Addamms Songe Mututa
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 216985 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Addamms Songe Mututa |
| PRENOMES | Addamms Songe |
| SOBRENOME | Mututa |
| ASSINATURA | MUTUTA A S |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Johannesburg |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7484-4335 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 36 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 4 |
| OBRAS COMO AUTOR | 36 |
| OBRAS COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2019 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
The materiality of postapartheid
In 1994, South Africa transitioned from apartheid rule to a post-apartheid democracy, with a constitution in place. Significant scholarship has since covered the many constitutionalised aspects of the period after the end of apartheid: governance, political, social, cultural, and economic, among others. Less discussed is how citizens’ everyday life in this period was not merely about inhabiting a new time, but rather encountered that time as a un…
Post-apartheid theory and post-apartheid black cinema
Post-apartheid theory and post-apartheid Black cinema may appear as separate knowledge routes. Yet, both share a common ground: explicating the epistemology of post-apartheid times and enunciating the cultural expressions of its conditions, respectively. They overlap in the discussions on, among others, post-apartheid cultures, psyches, materiality, and identities. In this article, I take the idea of commons in Johannesburg during the pre-2010 FI…
Cinema poetics in South Africa’s post-apartheid animation narratives
How can we know whether the meaning that was in the film is the same as the one we get when we watch it? This article proposes that meaning must transgress between diegesis and non-diegesis, and between the real and the fictional through a semiotic process. The article is thus about how meaning is communicated from the film to its audiences. It uses the concept of narrative metalepsis to critique the theoretical possibilities for cinema meanings …
Curating Remembrance in Post-Apartheid South Africa
Until his death, South Africa’s Sam Nzima was known for his iconic photograph of the 1976 Soweto Uprising on 16 June. This photo, capturing the fatality of the 13-year-old Zolile Hector Pieterson, heralded the representational turning point in the global community’s commitment to opposing apartheid. While Nzima was never memorialized as an anti-apartheid hero, the subject of his photograph is honored with the Hector Pieterson Memorial and Museum …
Milisuthando, Milisuthando Bongela (dir.) (2023), South Africa
Review of: Milisuthando , Milisuthando Bongela (dir.) (2023), South Africa: Multitude Films
Uncovering Memory
Review of: Uncovering Memory: Filming in South Africa, Germany, Poland and Bosnia/Herzegovina , Tanja Sakota (2023) Johannesburg: Wits University Press, 355 pp., ISBN 978-1-77614-800-4, web PDF, USD 40.00
Re-Framing Loss in South Sudan’s Biographical Cinema
Cinemas of the Global South
African identities and critical postcolonial theory
Postcolonial theory usefully guided anti-colonial activities and literary criticism for most of the 19th and 20th centuries. Critics have, however, questioned its nature, limits, and the continued relevance of its structures in contemporary times. This article probes the dialectic of postcolonial methods and theories, arguing that a disjunction exists between today’s postcolonialism and the theoretical signs mobilized to represent it. It makes a …
Sisyphean Existences in Surfing Soweto
Artistic epistemologies
What is Africa? Is it what it was, say, a century ago? What knowledge about contemporary Africa is deducible through its cinemas? These questions are the backdrop of this Special Issue of the Journal of African Cinemas , which aggregates different apertures through which Africa can be grasped through its diverse cinematic cultures. The issue connects the idea of Africa, in the sense of Africanism, with its cultural ontologies. The different debat…
How to Steal a Country, Rehad Desai and Mark J. Kaplan (dirs) (2019), South Africa
Review of: How to Steal a Country , Rehad Desai and Mark J. Kaplan (dirs) (2019), South Africa: Uhuru Productions
African Cinema in a Global Age, Kenneth W. Harrow (2024)
