The filmmaker Glauber Rocha and Latin America

Abstract

This paper discusses the cinema of Glauber Rocha from the notion of the Third World, which implies the discussion of nationalism and anti-imperialism. He was the Brazilian filmmaker who lived in Latin America and contacted many intellectuals of expression. The Cinema Novo did not fail to report, particularly in glauberian essayistic, the balcanization that is the condition of Latin American countries, which are ideological victims of the dominant audiovisual imperialism and its ramifications in the telenovela genre. The metropolis-colony polarity flows through Glauber Rocha’s filmography. The economic colonization is what determines the cultural alienation in Latin America. The filmmaker lived the counter-revolution of 1964, which gave birth to the sub-imperialism in Latin America, with Brazil´s key role in the initiation of this policy that does not cease to reinvigorate the colonial mentality that perpetuates the development of underdevelopment.