1st Edition

South African National Cinema

By Jacqueline Maingard Copyright 2007
236 Pages
by Routledge

234 Pages
by Routledge

240 Pages
by Routledge

South African National Cinema examines how cinema in South Africa represents national identities, particularly with regard to race. This significant and unique contribution establishes interrelationships between South African cinema and key points in South Africa’s history, showing how cinema figures in the making, entrenching and undoing of apartheid. This study spans the twentieth century and... Read more

List of Figures  Acknowledgements  Introduction  Chapter 1: Colonizing ‘Nation’: De Voortrekkers (1916)  Chapter 2: Fictions of Nation: The Symbol of Sacrifice (1918), Sarie Marais (1931) and Moedertjie (1931)  Chapter 3: Monuments to Nation: They Built a Nation (1938) and ’n Nasie Hou Koers (1940)  Chapter 4: Black Audiences 1920s - 1950s: film culture and modernity  Chapter 5: All That Jazz: representing black identities in Zonk! (1950) and Song of Africa (1951)  Chapter 6: Cry, Africa: social realism in Cry, the Beloved Country (1951) and Come Back, Africa (1959)  Chapter 7: Apartheid Cinema: race, language and ethnicity in state subsidy films  Chapter 8: Chimes of Freedom: cinema against apartheid   Chapter 9: Screening Nation: new South African cinema/s beyond apartheid  Bibliography  Filmography

Biography

Jacqueline Maingard is a Senior Lecturer and Head of Education in the Department of Drama: Theatre, Film, Television at the University of Bristol. She was formerly at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.