Third Cinema today

All three articles this week talked about the definition of Third Cinema, and it's motivations and ideologies.  Some of these descriptions got me wondering about movies today, and if any could be classified as Third Cinema films--or, more accurately, as being Third Cinemaesque.  One movie that immediately jumped to mind as fulfilling many of the criteria for Third Cinema is Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing.  While it is an American film, and not from the third world or a postcolonial society, it was made by a member of an oppressed minority, and is very much about the struggles of African Americans, and more largely about racial tensions between groups in general.  There was even much speculation at the time that there would be riots in New York when it was released (even though there did not end up being any).  In addition to being made for a similar purpose as Third Cinema, it shares many other aspects that were talked about in the articles.  For example, it does not have a normal plot structure by any means--honestly, there is very little plot, with the only important action occurring in the last ten minutes or so of the movie.  In addition, while there is a main character--Mookie, played by Spike Lee himself--the story does not seem to revolve around him, but is much more focused on the idea of community.  It focuses largely on the different groups, and the tensions both between the groups, and within them.  It is not about Mookie's personal journey, it is about the journey of the community he lives in (which he happens to be a part of).

So then, can it be said that Do the Right Thing is an example of Third Cinema?  While technically it would not exactly be accurate (the concept of Third Cinema is tied with liberation movements and postcolonial struggle, and a specific period of time), would it be fair at least to say that it very much embodies the spirit of Third Cinema (i.e., the ideology and technique), if not it itself?

On a similar note, here's another question: what would embody Third Cinema better, a film such as Do the Right Thing, which borrows many of the devices of Third Cinema but takes place in a different (if similar) context, or a film that is made in the third world today and still speaks of postcolonial struggles--i.e., in a more literal sense is closer to Third Cinema--but does not emphasize many of themes that the articles attributed to Third Cinema (community, oral tradition, closeness with land, etc.)?