"Third Cinema filmmakers equate film with a weapon and view the act of filming as more than a political act," says Gabriel in this explanation of a new cinematic movement based on the rejection of traditional Hollywood films in favor of those of social and political relevance, especially where the Third World is concerned. Treating the movement in terms of both style and ideology, he suggests a direction for Third World film criticism and offers a view that unless repressed, it can establish an instructive cinema leavened with folk humor." (Eleanor Blum, Frances G. Wilhoit: Mass media bibliography. 3rd ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990 Nr. 1257)