Browsing Masters Degrees (English, Media and Performance Studies) by Title
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Scenography in context : a comparative analysis of the influences on set designs for Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's opera The Magic Flute (1791) with specific reference to selected set designers.
(2013)The aim of this dissertation is to comparatively analyse the set designs for Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s (1756-1791) opera, The Magic Flute (1791), with specific reference to selected set designers from the 18th to the early ... -
SCRIPSIT : a model for establishing trustable privacies in online public spaces.
(2004)This dissertation proposes a model supporting the creation of trustable privacies in public online spaces, with the model demonstrating the potential for supporting trustable data handling in the qualitative domain. Privacy ... -
Shadow sounds : an original collection of poetry and an essay on questions of femaleness and diaspora in Meena Alexander's Illiterate heart.
(2013)Shadow Sounds: an Original Collection of Poetry and an Essay on Questions of Femaleness and Diaspora in Meena Alexander’s Illiterate Heart. The thesis comprises two parts: an original collection of poetry entitled Shadow ... -
A social capital perspective on prison theatre and change : a case study at the youth centre, Westville Correctional Facility, Durban.
(2011)This dissertation explores the effects of a Prison Theatre project conducted at the Youth Centre at Westville Correctional Centre in 2010. It explores the relationship between change and increased levels of Social Capital ... -
Social marketing and health service promotion : a needs analysis for the antiretroviral rollout at the University of KwaZulu-Natal.
(2005)RN/AIDS has had a particularly devastating effect on sub-Saharan nations, including South Africa. Thus, a national rollout of antiretroviral drugs - capable of mitigating the effects of the epidemic - has been vigorously ... -
Social power through self-imaging in participatory video amongst the Khwe bushmen community of Platfontein.
(2011)Voices of Our Forefathers (2008) is a participatory video that was made with a group of Khwe Bushmen in Platfontein in the Northern Cape. It is unique not only for its inclusion of the Khwe subjects in the production ... -
Some aspects of the nature and incidence of stuttering among Indian primary school children in Durban.
(1971)Stuttering has been a complex problem ever since the early history of man. It has been found to exist in some cultures to a greater extent than in others. In certain primitive cultures the phenomenon of stuttering was ... -
Sounding the body's meridian : signifying community and "the body national" in post-apartheid South African theatre.
(2009)Sounding the Body’s Meridian examines the ways in which notions of belonging are constructed through the display of bodies in performance, specifically the registers of private and public body that have been revealed in ... -
South African history painting : reinterpretation by women artists.
(1996)The title of this thesis 'South African History Painting : Reinterpretation By Women Artists' indicated that the focus was to be on South African history painting. As the research progressed, however, it became apparent ... -
South African writers in exile: a search for identity and common threads in their writing.
(1995)Abstract available in PDF. -
Speaking to changing contexts : reading Izibongo at the urban-rural interface.
(2001)In this thesis I argue that recently recorded izibongo must be read as literary texts that articulate responses to the multiple forces of constraint and possibility at the urban-rural interface. I argue that when scholars ... -
Street life : a case study on the social impact of participating in a film project on youths from the streets of Durban.
(2011)In the spring of 2010, I worked with four street youths from Durban to create a short fictional film based on their lives. There were two main components to this project: first, a series of drama workshops and second, ... -
A study of intertextuality, intimacy and place in Barbara Adair's In Tangier we killed the blue parrot.
(2005)In my thesis, I argue that Barbara Adair's In Tangier We Killed the Blue Parrot can be viewed as a palimpsest. In this sense her re-inscription of the lives and fictions of lane and Paul Bowles in the International Zone ... -
A study of masculinity, memory and trauma in Niq Mhlongo’s Way Back Home.
(2019)In this dissertation I explore the representations of ‘struggle’ masculinity and the trauma of black masculinity in Niq Mhlongo’s Way Back Home (2013). My primary focus in this regard is Kimathi, the novel’s protagonist. ... -
A study of selected community-based arts projects in KwaZulu- Natal.
(1997)Abstract not available. -
'Summoning the healing' : intercultural performance, immediacy, and historical and ritual dialectics in Brett Bailey's The plays of miracle and wonder (2003)
(2006)This dissertation examines three plays by South African theatre practitioner Brett Bailey as