An introduction to post-apartheid cinema -- Post-apartheid cinema : policy, sructures, themes and new aesthetics -- Marginal lives and the new queer cinema in South Africa -- Skeef cinema Entja : a brief history of South Africa -- Proteus and the dialectics of history -- Development in the documentary -- Redefining the political : a short overview and some thoughts on personal documentary films from the new South Afirca -- Black stories, white voices : the challenge of transforming South Africa's documentary film industry -- Communication for development in new South African documentary -- 'An act of preservation and a requiem' : the great dance : a hunter's story and technological testimony in post-apartheid South Africa' -- Forged are my fingerprintis : music, social change and authorship in John Frederick's Mr Devious the First -- Development in feature filmmaking -- Redemption movies -- Amnesty and amnesia : the truth and reconciliation commission in narrative film -- 'Cinema, glamour, atricity' : narratives of trauma -- The white man's curse : Stander and The last Samurai -- Interpretations of old beliefs and modern lifestyles in a selection of recent South African films -- Sex, race and casting in South African cinema.