Class and Ideology: Reflections in South African Cinema

This chapter explores how, in the aftermath of apartheid, Oliver Hermanus' film Skoonheid (2011) can serve as a healing fiction by inviting an engagement with present and past political and personal conflicts and resisting a type of cultural amnesia. In particular, this chapter draws on Jungian film studies to explore key scenes in Skoonheid that demonstrate the effects of a frustrated individuation process that nonetheless offers possibilities for the viewer to consider ways of healing. To position Skoonheid as healing fiction, the chapter utilises the work of James Hillman, amongst others, to conceptualise notions of healing. The chapter also locates the film against the historical backdrop of an Afrikaans-language cinema that traditionally privileged an inflexible white male subjectivity. In contrast, Skoonheid shows the Afrikaans-speaking white male as inhabiting a space of perceived disempowerment and loss, where the soul should still strive towards meaningful acts within a collective, within a community.

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South African Cinema and Its Depiction of Race, Gender, and Class: Portrayals of Black Women in Post-Apartheid South African Films

Canadian Review of Comparative Literature / Revue Canadienne de Littérature Comparée ◽

10.1353/crc.2018.0036 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 45 (3) ◽

pp. 381-395

Author(s):

Gilbert Motsaathebe

Keyword(s):

Black Women ◽

South African ◽

African Cinema

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South African Cinema Beyond Apartheid: Affirmative Action in Distribution and Storytelling

Social Identities ◽

10.1080/13504630050137651 ◽

2000 ◽

Vol 6 (3) ◽

pp. 323-343 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Arnold Shepperson ◽

Keyan G. Tomaselli

Keyword(s):

Affirmative Action ◽

South African ◽

African Cinema

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New Directing Voices in South African Cinema

Kinema: A Journal for Film and Audiovisual Media ◽

10.15353/kinema.vi.1108 ◽

2005 ◽

Author(s):

Martin P. Botha

Keyword(s):

South Africa ◽

South African ◽

Documentary Film ◽

Film Industry ◽

Boer War ◽

African Cinema ◽

The Past ◽

Film Distribution ◽

Younger Generation ◽

Audience Development

NEW DIRECTING VOICES IN SOUTH AFRICAN CINEMA: GRADUATES FROM FILM SCHOOLS IntroductionAlthough 1994 saw the birth of democracy in South Africa our film industry is much older; in fact, our great documentary film tradition dates back to 1896 and the Anglo Boer War.(1) While celebrating the past ten years of democracy we shouldn't forget those filmmakers, who created films against all the odds. Jans Rautenbach (Jannie Totsiens)(2), Ross Devenish (Marigolds in August)(3) and the younger generation of the 1980s challenged moral and political censorship, a severe lack of audience development and inadequate film distribution to shape progressive texts, which became the foundation of a new, critical South African cinema during the 1990s. Publications by Balseiro and Masilela (2003), Botha and Van Aswegen (1992), Blignaut and Botha (1992), Botha and Dethier (1997), Davis (1996), Gutsche (1972), Louw and Botha (1993) and Tomaselli (1989) documented developments in South...

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Homosexuality and South African Cinema

Kinema: A Journal for Film and Audiovisual Media ◽

10.15353/kinema.vi.1049 ◽

2003 ◽

Author(s):

Martin P. Botha

Keyword(s):

South Africa ◽

South African ◽

Unique Contribution ◽

African History ◽

Film Festival ◽

African Cinema ◽

Lesbian And Gay ◽

African Film ◽

Lesbian History ◽

Gay And Lesbian History

The following is an excerpt from a larger manuscript HOMOSEXUALITY AND AFRICAN CINEMA, a co-operative effort of Dr Botha (CityVarsity, Film & Television and Multimedia School in Cape Town, South Africa) and Professor Dethier and Dr. Willemse at the Free University of Brussels. IN A GLITTERING ceremony at the 49th Berlin International Film Festival a full-length South African film, The Man Who Drove With Mandela won the Documentary Teddy Prize. It was rewarded for its unique contribution to gay and lesbian history and for bringing forward a challenging and politically engaging subject. The Man Who Drove With Mandela was directed by Greta Schiller and researched by the co-writer of the outstanding compilation on South African lesbian and gay lives, Defiant Desire, namely Mark Gevisser. No other film in South African history chronicled the lives of lesbian and gays in the way Gevisser's documentary has done(1). It is a...

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