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
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
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Includes bibliographical references, filmography and index
