Do South African Films and Television Truly Reflect the African Context?

Essay from the year 2015 in the subject Communications - Movies and Television, , language: English, abstract: This essay inquires into the assertion that "e;the television and film industries in South Africa have never really reflected the African context"e;. It is assumed that television has ideological and hegemonic functions which have come to dominate the life styles of the youth on issues of garb styles, melodic tastes and linguistic, thus leading to the intimidation and dwindling of the long time-honoured local cultures. In this essay I seek to discuss the positivist and the negativist approach, and to focus on both parts of the dispute after conducting a research through question and answer sittings with media studies practitioners and students and also after going through the writings of postcolonial critics and writers such as Achebe and Wa Thiongo.