Browsing Media, Visual Arts and Drama by Title
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A feminist critique of the concept of home in the work of selected contemporary white South African female artists.
(2011)In this dissertation I analyse and contextualise stereotypical notions associated with the concept of home, and what that constitutes, in the work of South African artists Antoinette Murdoch, Bronwen Findlay, Doreen ... -
From dislocation to redefinition of home in Nadine Gordimer’s the pickup and Ishtiyaq Shukri’s the Silent Minaret : a postcolonial perspective of home.
(2018)This study aims to investigate new understandings of ‘home’ as represented through the experiences of the migrant characters in Nadine Gordimer’s The Pickup and Ishtiyaq Shukri’s The Silent Minaret. I am interested in the ... -
Hashtag activism : assessing the perceived value of online activism campaigns among UKZN (PMB) students.
(2017)The phenomenon of online activism is relatively new and thus, there is little in the way of research on the subject, particularly in the African and, more specifically, the South African context. This dissertation aims to ... -
Hearing the ‘Voiceless’ : Examining the #FeesMustFall movement as an issue community.
(2017)Hearing the ‘Voiceless’: Examining the #FeesMustFall movement as an issue community The hashtag #FeesMustFall was adopted by students on social media platforms as a rallying cry to unite students and the public to support ... -
Hilda Ditchburn : a teacher and pioneer of stoneware ceramics in Southern Africa.
(2008)The candidate's investigation of Hilda Ditchburn (nee Rose) (1917 - 1986) attempts to historically place the subject as a teacher and pioneer of stoneware ceramics within the context of studio ceramics in South Africa ... -
History, memory and inscription : an examination of selected works by South African artist Clive van den Berg.
(2000)This study examines the means by which Clive van den Berg (b.1956) presents and explores the South African landscape and recent past, and in so doing examines the evolution of van den Berg's process of looking and ... -
"How do I understand myself in this text-tortured land?" : identity, belonging and textuality in Antjie Krog's A change of tongue, Down to my last skin and Body bereft.
(2006)This thesis explores the question, “What literary strategies can be employed to allow as many people as possible to identify themselves positively with South Africa as a nation and a country?”. I focus in particular on the ... -
The inception of cross-cultural dimensions in the ceramics of the late 1970s onwards, as reflected in the work of Maggie Mikula and her adherents.
(2004)In this dissertation the incorporation of cross-cultural imagery and its assimilation is focused on the work of Maggie Mikula, a ceramist from KwaZulu-Natal. Producing within the 1970's and 1980's. her work is investigated ... -
Indigenous aesthetics and narratives in the works of Black South African artists in local art museums.
(2009)This dissertation is an amalgam of reformulated essays on artists who had connections with 20-21st century KwaZulu-Natal: They appeared in exhibition catalogues that accompanied the exhibitions; The Azaria Mbatha Retrospective, ... -
Interracial mumbo jumbo : Mpumelelo Paul Grootboom and Brett Bailey's theatre.
(2008)This dissertation explores the use of the Black performing body in the works Cards (2002) and Relativity: Township Stories (2006) by Mpumelelo Paul Grootboom and, iMumbo Jumbo (1997) and Big Dada: The Rise and Fall of Idi ... -
An investigation of the concept of 'mediated art' within the context of Rosalind Krauss's notion of the Post-Medium condition.
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Is Tsotsi (2005) a South African film? Implications of a transnational film theory for stylistic analysis in South African film studies.
(2018)The aim of this dissertation is to explore the question: “Is Tsotsi (2005) so Hollywoodised as to be unrecognisably South African?” It is a question that relates to the style of Tsotsi from a perspective of a national ... -
Knowledge, attitudes and perceptions of medical male circumcision as an HIV prevention procedure by white and Indian male students at the University of KwaZulu-Natal's Howard College.
(2014)This study establishes the knowledge, perceptions and attitudes of white and Indian male students at the University of KwaZulu-Natal’s (UKZN) Howard College on Medical Male Circumcision (MMC) as an HIV prevention procedure. ... -
Legislation, policy and regulation in the post-telecommunication era : the role of OTT service’s (WhatsApp) consumption and sense-making in the everyday lives of black-middle class employees of Parliament of the Republic of South Africa.
(2017)The world has become increasingly “hyperconnected.” Hyperconnectivity refers not only to the means of communication and interaction, but it also brings people (and things) together from anywhere and at any time. In today’s ... -
Life in the game : identity in the age of online computer games.
(2010)Whether virtual reality will have positive or negative implications on the social structure is debatable, but one thing is certain- virtual reality will play an increasingly important role in public and private life as we ... -
The living dead girl : a performance art exploration of poor/working class women of colour as sites of violence in contemporary South Africa.
(2015)This practice-led study (Barrett, 2007; Candy, 2006; Little, 2011) seeks to investigate the status of poor/working class women of colour as sites of violence in contemporary South Africa. My research objectives are explored ... -
Lost in transformation : a critical study of two South African museums.
(2008)In this dissertation Transformation, as understood in South Africa, is investigated in the ‘Natal Museum’ and the ‘Msunduzi Museum Incorporating the Voortrekker Complex’ in terms of socio-political structures, the museum ... -
Marietjie van der Merwe : ceramics 1960-1988.
(2007)This dissertation will contextualize and analyse selected works of the South African ceramist Marietjie van der Merwe (bl935 dl992; known professionally as Marietjie, aka Mariki, Marikie) between 1960-1988. The text consists ... -
Maturation, old age and mortality in western art : idealism versus realism.
(2007)The central premise of this research is the paradox between idealism and realism in the visual arts in the context of the themes of maturation, old age and mortality. Throughout the history of art there have been artworks ...