Redefining the griot : a history of South African documentary film

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dc.contributor.advisorMendelsohn, Richarden_ZA
dc.contributor.advisorBickford-Smith, Vivianen_ZA
dc.contributor.authorDa Canha, Tarynen_ZA
dc.date.accessioned2016-03-17T12:43:42Z
dc.date.available2016-03-17T12:43:42Z
dc.date.issued2001en_ZA
dc.descriptionIncludes bibliography and filmography.en_ZA
dc.description.abstractThe South African film industry, like the rest of the country, has gone through a very difficult and trying time over the last century and has been faced with enormous challenges since 1994. South Africa is still in a process of transition and the turbulent era of Apartheid is still vivid in our memories and our collective national identity. What is especially exciting about studying the history of the South African film industry, is that it was through film, television and the media at large, that we witnessed the evolution of this history. On a microscopic scale, the history of the film industry, is that of the country, and many of the effects of Apartheid that are being experienced in South Africa today, are likewise being experienced by the film industry. Thus by seeking to understand the historical relationship between film and politics in South Africa, we are enabled to comprehend and contextualise the circumstances that have determined film's socio-political, economic and cultural place in society today. It was with this intention that I began to investigate the documentary film industry in South Africa. My particular interest was in the development of an independent, progressive documentary film movement that tentatively originated in the late nineteen fifties and established itself in the late seventies and eighties as a major force in the resistance movement. Concentrating on organisations such as the International Defense and Aid Fund to Southern Africa (IDAF), Video News Services/ Afravision, and the Community Video Education Trust (CVET), as well as many individual anti-Apartheid filmmakers, the focus of this paper and documentary film, Redefining the Griot, is thus limited to an analysis of the history of socio-political documentary filmmaking in South Africa, in particular, the anti-Apartheid film and video movement that emerged both in reaction to the ideologically-specific and restrictive State control of media, film and eventually television, and as a cultural weapon in the liberation struggle. Understanding this history enables valuable insight into the nature of the documentary film and video-making industry today - one that is still considered emergent in terms of having a homogeneous national identity.en_ZA
dc.identifier.apacitationDa Canha, T. (2001). <i>Redefining the griot : a history of South African documentary film</i>. (Thesis). University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Department of Historical Studies. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11427/17956en_ZA
dc.identifier.chicagocitationDa Canha, Taryn. <i>"Redefining the griot : a history of South African documentary film."</i> Thesis., University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Department of Historical Studies, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/17956en_ZA
dc.identifier.citationDa Canha, T. 2001. Redefining the griot : a history of South African documentary film. University of Cape Town.en_ZA
dc.identifier.ris TY - Thesis / Dissertation AU - Da Canha, Taryn AB - The South African film industry, like the rest of the country, has gone through a very difficult and trying time over the last century and has been faced with enormous challenges since 1994. South Africa is still in a process of transition and the turbulent era of Apartheid is still vivid in our memories and our collective national identity. What is especially exciting about studying the history of the South African film industry, is that it was through film, television and the media at large, that we witnessed the evolution of this history. On a microscopic scale, the history of the film industry, is that of the country, and many of the effects of Apartheid that are being experienced in South Africa today, are likewise being experienced by the film industry. Thus by seeking to understand the historical relationship between film and politics in South Africa, we are enabled to comprehend and contextualise the circumstances that have determined film's socio-political, economic and cultural place in society today. It was with this intention that I began to investigate the documentary film industry in South Africa. My particular interest was in the development of an independent, progressive documentary film movement that tentatively originated in the late nineteen fifties and established itself in the late seventies and eighties as a major force in the resistance movement. Concentrating on organisations such as the International Defense and Aid Fund to Southern Africa (IDAF), Video News Services/ Afravision, and the Community Video Education Trust (CVET), as well as many individual anti-Apartheid filmmakers, the focus of this paper and documentary film, Redefining the Griot, is thus limited to an analysis of the history of socio-political documentary filmmaking in South Africa, in particular, the anti-Apartheid film and video movement that emerged both in reaction to the ideologically-specific and restrictive State control of media, film and eventually television, and as a cultural weapon in the liberation struggle. Understanding this history enables valuable insight into the nature of the documentary film and video-making industry today - one that is still considered emergent in terms of having a homogeneous national identity. DA - 2001 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PB - University of Cape Town PY - 2001 T1 - Redefining the griot : a history of South African documentary film TI - Redefining the griot : a history of South African documentary film UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/17956 ER - en_ZA
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11427/17956
dc.identifier.vancouvercitationDa Canha T. Redefining the griot : a history of South African documentary film. [Thesis]. University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Department of Historical Studies, 2001 [cited yyyy month dd]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11427/17956en_ZA
dc.language.isoengen_ZA
dc.publisher.departmentDepartment of Historical Studiesen_ZA
dc.publisher.facultyFaculty of Humanitiesen_ZA
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Cape Town
dc.subject.otherSouth African Historical Studiesen_ZA
dc.titleRedefining the griot : a history of South African documentary filmen_ZA
dc.typeMaster Thesis
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