Images of Apartheid - (Traditions in World Cinema) by Calum Waddell (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br><p><em>Images of Apartheid: Filmmaking on the Fringe in the Old South Africa</em> 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.</p> <p> </p><p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><ul></ul> <p><em>Images of Apartheid: Filmmaking on the Fringe in the Old South Africa</em> 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, from <em>Joe Bullet</em> (1973) to <em>American Ninja 4</em> (1990). Contextualising and documenting the cheap, government-funded 'B-Scheme' films, largely unseen since the fall of the National Party, but also acknowledging the impact of international co-productions such as <em>The Wild Geese</em> (1978) and locally made provocation, including the classic <em>Mapantsula</em> (1988), this study is an exhaustive tour of race-representation and state-subsidised subversion. Also discussing the political turbulence of the era, Images of Apartheid argues that so-called 'ZAxploitation' should be considered within both localised and wider international paracinematic networks of genre adaptation, resulting in the identification of a uniquely South African form of trash and treasure, and schlock and awe. </p><p/><br></br><p><b> From the Back Cover </b></p></br></br>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, from Joe Bullet (1973) to American Ninja 4 (1990). Contextualising and documenting the cheap, government-funded 'B-Scheme' films, largely unseen since the fall of the National Party, but also acknowledging the impact of international co-productions such as The Wild Geese (1978) and locally made provocation, including the classic Mapantsula (1988), this study is an exhaustive tour of race-representation and state-subsidised subversion. Also discussing the political turbulence of the era, Images of Apartheid argues that so-called 'ZAxploitation' should be considered within both localised and wider international paracinematic networks of genre adaptation, resulting in the identification of a uniquely South African form of trash and treasure, and schlock and awe. Calum Waddell is a lecturer in film at the University of Lincoln<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p>Calum Waddell is a Lecturer in Film at the University of Aberdeen. He is the author of The Style of Sleaze (2018) and will publish Images of Apartheid in 2021. In his previous career as a journalist, he published articles in SFX, Sci-Fi Now, Total Film and Dazed. His work as a documentary director include 42nd Street Memories and Slice and Dice: The Slasher Film Forever.<p>
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