“Militant Cinema: An Internal Category of Third Cinema” [1971] “Cine militante: una categoría interna del Tercer Cine”

Editors’ note: The following article, originally written by Solanas and Getino in 1971 as one article (according to Getino in “Algunas observaciones sobre el concepto del ‘tercer cine’”) was printed as two separate articles—“El cine militante: una categoría interna del tercer cine” and “El cine como hecho político”—in Cine, cultura y descolonización (1973). This translation follows precisely the text as published there by Solanas and Getino; some of the labelling of the subheadings of sections is inconsistent in the original.