Critical Arts articles from January 1 1998

Critical Arts archives from January 1 1998

Introduction.
January 1, 1998... THIS ISSUE OF Critical Arts is intended to theoretically and practically provoke those working in cultural and media studies in Africa and beyond. The title "Policy, Governance and Culture" draws together the diverse perspectives advanced in...

Thinking about policy utility: some aspects of Australian cultural policy development in a South African context (1).
January 1, 1998... IN THE PUBLIC discussion of South African policy making it is quite common to see Australia cited as a comparable country whose policies, approaches and strategies could be usefully appropriated in the South African context. The sites of...

Media publics and the transnational public sphere.
January 1, 1998... The transnational public sphere THE PUBLIC sphere is back. After a long period when it was associated with the liberal democratic ideal of a domain of pure rational discourse to counter the power of the centralised state, the public sphere...

News, governmentality and aboriginality: beyond pathologies of othering in media studies.
January 1, 1998... Journalism has all of organised life, all of society, as its sphere of operation. There is no major institution, and few large organisations, that remain untouched by the reporting of journalists. Only the public police and...

Community, participation and cultural heritage: the Ieramugadu Cultural Heritage Information System (ICIS).
January 1, 1998... IREAMUGADU CULTURAL Information System (ICIS) is a multimedia system we are helping to build for the collection, storage and presentation of cultural heritage information with the Ngaluma, Injibandi and Banjima people of Ieramugadu (Roebourne)....

Indigenous terrains and the threat of cultural erosion.
January 1, 1998... The author explores the conflict between indigenous and academic discourse, noting the extent to which the former continues to perceive television as culturally intrusive while the later discounts this threat on the basis of a wide range of...

Doing it by numbers.(cultural studies)
January 1, 1998... Cultural studies: Eclecticism and orthodoxy QUALITATIVE AUDIENCE research in media studies reflects eclecticism deriving from its connections with British Cultural Studies, which in turn resists disciplinary status (Hall, 1986). If cultural...

Critical autonomy in practical media work.
January 1, 1998... Abstract Critical Autonomy has become one of the prime orthodoxies of media education. This paper explores some of the background to this orthodoxy and the most-frequent debates about it--particularly with regard to the role of practical...

African media modelling in the `post-' era.(4 books on media in Africa)
January 1, 1998... * The Alternative Press in South Africa. Keyan Tomaselli and P. Eric Louw (Eds.). Cape Town: Anthropos, 1991. ISBN 0-620-11190-9. London: James Currey, 1992. 236pp. ISBN 0-85255-312-9. Chicago: Lake View Press. * The Growth of Media in the...

Reading, writing, seeing Wetlands.(Western Australian Wetlands)
January 1, 1998... * Rod Giblett & Hugh Webb. ed. Western Australian Wetlands Perth: Black Swan Press, 1996. I THINK THIS book is a quiet landmark in cultural studies, a creative gathering of word and image which should be important for anyone working and...

Integrating video in community development.(Media Action Projects: A Model for Integrating Video in Project-based Education, Training and Community Development)
January 1, 1998... * Dirk Schouten and Rob Waitling: 1997 Media Action Projects: A Model for Integrating Video in Project-based Education, Training and Community Development Nottingham: Urban Programme Research Group. 92 pages. ISBN 0 85359 209 8 I HAD A...

Fictional images of Jews in South Africa.
January 1, 1998... * Marcia Leveson: People of the book. Images of the Jew in South African English Fiction 1880-1992. Witwatersrand University Press, 1996. 277 p. IN HER DETAILED and well-documented study, the author analyses more than a hundred South...

Marcus Banks and Howard Morphy (Eds.): Rethinking Visual Anthropology.
January 1, 1998... New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997 305 pp. Photographs. UNTIL RECENTLY, the field of visual anthropology, a sub-section of both anthropology and documentary film, studied only film as ethnography. This resulted in an over-emphasis on...

