Haseenah Ebrahim
Biographic Data
| ID | 3673302 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Haseenah Ebrahim |
| GIVEN NAMES | Haseenah |
| FAMILY NAME | Ebrahim |
| SIGNATURE | EBRAHIM H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of the Witwatersrand |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1852-5468 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
A poetics of sensuality: Xenophobia and same-sex intimacy in cane/cain
This article offers a reading of the ways in which the short film, cane/cain (directed by Jordache Ellapen, adopts a poetics of sensuality to both unsettle and undergird its themes of South Asian migration, sexual intimacy and xenophobia in South Africa. While both homosexuality and xenophobia are not uncommon sites of public discourses in South Africa, cane/cain unearths the less visible faces of both by centring Brown bodies in corporeal collis…
Cinematic Sidestreams: A Political Economy of Small Cinemas in South Africa
This article shifts the focus away from South Africa's mainstream film industry to present a critical political economy of “small cinemas” in South Africa. Comprising several vibrant but under-visible cinematic sidestreams which emerged in the first decade after the country's formal transition to a democratic political dispensation, the small cinema sector has elicited little scholarship and only occasional media attention. A key proposition offe…
Traversing the Cinemascape of Contemporary South Africa: A Peripatetic Journey
This article offers a series of observations, reflections, descriptions and opinions as stopping points on a tour of the multifaceted cinemascape of South Africa. It addresses how discourses of cinema in South Africa conflate the development of a distinctive South African cinema with the development of a robust film industry—concealing the structural barriers to entry, the development of indigenous aesthetics, and domestic audience development. I…
Science-women: Arcane knowledge and African spirituality in independent African-American cinema of the 1990s
This article explores the significant role played by arcane knowledge and expressions of African spirituality in the iconography of powerful black women in three films directed by independent African-American filmmakers in the 1990s: Sankofa (Haile Gerima, 1993, USA), Mother of the River (Zeinabu irene Davis, 1995, USA), and Eve’s Bayou (Kasi Lemmons, 1997, USA). My discussion draws on the orature and legendary tales of West African-based cosmolo…
Cinema in Postapartheid South Africa: New Perspectives
Cinema in Postapartheid South Africa: New Perspectives Haseenah Ebrahim (bio) and Jordache A. Ellapen (bio) As we approach a quarter of a century of democracy in South Africa, this special Close-Up offers fresh perspectives that reflect critically on cinema and film culture in South Africa. Our contributors address developments within an industry and a creative culture that once marginalized the majority Black (African, Indian, Coloured) South Af…
The cinematic life of the Sistren Theater Collective: Forays Into Biographical Documentary
This article explores two biographical video documentaries produced by the Sistren Theater Collective of Jamaica. Together, the documentaries, Miss Amy and Miss May and The Drums Keep Sounding, document the lives of three Jamaican women activists: Amy Bailey, May Farquharson and Louise Bennett-Coverley. Although video/film production never attained a prominent role in Sistren’s approach to its activism, which focused on participatory drama to add…
South Africa
The involvement of women in the film industry in South Africa dates back to the apartheid era when several white women worked within what was then, as now, a white, male-dominated industry. In some instances, these women worked in professional partnerships with their husbands, such as producer-director Katinka Heyns who continues to work with her scriptwriter husband, Chris Barnard. While women screenwriters remain outnumbered by their male count…
The global film book
Haseenah EbrahimWits School of Arts, University of the [email protected]© 2014, Haseenah Ebrahim
From “ghetto” to mainstream: Bollywood in South Africa
This essay explores two aspects of the Bollywood "phenomenon" as it has played out, in the past decade, in South Africa - a part of the Indian diaspora where the popularity of the Hindi-Indian cinema has an established history. Firstly, the article maps the expansion of Bollywood beyond the Indian diasporic audience to so-called "crossover" audiences, a phenomenon I have labelled the "mainstreaming" of Bollywood in South Africa. Secondly, it exam…
Sarita and the Revolution: Race and Cuban Cinema
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Science-women: Arcane knowledge and African spirituality in independent African-American cinema of the 1990s
This article explores the significant role played by arcane knowledge and expressions of African spirituality in the iconography of powerful black women in three films directed by independent African-American filmmakers in the 1990s: Sankofa (Haile Gerima, 1993, USA), Mother of the River (Zeinabu irene Davis, 1995, USA), and Eve’s Bayou (Kasi Lemmons, 1997, USA). My discussion draws on the orature and legendary tales of West African-based cosmolo…
The cinematic life of the Sistren Theater Collective: Forays Into Biographical Documentary
