{"product_id":"9781474450034-images-of-apartheid-filmmaking-on-the-fringe-in-the-old-south-africa","title":"Images of Apartheid","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFilmmaking on the Fringe in the Old South Africa\u003cbr\u003eImages 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.\u003cbr\u003eProvides the first study of South Africa's B-Scheme cinemaIdentifies a South African cinema of low-budget blaxploitationFeatures many interviews with South African filmmakers, conducted as part of the researchProvided audiences of the time with unique, apartheid-era adaptations of popular blaxploitation films such as Shaft (1971) and Super Fly(1972)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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40965550440545,"sku":"9781474450034","price":21.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_41654540_dfb675ff-ca31-4825-aa98-bbfd21c297ec.jpg?v=1781787414","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781474450034-images-of-apartheid-filmmaking-on-the-fringe-in-the-old-south-africa","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}