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- 1 2 Marx, Lesley (2003). Levitin, Jacqueline; Plessis, Judith; Raoul, Valerie (eds.). Women Filmmakers: Refocusing. Great Britain: Routledge. pp. 330–341.
- 1 2 Botha, Martin P. "South African Cinema". Kinema. Spring 2006. Archived from the original on 8 November 2016.
- ↑ Tomaselli, Keyan G. (2006). Encountering Modernity: Twentieth Century South African Cinemas. Rozenberg: UNISA Press. pp. 11–178.
