South African Horror Cinema
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-5013-8506-3 (ISBN)
This is the first study to explore South Africa both in horror cinema and as a formidable producer of celluloid scares.
From framing the notorious apartheid system as a mental asylum in the ground-breaking and criminally underseen Jannie Totsiens (Jans Rautenbach, 1970) to such seventies exploitation shockers as The Demon (Percival Rubens, 1979) through to the blockbuster hit District 9 (Neill Blomkamp, 2009) and beyond, this book suggests that South Africa should finally obtain its rightful place in the canon of wider genre studies and horror cinema fandom.
Taking in the 80s nightmares of Darrell Roodt and concluding with an analysis of the recent boom-period in South African fright-films, including discussion of such contemporary efforts as The Tokoloshe (Jerome Pikwane, 2018) and the Troma-esque leanings of Fried Barry (Ryan Kruger, 2020), South African Horror Cinema focuses on ever-changing identities and perspectives, and embraces the frequently carnivalesque and grotesque elements of a most unique lineage in macabre motion pictures.
Calum Waddell is a lecturer at the University of Aberdeen, UK, and has authored such monographs as The Style of Sleaze: The American Exploitation Film (2018) and Images of Apartheid: Filmmaking on the Fringe in the Old South Africa (2023).
List of Figures
About the Author
Acknowledgements
Foreword
Introduction: South African Horror Cinema: An Introduction
1. Problems Enough in South Africa: Jannie totsiens and the Birth of South African Horror Cinema
2. The Myth of Integration: South African Horror in the Seventies
3. Total Onslaught: The Anti-Apartheid Nightmare Cinema of Darrell Roodt
4. South African Trash: The B-Scheme Initiative
5. Greater Intimidation: South African Horror in the Final Years of Apartheid
6. Country of my Skull: District 9 and South African Horror After Apartheid
7. Schlock, Showmax and Soft Power: South African Horror Cinema After District 9
CONCLUSION: “Unreal and Imaginary” – South African Horror Cinema
Bibliography
Filmography
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 22.08.2025 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Global Exploitation Cinemas |
| Zusatzinfo | 55 bw illus |
| Verlagsort | New York |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 154 x 230 mm |
| Gewicht | 560 g |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-5013-8506-2 / 1501385062 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-5013-8506-3 / 9781501385063 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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