South African cinema : 1896-2010 / Martin Botha.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Botha, Martin.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures--South Africa--History.

Motion pictures.

Motion pictures--Social aspects--South Africa.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (314 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bristol ; Chicago : Intellect, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Taking an inclusive approach to South African film history, this volume represents an ambitious attempt to analyze and place in appropriate sociopolitical context the aesthetic highlights of South African cinema from 1896 to the present. Thoroughly researched and fully documented by renowned film scholar Martin Botha, the book focuses on the many highly creative uses of cinematic form, style, and genre as set against South Africa's complex and often turbulent social and political landscape. Included are more than two hundred illustrations and a look at many aspects of South African film histor

Contents:

Early South African cinema: 1895-1948

A few liberal voices in the 1950s

Pierre de Wet, Jamie Uys and Afrikaans cinema in the 1950s and 1960s

Jans Rautenbach

Manie Van Rensburg

Ross Devenish

B Scheme films

The voices of the 1980s

Oppositional film-making in the 1980s

Attempts to create a national film commission

Post-apartheid cinema

Themes and aesthetics of post-apartheid cinema.

Notes:

Includes filmography.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-257) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781783203307

1783203307

9781783203291

1783203293

OCLC:

865331734