Legacies of Apartheid: Encountering South African History through Film

A FILM SERIES
sponsored by the Legacies of Authoritarianism Research Circle, the Global
Studies Program and the African Studies Program

In Darkest Hollywood:  Cinema and Apartheid

With an introduction by Prof. Jo Ellen Fair, Director of the African Studies
Program

Monday February 7, 2000
4:30pm-7pm, Van Hise Rm 104

Released in 1993, In Darkest Hollywood (108 min) turns the lens toward the
filmmakers and the South African society they so often misrepresented.  Films
generally supported the ethos of racial domination that led to apartheid
and it was only after Africans insisted on being heard that they began to be
portrayed on-screen as more than adjuncts of whites.  Jo Ellen Fair is the
Director of the African Studies Program; she is a professor in the
Department of Journalism and Mass Communications.

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