8. Be More Like Miriam: The Women of ZAxploitation

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. List of Figures vii
4. Acknowledgements xi
5. Traditions in World Cinema xiii
6. Note xv
7. Introduction 1
8. 1. That’s ZAxploitation! South African Blaxploitation 19
9. 2. Joe Bullet: The Unacknowledged Blaxploitation Hero 41
10. 3. Simon Sabela: Blaxploitation Icon? 58
11. 4. Into the Bioscope: The South African B-Scheme Explosion of the 1980s 75
12. 5. Crime Does Not Pay: Morality in the B-Scheme 108
13. 6. The Badass: Stickin’ it to Apartheid? 125
14. 7. For the Common Good? The ZAxploitation Buddy Movie 149
15. 8. Be More Like Miriam: The Women of ZAxploitation 171
16. 9. Armed and Dangerous: The Border War 190
17. 10. A Different Kind of Gangster Cinema? Mapantsula and a State of ‘Panic’ 211
18. Conclusion 229
19. Filmography 240
20. Bibliography 246
21. Online Resources 253
22. Interviews Conducted 255
23. Index 256