Browsing Masters Degrees (Media, Visual Arts and Drama) by Title
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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 ... -
Michael Zondi : South African sculptor.
(2004)The art historical foregrounding of pioneer and contemporary art of black South Africans during the last two decades of the 20th century has emphasised two-dimensional media. Given the dearth of biographies on black artists ... -
The mirror as device : a study of the mirror motif in select examples of South African and western artworks.
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#MrpMyStyle as brand communication: an analysis of Mr Price brand image as reflected through Facebook.
(2019)This study investigates the hashtag #mrpmystyle as brand communication. Through observation of Mr Price‟s Facebook page, and its activities over a period, to evaluate the effectiveness of the Mr Price Facebook page in ... -
Navigating the topographical drawing : the South African journal of J.S. Dobie.
(1997)This dissertation aims to explore aspects of topographical drawing in nineteenth century Natal. It has as its centrepiece the drawings of John Dobie (1819-1903). It is argued that topographical drawing is enmeshed in the ... -
Nesta Nala : ceramics, 1985-1995.
(1997)This thesis reviews two local collections of ceramics by Nesta Nala between 1985 and 1996. The main text is presented in four chapters. Chapter One outlines the development of Nala's career and discusses the collections ... -
A new approach to subculture : gaming as a substantial subculture of consumption.
(2013)The study identifies how serious gamers (those who play videogames) manifested themselves as an authentic contemporary subculture in South Africa. The research took place in Durban and extended to Johannesburg, over a two ... -
Observational narratives and feminist practice : an analysis of Kim Longinotto's documentary filmmaking using Rough Aunties (2008) as a case study.
(2014)This research is primarily focused on the feminist filmmaker Kim Longinotto’s South African-based documentary Rough Aunties (2008). Through a process of close analysis it aims to describe how Longinotto structures the ... -
Paperclay in recent South African ceramics : continuity and change in studio works.
(2012)This dissertation comprises the documentation and theoretical component of a practice-led Master of Arts in Fine Art. The illustrated text focuses in four chapters on a critical explication of contemporary South African ... -
A particle in a wave : a self-study of an evolving consciousness and its concomitant art production, in the context of twentieth century contemporary spirituality.
(2000)In this dissertation the tracing of a personal shift in consciousness is evidenced in my art production and through self-interrogation. Investigations into feminist theology proved resonant with a personal apostasy and ... -
Personal history and collective memory : images of social and political history in the art of four South African women artists.
(2010)This study examines the means by which four South African woman artists, namely Penny Siopis, Jo Ractliffe, Lien Botha and Tania Kühl use memory and history as themes to represent social and political events in South Africa. ... -
'The politics of design' in community theatre circles : a comparative analysis of the creative design processes employed by Intuba Arts Development in Tears of Death (2013) and Bambelela Arts Ensemble in Just Because (1999; 2013)
(2013)This dissertation positions the ‘politics of design’ at the centre of scenographic practice within the community theatre circles. The dissertation argues that the understanding of the ‘politics of design’ enables community ... -
Postcolonial feminisms speaking through an 'accented' cinema : the construction of Indian women in the films of Mira Nair and Deepa Mehta.
(2004)This thesis proposes that the merging of the theories of ‘accented’ cinema and postcolonial feminisms allows for the establishment of a theoretical framework for the analysis of (what will be argued for) an emerging ... -
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 ... -
The re-contextualisation and representation of women’s roles in the television series Once Upon a Time.
(2020)This dissertation explores the representation and re-contextualisation of female roles in the contemporary television series, Once Upon a Time. Women in the media and society have long been undermined. Women, especially ... -
The representation of women in Hollywood film musicals : a qualitative, critical and visual analysis of gentlemen prefer blondes and Nine.
(2017)Dance, musical theatre, and drama have always been such a passion for me. The magical worlds that these art forms create allow for escapism that we as humans crave, and show us. Being a feminist myself, and a woman in the ... -
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. ...