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

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Arts 2022
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Place / Publishing House:Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]
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Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:Traditions in World Cinema : TWC
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Physical Description:1 online resource (280 p.) :; 20 B/W illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • 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