Ilisa Barbash and Lucien Taylor: Cross-Cultural Filmmaking: a Handbook for Making Documentary and Ethnographic Films and Videos.
January 1, 1998... Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997 555 pp. Index. Photographs. Figure drawings and technical illustrations. Four appendices. Filmography. Notes. Publications in both theory (eg. Rethinking Visual Anthropology and the growing...

Bill Nichols: Blurred Boundaries: Questions of Meaning in Contemporary Culture.
January 1, 1998... Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1994 187 pp. Index. This anthology of previously published works explores key moments in media history and media in making history. These occur, argues Nichols, when traditional boundaries of...

Sheila Petty (Ed.): a Call to Action: the films of Ousmane Sembene.
January 1, 1998... Westport, CT: Praeger, 1996 184 pp. Bibliography. Filmography. Index. Ousmane Sembene is regarded as one of the key pioneers of African cinema, and of west African--or Sub-Saharan--cinema specifically. From his first short film, Borom...

D. A. Masolo: African Philosophy in Search of Identity.
January 1, 1998... Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press; and Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1994 301 pp. The study of African philosophy has become an increasingly visible activity since the first publication of Paulin Hountondji's African...

Michael R. Real: Exploring Media Culture: a Guide.
January 1, 1998... London: Sage, 1996 299pp. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Real examines the interplay between popular culture and the media. Each chapter uses an aspect of popular culture to explicate a variety of complex topics such as ritual,...

Claire Frachon and Marion Vargaftig (Eds.): European Television: Immigrants and Ethnic Minorities.
January 1, 1998... London: John Libbey, 1995, in association with the Council of Europe, INA. Translated by Pauline Ridel. 301 pp. Appendixes. Photographs. Bibliography. This book deals with the following questions: How does TV in Europe portray...

Athol Fugard: The Captain's Tiger.
January 1, 1998... Johannesburg: Witwatersrand University Press, 1997 79 pp. On board the SS Graigaur a young sailor begins to pen his first novel. Assisted by his muse--a portrait of his mother comes to life--and is supported by his friend--an illiterate...

Lesbian Relationships in American Society: the Making of an Ethnographic Film.
January 1, 1998... London: Praeger, 1997 150 pp. Appendices. Bibliography. Index. A 60 minute videotape accompanies the book. This is an ethnographic study of four lesbian families. Participant observation and feminist participatory research are the...

Women in Publishing and the Book Trade in Africa: an Annotated Directory.
January 1, 1998... Compiled by the Research & Dissemination Unit of African Books Ltd. 2nd revised and expanded version. Oxford: African Books Collective, 1997 34 pp. Index. E-mail: abc@dial.pipex.com This very useful booklet contains the following...

Philip G. Altback (Ed.): the Challenge of the Market: Privatization and Publishing in Africa.
January 1, 1998... Bellagio Studies in Publishing, 7, 1996 Distributed by the African Books Collective. 114 pp. This is one of a series of books on publishing in Africa. The Challenge offers an anthology on the following topics: the transition from state to...

Publishing in Africa: One Man's Perspective.
January 1, 1998... Bellagio Studies in Publishing, 7, 1996 Distributed by the African Books Collective. 182 pp. Appendices. Components of this book are offered on Kenyan publishing: independence and dependence; emancipation and private enterprise. The risks,...

Paul Messaris: Visual Persuasion: the Role of Images in Advertising.
January 1, 1998... London: Sage, 1997 297pp. Photographs. Bibliography. Index. Explores the visual aspects of advertising where pictures as simulations of the physical world become surrogate objects of desire. Messaris explores the nature of visual...

Jerry D. Moore: Visions of Culture: an Introduction to Anthropological Theories and Theorists.
January 1, 1998... London: Altamira Press (Sage), 1997 283 pp. Index. An accessible overview of all the major anthropological theorists of culture from Edward Tylor to postmodernists and cultural materialists. The ideas of the scholars are examined in terms...