Sun City and Post-Apartheid Culture in South Africa.
Edited by Aljoscha Weskott, Kesting Marietta, Leslie Witz, Jeanne van Eeden, Ivan Vladislavic, David Goldblatt, Kgebetli Moele, Shaheed Saleem, Gwen Gill.
The South African answer to Las Vegas, Sun City is a luxury entertainment bubble filled with palatial hotels and casinos. This volume reconstructs Sun City as a mythic oasis of late capitalism and a wholly artificial time-space, through oral histories, essays and visual case studies, salvaging its entertainment culture and its aspirations.
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FORMAT: Pbk, 4.5 x 7.25 in. / 292 pgs / 16 color / 14 b&w. LIST PRICE: U.S. $49.95 LIST PRICE: CANADA $67.5 ISBN: 9783941360044 PUBLISHER: August Verlag AVAILABLE: 8/31/2010 DISTRIBUTION: D.A.P. RETAILER DISC: TRADE PUBLISHING STATUS: Active AVAILABILITY: Out of stock TERRITORY: NA LA ASIA AU/NZ AFR
Sun Tropes Sun City and Post-Apartheid Culture in South Africa.
Published by August Verlag. Edited by Aljoscha Weskott, Kesting Marietta, Leslie Witz, Jeanne van Eeden, Ivan Vladislavic, David Goldblatt, Kgebetli Moele, Shaheed Saleem, Gwen Gill.
The South African answer to Las Vegas, Sun City is a luxury entertainment bubble filled with palatial hotels and casinos. This volume reconstructs Sun City as a mythic oasis of late capitalism and a wholly artificial time-space, through oral histories, essays and visual case studies, salvaging its entertainment culture and its aspirations.