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Centre for Film and Media Studies

Research Report 2006

Director: Associate Professor Ian Glenn
Centre Profile
The Centre for Film and Media Studies, based in the Faculty of Humanities, was established in March 2003. It offers two undergraduate majors and a Programme in Film and Media Production.
The aims of the Centre are:

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  to enable students at undergraduate and postgraduate levels to pursue studies in film and media (including screen, radio, 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;
  
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  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;
  
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  to strengthen ties with similar institutions, scholars and practitioners locally and abroad.
  

The major in Film Studies offers courses in the history, theory and analysis of film. The major in Media and Writing offers courses in media and society, writing and editing for the media, the media in South Africa and advanced media theory. There is extensive focus on the nurturing of creative writing skills across a range of media genres, including scriptwriting for screen and radio, feature writing, and various kinds of reporting.

In addition, we offer, on competitive entry during the second year, a tightly constructed degree programme in Film and Media Production, with streams in screen production, radio, print and interactive media.

We also offer Honours programmes in Film Studies, in Film Theory and Practice, in Media Theory and Practice, and in Political Communication. We offer MA programmes by course-work in Media Theory and Practice and in Political Communication and MA and PhD level degrees by dissertation in Film and in Media Studies.

The staff of the Centre have outstanding teaching records and a wide range of academic and creative productions. They engage in a wide variety of exciting formal and creative research in, for example, audience analysis, political communication, youth culture, media and public health, media and the environment, new approaches to film history, film and identity, film and space, adaptation theory and practice, screenwriting, video gaming, and feature writing.

Centre Statistics
Permanent and long-term contract staff

Associate Professors	2
Senior Lecturers	2
Lecturers	6
Technical staff	2
Administrative staff	3
Total	15

Research Fields and Staff
Associate Professor Martin Botha

South African and African cinema; International film history and national cinemas; Auteurism in cinema; The representation of gays and lesbians in international cinemas; Film theory and analysis; Media effects research; Film policy research; All aspects of the South African film industry

Mr Wallace Chuma

Politics of news coverage; Media regulation, Zimbabwe and media

Associate Professor Ian Glenn

Political communication; Media, democracy and identity; News analysis; South African media history; Media and nature; Moral panics and cultural trauma; Afro-pessimism and the African Renaissance

Dr Adam Haupt

Youth and media; Theories of empire and film; Intellectual property; Democracy; Media; Racial identity politics; Gender and representation; Counter-culture

Mr Musa Ndlovu

Youth and news media

Mr Ian-Malcolm Rijsdijk

Film and history; War film; Terrence Malick; Environment and film

Ms Emma van der Vliet

Mock documentary and realism in fiction cinema

Ms Marion Walton

Video game design and theory

Ms Mary Watson

Experimental film; Surrealism; Theory and practice of editing

Mr Andre Wiesner

Narrative literary journalism; Media ethics; Media and violence

Contact Details

Postal address: Centre for Film and Media Studies, Arts Building Room 208, University Avenue, Rondebosch, 7701

Telephone: [phone]

Fax: [phone]

E-mail: [e-mail]

Web: http://www.cfms.uct.ac.za

Research Output
ARTICLES IN PEER-REVIEWED JOURNALS
Botha, M. 2006. 110 Years of South African Cinema (Part 1). Kinema, 25(Spring): 5 - 26.
Botha, M. 2006. 110 Years of South African Cinema (Part 2). Kinema, 25(Fall): 5 - 26.
Botha, M. 2006. Namibia. International Film Guide, 43: 312.
Botha, M. 2006. South Africa. International Film Guide, 43: 248-250.
Botha, M. 2006. Zimbabwe. International Film Guide, 43: 320.
Chuma, W. 2006. The limits and possibilities of virtual political communication in transforming South Africa: A case study of ANC Today and SA Today. Intercultural Communication Studies, 15(2): 176 - 184.
Glenn, I.E. 2006. Primate time: Rousseau, Levaillant, Marais. Current Writing, 18(1): 61-77.
Glenn, I.E. and Rybicki, E.P. 2006. Douglas Livingstone’s two cultures. Current Writing, 18(1): 78-89.
Liebenberg, L. 2006. Persistence hunting by modern hunter-gatherers. Current Anthropology, 47(2006): 1017-1025.
Rickards, M. 2006. Screening interiority: Drawing on the animated dreams of Satoshi Kon's Perfect Blue? Interactive Media, 2: 1-23.
Rookmaaker, L.C., Morris, P.A., Glenn, I.E. and Mundy, P. 2006. The ornithological cabinet of Jean-Baptiste Bécoeur and the secret of the arsenical soap. Archives of Natural History, 33(1): 146-58.

