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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.

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"... an important and pathbreaking contribution to film studies and to the literature on South African cinema.... No monograph or piece of individual scholarship of this kind exists on cinema in postapartheid South Africa." —Sean Jacobs, University of Michigan



Table of Contents

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

Cinema in a Democratic South Africa

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      Publisher Indiana University Press
      Published 19 July 2010
      ISBN-13 9780253221865
      978-0253221865
      ISBN-10 253221862
      Also in:
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      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.

      Trade Review

      "... an important and pathbreaking contribution to film studies and to the literature on South African cinema.... No monograph or piece of individual scholarship of this kind exists on cinema in postapartheid South Africa." —Sean Jacobs, University of Michigan



      Table of Contents

      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

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