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Page numbers in italics refer to figures.

abandoned mines 143–145
abjection 65, 121, 174–175, 177, 178n
acid mine drainage 144, 145n, 149–150
Acid River Runs through It, An 149–150
Adorno, Theodor 165, 185n
aesthetics 6, 11–12, 43–44, 46, 49, 61–67, 118, 147–149, 154–157
Afrapix 15, 27
Africa Biennale (series of photographs) 184–185
African National Congress (anc) 13n, 44–45
Afrikaner identity 1, 23, 94–95, 149, 181, 187, 190–191
Afrikaner nationalism 99, 149, 181, 190–191
Afrofuturism 120n4
After the Mines 139, 140, 145, 146, 149–150, 150
Agamben, Giorgio 23, 33–34
age value 173
aggressive customization 176
air pollution. See pollution ; smog
Akpome, Aghogho 23, 33, 76
aliens, in District 9 1–2, 24, 33–34, 96, 175, 178, 181
Alive in Joburg (film) 21, 80, 80, 100, 130, 131, 202
Ally, Shireen 35–37
amateur filmmaking and photography 85, 94
America. See United States
analogue aesthetics 4, 53–61, 66, 77–90, 98, 133
analogue cameras 85, 109, 134
analogue media 4–6, 53–56, 80–81, 84–89, 97–98, 133, 199, 205–206
analogue nostalgia 4, 11, 36, 59–60, 66, 103, 106–117, 135, 195–199
analogue photography 14n22, 97–98, 110, 114–115
analogue renaissance 53, 89
anc. See African National Congress
anime films and television series 126
Antibiotika (song) 185
Antichita Romane (series of etchings) 165
anxiety 30, 63, 120, 167, 177. See also white anxiety
Anxious Joburg 30n20, 183
apartheid
Afrikaner identity and 1
Black artists under 45
braziers 130
end of 2, 4
floodlights 124, 125
legislation 75, 178n
in mockumentary genre 93, 100, 107
nostalgia 6–7, 10–11, 37, 112–113, 134
police force 74–75, 79, 87, 103, 123–124, 170
protests against 27, 35, 74–75, 74
ruins 163, 167, 171
townships 77
urban planning and 29, 32, 73
white anxiety and 179, 181–182, 192
Apartheid Archives Project research project 182
Appiah, Kwame Anthony 29n19
Arcades Project 57
archaeology 17, 130–131
archival footage 80–81, 82, 92
armour suit. See mechanical suit, in District 9
Arnold, Kenneth 123
Arya, Rina 65, 175
Askari 113
attraction and repulsion 7, 66, 154, 174n16, 176–177
aura of authenticity 57–59
authenticity
in mockumentary genre 77, 81, 84–86, 90, 94, 106–107
nostalgia and 55–59, 64, 66
ruins and 173
in science fiction genre 134
township nostalgia and 115–116
Avant Car Guard 16, 184–190, 185, 188, 189
avant-garde art 40–41, 50, 165
Avatar (film) 21n
Back to the Future (film) 119
bad buildings 26, 90
Barasch, Moshe 8
Bartholeyns, Gil 83
Bataille, George 64
Battle for Johannesburg, The (film) 2–3, 24–26, 88, 89, 90–91, 91, 93–95, 100–101, 103, 106, 176
belonging 180, 187, 190–191
Beningfield, Jennifer 36, 48
Benjamin, Walter 55–59, 66, 115, 173
Berea 100
Berea (film) 24–26, 179–180, 180
Bethlehem, Lael 91
Bhengu, Gerard 45
Bila, Anthony 115
Black artists 45–47
Black Consciousness 29n19
Black History Tribute series 115
Black people 44–45, 170n, 179, 181
Blade Runner (film) 33, 118–120
Blair Witch Project (film) 93
Blinded City, The 90n
blockbusters 21n
bloggers. See fashion bloggers
Blomkamp, Neill
on aliens 122
background of 3, 15, 21, 119, 139
on braziers 130
on digital media 4, 120
interview with 202–209
on location shooting 78, 104
Boetzkes, Amanda 40, 42, 49, 152–154
Bois, Yves Alain 64–65, 154
