To Change Reels: Film and Culture in South Africa

Book Overview

With the end of apartheid, South African cinema is at a turning point in its history. But how can we speak of a national cinema when so far only an elite minority has participated in it? How can filmmakers draw upon the past as they take South Africa into a new artistic era? 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814330010
• ISBN13: 9780814330012
• Release Date: April 2003
• Publisher: Wayne State University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.2"