South Africa’s Renegade Reels: The Making and Public Lives of Black-Centered Films

235 Pages·2013·1.75 MB·English

by  Litheko Modisane (auth.)

SOUTH AFRICA’S RENEGADE REELS
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SOUTH AFRICA’S RENEGADE
REELS
THE MAKING AND PUBLIC LIVES OF
BLACK-CENTERED FILMS
LITHEKO MODISANE
SOUTH AFRICA’S RENEGADE REELS
Copyright © Litheko Modisane, 2013.
Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2013 978-1-137-02702-3
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DOI 10.1057/9781137027030
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First edition: January 2013
10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
To my mother Mamothepane Ruth Modisane
To the Memory of my Father Mboki Joseph Modisane
CONTENTS
List of Illustrations ix
Acknowledgments xi
1. Opening Shots 1
2. From Africa to America, and Back Again: Come Back,
Africa (1959) 25
3. Propagandistic Designs, Transgressive Mutations:
uDeliwe (1975) 71
4. Engagé Film and the Public Sphere: Mapantsula (1988) 97
5. Gender in the New Nation: Fools (1998) 125
6. O rchestration of Debate through Television Drama:
Yizo Yizo (1999, 2001) 157
7. Closing Shots 175
Notes 189
Bibliography 205
Index 223
Illustrations
2.1 Rogosin on scene 26
2.2 Rogosin on set 26
4.1 Panic counting money in street 98
5.1 Mimi holding chicken 126
5.2 Forgive me 127
5.3 Nosipho looking at Zamani with disapproval 127
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