Bolter, David Jay 56, 88
Bordwell, David 16–17
Botha, P.W. 34
boundaries 29, 166
Boym, Svetlana 37, 165
Brazier – Joubert Park I (photograph) 129–130, 130
braziers 129–130, 130, 131
Brodie, Nechama 167
Brook, Isis 156–157, 166
Bryson, Norman 174n15
buildings in Johannesburg 31, 98–102, 118n, 192. See also Hillbrow Tower ; Ponte City
Burgin, Victor 174–175
Burke, Edmund 12, 39–40, 43
Burtynsky, Edward 150–154, 152
Californication (television series) 55
call to play 107
cameras 4, 14, 85–87, 93–94, 109, 120n3, 134, 205
camps. See refugee camps
Caoduro, Elena 4n4, 58–59, 84, 114
Carceri d’Invenzione 165–166
Carlton Centre 102, 102, 118n
Casspirs 25n12, 103, 104, 170
censorship 22n5, 76
Chiawelo 22, 33, 71–73, 104, 114
Chicago 7, 99, 102
children 151–152, 156–157
Chong, Woei Lien 7
Cilliers, Jack 184
cinematography 60–61, 77–78, 81–83, 85–86, 88–89, 109–110, 117, 133, 206
cinéma vérité 77, 92–93, 94
Clarke, Jamie 88–89
classical ruins 42n39, 61, 63, 164, 166, 173, 175
Cleaning the Core (360 Degree Panorama) (photograph) 100, 172–173
closure, lack of 164, 166
Coetzee, J. M. 46–48, 185–186, 190, 195
Coetzee, N. J. 148
cold character of digital media 55, 60, 85
collectives 16, 110, 134–135, 184–190
colonialism 29, 43–44, 46, 49, 73, 149, 179, 187
colour palettes 3, 61, 82–83, 85–86, 98, 109–110, 161
command module, of spaceship 131, 132
contamination 122, 178
contradictory dynamic 11, 135, 172, 195
Cook, Pam 115
corrugated iron 126
Cramer, Florian 54
crime 14, 22n5, 28n17, 30, 102, 156, 169, 170, 182
critical dystopia 35, 195
critical potential 13, 34–35, 38, 49–51, 61, 63, 151, 176, 191–192, 197–198, 200–201
Crowther, Paul 7
cyberpunk subgenre 118–119
cyborgs 120–121, 127
cynicism 119–120
Davis, Mike 35
Deakins, Roger 61
debris. See waste
decay
Johannesburg 6–7, 200–201, 206
mining landscapes 145, 147, 155
post-industrial landscapes 42–43, 62
science fiction genre 120–121
urban ruins 158–159, 171–174, 176–177
white anxiety 180, 180, 192–193
delight. See terror and delight
depthlessness 119
Desai, Barney 25
Desai, Rehad 2–3, 15, 25–26, 88, 90, 172–173
destruction 105, 106
Destruction of District Six under the Group Areas Act, The (photograph) 162
destructive sublime 172
desublimation 65
detention without trial 75
Detroit 34, 172
Dhlomo, Herbert 45
Die Antwoord (pop musicians) 6
Diepkloof 124, 125
digitalisation 60
digital media 4–5, 53–55, 60–61, 86–89, 120n3, 133, 205–206
digital turn 60, 81, 85
dispositive 9n12
dispossession 44–45
disruption 40–42, 63
District 9 (film)
background to 1–2, 21
introductory sequence 80, 81
reasons for research on 2–5, 51
District Six 23, 161–163, 162
Dlamini, Jacob 11n17, 36, 112–114
documentary genre 3, 27, 33, 77–78, 86–88, 106, 168, 200, 203. See also mockumentary genre
documentary photography 27, 33, 76n13, 86, 90, 103, 106, 168, 171, 199, 203
Doornkop Gold Mine 152
Drink in the Passage, A (film) 173n13
Drum magazine 27
dystopia 6, 10–11, 32–35, 45, 51, 106, 117–118, 191, 195–196. See also nostalgic dystopia
ecotechnological 152–153
Edensor, Tim 63
edgy cities 29–30
electricity pylons 95, 96, 97, 145
Elkins, James 38n32
Elysium (film) 124
emancipation 49–50
‘empty’ landscape 149, 187
engaged photography 27
English Garden Suburb 71
Enlightenment 35, 46, 49, 164–165
entropy 155, 174–178
Enwezor, Okwui 27
