Images of Apartheid : : Filmmaking on the Fringe in the Old South Africa / / Calum Waddell.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Arts 2022
• VerfasserIn: Waddell, Calum,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Traditions in World Cinema : TWC
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (280 p.) :; 20 B/W illustrations
• Other title: Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; List of Figures --; Acknowledgements --; Traditions in World Cinema --; Note --; Introduction --; 1. That’s ZAxploitation! South African Blaxploitation --; 2. Joe Bullet: The Unacknowledged Blaxploitation Hero --; 3. Simon Sabela: Blaxploitation Icon? --; 4. Into the Bioscope: The South African B-Scheme Explosion of the 1980s --; 5. Crime Does Not Pay: Morality in the B-Scheme --; 6. The Badass: Stickin’ it to Apartheid? --; 7. For the Common Good? The ZAxploitation Buddy Movie --; 8. Be More Like Miriam: The Women of ZAxploitation --; 9. Armed and Dangerous: The Border War --; 10. A Different Kind of Gangster Cinema? Mapantsula and a State of ‘Panic’ --; Conclusion --; Filmography --; Bibliography --; Online Resources --; Interviews Conducted --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781474450041; 9783110992809; 9783110992816; 9783110993899; 9783110994810; 9783110780406
• DOI: 10.1515/9781474450041
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Calum Waddell.

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.