Cinema and the edgy city: Johannesburg, carjacking, and the postmetropolis
Titel:
Cinema and the edgy city: Johannesburg, carjacking, and the postmetropolis
Auteur:
Fu, Albert Murray, Martin J.
Verschenen in:
African identities
Paginering:
Jaargang 5 (2007) nr. 2 pagina's 279-289
Jaar:
2007-08
Inhoud:
Oliver Schmitz's Hijack Stories (2000) is a story of cross-over cultures and mixed genres set in Johannesburg. In this blurring of boundaries, he presents us an interplay between the dangerous city of both fact and fiction. Schmitz's cinematic depiction of the city, weaves in and out, as well as to and from yuppie neighbourhoods and Soweto. Thus, we see how post-apartheid Johannesburg is a place of hybrid identities not only in the different spaces of the city, but through the influence of global hip-hop cultures, as well as the real and imagined perceptions of the city's 'citizens'. This paper examines the way in which Schmitz's film intersects these relationships in this edgy city.
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