film culture (cultura cinematográfica)

Contexto del término "Film is an expression of the modernist experience in South Africa, and making sense of the country’s film culture requires an awareness of the intellectual movements that informed its early reception and practice. The Sophiatown Renaissance, roughly bracketed by the Defiance Campaign of 1952 and the Sharpeville Massacre of 1960, was, according to some, the apogee of modernist sensibility in South Africa; yet I would suggest that the Sophiatown Renaissance has been distinctly overvalued in relation to other cultural movements preceding it, in particular the New African Movement, of which the Sophiatown Renaissance can be seen as but the closing chapter. The beginnings of a film culture in South Africa rest partially on this vitally important—but little understood— intellectual history." (Hees, Peterson, Beittel, 2003)