Browsing Media, Visual Arts and Drama by Title
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Questioning heritage : colonial ideologies in contemporary museum practice.
(2008)The research problem to be explored in this study is to what extent colonial ideologies continue to influence museum society and contemporary museum practices. The museological display of non-Western, and specifically ... -
Representations of the "other" in selected artworks : re-membering the black male body.
(2006)The depiction of blackness in the visual arts is located in the complex discourse of representation. Blackness within western visual art has been, and continues to be viewed as oppositional to representations of whiteness, ... -
Representing nation in post-apartheid South Africa film : Invictus, Jerusalema and A small town called Descent.
(2013)This dissertation explores three South African films, Invictus (2009), Jerusalema (2008) and A Small Town Called Descent (2010), as representative of the post-apartheid socio-political and economic South African context. ... -
The role of bloggers in the construction of Zimbabwean national identities : a case study of three Zimbabwean blogs during the 2008 presidential elections.
(2011)Blogging continues to get attention in the field of communication studies for reasons such as its differences with traditional media and its various effects in societies. The first part of this dissertation provides the ... -
Sequential art and narrative in the prints of Hogarth in Johannesburg (1987) by Robert Hodgins, Deborah Bell and William Kentridge.
(2012)Key words: William Hogarth Exhibition; Hogarth in Johannesburg (1987-1988) Series; A Rake’s Progress, Marriage-a-la-Mode and Industry and Idleness Artists; Robert Hodgins Deborah Bell William Kentridge William ... -
A social and cultural theoretical appraisal and contextualisation of the visual and symbolic language of beadwork and dress from southern KwaZulu-Natal, held in the Campbell Collections, UKZN.
This Doctoral dissertation, A social and cultural theoretical appraisal and contextualisation of the visual and symbolic language of beadwork and dress from southern KwaZulu-Natal, held in the Campbell Collections ,University ... -
The South African contemporary ceramic collection at the William Humphreys Art Gallery, 1984-2009 : volume 1.
This thesis catalogues and contextualises the South African contemporary ceramics collected during 1984 – 2009 at the William Humphreys Art Gallery, Kimberley, South Africa. The study contextualises this museum’s motivations ... -
South African studio ceramics, c.1950s : the Kalahari Studio, Drostdy Ware and Crescent Potteries.
(2000)The oeuvre of the Kalahari Studio (Cape Town), Drostdy Ware (a division of Grahamstown Pottery, Grahamstown) and Crescent Potteries (Krugersdorp) is investigated within the historical context of the 1950s, a watershed ... -
A study of the Eritrean art and material culture in the collections of the National Museum of Eritrea.
(2006)Eritrean art and material culture has not been accorded its rightful pace, neither has it been sufficiently isolated from its Ethiopian counterparts. Like the other reconstruction challenges facing Eritrea, following the ... -
The nineteenth-century French landscape painting collection in the Tatham Art Gallery.
(2004)This dissertation initially attempts a brief history of the landscape tradition in the West with the emphasis on developments in nineteenth-century French landscape painting. A collection of these paintings in the Tatham ... -
Theatre for social capital : a case study at Mangaliso child and youth care centre.
(2015)This study was conducted at Mangaliso2 Child and Youth Care (CYCC) in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, in response to concerns expressed by child residents of the high prevalence of aggressive behaviour in the CYCC. This study, ... -
Thelma Marcuson's porcelain vessels in the Tatham Art Gallery, Pietermaritzburg.
(2012)The aim of this dissertation is to contextualise the use of porcelain by the South African ceramist Thelma Marcuson (1919-2009). This paper focuses on her ceramics in the Tatham Art Gallery’s Permanent Collection in ... -
This land is us : aspects of the Plaasroman and hospitality in five post-apartheid Karoo novels.
(2011)This dissertation investigates five texts: Damon Galgut‟s The Imposter (2008), Anne Landsman‟s The Devil’s Chimney (1998), Eben Venter‟s My Beautiful Death (1998) and Trencherman (2008) and Zoë Wicomb‟s David’s Story ... -
Understanding whiteness in South Africa with specific reference to the art of Brett Murray.
(2009)The white male artist whose self-interrogation attaches to his whiteness, difference and former centrality, inevitably exposes himself to the critical scrutiny of current discourse on race and whiteness studies. In this ... -
Using the participatory mode of documentary filmmaking for knowledge exchange and empowerment : a case study of house-hold food security in the uMgungundlovu district of South Africa.
(2016)This study explores the usefulness of a participatory video approach in facilitating knowledge exchange and community empowerment. In this vein, participatory video is used as a methodological approach to conduct a ... -
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The violent brushstroke : contributions from the independent school of British psychoanalysis to the art of Willem de Kooning.
(2005)This thesis begins with a consideration of the contributions of modem and contemporary ideas to the field of aesthetics. Out of these contributions, selected theorists from the Independent School of British Psychoanalysis ... -
Vocality : an exploration of the actor's voice in the production of mertamorphosis at the Hexagon Studio Theatre, UKZN and at the Grahamstown Festival (2011).
(2016)This case study explores aspects of actors’ voices in the Grahamstown production of Metamorphosis using action research with practise-based research techniques and self-reflexivity, focusing on emerging themes and subthemes. ... -
When granny went on the internet : the screenplay and the search for content and tone in South African screenwriting.
(2014)The development of content and the creation of tone in a screenplay is a challenging task for the screenwriter. This thesis explores, through the writing of an original screenplay, how content is sourced and tone is ...
