoretical developments in the analyses of ‘Third World Cinema’