Traversing the cinemascape of contemporary South Africa: A peripatetic journey

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dc.contributor.authorEbrahim, Haseenah
dc.date.accessioned2019-08-27T06:45:46Z
dc.date.available2019-08-27T06:45:46Z
dc.date.issued2018-04
dc.departmentInterdisciplinary Arts and Culture Studies
dc.description.abstractThis article offers a series of observations, reflections, descriptions and opinions as stopping points on a tour of the multifaceted cinemascape of South Africa. It addresses how discourses of cinema in South Africa conflate the development of a distinctive South African cinema with the development of a robust film industry—concealing the structural barriers to entry, the development of indigenous aesthetics, and domestic audience development. It maps the emergence of several nodes of film production and consumption for non-cinema platforms as well as several subnational “mini-industries” characterized by ethnolinguistic markers of appeal. The author warns that the sole use of a national cinema lens to look at cinema in South Africa blinds us to both the politics of identity in postapartheid South Africa as well as the variety of film-related activities that constitute film culture, arguing that film scholars would be better served by adopting a polycentric approach when attempting to map the cinemascape in contemporary South Africa.en_ZA
dc.description.librarianHE2019en_ZA
dc.facultyFaculty of Humanities
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10539/27893
dc.journal.linkhttps://muse.jhu.edu/article/694976/pdfen_ZA
dc.journal.titleBlack Camera: An International Film Journalen_ZA
dc.journal.volumevol. 9, no. 2.en_ZA
dc.language.isoen_USen_ZA
dc.orcid.id0000-0002-1852-5468en_ZA
dc.schoolSchool of Arts
dc.subjectSouth African cinemaen_ZA
dc.subjectSouth Africa- filmen_ZA
dc.subjectBollywood South Africaen_ZA
dc.subjectIndian South African filmmakingen_ZA
dc.subjectLokshin Bioskopen_ZA
dc.subjectMzansi Magicen_ZA
dc.titleTraversing the cinemascape of contemporary South Africa: A peripatetic journeyen_ZA
dc.typeArticleen_ZA
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