escape 131
European landscape traditions 44–48, 186
evictions 103
experts, interviews with 90, 91, 92, 131
family photographs 84, 110
Farber, Leora 110–111, 134
fashion bloggers 16, 84, 109, 114–116, 134–135
fear 177–178, 182–183
film noir genre 95
filters, use of 83–84
fire. See braziers
floodlights 124, 125
fly-on-the-wall style 90, 93
focus, cameras 79–80, 88
Fokofpolisiekar (rock band) 185
Football World Cup 15
forced removals 2, 23, 72, 162
forgetting 36–37
formless 43, 64–65, 67, 146–157, 173–175, 192
Formless, A User’s Guide (exhibition) 64–65
Foster, Jeremy 186–187
Foucault, Michel 9n12, 17
found footage 78–79
Four Corners (film) 31
Fourth Industrial Revolution 120
Francaviglia, Richard V. 146–147
Frassinelli, Pier Paolo 23
freedom 50, 52, 63, 111, 134–135, 156
Freedom Front Plus 62
Freschi, Federico 99
Frightened Land, The 36
future noir genre 118n
Future of Nostalgia, The 37
Gabay, Charles 181, 183
gangster genre 25, 168
Gangster’s Paradise: Jerusalema (film)
background to 24–25
documentary genre and 84–86, 84, 93, 95, 96, 100–101, 103, 106
mining landscapes in 151–152, 156–157
nostalgic dystopia in 31, 199
urban ruins in 167–171, 168, 169, 170, 176
white anxiety and 182
garbage. See waste
garden, landscape as 46
Gaudreault, André 60n9
gentrification 6n7, 167
Géricault, Theodore 183–184
German Romanticism 190–191
Gevisser, Mark 144n9
Gikandi, Simon 49
Ginsberg, Robert 63, 158
Glass, Fred 119–121
global North 34n29, 72
global South 34n29
Gobodo-Madikizela, Pumla 36
Godby, Michael 27
Godfrey, Ilan 151, 153, 156–157
Goldblatt, David 15, 36, 97–98, 97, 109, 134, 145, 161–163, 162, 165–166
gold mines 139, 142–145, 152
grading 60–61, 82–83, 83
Griffioen, James D. 10
grittiness 85, 88, 205–206
grotesque 174–175
Grusin, Richard 56, 88
Hamese, Harness 110–111, 112
hand-held camera techniques 78, 93–94, 161
Hansen, Mark 153–154
Hansen, Miriam 58, 66
hard places 146–147
Hayden, Robert 49
Hight, Craig 90, 94, 107
Hillbrow 24–26, 90, 100–102, 109, 167–171, 169, 173
Hillbrow Tower 99, 101–102, 168, 169
historical poetics 17
historicity 109, 114–116, 134
Hogan, Patrick Colm 16n28
Hollywood films 21, 25, 88–89, 118–119, 135, 204–205
Hook, Derek 36
House of Wax 174n15
housing 30, 71–72, 147, 152, 161, 167
Hudson River School 7, 47
human figures, absence of 149–153
humanity 33–34
human rights 76
humour 78, 94, 106–107, 134
Huyssen, Andreas 63–64, 164–166
hypermediacy 56, 79, 84–86, 107
idiom 7–9, 194–195
illegal miners (zama zamas) 156
immigrants. See migrant labour
imperfections 85–86, 173
incidental details 89–98, 94
industrialisation 41–42, 44, 145, 147–149, 156
informality 31, 72, 126, 170
informal settlements 29, 72–73, 95, 144
inner city of Johannesburg 167, 171, 179, 183
Instagram photography 109, 114–115, 134–135
interviews, in District 9 90–94, 91, 92, 94, 121, 131
irony 11, 37–38, 78, 106, 109, 157, 171, 188, 208
I See A Different You 109–110, 110, 134–135
Isenberg, Noah 57
Jackson, Peter 21, 205
Jameson, Fredric 118–119
Jansen van Veuren, Mocke 23
Jansson, Eva-Lotta 149–150
Jerusalem 5, 24–25, 101, 167–171
Johannesburg
adjectives and phrases for 29–31
Blomkamp on 204–207
history of 139–142
inner city of 167, 171, 179, 183
nicknames of 9–10
representations of 2–8, 21–27
research on 22–24
