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FACULTY OF HUMANITIES
Articles in Peer-reviewed Journals
Aulette-Root, E. 2010. Khomanani: critical discourse analysis
of South Africa state-funded publications on HIV. Perspectives
on Global Development and Technology, 9: 173-198.
Shepherd, N. 2011. Editorial: Debating WAC.
Archaeologies-Journal of the World Archaeological
Congress, 7(2): 311-312.
Shepherd, N. 2011. What’s up with WAC? Archaeology and
‘engagement’ in a globalized world. Public Archaeology,
10(2): 20.
Centre for Film and
Media Studies
(
Including the Centre for Rhetoric Studies
)
Director: Professor Ian Glenn
Centre Profile
The Centre for Film and Media Studies, based in the Faculty
of Humanities, was established in March 2003.
The aims of the Centre are:
• to enable students at undergraduate and postgraduate
levels to pursue studies in film and media (including
screen, radio, scriptwriting, print and digital media)
that will extend, intensify and enrich their intellectual,
creative and practical training and equip them to make
key contributions both to scholarship and to the film and
media industries;
• to foster cutting-edge research in film and media that
has especial relevance to Africa, and to South Africa’s
place both continentally and globally;
• to strengthen ties with similar institutions, scholars and
practitioners locally and abroad.
The Centre offers majors in Media and Writing and in Film
and Television Studies. In addition, we offer, on competitive
entry during the second year, five options for a programme
in Film and Media Production, with choices between screen
production, radio, scriptwriting, print and interactive media.
We offer Honours, MA and PhD level degrees in film and
television studies, media theory and practice and in rhetoric.
We also offer interdisciplinary Honours and MA level degree
programmes in political communication.
The staff of the Centre engage in a wide variety of exciting
formal and creative research in, for example, African and
South African cinema, radio in South Africa, audience analysis,
political communication, rhetoric studies, youth culture, new
approaches to film history, film and identity, adaptation theory
and practice, screenwriting and video gaming.
Centre Statistics
Permanent Staff
Distinguished Professor
1
Professor
1
Associate Professors
3
Senior Lecturers
4
Lecturers
4
Technical staff
1
Administrative staff
4
Total
18
Students (by course registration)
Doctoral
15
Master’s
81
Honours
230
Undergraduate
2600
Total
2926
Research Fields and Staff
Dr Tanja Bosch
Community radio, citizen media and communication
for development; health communication, critical theory
and cultural studies; qualitative research methods; radio
studies and new media.
Associate Professor Martin Botha
World cinemas, international film history, the representation
of gays/lesbians in cinema, studies on media violence.
Dr Wallace Chuma
Contemporary journalism and the public sphere, critical
political economy of media, media policy and regulation,
and media and political transition in Southern Africa.
Ms Martha Evans
Media events and the coming of television to South Africa,
media and national identity, the TRC as a South African
media event.
Professor Ian Glenn
Media in the new South Africa, liberal Afropessimism,
political communication, media technologies and the
literature of exploration, François Le Vaillant.
Associate Professor Adam Haupt
Youth and media, theories of empire and film, intellectual
property, racial identity politics, gender and representation,
counter-culture.