Review of: African Cinema in a Global Age , Kenneth W. Harrow (2024) New York and London: Routledge, 291 pp., ISBN 978-1-03250-252-6, h/bk, £35.99
Multiphrenic Identities and Cultural Theory in Post-Apartheid Literary Adaptations
Nationhood in South Sudan Cinema
Post-cessation nationhood in South Sudan presented a paradoxical situation: a country united during struggle is fragmented after independence. Among the triggers for this scenario was the death of Dr John Garang de Mabior—the country’s founding father. This article is a multidisciplinary semiotic critique of Akuol de Mabior’s film, No Simple Way Home (2023), against the history of South Sudanese nationhood. Without claiming a political scientific…
Epistemology of the Ethnographic Image
Many of us consider ethnographic and biographical films as fixed categories, serving differentiated knowledge schemas. Yet, in the context of autobiographical filmmaking, the categories overlap, and new aesthetic and genre possibilities emerge. This article arises from this context; where post-Independence South Sudan's film narratives merge visual ethnography's attentiveness with realist narration, and biographical film's reflexivity toward melo…
The Battle of Algiers, Alan O’leary (2019)
Review of: The Battle of Algiers , Alan O’Leary (2019) Milan: Mimesis International, 127 pp., ISBN 978-8-86977-079-1, e-book, $18
Reductionism and post-apartheid culture
Incidences of residential building hijacking which characterize post-apartheid Johannesburg have drawn debates from diverse fields of scholarship: anthropological, legal, social, literary and even cinema. Do they instantiate outright criminality, incomplete adjustment into the city, strategies for socio-economic restitution or acts of inverse racism? This article, an interdisciplinary probe into the representation of building hijacking in Ralph Z…
Africa’s Lost Classics
Review of: Africa’s Lost Classics: New Histories of African Cinema , Lizelle Bisschoff and David Murphy (eds) (2014) Oxon and New York: Modern Humanities Research Association and Routledge, 217 pp., ISBN 978-1-90797-551-6, h/bk, $48.95
The 21st Century Film, TV & Media School
Review of: The 21st Century Film, TV & Media School: Challenges, Clashes, Changes , Maria Dora Mourão, Stanislav Semerdjiev, Cecília Mello and Alan Taylor (eds) (2016) Sofia: CILECT – The International Association of Film and Television Schools, 476 pp., ISBN 978-6-19735-800-1, Kindle version, $33
No Simple Way Home, Akuol de Mabior (dir.) (2022), South Sudan
Review of: No Simple Way Home , Akuol de Mabior (dir.) (2022), South Sudan: LBx Africa and STEPS
Projecting Nation
Review of: Projecting Nation: South African Cinemas after 1994 , Cara Moyer-Duncan (2020) East Lansing, MI: Michigan State University Press, 298 pp., ISBN 978-1-60917-638-9, e-book, $54.95
Interview with Anna-Marie Jansen van Vuuren on her experience as an organizer of the Tshwane University of Technology (Tigritudes) Film Festival
Journal of African Cinemas interviewed Professor Anna-Marie Jansen van Vuuren about her experience of organizing the Tigritudes and TUT Film Festival that took place as part of the 2023 Tshwane University of Technology’s Annual Arts Festival
Reflections on interactive cinema spaces
Preview this article: Reflections on interactive cinema spaces: Tigritudes' curated film experience at the Tshwane University of Technology Arts Festival, Page 1 of 1 /docserver/preview/fulltext/jac/15/1/jac.15.1.103_Mututa-1.gif
Space and Time in African Cinema and Cine-scapes, Kenneth W. Harrow (2022)
Review of: Space and Time in African Cinema and Cine-scapes , Kenneth W. Harrow (2022) New York and London: Routledge, 238 pp., ISBN 978-1-00328-889-3, e-book, $35.09
Sisyphean Existences in Surfing Soweto
Theorizing Afrophobia Beyond Apartheid
The persistent Afrophobic attacks on black African immigrants in South Africa since the 1990s alert us to a new cultural watershed. Just when the country had done away with apartheid, the black-on-black attacks reified the emergence of a new cultural crisis. This article reflects on the emergent cultural identities enabled by practices of black-black violence. It takes conflict cultures as a frame to discuss Afrophobia in the context of new ident…
Customizing post-apartheid Johannesburg
