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Provides the first study of South Africa's B-Scheme cinema
Identifies a South African cinema of low-budget blaxploitation
Features many interviews with South African filmmakers, conducted as part of the research
Provided 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.
Contents
AcknowledgementsIntroduction
1. That's Zaxploitation! South African Blaxploitation
2. Joe Bullet: The Unacknowledged Blaxploitation Hero
3. Simon Sabela: Blaxploitation icon?
4. Into The Bioscope: The South African B-Scheme Explosion of the 1980s
5. Crime Does Not Pay: Morality in the B-Scheme
6. The Badass: Stickin' it to Apartheid?
7. For The Common Good? The ZAxploitation Buddy Movie
8. Be More Like Miriam: The Women of ZAxploitation
10. Armed and Dangerous: The Border War
10. A Different Kind of Gangster Cinema? Mapantsula and a state of 'Panic'
ConclusionBibliography
