Identify the title, author and country for each essay quoted below (see the options listed below, and choose your answers from these options):
1
“Cinema Novo teaches us that an aesthetics of violence, before being primitive, is revolutionary. It is the moment when the colonizer becomes aware of the colonized: only
when confronted with the sole possibility of expression of the colonized, violence, can the colonizer understand, through horror, the strength of the culture he exploits. As long as he does not take up arms, the colonized man remains a slave…”
2
A new poetics for the cinema will, above all, be a “partisan” and “committed” poetics, a “committed” art, a consciously and resolutely “committed” cinema — that is
to say, an “imperfect” cinema. An “impartial” or “uncommitted” (cinema), as a complete aesthetic activity, will only be possible when it is the people who make art.
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