Johannesburg from the Southwest (photograph) 97, 145, 165
Johannesburg//Home (photograph) 109–110, 111
Johannesburg Railway Station panel series 147–149
Josephy, Svea 10n14, 31, 100–102
Kant, Immanuel 12, 39, 43, 49, 64n, 154, 166
Kapstein, Helen 23, 77, 95, 178n
Katlehong 113–114
Kentridge, William 36
Khumbula 109, 115, 134–135
Kind, Joshua 7
King, Geoff 117–118
Kinnear, Kate 123–124
Kirkwood, Meghan 151
Klein, Kristin 54n
Kovel, Jonathan 88
Krauss, Rosalind 64–65, 154
Kristeva, Julia 174
Kruger, Loren 29–30, 99
Krzywinska, Tanya 117–118
KwaThemba 72
Kynoch, Gary 182
Land Act 44–45, 73–74
landlords 167
landmarks 98–102, 99, 102
land ownership 29, 44–45, 73–74, 95, 149, 179
landscape conventions 18, 46, 66–67, 186
landscapes 12–13, 36–39, 44–48, 77–108, 146–157, 163, 186–187, 190–191, 195–198
landscape tradition 5, 12–13, 44–48, 190–191, 195–197
Larkin, Jason 139, 140, 145, 146, 149–150, 150, 154
Läuferts, Monika 146
Law-Viljoen, Bronwyn 27
Leeb-du Toit, Juliette 7n, 44–45
Lees, Loretta 13, 50, 52, 111
Lefebvre, Henri 9n12, 50
Legacy of the Mine 151, 153
location shooting 78, 95
Lockheed F-117A aircraft 123, 124
Lomography movement 56, 85–86, 205
Lost and Found in Johannesburg 144n9
low-resolution realism 33, 77–89
Lucas, Christopher 60, 81, 87
Lyons, Siobhan 10n14, 64
Lyotard, Jean-Francois 40, 177
Mabote, Goodman 76n, 103
Malpas, Simon 40
Manovich, Lev 4n4, 16, 53
Maré, Gehard 14n24
Marion, Philippe 60n9
Maseko, Zola 173n13
Maskit, Jonathan 155, 157
Matshikiza, John 5, 200
Mavunganidze, Judith 146
Mbembe, Achille 31, 186
mechanical suit, in District 9 126–127, 128, 159–161, 160, 202
media archaeology 4, 17, 196
melancholia 182–183
memento mori 159
Merrett, Christopher 75–76
metamorphosis 157, 162, 177–178. See also transformation
Mhlongo, Niq 71, 114
migrant labour 24, 122, 142
militarisation 87, 103–104, 106, 122–123, 203–204
mine dumps 97, 102, 102, 139–146, 140, 143, 149–152, 150, 156–157, 166, 207. See also mining waste
Mine scene (painting) 147–148
mine waste areas (mwas) 61, 63, 95–97, 141–142, 141, 145, 147, 153–155, 174, 191–192
mining, history of 61, 139–142
mining industry
abandoned mines 143–145
boundaries 29
colonialism and 149
history of 61, 139–142
migrant labour 122
science fiction genre and 122, 129, 129
white anxiety and 179, 188–192
mining landscapes
aesthetics of 147–149, 154–157
formlessness 146–157
mining apparatus in 96, 147
mining waste in 139, 140, 141–147, 141, 143, 149–157, 152
sublime 148–151, 153–156, 198
white anxiety and 179, 188–191
mining waste 61, 95–97, 97, 139, 140, 141–157, 141, 143, 152, 191–192. See also mine dumps ; waste
Minniti, Sergio 56, 85–86, 205
Mngxitama, Andile 112
mnu. See Multi National United
mockumentary genre
Blomkamp on 206
call to play 107
incidental details 89–98
irony 78, 106, 208
landmarks 98–102, 99, 102
low-resolution realism 77–89
militarisation 87, 103–104, 106
newsreel footage 22, 75, 78–80, 79, 81, 86, 87, 94, 104
1980s 74–75, 92, 98–104, 133–134
nostalgic dystopia 196–197
See also documentary genre
modernity 37, 127, 166
Mofokeng, Santu 15, 124, 125
Mohl, John Koenakeefe 45
Mokonyane, Nomvula 145n
Moloi, Vincent 15, 26, 179
Mooifontein mine dumps 142–143, 143, 157
mothership. See spaceship, in District 9
Motsepe, Fanuel 31
Moylan, Tom 34–35
Mpanza, James 72
Mpe, Phaswane 28n17
