Pioneers in South African film history: Thelma gutsche's tribute to William Kennedy Laurie Dickson, the man who filmed the boer war
2005; Routledge; Volume: 25; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1080/01439680500263049
ISSN1465-3451
Autores Tópico(s)South African History and Culture
ResumoClick to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Michael Eckardt studied Cultural, Communication and Media Studies in Weimar (Germany), Vienna (Austria), Durban and Stellenbosch (South Africa). He received a degree from Bauhaus-University Weimar (Diplomkulturwissenschaftler) and a Master of Philosophy (Journalism) from Stellenbosch University with a thesis on film criticism in Cape Town 1928–1930. His PhD will investigate the reception of Weimar cinema in South Africa, 1928–1933. Notes Notes 1. Jacqueline Maingard, Film studies in South Africa, Screen 38 (1997), 190–191. 2. Thelma Gutsche, The History and Social Significance of Motion Pictures in South Africa 1985–1940 (Cape Town, 1972). 3. Keyan G. Tomaselli, Cinema of Apartheid: Race and Class in South African Cinema (London, 1989). 4. Johann Blignaut/Martin Botha, Movies-Moguls-Mavericks: South African Cinema 1979–1991 (Johannesburg, 1992). 5. Lothar Mikos, Filmgeschichte als Rezeptions- und Wirkungsgeschichte, Beiträge zur Film- und Fernsehwissenschaft 47 (1993), 155–175. 6. Ntongela Masilela, Thelma Gutsche: a great South African film scholar, Critical Arts, 14 (2000), 53. 7. Masilela, op. cit., p. 50. 8. Michael Eckardt, Film Criticism in Cape Town 1928–1930 (Stellenbosch, 2005), p. 9ff. 9. Nadine Gordimer, Face to Face: Short Stories (Johannesburg, 1949). 10. E.g. Manfred Nathan, Not Heaven Itself: An Autobiography (Durban, 1946). 11. Michael Eckardt (2004), A privileged access to the history of popular culture in South Africa—The Thelma Gutsche Papers, South African Theatre Journal, 18 (2004), 253. 12. W K L Dickson, The Biograph in Battle (reprint, Madison, 1995). 13. Some reels with shots of the Ambulance Corps crossing the Tugela River after the battle of Spion Kop were recently rediscovered. Cf. UK National Film and Television Archive, Schultze Collection, cans 12, 40B and 45C. 14. Cf. Richard Brown, Introduction to the second edition of The Biograph in Battle, pp. i–viii. 15. Reproduced with permission of the Johannesburg Public Library/Harold Strange Library of African Studies; Thelma Gutsche Collection, shelf no. S Pam 920 Dickson. 16. W K L Dickson/Antonia Dickson, The Life and Inventions of Thomas Alva Edison (London, 1894). 17. Cf. Terry Ramsaye, A Million and One Nights: A History of the Motion Picture (New York, 1926). 18. The second Anglo-Boer War started in 1899 and ended in 1902 with the Treaty of Vereeniging.
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