An engaging inquiry into the history of South African film and its
future--one that focuses on the country's cultural history while
squarely facing questions of race. With the end of apartheid, South
African cinema is at a turning point in its history. But how can we
speak of a national cinema when so far only an elite minority has
participated in it? How can filmmakers draw upon the past as they
take South Africa into a new artistic era? This collection offers
an unprecedented look at a film industry that has excluded its
country's black majority, in both representation and
production--and that now must overcome collusion between racist
ideology and film form. Until recently, filmmakers could work only
within a culture that reluctantly took black South Africans into
account. Therefore, to explore what South African cinema has been
and could become, the authors do not limit their discussion to film
production but approach cinema as a manifestation of cultural
history. How has the purpose of cinema been viewed at different
times in South Africa, by different governments and social groups?
What is the relation between film and a sense of nationhood in
South Africa? What has happened when whites aim to make "black"
films? How has film been viewed in relation to the notion of
leisure in South Africa? Such questions lead to a consideration not
only of films made by South Africans in South Africa but also of an
unfolding film culture within a series of stages that have yet to
give rise to a national cinema.
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