Cinema in a Democratic South Africa

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Lucia Saks uses South African cinema as a lens through which to viewcultural changes resulting from the end of apartheid in 1994. She examines how mediatransformed the meaning of race and nation during this period and argues that, asapartheid was disbanded and new racial constructs allowed, South Africa quicklysought a new mode of representation as a way to distance itself from the violenceand racism of the half-century prior, as well as to demonstrate stability amidsocial disruption. This rapid search for a new way to identify and portray itself iswhat Saks refers to as the race for representation. She contextualizes this race interms of South African history, the media, apartheid, sexuality, the economy, community, early South African cinema, and finally speculates about the future of"counter-cinema" in present-day South Africa.