| dc.description | In this essay we attempt to accomplish three tasks. An overview of the relationship between literacy and orality with regard to teaching about cinema is the first. This section is followed by some general observations on Third Cinema in Africa and its incorporation of oral codes into its critical visual narratives, with reference to a film made by a Cameroonian director, Afrique, Je Te Plumerai (1991). We end with a case study of a particular South African film, The Two Rivers (1985), which we argue has been generally misunderstood by its critics because of its problematic attempt to mesh the codes of orality with those of the visual image. These three themes are framed within an overall call for the teaching of cinema in South Africa within both the literate and oral imperatives.// | eng |
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