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Cultural and Racial Representation in South African Soap Operas. 'Generations' and 'Muvhango'

Author : Lutendo Nendauni
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 16 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2016-12-07
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783668358904

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Cultural and Racial Representation in South African Soap Operas. 'Generations' and 'Muvhango' by Lutendo Nendauni Pdf

Seminar paper from the year 2016 in the subject Film Science, University of Venda, course: Media studies, language: English, abstract: This paper intends to examine how culture and race are represented in South African television industry; the focus is laid on South Africa’s oldest and most watched soap operas: 'Generations' and 'Muvhango'. Culture and race are some of the most crucial terminologies in South African history and because of this reason they are defined and deeply explained in this paper. The paper also defines representation from a philosophical point of view, moving on to a media point of view, which then leads to the critical detailed analysis of how culture and race are represented in South African television paying special attention to two of the most popular soap operas.

Cinema in a Democratic South Africa

Author : Lucia Saks
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2010-07-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780253221865

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Cinema in a Democratic South Africa by Lucia Saks Pdf

Lucia Saks uses South African cinema as a lens through which to view cultural changes resulting from the end of apartheid in 1994. She examines how media transformed the meaning of race and nation during this period and argues that, as apartheid was disbanded and new racial constructs allowed, South Africa quickly sought a new mode of representation as a way to distance itself from the violence and racism of the half-century prior, as well as to demonstrate stability amid social disruption. This rapid search for a new way to identify and portray itself is what Saks refers to as the race for representation. She contextualizes this race in terms of South African history, the media, apartheid, sexuality, the economy, community, early South African cinema, and finally speculates about the future of "counter-cinema" in present-day South Africa.

“The Park” by James Matthews. Short stories by South African authors in the classroom

Author : Joan-Ivonne Bake
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 17 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2010-10-22
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9783640731756

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“The Park” by James Matthews. Short stories by South African authors in the classroom by Joan-Ivonne Bake Pdf

Seminar paper from the year 2003 in the subject Didactics for the subject English - Literature, Works, grade: keine, University of Duisburg-Essen, language: English, abstract: The seminar “Language and Literature in the New South Africa” familiarized students with a range of contemporary and antecedent short stories by South African authors in context of the highly problematic terms of apartheid and post-apartheid especially with regard to South African culture. A major aspect of the seminar was the question of identity and culture as it is recognizable in language and literature. Community should be achieved as an important role in South Africa. To implicate the usability for (short) stories in the English language classroom, the fact that they in general meet a basic human need and a plurality of methodological approaches especially for young people in order to understand the “other” are to be emphasised.

Soap Operas. What is a soap?

Author : Andrea Rieger
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 19 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2002-01-23
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783638110044

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Soap Operas. What is a soap? by Andrea Rieger Pdf

Seminar paper from the year 1997 in the subject Communications - Movies and Television, grade: gut, University of Graz (Fachbereich Literaturwissenschaften), course: Soap Operas, language: English, abstract: A soap opera is a serialized drama which runs for 52 weeks of the year with continuous storylines dealing with domestic themes, personal or family relationships and a limited running characters. Soap operas or serials are open-ended ... Soap operas are one of the few genres where weddings, for instance, are not a happy ending but the beginning of a marriage that may be troubled or even doomed to failure. A dramatic program usually presented daily, with continuing characters and multiple plots. The action, which deals with contemporary problems and their solutions, continues from episode to episode called soap opera because many of the original sponsors were soap manufacturers. Also called daytime drama, soap, and soaper. Television soap operas are long-running serials concerned with everyday life. The serial is not to be confused with the series, in which the main characters and format remain the same from program to program but each episode is a self-contained plot. In a serial at least one storyline is carried over from one episode to the next. A series is advertised as having a specific number of episodes, but serials are potentially endless. These definitions can be seen as a sort of introduction to the whole field of soap operas. In the following chapters I will deal with this topic in detail.