Msimang, Sisonke 183
Multi National United (mnu) 102–103, 102, 104
Murray, Martin 6n7, 30, 34
Mututa, Addamms Songe 10n13, 167–169, 176
mwas. See mine waste areas
Myeni, Eric 112
Nancy, Jean Luc 152–153
Nationalism. See Afrikaner nationalism
Native Life in South Africa 44
Native Nostalgia 11n17, 36, 112–114
Neale, Steve 21n
Nel, Adele 23, 33, 77–78, 106
new bad future 117–121, 127, 135
new media. See digital media
New South Africa 5–6
newsreel footage 22, 33, 75, 78–80, 79, 81, 86, 87, 92–94, 104, 121, 133
Niemeyer, Katharina 55, 84
Nigeria 22n5
1980s
Blomkamp on 203–204, 207–208
in mockumentary genre 74–75, 92, 98–104
photography from 110
science fiction genre of 33, 118–120, 123, 126, 133, 135, 197
Noir Urbanisms 34
nostalgia
for analogue media 53–56
Blomkamp on 202–204
boom 55, 66, 204
for Johannesburg 6–7, 10–11, 25–26, 35–38, 51–52, 194–196
mining landscapes and 157
mockumentary genre and 84, 89–90, 98, 107
science fiction genre and 117, 119, 126, 134–135
townships and 109–116
urban ruins and 164–165, 173
white anxiety and 188
nostalgic dystopia 3, 7–11, 117, 133, 191, 194–199, 201, 209
Nsele, Zamansele 5n5, 36
Nuttall, Sarah 31
Nye, David 41, 42n38, 47, 147
O Brother, Where Art Thou? (film) 61
office, in District 9 92–93, 94
Okorafor, Nnedi 120n4
Olivier, Bert 40
on-location shooting 78, 95
Opaloch, Trent 78, 80, 87, 104, 120
open plan office, in District 9 92–93, 94
Orlando 71–72
Orvell, Miles 42, 172–173
otherness 177–178, 181
Parker, Alexandra 31, 167, 176
parody 78–79, 84, 90–91, 93–95, 117
participatory aesthetics 156n23
Peeples, Jennifer 11–12
pentimenti 59
pessimism 119–120, 166
photography 27–28, 47n42, 58–59, 71, 83–84, 134–135, 159
picturesque 47
Pierce, Gillian B. 39, 43
Pierneef, J. H. 36, 48n, 147–149, 187, 190
Pinnavaia, Laura 9
Piranesi, Giovanni Battista 164–166
Plaatjie, Sol 44, 73–74
place-image 9–10, 31n23, 164
plant life 97, 97, 147, 161, 166, 187
poetics 104–108, 117–121, 135
poisoned landscapes 143–145, 149–151, 152, 156
polaroidism 56, 83–84, 110
police force, apartheid 74–77, 79, 87, 103–104, 123–124, 170
pollution 78, 95, 97, 129–130, 130, 143–145, 149–151, 152, 156. See also waste
Ponte City 15, 26, 31–32, 86, 89, 99–101, 99, 100, 118n, 134, 171–175
Ponte City book project 32, 86, 134, 171–172
popular culture 6, 14–15
Posel, Deborah 75–76
post-apartheid 3–4, 8, 10–11, 24–26, 35–36, 43–44, 108, 163, 177–178, 180–182, 186, 198–199
post-colonial 41, 43–44, 49, 52, 195
post-industrial landscapes 61–64, 67, 143–157, 163–166, 173, 201
post-industrial sublime 12n20, 18, 38–43, 66–67, 173, 191, 195–196
postmodernism 40, 65, 118–119
potential, spaces of 48–51, 63
poverty 7, 10–11, 73, 176
poverty porn 10–11
Power Park//Soweto (photograph) 109–110, 110
Poyner, Jane 31
Prakash, Gyan 34–35
prawns, in District 9 1–2, 24, 33–34, 96, 175, 178, 181
Prince, Stephen 60, 82–83
protests 14, 74–75, 74
public spaces 30–31
pylons. See electricity pylons
quarantine 122, 178
race and racism 1–2, 43–44, 49, 75, 95, 129, 181–182
radiotoxicity 144
Raft of the Medusa, The (painting) 183–184
railways 145, 186–187
Rakka (film) 202
Rancière, Jacques 16n28
Rand Gold Mine (painting) 148
Randlords 29, 129, 139, 141
Rankin, Elizabeth 45
Rantete, Johannes 76, 103, 122–123, 200
Ravan Press 76
realism 77–89, 106, 203–204, 206
