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Film and Film Culture in South Africa

Edited by Isabel Balseiro and Ntongela Masilela 		With the end of apartheid, South African cinema is at a turning point in its history. 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? 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.		 "A compelling and refreshingly provocative overview and analysis of the history, development and constantly unfolding state of film and film culture in South Africa and its impact on South African experiences. This impressive collection of essays addresses a broad range of issues and questions about cinema and society. At the same time, it offers an abundance of information and critical perspectives on individual films as well as the complex of political, economic and other institutional factors that have shaped and continue to shape film practices in South Africa."
— Mbye Cham, Howard University
 

Contemporary Approaches to Film and Television Series

$39.95s cloth / ISBN 0-8143-3000-2
$28.95s paper / ISBN 0-8143-3001-0

304 pages / 6 x 9
4 illustrations

2003

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