{"product_id":"images-of-apartheid","title":"Images of Apartheid","description":"Provides the first study of South Africa's B-Scheme cinema\n\nIdentifies a South African cinema of low-budget blaxploitation\nFeatures many interviews with South African filmmakers, conducted as part of the research\nProvided audiences of the time with unique, apartheid-era adaptations of popular blaxploitation films such as Shaft (1971) and Super Fly(1972)\n\nImages of Apartheid: Filmmaking on the Fringe in the Old South Africa is an exploration of the low budget, black-action cinema that emerged in South Africa during the 1970s and led to subsequent gangster and race-conflict films that defined an era of prolific genre activity, from Joe Bullet (1973) to American Ninja 4 (1990). Contextualising and documenting the cheap, government-funded 'B-Scheme' films, largely unseen since the fall of the National Party, but also acknowledging the impact of international co-productions such as The Wild Geese (1978) and locally made provocation, including the classic Mapantsula (1988), this study is an exhaustive tour of race-representation and state-subsidised subversion. Also discussing the political turbulence of the era, Images of Apartheid argues that so-called 'ZAxploitation' should be considered within both localised and wider international paracinematic networks of genre adaptation, resulting in the identification of a uniquely South African form of trash and treasure, and schlock and awe.","brand":"Edinburgh University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54259457556824,"sku":"9781474450034","price":26.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781474450034.jpg?v=1768045541","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/images-of-apartheid","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}