Red Ants 103
redemption 107–108, 121, 134
reflective nostalgia 37–38, 52, 106
refugee camps 33, 178, 183
religion 131, 133
remediation 56, 88
Remediation: Understanding New Media 56
Repulsion. See attraction and repulsion
restorative nostalgia 5n5, 37
retrofuturism 117–121, 135, 197
Rewind (interactive video) 104, 105
Riegl, Alois 63, 173–174
Robinson, Jennifer 35, 50
Robocop (film) 33, 118–121, 126–127, 207–208
Robotech (television series) 126, 127
robots 126, 127
romanticism 110, 164–165, 190–191
Rosello, Mireille 23–24, 117, 122
Rosetta stone 7–10, 194
rubble. See waste
ruin porn 10–11, 62–64, 172
ruins. See urban ruins
rural spaces 45–46
sameness 176n
San Jose 26, 90, 95, 176
Sapio, Giuseppina 81, 115
sar&h. See South African Railways and Harbours
Sartists 109, 134–135
Scholem, Gershom 58
Schrey, Dominic 4n4, 36, 56, 59
science fiction genre
Blomkamp on 203, 207–208
cyborgs 120–121, 127
dystopia 33–35
mechanical suit 126–127, 128, 159–161, 160, 202
new bad future 117–121, 127, 135
1980s 118–120, 123, 126, 133, 135
retrofuturism 117–121, 135, 197
spaceship 121–133, 122, 126, 129, 132, 135
Screening Space 118
See Ya Later/Triple Avant Car Guard on the Rocks (photograph) 184–185, 185
segregation 2, 30, 72–73, 95, 141–142. See also apartheid
self-reflexivity 4, 37–38, 52, 106
Shapiro, Michael J. 41, 44, 49
Shapshay, Sandra 41n, 49
Shields, Rob 9
Short History of Photography, A 57
Simmel, Georg 50
Simone, Abdoumaliq 158, 170
Singh, Naunihal 120n4
Skrillex 6
slavery 49
slums 22n4, 31n24, 35, 61–62, 72, 167. See also townships
smartphones 83–84
Smithson, Robert 155
smog 95, 129–130, 130
Sobchack, Vivian 117–119, 133
social media 83–84. See also Instagram photography
South African Railways and Harbours (sar&h) 186–187
Soweto 15n26, 22, 35, 71–72, 109
spaceship, in District 9 99, 121–133, 122, 126, 129, 132, 135, 140
special effects 60
Staiger, Janet 118n
States of Emergency 34, 74–77, 79, 104, 122
stereotypes 7, 9–10, 35, 46, 75, 94–95, 106
Steyn, Melissa 185, 188
Straker, Gillian 182
Stupid Fuckin’ White Man (photograph) 188–190, 189
sublime 10–13, 38–52, 66–67, 148–149, 155–156, 165–166, 174–175, 190–192, 195–198
sublime landscapes
mining 148–151, 153–156, 198
post-industrial 191
urban ruins 5, 158–159, 163–166, 172–175
Subotzky, Mikhael 15, 32, 86, 100–101, 100, 134, 171–172
subversive resistance 50–51, 109–111, 134
Su, John 43–44
surveillance 122–123
tactility 114–115
Taste for Life, A (photograph) 125
Tatsumi, Takayuki 118–119, 126
technological sublime 12n20
television 79–80, 121
temporality 42, 86, 103, 117, 119
Terminator, The (film) 33, 118–120, 126, 207–208
terror and delight 40, 42, 64–65
Theweleit, Klaus 174
Third Day of September, The 76n
Three Stages of Preparing Tea, The (photograph) 111, 112
Tladi, Moses 48n, 147–148
topography 10–13, 147–148
tourism 35
townships
history of 15n26
around Johannesburg 29, 31–34, 200–201
in mockumentary genre 71–75, 77, 104, 107–108
nostalgia 109–116
in science fiction genre 121–125, 128–129, 133–135
white anxiety and 181, 183–184, 190, 193
toxicity 12, 26, 143–145, 152, 154, 191–192. See also pollution
trains. See railways
transcendence 39–40, 42, 49
transformation
Blomkamp on 202, 208–209
of cities 13, 50–51, 201
of landscapes 190–193
socio-political transformation 13n21
