The Journal of African Cinemas will explore the interactions of visual and verbal narratives in African film. It recognizes the shifting paradigms that have defined and continue to define African cinemas. Identity and perception are interrogated in relation to their positions within diverse African film languages. The editors are seeking papers that expound on the identity or …
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CFP: Journalism Studies and the Global South: Rethinking Theory, Practice, and Pedagogy
Manuscript deadline: 01 October 2021 Over the years, the study of journalism has crystallized into a well-defined sub-discipline in the field of media and communication studies. As a sub-discipline, it has also burgeoned into a tapestry of cultures, epistemologies, ways of knowing and doing that exist in tension and in dialogue with each other. The …
Critical Arts, Volume 34, Issue 4, August 2020 is now available online on Taylor & Francis Online.
This new issue contains the following articles: Articles African Cultural Studies: An Overview Handel Kashope Wright & Yao Xiao Pages: 1-31 | DOI: 10.1080/02560046.2020.1758738 Critiquing Print Media Transformation and Black Empowerment in South Africa: A Critical Race Theory Approach Prinola Govenden & Sarah Chiumbu Pages: 32-46 | DOI: 10.1080/02560046.2020.1722719 “There is no ‘us …
Critical Arts, Volume 34, Issue 3, June 2020 is now available online on Taylor & Francis Online.
Peter Abrahams This new issue contains the following articles: Articles Peter Abrahams 100: Milestones in Literature, Media and Political Commentary Hopeton S. Dunn & Rupert Lewis Pages: 1-8 | DOI: 10.1080/02560046.2020.1779767 Peter Abrahams of South Africa: Learning to Read (in) the Global 1930s Jason Frydman Pages: 9-22 | DOI: 10.1080/02560046.2020.1729217 Crossing Boundaries in Fact and …
ToC: Critical Arts, 34,(2) (2020) – Special Issue: Rethinking Chinese Questions in Western Literary Theories
Critical Arts, Volume 34, Issue 2 (2020) – Special Issue: Brand China, Guest Editor: Jun Zeng Introduction Rethinking Chinese Questions in Western Literary Theories Jun Zeng Articles Thinking on the Research Methods of Dialogism in Chinese and Western Literary Theories Jun Zeng A Critical Response to Western Critics’ Controversial Viewpoints on Chinese Traditional Narrative and …
CFP: Critical Arts: Under Fire articles
Temporary free access and Call Critical Arts is placing on temporary free access on a rolling basis all the Under Fire articles that have been published to date. These are short essays that uncompromisingly address pressing issues facing academia, our students and our societies, but which are rarely discussed in the formal academic literature. This …
Call for Editorial Board Members – The Journal of African Media Studies
The Journal of African Media Studies (JAMS) is seeking expressions of interest from media and communication research professionals to join our Editorial Board. The opportunity will allow you to keep up-to-date with research in our field and to improve the quality of submissions for JAMS. The opportunity allows you to position yourself as one of …
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Journal of African Cinemas – Volume 11, Number 1
Editorial Journal of African Cinemas: Special Edition on contemporary South African cinema pp. 3-9(7) Authors: Rijsdijk, Ian-Malcolm; Lawrence, Andrew Articles Outsiders, fairy tales and rainbowism in South African comedies: Soweto Green: This is a ‘Tree’ Story (Lister, 1995) and Fanie Fourie’s Lobola (Pretorius, 2013) pp. 11-29Author: Mdege, Norita Unsettling the ‘New’? Apartheid Did Not Die (Lowery, 1998) pp. 31-46Author: Modisane, Litheko Resistance …
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CFP: Journal of African Cinemas & The Conversation
The Journal of African Cinemas (JAC) is working with arts editor Charl Blignaut at The Conversation to increase exposure of African films in its pages. The aim is to recruit short journalistic articles for The Conversation, which can in due course be repurposed into longer reviews of films and even articles for JAC – or …
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CALL FOR ABSTRACTS: Social Media, Fake News and Hate Speech
NORTH-WEST UNIVERSITY, SOUTH AFRICA FACULTY OF HUMANITIES INDIGENOUS LANGUAGE MEDIA IN AFRICA (ILMA) CONFERENCE JUNE 27 – 28, 2020 NORTH-WEST UNIVERSITY, MAFIKENG CAMPUS, MMABATHO, SOUTH AFRICA The advent of social media (such as Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp, YouTube etc.) has brought about democratisation of communication as the public that hitherto had been considered to be consumers …
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