Images of Apartheid
Filmmaking on the Fringe in the Old South Africa
Inbunden, Engelska, 2021
Av Calum Waddell, University of Aberdeen) Waddell, Calum (Lecturer in Film
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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.
Produktinformation
- Utgivningsdatum2021-10-20
- Mått156 x 234 x 25 mm
- Vikt558 g
- FormatInbunden
- SpråkEngelska
- SerieTraditions in World Cinema
- Antal sidor280
- FörlagEdinburgh University Press
- ISBN9781474450027