This article explores two biographical video documentaries produced by the Sistren Theater Collective of Jamaica. Together, the documentaries, Miss Amy and Miss May and The Drums Keep Sounding, document the lives of three Jamaican women activists: Amy Bailey, May Farquharson and Louise Bennett-Coverley. Although video/film production never attained a prominent role in Sistren’s approach to its activism, which focused on participatory drama to add…
From “ghetto” to mainstream: Bollywood in South Africa
This essay explores two aspects of the Bollywood "phenomenon" as it has played out, in the past decade, in South Africa - a part of the Indian diaspora where the popularity of the Hindi-Indian cinema has an established history. Firstly, the article maps the expansion of Bollywood beyond the Indian diasporic audience to so-called "crossover" audiences, a phenomenon I have labelled the "mainstreaming" of Bollywood in South Africa. Secondly, it exam…
Sarita and the Revolution: Race and Cuban Cinema
nnb
Sarita and the Revolution: Race and Cuban Cinema
nnb
From “ghetto” to mainstream: Bollywood in South Africa
This essay explores two aspects of the Bollywood "phenomenon" as it has played out, in the past decade, in South Africa - a part of the Indian diaspora where the popularity of the Hindi-Indian cinema has an established history. Firstly, the article maps the expansion of Bollywood beyond the Indian diasporic audience to so-called "crossover" audiences, a phenomenon I have labelled the "mainstreaming" of Bollywood in South Africa. Secondly, it exam…
The global film book
Haseenah EbrahimWits School of Arts, University of the [email protected]© 2014, Haseenah Ebrahim
South Africa
The involvement of women in the film industry in South Africa dates back to the apartheid era when several white women worked within what was then, as now, a white, male-dominated industry. In some instances, these women worked in professional partnerships with their husbands, such as producer-director Katinka Heyns who continues to work with her scriptwriter husband, Chris Barnard. While women screenwriters remain outnumbered by their male count…
The cinematic life of the Sistren Theater Collective: Forays Into Biographical Documentary
This article explores two biographical video documentaries produced by the Sistren Theater Collective of Jamaica. Together, the documentaries, Miss Amy and Miss May and The Drums Keep Sounding, document the lives of three Jamaican women activists: Amy Bailey, May Farquharson and Louise Bennett-Coverley. Although video/film production never attained a prominent role in Sistren’s approach to its activism, which focused on participatory drama to add…
Traversing the Cinemascape of Contemporary South Africa: A Peripatetic Journey
This article offers a series of observations, reflections, descriptions and opinions as stopping points on a tour of the multifaceted cinemascape of South Africa. It addresses how discourses of cinema in South Africa conflate the development of a distinctive South African cinema with the development of a robust film industry—concealing the structural barriers to entry, the development of indigenous aesthetics, and domestic audience development. I…
Science-women: Arcane knowledge and African spirituality in independent African-American cinema of the 1990s
This article explores the significant role played by arcane knowledge and expressions of African spirituality in the iconography of powerful black women in three films directed by independent African-American filmmakers in the 1990s: Sankofa (Haile Gerima, 1993, USA), Mother of the River (Zeinabu irene Davis, 1995, USA), and Eve’s Bayou (Kasi Lemmons, 1997, USA). My discussion draws on the orature and legendary tales of West African-based cosmolo…
Cinema in Postapartheid South Africa: New Perspectives
Cinema in Postapartheid South Africa: New Perspectives Haseenah Ebrahim (bio) and Jordache A. Ellapen (bio) As we approach a quarter of a century of democracy in South Africa, this special Close-Up offers fresh perspectives that reflect critically on cinema and film culture in South Africa. Our contributors address developments within an industry and a creative culture that once marginalized the majority Black (African, Indian, Coloured) South Af…
Cinematic Sidestreams: A Political Economy of Small Cinemas in South Africa
This article shifts the focus away from South Africa's mainstream film industry to present a critical political economy of “small cinemas” in South Africa. Comprising several vibrant but under-visible cinematic sidestreams which emerged in the first decade after the country's formal transition to a democratic political dispensation, the small cinema sector has elicited little scholarship and only occasional media attention. A key proposition offe…
A poetics of sensuality: Xenophobia and same-sex intimacy in cane/cain
This article offers a reading of the ways in which the short film, cane/cain (directed by Jordache Ellapen, adopts a poetics of sensuality to both unsettle and undergird its themes of South Asian migration, sexual intimacy and xenophobia in South Africa. While both homosexuality and xenophobia are not uncommon sites of public discourses in South Africa, cane/cain unearths the less visible faces of both by centring Brown bodies in corporeal collis…
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