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Author:   Landi Raubenheimer
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   10
Weight:   0.564kg
ISBN:  

9789004525436

ISBN 10:   9004525432
Pages:   248
Publication Date:   19 December 2024
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgements List of Figures Introduction: Unearthing the Johannesburg Genre   Why District 9?   Johannesburg in the Sands of Time   A Rosetta Stone: Nostalgic Dystopia   A Sublime Topography   Excavating District 9   A Map to the Site Part 1 District 9 in Context: Nostalgic Dystopia 1 The City in Relief  1 District 9 and Other Representations of Johannesburg  2 Johannesburg  3 Dystopia  4 Nostalgia  5 Speculating on the Sublime  5.1 The Post-industrial Sublime  5.2 The Sublime in Post-apartheid and Post-colonial Contexts  5.3 European Landscape Traditions in South Africa  5.4 Sublime Potential 2 Digging Deeper  1 Analogue Aesthetics  1.1 Nostalgia for Analogue Media  1.2 Authenticity  1.3 Visual Effects in Film  2 Ruin Aesthetics  2.1 Post-industrial Ruins  2.2 Formless Part 2 Analogue Aesthetics 3 Mockumentary: A Fly on the ‘Stopnonsense’  1 Skeletons in the Closet  1.1 Township Planning and Its Discontents: Chiawelo  1.2 Land  1.3 The States of Emergency  2 Analogue Landscape: A Parody of Documentary Conventions  2.1 Low-resolution Realism  2.2 The Incidental Landscape  2.3 Back to the 1980s  2.3.1 Landmarks  2.3.2 Militarisation  2.4 What can Mockumentary Poetics Do? 4 Township Nostalgia  1 Analogue Nostalgia  1.1 Subversive Resistance  1.2 ‘Native Nostalgia’  1.3 Constructed History 5 Sci-fi City  1 Science Fiction Poetics  1.1 Retrofuturism and ‘New Bad Future’  1.2 Spaceship/Township Part 3 Ruin Aesthetics 6 Mining Landscapes  1 A History of Mining  2 Post-landscape  2.1 The Poison Belt  2.2 Sublime and Formless Landscapes 7 Urban Ruins  1 A Sublime Johannesburg?  1.1 More than a Feeling  1.2 Hillbrow: A New Jerusalem  1.3 Ponte City  1.4 Considering Entropy 8 White Anxiety  1 Hegemony in Ruins  Conclusion: The District 9 Cache  Afterword   Looking Back on District 9 – An Interview with Neill Blomkamp Bibliography Index

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Landi Raubenheimer is an academic and artist living in Johannesburg. She has published articles on South African film, photography and art in international journals and teaches at the Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture at the University of Johannesburg.

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