South African Cinema 1896-2010 (Book)

Taking an inclusive approach to South African film history, this volume represents an ambitious attempt to analyze and place in appropriate sociopolitical context the aesthetic highlights of South African cinema from 1896 to the present. Thoroughly researched and fully documented by renowned film scholar Martin Botha, the book focuses on the many highly creative uses of cinematic form, style and genre as set against South Africa's complex and often turbulent social and political landscape. Included are more than two hundred illustrations and a look at many aspects of South African film history that haven't been previously documented.

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Taking an inclusive approach to South African film history, this volume represents an ambitious attempt to analyze and place in appropriate sociopolitical context the aesthetic highlights of South African cinema from 1896 to the present. Thoroughly researched and fully documented by renowned film scholar Martin Botha, the book focuses on the many highly creative uses of cinematic form, style, and genre as set against South Africa’s complex and often turbulent social and political landscape. Included are more than two hundred illustrations and a look at many aspects of South African film history that haven’t been previously documented.

Martin Botha is a writer who has published numerous articles on the South African media, as well as several books, including Marginal Lives and Painful Pasts: South African Cinema After Apartheid and Images of South Africa: The Rise of the Alternative Film.

Introduction 

Chapter 1: Early South African cinema: 1895–1948 

Chapter 2: A few liberal voices in the 1950s

Chapter 3: Pierre de Wet, Jamie Uys and Afrikaans cinema in the 1950s and 1960s 

Chapter 4: Jans Rautenbach

Chapter 5: Manie Van Rensburg 

Chapter 6: Ross Devenish 

Chapter 7: B Scheme films 

Chapter 8: The voices of the 1980s 

Chapter 9: Oppositional film-making in the 1980s 

Chapter 10: Attempts to create a national film commission 

Chapter 11: Post-apartheid cinema 

Chapter 12: Themes and aesthetics of post-apartheid cinema

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