In post-apartheid inner-Johannesburg, the built environment reflects a city no longer wrenched apart by race, but by socio-economic stratification. Even as the city is refurbished for global appeal through gentrification, the rich-poor tussle among black urban dwellers motivates peculiar spatial practices which, while illustrating embedded urban pressures, produce new urban rationalities. Among these practices is hijacking of white-owned building…
Johannesburg in Transition
Clint Eastwood's Invictus (2009) uses subtle interplay between various cinematic elements, including a social realist approach to the political narrative of a 1990s Johannesburg and dynamic framing of the street to reflect the changing political psyche of the city as it transitioned from apartheid to racial coexistence and finally racial cohesion. Yet, when read within the context of the political transition that the film pursues and the incipien…
Johannesburg in Transition
Clint Eastwood's Invictus (2009) uses subtle interplay between various cinematic elements, including a social realist approach to the political narrative of a 1990s Johannesburg and dynamic framing of the street to reflect the changing political psyche of the city as it transitioned from apartheid to racial coexistence and finally racial cohesion. Yet, when read within the context of the political transition that the film pursues and the incipien…
Customizing post-apartheid Johannesburg
In post-apartheid inner-Johannesburg, the built environment reflects a city no longer wrenched apart by race, but by socio-economic stratification. Even as the city is refurbished for global appeal through gentrification, the rich-poor tussle among black urban dwellers motivates peculiar spatial practices which, while illustrating embedded urban pressures, produce new urban rationalities. Among these practices is hijacking of white-owned building…
Spectacle and Diversity
Review of: Spectacle and Diversity: Transnational Media and Global Culture , Lee Artz (2022) London and New York: Routledge, 260 pp., ISBN 978-0-36775-417-4, e-book, £31.49
What's a Cellphilm? Integrating mobile phone technology into participatory visual research and activism
This book review essay aggregates various research ideas on cellphilms and participatory research methodology advanced through Katie MacEntee, Casey Burkholder and Joshua Schwab-Cartas’ recently edited volume in the subject. It also collocates these ideas with the wider research topography within the field of visual cultures, providing summarized synthesis of contemporary thought in the subject. The essay also seeks to provoke new research agenda…
Images of Apartheid
Review of: Images of Apartheid: Filmmaking on the Fringe in the Old South Africa, Calum Waddell (dir.) (2018), Uk: Calum Waddell
Wildlife Documentaries in Southern Africa
Review of: Wildlife Documentaries in Southern Africa: From East to South , Ian Glenn (2023) London: Anthem Press, 271 pp., ISBN 978-1-83998-150-0, h/bk, £80.00
Softie, Sam Soko (dir.) (2020), Kenya
Review of: Softie , Sam Soko (dir.) (2020), Kenya: LBX Africa
Popular Ethiopian Cinema
Review of: Popular Ethiopian Cinema: Love and Other Genres , Michael W. Thomas (2023) New York and London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 261 pp., ISBN 978-1-35022-741-5, e-book, £76.50
The Battle of Algiers, Alan O’leary (2019)
Review of: The Battle of Algiers , Alan O’Leary (2019) Milan: Mimesis International, 127 pp., ISBN 978-8-86977-079-1, e-book, $18
Reductionism and post-apartheid culture
Incidences of residential building hijacking which characterize post-apartheid Johannesburg have drawn debates from diverse fields of scholarship: anthropological, legal, social, literary and even cinema. Do they instantiate outright criminality, incomplete adjustment into the city, strategies for socio-economic restitution or acts of inverse racism? This article, an interdisciplinary probe into the representation of building hijacking in Ralph Z…
Africa’s Lost Classics
Review of: Africa’s Lost Classics: New Histories of African Cinema , Lizelle Bisschoff and David Murphy (eds) (2014) Oxon and New York: Modern Humanities Research Association and Routledge, 217 pp., ISBN 978-1-90797-551-6, h/bk, $48.95
The 21st Century Film, TV & Media School
Review of: The 21st Century Film, TV & Media School: Challenges, Clashes, Changes , Maria Dora Mourão, Stanislav Semerdjiev, Cecília Mello and Alan Taylor (eds) (2016) Sofia: CILECT – The International Association of Film and Television Schools, 476 pp., ISBN 978-6-19735-800-1, Kindle version, $33
