Making Short Films: The Complete Guide from Script to Screen is a practical and inspirational guide to students and independent filmmakers. This new edition of what has become a bible for filmmakers internationally is completely rewritten, expanded and redesigned.
This is the only book to describe and explain the whole process – from creating an original [...]

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Author: Clifford Thurlow, English, Multimedia, ISBN: 9781845208042,
Price: (ZA)R 280

WILLIAM KENTRIDGE : Trace : Prints from The Museum of Modern Art

This visually compelling publication highlights The Museum of Modern Art’s unparalleled collection of prints and books by William Kentridge – nearly fifty works spanning the past three decades. The book also features a succession of artistic interventions made by Kentridge especially for the occasion. [...]

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Author: Judith B Hecker, English, Monograph, Hardcover, Jacket, 250x200mm, full colour, 112pp, ISBN: 9780870707797

The Johannesburg Art Gallery’s Retrospective on Thami Mnyele and the Medu Art Ensemble, which opened in 2008, was the culmination of years of work. It was not only a retrospective of a group that perished violently 23 years earlier, but the story of the artist and of cultural workers and Medu’s particular struggle from exile. [...]

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Author: Clive Kellner and Sergio Albio-Gonzalez, English, Monograph, Softcover, 300x235mm, full colour and black and white. 216pp, ISBN: 9781770096882,
Price: (ZA)R 350

Chris Hani’s assassination in 1993 gave rise to one of South Africa’s great imponderables: if he had survived, what impact would he have had on politics and government in South Africa? More pointedly, could this charismatic leader have risen to become president of the country?
Hani was a hero of South Africa’s liberation, a communist party [...]

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Author: Janet Smith & Beauregard Tromp, English, NonArt, Sofcover, 230x150mm, 338pg, Black and White, ISBN: 9781868423491

In this selection of columns, Jonny Steinberg walks through Pollsmoor Prison on the eve of the invasion of Iraq and believes he sees in the jail’s corridors why the US’s impending war in the Middle East will fail.He meets a poverty-stricken old man who spends most of his state pension maintaining a black Mercedes Benz, [...]

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Author: Jonny Steinberg, English, NonArt, Sofcover, 200x125mm, 327pg, Black and White, ISBN: 9781868422937

Xolela Mangcu’s latest book takes the temperature of our democracy at this moment and provides an informed prognosis of our future. In particular he looks at the health of our institution  – such as political opposition, the court an the media – and the state f our enviroment , espcially  South Africa’s position in the [...]

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Author: Xolela Mangcu, English, NonArt, Sofcover, 210x145mm, 200pg, Black and White, ISBN: 9781770097742,
Price: (ZA)R 180.00

A country is policed only to the extend that it consent to be. When that consent is withheld, cops either negotiate or withdraw. Once they do this, however, they are no longer police, their role becomes something far murkier. Several months before they explored into xenophobic violence, Jonny Steinberg travelled the streets of Alexandra, ReigerPark [...]

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Author: Jonny Steinberg, English, NonArt, Sofcover, 184pp, 195x130mm, Black and White, ISBN: 9781868423033,
Price: (ZA)R 130.00

An exceptional retrospective exhibition of oil paintings by Braam Kruger (1950 -2008) was hosted by the UJ Art Gallery during September and October 2009. The exhibition comprised of works mainly from private collections and included several paintings that have not yet been seen by the general art fraternity.
After his untimely death Fred Scott was asked [...]

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Author: Dr Fred Scott, Dr Federico Freschi, English, Catalogue, Softcover, 24.5x24.5cm, 64pp,
Price: (ZA)R 200.00

Zapiro  returns with his signature wry satirical style to ensure that his audience hovers between shaking their heads
in rueful agreement and snorting in mirth. South Africa’s sharpest  cartoon also acts as our national conscience and
once again ensures that no event passes by without comment …or a laugh.
“Zapiro’s cartoons pack a punch that lands in your [...]

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Author: Zapiro, English, NonArt, Softcover, 24x19,5 cm, 136 pp, ISBN: 9781770097575,
Price: (ZA)R 140.00

The features and faces of South Africa’s indigenous cultures are as varied as the continent’s many textures and colours. In Cultures of South Africa: A Celebration author Peter Joyce and photographer Roger de la Harpe celebrate this extraordinary diversity – of tradition, custom, history and geography of the land. This spectacular, full-colour volume explores the [...]

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Author: Peter Joyce, English, NonArt, Sofcover, 247x210mm, 144pg, Colour Illustration, ISBN: 9781919938998,
Price: (ZA)R 190.00