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

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...