No Simple Way Home, Akuol de Mabior (dir.) (2022), South Sudan
Review of: No Simple Way Home , Akuol de Mabior (dir.) (2022), South Sudan: LBx Africa and STEPS
Projecting Nation
Review of: Projecting Nation: South African Cinemas after 1994 , Cara Moyer-Duncan (2020) East Lansing, MI: Michigan State University Press, 298 pp., ISBN 978-1-60917-638-9, e-book, $54.95
Interview with Anna-Marie Jansen van Vuuren on her experience as an organizer of the Tshwane University of Technology (Tigritudes) Film Festival
Journal of African Cinemas interviewed Professor Anna-Marie Jansen van Vuuren about her experience of organizing the Tigritudes and TUT Film Festival that took place as part of the 2023 Tshwane University of Technology’s Annual Arts Festival
Reflections on interactive cinema spaces
Preview this article: Reflections on interactive cinema spaces: Tigritudes' curated film experience at the Tshwane University of Technology Arts Festival, Page 1 of 1 /docserver/preview/fulltext/jac/15/1/jac.15.1.103_Mututa-1.gif
Space and Time in African Cinema and Cine-scapes, Kenneth W. Harrow (2022)
Review of: Space and Time in African Cinema and Cine-scapes , Kenneth W. Harrow (2022) New York and London: Routledge, 238 pp., ISBN 978-1-00328-889-3, e-book, $35.09
Cultural theory in post-apartheid South Africa
This article discusses ecotones as a theory and method for cultural enquiry in post-apartheid South Africa. It applies semiotics to critique cultural configurations in Gray Hofmeyr's Mad Buddies, arguing that, first, the film's figuration of ecotone through the imagery of debris enables theorization of the shift toward post-racial cultural thought; and, two, that visual of ruins affords us a chance to intercept the new racial configurations. The …
Theorizing Afrophobia Beyond Apartheid
The persistent Afrophobic attacks on black African immigrants in South Africa since the 1990s alert us to a new cultural watershed. Just when the country had done away with apartheid, the black-on-black attacks reified the emergence of a new cultural crisis. This article reflects on the emergent cultural identities enabled by practices of black-black violence. It takes conflict cultures as a frame to discuss Afrophobia in the context of new ident…
Cultural Globalization and Transnational Cinema
This article is an interdisciplinary critique of Hermine Huntgeburth’s Die weiße Massai (The White Masai; 2005)—a transnational film—as a text that enables a reflection on the peculiarity of North-South cultural globalization. The juxtaposition of Swiss and Masai cultures in this film using marriage as a space of global encounter, it is argued, uniquely gives agency to the significance of cultural incompatibility as a requisite binder in a global…
Artistic epistemologies
What is Africa? Is it what it was, say, a century ago? What knowledge about contemporary Africa is deducible through its cinemas? These questions are the backdrop of this Special Issue of the Journal of African Cinemas , which aggregates different apertures through which Africa can be grasped through its diverse cinematic cultures. The issue connects the idea of Africa, in the sense of Africanism, with its cultural ontologies. The different debat…
How to Steal a Country, Rehad Desai and Mark J. Kaplan (dirs) (2019), South Africa
Review of: How to Steal a Country , Rehad Desai and Mark J. Kaplan (dirs) (2019), South Africa: Uhuru Productions
African Cinema in a Global Age, Kenneth W. Harrow (2024)
Review of: African Cinema in a Global Age , Kenneth W. Harrow (2024) New York and London: Routledge, 291 pp., ISBN 978-1-03250-252-6, h/bk, £35.99
Multiphrenic Identities and Cultural Theory in Post-Apartheid Literary Adaptations
Nationhood in South Sudan Cinema
Post-cessation nationhood in South Sudan presented a paradoxical situation: a country united during struggle is fragmented after independence. Among the triggers for this scenario was the death of Dr John Garang de Mabior—the country’s founding father. This article is a multidisciplinary semiotic critique of Akuol de Mabior’s film, No Simple Way Home (2023), against the history of South Sudanese nationhood. Without claiming a political scientific…
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