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            In order to understand the nature of Third World cinema one must understand the reciprocal which is the Hollywood movie machine where more movies are made then in any other place in the world. The Hollywood film industry has been thriving for over a hundred years. The filmmaking in other countries is in many ways always playing catch up to the Hollywood machine. On other accounts such as Armes the Third World is a distinct and beautiful form artistic media separate from anything Hollywood offers to the world. The reason for film in many parts of the world are so removed from Hollywood movie making standards that most people from the west for the most part cannot comprehend the Third World's vast emerging cinema. The conflicts between the films that come out of Hollywood and the films that come out of the third world are so vast that any such comparisons will never suffice.
             Armes speaks in great depth about parallels he sees engendered by economics, culture, history, and ideology in terms of Third World filmmaking. To understand and define Third World cinema one must first define the Third World. The term Third World was thought to have first been made popular at the 1955 Bandung conference. "The term was used by Indonesian President Sukarno as a linguistic designation for the collective light of those countries which had until very recent memory suffered thorough the dying spasms of the grand imperial projects of Europe." This makes the term Third World a broad definition of large portions of the world. It is a term not specific too region, or even culture. The First World so to speak is defined as all industrialized and informational developing nations. The Second World has always mainly been defined as the broken reminisce of the collapsed Soviet Union. Also the Second World has been defined as, "the consolidated socialist blocs and the Third a catch all of that remained." In Rethinking Third World Cinema the authors present a paradox within their own definition of Third World, and with most scholarly accepted definitions.