Lil_ith- A love story for South Africa’s queer, misfit youth

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dc.contributor.authorde Jager, Robin Claude
dc.contributor.supervisorWessels, Christopher
dc.date.accessioned2024-08-16T14:19:10Z
dc.date.available2024-08-16T14:19:10Z
dc.date.issued2023-03
dc.departmentDepartment of Film and Television
dc.descriptionA research report submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of r Master of Arts: Film and Television, to the Faculty of Humanities, Wits School of Arts, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, 2023.
dc.description.abstractThis project takes the form of an explorative filmic investigation into and reflection on the archetype of the queer misfit in South African cinema. The film and research take the standpoint of the South African misfit archetype being a post-queer-theory subject in relation to the country’s historical, socio-economic, sexual, traditional and technological landscape. I will compare the appearance of the queer misfit through the arrival of the neon and caustic characters of the New Queer Cinema movement of the 1990s to South Africa’s contemporary emergence of this archetype, positioning Queer Theory and the New Queer Cinema movement of the early as the primary emergence of a ‘true’ queer voice. I will engage with the influence of socio-economic, political and technological stimuli as well as the emergence of post-Queer Theory in the West and South Africa and its contribution to the evolution of the queer and misfit in post-colonial South African cinema. Through a practice-led, autoethnographic approach I combined these findings with core theoretical frameworks on post-modern sexuality by Queen and Schimel to inform and fuel the development of the film Lil_ith. The film stands as a creative execution expanding on the South African Misfit archetype in relation to the global history of Queer Misfit representation as well as its relationship with South Africa as a nation in the process of de-lonialisation within a digitised and globalised world.
dc.description.submitterMM2024
dc.facultyFaculty of Humanities
dc.identifierhttps://orcid.org/0009-0005-0323-5053
dc.identifier.citationde Jager, Robin Claude. (2023). Lil_ith- A love story for South Africa’s queer, misfit youth. [Master's dissertation, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg]. WIReDSpace. https://hdl.handle.net/10539/40164
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10539/40164
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherUniversity of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
dc.rights©2023 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.holderUniversity of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
dc.schoolWits School of Arts
dc.subjectSouth Africa
dc.subjectJohannesburg
dc.subjectQueer
dc.subjectLGBTQI+
dc.subjectPractice based
dc.subjectScript
dc.subjectProduction
dc.subjectAdult camming
dc.subjectNew Queer Cinema Movement
dc.subjectAdult model
dc.subjectUCTD
dc.subject.otherSDG-5: Gender equality
dc.titleLil_ith- A love story for South Africa’s queer, misfit youth
dc.typeDissertation
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