Lokale realisme in speelprente van Raro en Carfo: 'n inhoudsontleding

[摘要] A survey of the literature showed that a group of Afrikaners,from about 1938, strifed to create Afrikaans films which wouldbe cultural products of the Afrikaner. Their motivation was tocombat the cultural imperialism of the imported Hollywood filmsand to take control of Afrikaans film production. Theliterature shows that up to 1938, Afrikaans film production wasdominated by outsiders - people who were not part of theAfrikaner nation. To attain this goal then, this group ofAfrikaners organised themselves in the Volksrolprentbond in1939, then disbanded and regrouped in 1940 in theReddingsdaadbond-Amateurrolprentorganisasie (Raro).Eventually, however, it was a group of Afrikaans clergymen fromthe Dutch Reformed Church, with a few former members of thedefunct Raro, who founded the Christelike Afrikaanse Rolprenten Fotografiese Organisasie (Carfo) in 1947.Carfo made fourteen feature films. The research in this studywas aimed at the description of a local realist tendency amongAfrikaans feature films. It eventually focussed on thesefourteen films.The literature study indicated that four general elements ofstyle manifested itself in Carfo's feature films. The first,the adaptation of Afrikaanse novels, was a well establishedfact. The content analysis was therefore aimed to test for the three remaining elements of style, that is:propaganda, Afrikaner locality and realism.feature films of Carfo were tested.ChristianAll fourteenThe result was a confirmation of the indications of theliterature study: the feature films of Carfo constitute aChristian local realist tendency in the Afrikaans filmindustry. It is an identifiable religious genre, embedded inthe Afrikaner's culture.

[发布机构] University of the Free State