Lokale realisme in speelprente van Raro en Carfo: 'n inhoudsontleding
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Date
1988-12
Authors
Wheeler, Philippus Ferdinand
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University of the Free State
Abstract
A survey of the literature showed that a group of Afrikaners,
from about 1938, strifed to create Afrikaans films which would
be cultural products of the Afrikaner. Their motivation was to
combat the cultural imperialism of the imported Hollywood films
and to take control of Afrikaans film production. The
literature shows that up to 1938, Afrikaans film production was
dominated by outsiders - people who were not part of the
Afrikaner nation. To attain this goal then, this group of
Afrikaners organised themselves in the Volksrolprentbond in
1939, then disbanded and regrouped in 1940 in the
Reddingsdaadbond-Amateurrolprentorganisasie (Raro).
Eventually, however, it was a group of Afrikaans clergymen from
the Dutch Reformed Church, with a few former members of the
defunct Raro, who founded the Christelike Afrikaanse Rolprent
en Fotografiese Organisasie (Carfo) in 1947.
Carfo made fourteen feature films. The research in this study
was aimed at the description of a local realist tendency among
Afrikaans feature films. It eventually focussed on these
fourteen films.
The literature study indicated that four general elements of
style manifested itself in Carfo's feature films. The first,
the adaptation of Afrikaanse novels, was a well established
fact. The content analysis was therefore aimed to test for the three remaining elements of style, that is:
propaganda, Afrikaner locality and realism.
feature films of Carfo were tested.
Christian
All fourteen
The result was a confirmation of the indications of the
literature study: the feature films of Carfo constitute a
Christian local realist tendency in the Afrikaans film
industry. It is an identifiable religious genre, embedded in
the Afrikaner's culture.
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Motion pictures -- South Africa, Dissertation (M.A. (Communication Science)) - University of the Free State, 1988