The Journal of African Cinemas will explore the interactions of visual and verbal narratives in African film. It recognizes the shifting paradigms that have defined and continue to define African cinemas. Identity and perception are interrogated in relation to their positions within diverse African film languages. The editors are seeking papers that expound on the identity or …
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Murder in Paris: a four year journey for director/ producer Enver Samuel
A misty spring morning in Paris, 29 March 1988. Exiled resident of Athlone, Cape Town Dulcie September had just visited the post office to collect mail for the ANC office in France, where she served as a Chief Representative of the African National Congress. She would have been completely unaware, as she pressed the lift …
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Call for Applications: Research Lecturer
AFDA Johannesburg, School of Postgraduate Studies AFDA (The School of the Creative Economy) is the leading school of its kind in South Africa, offering undergraduate and postgraduate degrees in Motion Picture Medium, Live Performance, Business Innovation and Technology. AFDA is a full member of CILECT, the association of the world’s major film and television schools. …
Extended: Indication of Interest Group Involvement in 2020
Dear SACOMM Community, As indicated in a previous email, our annual conference will not go ahead as planned this year, due to the COVID-19 virus and restrictions around it. We do want to make sure, however, that we stay connected within the greater SACOMM community, and especially in our smaller interest groups. Part of that …
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CFP: Alphaville – Journal of Film and Screen Media
Members of the ASPERA Research sub-committee invite submissions of full length (6000 word) research articles and short (2000 word) teaching focused articles for a special issue of Alphaville that poses the question: what further measures can give rise to increased diversity both on screen and behind the camera? In recent years, individuals and groups from inside and …
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CFP: Fliek! Film and/in Afrikaans literature
There are two main reasons why numerous movie releases are still adaptations of literary works. The use of novels or plays as resources for films was initially a method by which the film industry sought to increase the status of the new medium by drawing the attention of fans of “high culture”. Another important reason …
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CFP: CALL FOR PROPOSALS
The 2020 CILECT Congress at Westerdals Institute for Film and Media, Kristiania University College, Oslo, Norway (4-9 October 2020) will incorporate a conference under the title AUDIOVISUAL EDUCATION: IMPACT AND RELEVANCE The global streaming platforms are disrupting traditional film and television linear storytelling and distribution models. The competition to make an impact is stronger than …
Journal of African Cinemas – Volume 11, Number 1
Editorial Journal of African Cinemas: Special Edition on contemporary South African cinema pp. 3-9(7) Authors: Rijsdijk, Ian-Malcolm; Lawrence, Andrew Articles Outsiders, fairy tales and rainbowism in South African comedies: Soweto Green: This is a ‘Tree’ Story (Lister, 1995) and Fanie Fourie’s Lobola (Pretorius, 2013) pp. 11-29Author: Mdege, Norita Unsettling the ‘New’? Apartheid Did Not Die (Lowery, 1998) pp. 31-46Author: Modisane, Litheko Resistance …
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CFP: Film in history / History in film Conference
2-4 April 2020 The South African film industry has a long history, albeit racially fractured, uneven and inconsistent. Since the introduction of Edison’s kinetoscope in 1895, the film industry and a film culture has become deeply entrenched in South African cultural, political and social life. The historical development of the South African film …
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CFP: Journal of African Cinemas & The Conversation
The Journal of African Cinemas (JAC) is working with arts editor Charl Blignaut at The Conversation to increase exposure of African films in its pages. The aim is to recruit short journalistic articles for The Conversation, which can in due course be repurposed into longer reviews of films and even articles for JAC – or …
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