Images of Apartheid

Filmmaking on the Fringe in the Old South Africa

von Calum Waddell

280 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

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.

• Themen: Kunst Darstellende Künste Film, Kino Filmgeschichte, Filmtheorie und Filmkritik
• ISBN: 9781474450027
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 20.10.2021
• Größe: 216 x 140 mm
• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press