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Begging for change: engaging with Johannesburg in post-apartheid South African film
Includes bibliographical references.
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| author | Herman, Daniel David |
| author2 | Rijsdijk, Ian-Malcolm |
| author_browse | Herman, Daniel David Rijsdijk, Ian-Malcolm |
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| spelling | oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/12316 Begging for change: engaging with Johannesburg in post-apartheid South African film Herman, Daniel David Rijsdijk, Ian-Malcolm Film and Media Studies Includes bibliographical references. The city of Johannesburg is globally identified with issues of inequality, prejudice and transformation. This identification is reinforced by the city's representation in film, in particular those of the post-apartheid era, which tend to emphasize the city's problems. The transformative power of living in Johannesburg, in particular how this experience impacts and shifts the personalities and experiences of the city's inhabitants, is often ignored. This thesis sets out to explore and analyse the consequences of engagement with Johannesburg by exploring the impact of the city on the protagonists in four post-apartheid Johannesburg films. The films that will be analysed - Jump the Gun (1996), Hijack Stories (2000), Tsotsi (2005), and District 9 (2009) - portray life in post-apartheid Johannesburg. These films were chosen because they have narratives that illustrate character transformation through exposure to the city of Johannesburg. The decision to focus on films that depict this era is deliberate, and I have done this in order to identify a new way of living in Johannesburg that is unique to this time period. In addition, the spread of years highlights how the experience of living in Johannesburg has changed over time. 2015-01-27T09:37:36Z 2015-01-27T09:37:36Z 2012 Master Thesis Masters MA http://hdl.handle.net/11427/12316 eng application/pdf Centre for Film and Media Studies Faculty of Humanities University of Cape Town |
| spellingShingle | Film and Media Studies Herman, Daniel David Begging for change: engaging with Johannesburg in post-apartheid South African film |
| thesis_degree_str | Master's |
| title | Begging for change: engaging with Johannesburg in post-apartheid South African film |
| title_full | Begging for change: engaging with Johannesburg in post-apartheid South African film |
| title_fullStr | Begging for change: engaging with Johannesburg in post-apartheid South African film |
| title_full_unstemmed | Begging for change: engaging with Johannesburg in post-apartheid South African film |
| title_short | Begging for change: engaging with Johannesburg in post-apartheid South African film |
| title_sort | begging for change engaging with johannesburg in post apartheid south african film |
| topic | Film and Media Studies |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/11427/12316 |
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