Cinema in a Democratic South Africa - The Race for Representation

Informationen zum Autor Lucia Saks is Assistant Professor in the Department of Screen Arts and Cultures, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Klappentext She contextualizes this race in terms of South African history, the media, apartheid, sexuality, the economy, community, early South African cinema, and finally speculates about the future of "counter-cinemain present-day South Africa. Zusammenfassung Using South African cinema as a lens through which to view cultural changes resulting from the end of apartheid in 1994, this title examines how media transformed the meaning of race and nation during this period and argues that, as apartheid was disbanded and new racial constructs allowed, South Africa quickly sought a new mode of representation. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments Introduction 1. The Burdens of Representation 2. State and Market Enter the Race 3. The Moment of Truth: Screening the Truth and Reconciliation Commission 4. Community and Pandemic: Cinematic Interventions in STEPS for the Future 5. Quo Vadis? Counter-Cinema in South Africa Today 6. The Dialectic of Reconciliation in De Voortrekkers and Come See the Bioscope Notes Filmography Index

Product details

• Authors: Lucia Saks, Saks Lucia
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 19.07.2010
• EAN: 9780253221865
• ISBN: 978-0-253-22186-5
• No. of pages: 272
• Series: New Directions in National Cin; New Directions in National Cinemas; New Directions in National Cin
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general)