The Third Man. Ambiguous Power Relationships

Abstract

Introduction. Violence, Evil, and Progress in a Recomposing World
Manuel Alcántara Sáez

Discussion
Iván Llamazares Valduvieco, Ana Pellicer Vázquez, Enrique Sánchez Lubián & Víctor Alarcón Olguín.

Conclusion. The Third Man. ¿Political Cinema?
Manuel Alcántara Sáez

Far from what is conventionally agreed as political cinema, The Third Man makes of politics a mere but suffocating background in post-war Vienna, a setting of deep separation based on strong ideological polarization and the opening of what will be nuclear winter. Based on the film by Carol Reed, four experts in political science and film enthusiasts renew the debate on the configuration, in that setting, of the formal and informal rules of power, the new identities that rise upon the repudiated previous ones, and the relationship between evil and progress.