The Effect of South African Geopolitical Position in the Development of Cinema in South Africa

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1 Department of Regional Studies, Southern Africa Studies, Faculty of World Studies, Tehran University, Tehran, Iran

2 Faculty of World Studies, Tehran University and Fellow Research at International Institute for Asian Studies, Leiden University, Leiden, Netherlands

Abstract

This paper will discuss about the role of the geopolitical location of South Africa in the development of movie and the cinema industry in this country. Despite of bringing ci-nema to South Africa by white Europeans, but the development of this phenomenon is mostly due to the geopolitical position of this country. It is interesting to know that ci-nema reached Africa in much the same time as it spread across Europe and the United States. Moreover, the South African film industry is one of the oldest in the world, with the first feature film, The Kimberly Diamond Robbery; being shot in 1910. South Afri-can cinema is one of the best and well-developed cinemas in the African continent. Re-garding to the advantages of geopolitics factors in South Africa there are a large number of the US and European active film companies in this country. These factors are in-cluded: Variety of culture, language, religion, climate, wildlife, lower cost of living, and working compare with European and American countries. And also, as South Africa is a country of strikingly beautiful and varied landscape, with a wide variety of climatic zones that range from the Kalahari Desert in the northwest to the dramatic mountain range in the southeast, and from the Mediterranean coastal ridges in the south-central region to the rolling prairie Savanna grassland of the central plateau and the north.

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International Journal of Political Science
Volume 9, Issue 2 - Serial Number 22
International Journal of Political Science
Spring 2019
Pages 21-29

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