Images of Apartheid: Filmmaking on the Fringe in the Old South Africa

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 {u2018}b-scheme{u2019} 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 {u2018}zaxploitation{u2019} 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 -- Provided By Publisher.