Images of Apartheid : Filmmaking on the Fringe in the Old South Africa Paperback / softback
by Calum Waddell
Part of the Traditions in World Cinema series
Paperback / softback
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Provides the first study of South Africa's B-Scheme cinemaIdentifies a South African cinema of low-budget blaxploitationFeatures many interviews with South African filmmakers, conducted as part of the researchProvided audiences of the time with unique, apartheid-era adaptations of popular blaxploitation films such as Shaft (1971) and Super Fly(1972)Images of Apartheid: Filmmaking on the Fringe in the Old South Africa is an exploration of the low budget, black-action cinema that emerged in South Africa during the 1970s and led to subsequent gangster and race-conflict films that defined an era of prolific genre activity, from Joe Bullet (1973) to American Ninja 4 (1990).
Contextualising and documenting the cheap, government-funded 'B-Scheme' films, largely unseen since the fall of the National Party, but also acknowledging the impact of international co-productions such as The Wild Geese (1978) and locally made provocation, including the classic Mapantsula (1988), this study is an exhaustive tour of race-representation and state-subsidised subversion.
Also discussing the political turbulence of the era, Images of Apartheid argues that so-called 'ZAxploitation' should be considered within both localised and wider international paracinematic networks of genre adaptation, resulting in the identification of a uniquely South African form of trash and treasure, and schlock and awe.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:192 pages, 20 B/W illustrations
- Publisher:Edinburgh University Press
- Publication Date:31/08/2023
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- ISBN:9781474450034
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:192 pages, 20 B/W illustrations
- Publisher:Edinburgh University Press
- Publication Date:31/08/2023
- Category:
- ISBN:9781474450034