Images of Apartheid - Filmmaking on the Fringe in the Old South Africa (Paperback)

Provides the first study of South Africa's B-Scheme cinema Identifies a South African cinema of low-budget blaxploitation Features many interviews with South African filmmakers, conducted as part of the research Provided 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.

General

Imprint:	Edinburgh University Press
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Traditions in World Cinema
Release date:	August 2023
Authors:	Calum Waddell
Dimensions:	234 x 156mm (L x W)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	192
ISBN-13:	978-1-4744-5003-4
Categories:	Books Promotions
LSN:	1-4744-5003-2
Barcode:	9781474450034

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