spaceship, in District 9 135
of townships 183–184
of Wikus van de Merwe 18, 23, 107–108, 127–128, 159–162, 160, 174–178, 186, 198–199, 202, 208–209
trauma 10
Trigg, Dylan 39, 41–43, 50, 63, 67, 148n16, 163–166, 173, 177
Tsai Ming-liang 7
Tshabangu, Andrew 15, 129–130, 130
Tudor Shaft 144
ufos 123
United States (US) 7, 34, 47, 99, 102, 118–119, 147, 172
unpresentable 165, 177
Urban Film and Everyday Practice 31
urbanism 33, 118, 170n
urban landscapes 5, 45
urban planning 72–73, 163n4, 179
urban renewal 26
urban ruins
abjection 174–175, 177, 178n
analogue media 59
decay 147, 158–159, 171–174, 176–177, 200–201
District Six 161–163, 162
entropy 174–178
formlessness 173–175
Hillbrow 167–171, 169, 173
nostalgia 164–165, 173
Ponte City 171–175
post-industrial 61–67, 163–166, 173
ruin porn 10–11, 62–64, 172
sublime landscapes 158–159, 163–166, 172–175
waste 161, 168–173, 170
white anxiety 179, 187–188, 191–192
US. See United States
used future 124, 127
utopia 32–35, 37, 45, 117
Van de Merwe, Wikus. See Wikus van de Merwe (character in District 9)
Van Riebeeck, Jan 189–190
Van Robbroeck, Lize 148–149, 187, 190
vedute etchings 164–165
vegetation. See plant life
Venables, Emilie 101, 171
Vergangenheitsbewältigung 185n
Verhoeven, Paul 208
Vidler, Anthony 34
violence 7, 27, 74–76, 93–94, 107–108, 121, 156, 169
Virilio, Paul 166
visual effects 59–61, 203
visual idiom 3, 7–8
Vladislavić, Ivan 28n17
voyeuristic view 77, 93
Waetjen, Thembisa 14n24
Wagner, Keith 24, 102
Walder, Dennis 10, 37
Wamba, Phillipe 30n20
waste 161, 168–173, 170, 180, 180, 191–192. See also mining waste
watchtowers 123, 125
Waterhouse, Patrick 15, 32, 86, 100–101, 134, 171–172
Weinberg, Paul, photograph by 74
Wells, Kate 63
white anxiety
Afrikaner identity and 181, 187, 190–191
apartheid and 179, 181–182, 192
Avant Car Guard art 184–190, 185, 188, 189
belonging and 180, 187, 190–191
Berea (film) 179–180, 180
concept of 181–184, 192
decay and 180, 180, 192–193
landscape conventions and 186–187, 190–191
melancholia and 182–183
mining industry and 179, 188–192
nostalgia and 26
Ponte City 101
townships and 181, 183–184, 190, 193, 198–199
transformation and 183–184, 186, 190–193
waste and 180, 180, 191–192
white flight 28n17, 98, 101, 167, 182–183
Whitehouse, Tanya 62–63
whiteness 23, 29n19, 44, 128, 163n4, 181–183, 188, 190–191
white supremacy 182
White Writing 46
Wikus van de Merwe (character in District 9)
Afrikaner identity of 1–2
Blomkamp on 202, 208–209
mockumentary genre and 78, 92, 94–95, 94, 96, 105
science fiction genre and 120–121, 127–128, 128, 134
transformation of 18, 23, 107–108, 127–128, 159–162, 160, 174–178, 186, 198–199, 202, 208–209
white anxiety and 181, 183–184, 186, 190, 192–193
Wilhelm-Solomon, Matthew 90n
Wittenberg, Herman 43
Worby, Eric 35–37
Writer of Modern Life, The 115
xenophobia 14, 22, 24, 156n24
YouTube 79–80
Ziman, Ralph 15, 24–25, 167
zone of indistinction 23, 33, 76
Zuma, Jacob 14, 194
Zylinska, Joanna 164
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Series:  Contemporary Cinema, Volume: 10
Cover <i>District 9</i>: Johannesburg as Nostalgic Dystopia
E-Book ISBN:
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Publisher:
Brill
Print Publication Date:
13 Dec 2024

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