Images of Apartheid

Filmmaking on the Fringe in the Old South Africa

Häftad, Engelska, 2023

AvCalum Waddell,University of Aberdeen) Waddell, Calum (Lecturer in Film

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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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Utgivningsdatum2023-07-17
Mått156 x 234 x 15 mm
Vikt454 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieTraditions in World Cinema
Antal sidor192
FörlagEdinburgh University Press
ISBN9781474450034

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Calum Waddell is a lecturer at the University of Aberdeen, where he also received his PhD. His previous work includes The Style of Sleaze, The American Exploitation Film (2018), Images of Apartheid: Filmmaking on the Fringe in the Old South Africa (2021), South African Horror Cinema (2025), and the edited collection The Films of Wes Craven (2023). He has occasionally worked on producing bonus content and documentary work for Blu-ray labels and documented the “gory glory” days of grindhouse cinema with his feature-length nostalgia-trip 42nd Street Memories (2015).

AcknowledgementsIntroduction1. That’s Zaxploitation! South African Blaxploitation2. Joe Bullet: The Unacknowledged Blaxploitation Hero3. Simon Sabela: Blaxploitation icon?4. Into The Bioscope: The South African B-Scheme Explosion of the 1980s5. Crime Does Not Pay: Morality in the B-Scheme6. The Badass: Stickin’ it to Apartheid?7. For The Common Good? The ZAxploitation Buddy Movie8. Be More Like Miriam: The Women of ZAxploitation10. Armed and Dangerous: The Border War10. A Different Kind of Gangster Cinema? Mapantsula and a state of ‘Panic’ConclusionBibliography

Waddell examines South African (or B-scheme films), i.e., the country's iteration of Hollywood blaxploitation. ZAxploitation cinema was surreptitiously tainted by the apartheid ideological undertones because it was supported by the National Party regime, which provided financial underwriting in the background. These low-budget exploitation films reimagined Black lives in a modernized (rural and urbanized) context. Waddell's book is in conversation with Ken Harrow’s Trash: African Cinema from Below (2013) and Tomaselli’s Encountering Modernity: Twentieth Century South African Cinema (2006). Summing Up: Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty.