The Incredible Journey of Freddy Reddy

Lauf, Kyle Radford

The Incredible Journey of Freddy Reddy

dc.contributor.author	Lauf, Kyle Radford
dc.date.accessioned	2006-11-16T07:53:47Z
dc.date.available	2006-11-16T07:53:47Z
dc.date.issued	2006-11-16T07:53:47Z
dc.description	Student Number : 0318263P - MA research report - Faculty of Humanities	en
dc.description.abstract	This is an historical documentary about an individual’s remarkable journey, one which starts in Durban in 1957 and ends with the protagonist’s arrival in London later the same year before he would subsequently move to Oslo in 1961. The documentary is intended primarily for a South African television audience. As such, it is a history to be apprehended visually rather than in writing, and to a large and heterogeneous, though primarily South African audience. The documentary is actually about two journeys: the physical overland African passage to Europe with its various episodes, and the journey of an ambitious young adult from a humble and disadvantaged background with only a primary school education. It culminates with him gaining acceptance for study of medicine at a Norwegian university, where he would eventually qualify as a doctor and later as a psychiatrist. Though set against the backdrop of the emerging political opposition to apartheid, the documentary is a somewhat depoliticised personal history – the biographical narrative of an old man who accomplished something in his youth which altered his whole life. It is not primarily a political history, nor is it a narrative about the experience of exile. The documentary attempts to locate a historical and spatial context from where the protagonist emerged, but does not attempt to portray the history of South African Indians as a racial or cultural group, per se.	en
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dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10539/1763
dc.language.iso	en	en
dc.subject	history	en
dc.subject	documentary	en
dc.subject	historical	en
dc.subject	visualizing the past	en
dc.subject	film	en
dc.subject	South Africa	en
dc.title	The Incredible Journey of Freddy Reddy	en
dc.type	Thesis	en