1 Necroaesthetics: Essays on Apartheid, Documentary Film and the Black Filmic Image
| dc.contributor.author | Mdlalose, Sithembiso Tobias | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-03-11T10:38:25Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2025 | |
| dc.description | A research report submitted in fulfillment of the requirements for the Doctor of Philosophy, in the Faculty of Humanities, School of Social Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, 2025 | |
| dc.description.abstract | This PhD dissertation is an attempt at an examination of the documentary film practice of a set of filmmakers known for their ‘oppositional’ films between 1976 and 1994 – in hindsight described as the anti–Apartheid documentary film movement. Through this the dissertation (hopes to) presents and archives the past and present of South African history through the study of one of its cinematic outputs. Although engaging the history of the documentary film in South Africa, this dissertation is not intended to contribute to documentary historiography per se. The objective is to engage the ontological premise upon which such a historiography is premised by rearticulating and reframing many of the theories and historiography to give insights to the problems in documentary film, especially as it concerns the Black | |
| dc.description.submitter | MM2026 | |
| dc.faculty | Faculty of Humanities | |
| dc.identifier | 0009-0008-6616-7977 | |
| dc.identifier.citation | Mdlalose, Sithembiso Tobias. (2025). 1 Necroaesthetics: Essays on Apartheid, Documentary Film and the Black Filmic Image [PhD thesis, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg]. WIReDSpace. https://hdl.handle.net/10539/48508 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10539/48508 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | |
| dc.publisher | University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg | |
| dc.rights | © 2025 University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. | |
| dc.rights.holder | University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg | |
| dc.school | School of Social Sciences | |
| dc.subject | UCTD | |
| dc.subject | Apartheid | |
| dc.subject | Documentary Film | |
| dc.subject | Black Filmic Image | |
| dc.subject.primarysdg | SDG-10: Reduced inequalities | |
| dc.subject.secondarysdg | SDG-4: Quality education | |
| dc.title | 1 Necroaesthetics: Essays on Apartheid, Documentary Film and the Black Filmic Image | |
| dc.type | Book |