Images of apartheid filmmaking on the fringe in the old South Africa / Calum Waddell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Waddell, Calum, author.

Series:

Traditions in world cinema.

Traditions in world cinema

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Apartheid in motion pictures.

Motion pictures--South Africa--History.

Motion pictures.

South Africa--History--1961-1994--In motion pictures.

South Africa.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (282 pages)

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2021]

Summary:

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.

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

Notes:

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

Other Format:

Print version: Waddell, Calum Images of Apartheid

ISBN:

1-4744-5005-9

1-4744-5004-0

OCLC:

1289819405