Images of Apartheid : Filmmaking on the Fringe in the Old South Africa

## Provides the first study of South Africa’s B-Scheme cinema * Identifies a South African cinema of low-budget blaxploitation * Features many interviews with South African filmmakers, conducted as part of the research * Provided audiences of the time with unique, apartheid-era adaptations of popular blaxploitation films such as __Shaft__ (1971) and __Super Fly__ (1972) __Images 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.