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Memoir and media: Anant Singh’s personage in contemporary South Africa
Available online: 07 September 2023More LessAnant Singh is South Africa’s most prolific film producer. The publication of his memoirs in 2021 occasioned an assessment of this genre in relation to published scholarly research and some other biographies and autobiographies written by contemporary South African filmmakers, radio and television broadcasters. This article mobilizes the Singh story as a framing window through which to make connections with other such works, including studies on the media industry itself, from the early 1980s to 2021. Where autobiographies rarely offer self-reflexive analyses, this article attempts to facilitate a dialogue between different media personalities while simultaneously excavating some hidden transcripts that themselves cast some light on professional practices. The article sketches some of the underlying structural conditions within which the various commentators had to work and on which they comment anecdotally, here examined as latent illustrations of their lived experience.
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De Sable et de Feu: Le Rève Impossible (Sand and Fire: The Impossible Dream!), Souheil Ben-Barka (2019)
Available online: 07 September 2023More LessReviewe of: De Sable et de Feu: Le Rève Impossible (Sand and Fire: The Impossible Dream!), Souheil Ben-Barka (2019), Morocco: Jal’s Production and Flat Parioli
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Equivalence and translatability in the subtitling of South African situation comedies and soap operas
Authors: Mosisili Sebotsa and Goitumetswe MosekiAvailable online: 24 August 2023More LessThe South African television entertainment industry has created a utopia of perfect multilingualism despite existing cultural disparities. The object of any translation consists in communicating in the target language (TL) the message that is functionally equivalent to the one emitted in the source language (SL). This requires use of researched techniques, linguistic and extralinguistic competencies in both languages. However, sometimes the translation fails to tick all the boxes and this calls into question the translation processes followed. This article studies South African sitcoms and soap operas with the aim to explore audio-visual translation (AVT) techniques employed to render subtitles in English. It tries to establish to what extent the English subtitles are equivalent to the discourse uttered by Sesotho speaking actors and to determine how well translators handled both the linguistic and extralinguistic complexities as well as other cultural and creative expressions. It proposes scatologization as a form of subtitling technique that can be used in unique and befitting situations.
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No Simple Way Home, Akuol De Mabior (dir.) (2022)
Available online: 12 July 2023More LessReview of: No Simple Way Home, Akuol De Mabior (dir.) (2022), South Sudan: Lbx Africa and Steps
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Wildlife Documentaries in Southern Africa: From East to South, Ian Glenn (2023)
Available online: 12 July 2023More LessReview of: Wildlife Documentaries in Southern Africa: From East to South, Ian Glenn (2023)
London: Anthem Press, 271 pp.,
ISBN 978-1-83998-150-0, h/bk, £80.00
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Popular Ethiopian Cinema: Love and Other Genres, Michael W. Thomas (2023)
Available online: 12 July 2023More LessReview of: Popular Ethiopian Cinema: Love and Other Genres, Michael W. Thomas (2023)
New York and London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 261 pp.,
ISBN 978-1-35022-741-5, e-book, £76.50
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Images of Apartheid: Filmmaking on the Fringe in the Old South Africa, Calum Waddell (dir.) (2018)
Available online: 12 July 2023More LessReview of: Images of Apartheid: Filmmaking on the Fringe in the Old South Africa, Calum Waddell (dir.) (2018), Uk: Calum Waddell
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Softie, Sam Soko (dir.) (2020)
Available online: 12 July 2023More LessReview of: Softie, Sam Soko (dir.) (2020), Kenya: LBX Africa
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‘Significant errors of fact’? A response to Simon Bright on nationalism, colonialism and anti-essentialism in Zimbabwe’s Cinematic Arts
Available online: 11 July 2023More LessThis response article addresses the misinterpretations, misrepresentations and disparagements of my research by filmmaker Simon Bright. Drawing from my book, Zimbabwe’s Cinematic Arts, which is rooted in my doctoral research conducted in 2001, this response aims to rectify factual errors and clarify the nuanced arguments that were misread by Bright. While acknowledging the importance of continuously reshaping and reforming identities, as highlighted by both Bright and myself, this response underscores that my book primarily focuses on the process of identity formation rather than treating identity as a fixed entity. I emphasize the potential overlaps in our perspectives and call for a collaborative approach that builds upon existing scholarship. My response aims to foster a productive dialogue and invites Bright and other filmmakers to contribute further to the transnational history of Southern African filmmaking. By drawing on their years of experience, it is my hope that future works on this subject will enrich the field, serving to enhance and expand upon existing scholarship rather than detract from it.
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Deconstructing gender and family norms in new Tunisian cinema: A queer reading of Ala Eddine Slim’s Tlamess/طلامس(2019)
Available online: 03 July 2023More LessThis article seeks to problematize the concept of queer cinema and then to illuminate conceptual nuances through the analysis of a specific film. The Tunisian feature film Tlamess can be read as queer on two levels. First, its queerness relates to the protagonist, a deserter who undergoes a fundamental metamorphosis: he frees himself from the patterns of military masculinity and, far from the normative world, takes on a maternal role. Second, the dissolution of the traditional gender and family order is staged through cinematic processes that introduce the viewers to a pre-verbal world outside of established symbolic and social patterns. Expressive audio-visual techniques transfer the viewers into this alternative world and create an experience of difference, a kind of mind game. Thus, queer cinema should not only be understood in terms of political activism, as an examination of characters supposedly deviating from gender norms. Rather, and crucially, it emerges in a much broader sense out of the strategies of aesthetic mise en scène.
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2022 African Movie Festival, Gas Station Arts Centre in Winnipeg, Manitoba, 23–25 September 2022
Authors: Giovana Nabarrete de Souza Cruz, Babatunde Onikoyi and Sheila PettyAvailable online: 30 June 2023More LessReview of: 2022 African Movie Festival, Gas Station Arts Centre in Winnipeg, Manitoba, 23–25 September 2022
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