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This 5 page paper discusses reasons why a South African film student might want to come to the United States to study, and what that means for the people left behind. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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on its feet and stay there. This paper discusses reasons why a South African film student might want to come to the United States to study, and what that
means for the people left behind. Discussion The South African film industry is growing rapidly and becoming recognized as a legitimate source of very fine films. However, its far
from well-established and certainly cannot make films (yet) of the quality and number of those produced in the United States. America has been working with this medium for over
100 years and Hollywood is acknowledged as the world leader in film. Not that all, or even most, of whats churned out is any good, but we certainly make
a lot of movies and even the worst of them have production values that are the envy of the rest of the world. Of course there are wonderful films
being made in other countries (the film that has rocketed to the top of my Best Ever Made list, Andrew Lloyd Webbers Phantom of the Opera (2004), was shot in
England); but as a general rule, Hollywood "rules": it makes a lot of films; they all have a very slick and polished look to them; there is a lot
of money used to market them, and they are distributed to theaters via a well-understood network of distributors. These conditions dont hold in South Africa at present. The South
African film industry is "severely fragmented" due to the effects of apartheid, "state-subsidised film structures" and the manipulation of the cinema by big business and government (Botha, 1995). These
sectors combined to give the cinema a distinct "slant"-it was "for whites only, and predominantly Afrikaans" (Botha, 1995). There were only 60 films made between 1956 and 1962 (Hollywood
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