Modisane wows the New School

APC research fellow Litheko Modisane recently gave a public seminar at the New School in New York, entitled Notes on the Film and the Public Sphere: The case of Black-Centered Films in South Africa.

As a Literature and film scholar, Modisane's broad research interests revolve around film in public critical engagements, particularly in repressive and post-repressive regimes. He spoke on his new book, South Africa's Renegade Reels: The Making and Public Lives of Black-Centred Films (Palgrave MacMillan, 2013), which explores the way certain films take on exemplary/iconic status in a country where the historical production of film has been minimal, and in the context of an intense political environment.

Modisane teaches in the Department of African Literature at the University of the Witswatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa. He is a former visiting scholar at the Center for Afroamerican and African Studies at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.

The seminar took place on 27 September.