Images of Apartheid: Filmmaking on the Fringe in the Old South Africa

by Calum Waddell

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1474450024
• ISBN13: 9781474450027
• Release Date: October 2021
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.04 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"