Unveiling Complexity: Cinematic Representations of Apartheid History and the Post-Apartheid Dutch- Afrikaner Relationship in <em>Black Butterflies</em> (2011) and <em>An Act of Defiance</em> (2017)

The cinematic representation of Apartheid, and in particular the tendency of using white protagonists to narrate the story of black suffering, has been the object of much scholarly enquiry but this has never included Dutch films. This article explores the representation of Afrikaner anti-Apartheid a...

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Published in:	Tijdschrift voor Mediageschiedenis
Main Author:	Anne Marieke van der Wal
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision 2024-12-01
Subjects:	apartheid cinema white saviour trope historical film genre dutch-south african relations
Online Access:	https://account.tmgonline.nl/index.php/up-j-tmgjmh/article/view/883