BOOKS
Botha, M. 2006. Jans Rautenbach: Dromer, Baanbreker en Auteur: 1-131. Parlands: Genugtig.
Hadland, A., Aldridge, M. and Ogada, J. 2006. Re-visioning television: Policy, strategy and models for the sustainable development of community television in South Africa: 1-217. Cape Town: HSRC Press.

CHAPTERS IN BOOKS
Chuma, W. 2006. Liberating or limiting the public sphere? Media policy and the Zimbabwe transition, 1980-2004. In B. Raftopoulos and T. Savage (eds), Zimbabwe: Injustice and political reconciliation: 119-139. Cape Town: Institute for Justice & Reconciliation.
Haupt, A. 2006. The technology of subversion: From digital sampling in hip-hop to the MP3 revolution, cybersounds - essays on virtual music culture: 107-125. New York, USA: Peter Lang (ed.).

PEER-REVIEWED PUBLISHED CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS
Glenn, I.E. 2006. Censoring Mandela. In D.P. Conradie, W.E. Fourie, H. Wasserman and C. Muir (eds), Proceedings of Communication Science in South Africa: Contemporary Issues. Proceedings of the 2005 Annual Conference of the South African Communication Association, Pretoria, South Africa, 178-187. ISBN 0702172871.
Glenn, I.E. 2006. Racial news? How did SABC 1 Nguni news and SABC3 English news cover Zimbabwe in 2004? In D.P. Conradie, W.E. Fourie, H. Wasserman and C. Muir (eds), Proceedings of the 2005 Annual Conference of the South African Communication Association, Pretoria, South Africa, 136-149. ISBN 0702172871.
Knaggs, A. 2006. A kiss is just a kiss? Media affects and bisexual behaviour. In D.P. Conradie, W.E. Fourie, H. Wasserman and C. Muir (eds), Proceedings of the 2005 Annual Conference of the South African Communication Association, Pretoria, South Africa, 227-253. ISBN 0702172871.

NON PEER-REVIEWED PUBLISHED CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS
Botha, M. 2006. Post-apartheid cinema: policy, structures, themes and new aesthetics. Proceedings of Contemporary South African Film, Neerpelt, Belgium, 15-34.

THESES AND DISSERTATIONS PASSED FOR HIGHER DEGREES
Haupt, A. 2006. Stealing Empire: Debates about global capital, counter-culture, technology and intellectual property: 250. PhD.
Tong, K. 2006. Necessary Illusions? Representations of Darfur: 145. Masters Degree in Media Studies.

Michaelis School of Fine Art

Research Report 2006
(Including the Lucy Lloyd Archive, Resource and Exhibition Centre LLAREC)
Director and Head of School: Professor Pippa Skotnes
School Profile
The Michaelis School of Fine Art is primarily involved in research in the field of fine art and the discourses of art. The School has a strong research and exhibition profile with all staff participating in both local and foreign exhibitions. These include exhibitions curated along various themes, major international bienales, as well as individual one-person shows. There is an emphasis on the scholarly and creative interpretation and intellectualisation of artwork. This is reflected in catalogue publications, artists' books and the Artworks in Progress journal published by the School. Staff are regularly invited to comment on issues relating to fine arts practice and write review essays in exhibition catalogues.
The School houses the research centre LLAREC directed by Pippa Skotnes including the Museum Workshop, which is engaged, among other things, with archives, curatorship and the publication and exhibition of works of visual history. It also includes the Katrine Harries Print Cabinet which publishes artists’ books and curates the University’s print collection. LLAREC also initiated a inter-departmental social responsibility project which runs from the UCT field station in Clanwilliam each year.
The major postgraduate degree offered at the School is the Master of Fine Art where students work in both new and traditional fine art disciplines.

School Statistics
Permanent and Long-term Contract Staff

Professors	3
Associate Professor	3
Senior Lecturers	2
Lecturers	4
Contract staff	1
Administrative and Clerical staff	2
Department Assistants	5