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Title Mapantsula (Hustler).

Publication Info. [San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2015.

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Description 1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 101 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
digital
video file MPEG-4 Flash
Note Title from title frames.
Event Originally produced by California Newsreel in 1988.
Summary Mapantsula was the first anti-apartheid feature film by, for and about black South Africans. Filmed inside Soweto, scored to the urban beat of "Township Jive," Mapantsula has been called a South African The Harder They Come. Mapantsula tells the story of Panic, a petty gangster who inevitably becomes caught up in the growing anti-apartheid struggle and has to choose between individual gain and a united stand against the system. Mapantsula will give viewers an insider's tour of township life and a foretaste of the vibrant popular cinema promised by the new, democratic South Africa. "A moral drama in disguise...Our conscience and sense of outrage are ripped open." - Los Angeles Times "It's about time a feature film presents South Africa from a black perspective. Mapantsula does that and much more." - Spike Lee.
System Details Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Subject Anti-apartheid movements -- Africa -- South Africa -- Drama.
Black people -- Africa -- South Africa -- Johannesburg -- Social conditions.
Genre/Form Feature films.
Added Author Schmitz, Oliver 1960- film director.
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