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Images of Apartheid: Filmmaking on the Fringe in the Old South Africa

Images of Apartheid: Filmmaking on the Fringe in the Old South Africa

Waddell, Calum

Paperback

Series: Traditions in World Cinema

Film StudiesFilmmakingFilm Guides & Reference

ISBN10: 1474450032
ISBN13: 9781474450034
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: Jul 17 2023
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.88
Height: 0.59 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

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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