The Meaning of South African Rock Paintings

Author : Lenka Tucek
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 29 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2007-09-26
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783638778022

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The Meaning of South African Rock Paintings by Lenka Tucek Pdf

Seminar paper from the year 2001 in the subject Art - Painting, grade: 1 (A), Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University (Faculty of Arts), course: Course: South African Archaeology and Ethno-history (SA 301), 9 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: One aspect of the wealth of material evidence left behind by the early people are the pictures in south african rock art. They occur in paintings and engravings. In 1996 the total number of sites in South Africa was estimated to be a little over 10 000 but the actual number of sites is significantly undercounted. It is still not known exactly when the artists started to make rock art, although new techniques of radiocarbon dating, using very small samples of paint, open the possibility of an absolute chronology. The oldest example of rock art in Africa was found in 1969 by Eric Wendt in the southern region of Namibia at a site called Apollo 11. After various datings, mainly with the radiocarbon method, archaeologists concluded that the rock art tradition in southern africa is at least 27 500 years old. In South Africa the oldest dated rock art is an engraving in the Northern Cape which was found on a small slab of dolomite at the Wonderwerk Cave south of Kuruman. It has a radiocarbon date of c.10 200 BP. Rock paintings are found in the mountainous parts of the subcontinent in abundant rock shelters and shallow overhangs, while engravings were generally made on the interior plateau of South Africa. There are about 1600 paintings in South Africa. In this assignment I will focus on the meaning of rock paintings, on the specific symbols and their importance for the early people. In Chapter Two, I provide a short introduction about the artists and their methods. Then I will explain the three important approaches to reveal the meaning of rock art described by Lewis - Williams and give some examples of misinterpretations of rock paintings. Chapter Three deals with the spiritual world and shamanism in the society

The Truth about Crime

Author : Jean Comaroff,John L. Comaroff
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226424910

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The Truth about Crime by Jean Comaroff,John L. Comaroff Pdf

This new book by the well-known anthropologists Jean and John L. Comaroff explores the global preoccupation with criminality in the early twenty-first century, a preoccupation strikingly disproportionate, in most places and for most people, to the risks posed by lawlessness to the conduct of everyday life. Ours in an epoch in which law-making, law-breaking, and law-enforcement are ever more critical registers in which societies construct, contest, and confront truths about themselves, an epoch in which criminology, broadly defined, has displaced sociology as the privileged means by which the social world knows itself. They also argue that as the result of a tectonic shift in the triangulation of capital, the state, and governance, the meanings attached to crime and, with it, the nature of policing, have undergone significant change; also, that there has been a palpable muddying of the lines between legality and illegality, between corruption and conventional business; even between crime-and-policing, which exist, nowadays, in ever greater, hyphenated complicity. Thinking through Crime and Policing is, therefore, an excursion into the contemporary Order of Things; or, rather, into the metaphysic of disorder that saturates the late modern world, indeed, has become its leitmotif. It is also a meditation on sovereignty and citizenship, on civility, class, and race, on the law and its transgression, on the political economy of representation.

The Rhetorical Power of Popular Culture

Author : Deanna D. Sellnow
Publisher : SAGE Publications
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2017-03-07
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781506315225

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The Rhetorical Power of Popular Culture by Deanna D. Sellnow Pdf

Can television shows like Modern Family, popular music by performers like Taylor Swift, advertisements for products like Samuel Adams beer, and films such as The Hunger Games help us understand rhetorical theory and criticism? The Third Edition of The Rhetorical Power of Popular Culture offers students a step-by-step introduction to rhetorical theory and criticism by focusing on the powerful role popular culture plays in persuading us as to what to believe and how to behave. In every chapter, students are introduced to rhetorical theories, presented with current examples from popular culture that relate to the theory, and guided through demonstrations about how to describe, interpret, and evaluate popular culture texts through rhetorical analysis. Author Deanna Sellnow also provides sample student essays in every chapter to demonstrate rhetorical criticism in practice. This edition’s easy-to-understand approach and range of popular culture examples help students apply rhetorical theory and criticism to their own lives and assigned work.

The Art of Human Rights

Author : Romola Adeola,Michael Gyan Nyarko,Adebayo Okeowo,Frans Viljoen
Publisher : Springer
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2020-04-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 303030101X

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The Art of Human Rights by Romola Adeola,Michael Gyan Nyarko,Adebayo Okeowo,Frans Viljoen Pdf

This book highlights the use of art in human rights, specifically within Africa. It advances an innovative pattern of thinking that explores the intersection between art and human rights law. In recent years, art has become an important tool for engagement on several human rights issues. In view of its potency, and yet potential to be a danger when misused, this book seeks to articulate the use of arts in the human rights discourse in its different forms. Chapters cover how music, photography, literature, photojournalism, soap opera, commemorations, sculpting and theatre can be used as an expression of human rights. This book demonstrates how arts have become a formidable expression of thoughts and a means of articulating reality in a form that simplifies truth and congregates resolve to advance change.

International Relations: Which grand theory best describes the world today? Why?

Author : Jane Vetter
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 11 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2008-10-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783640186334

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International Relations: Which grand theory best describes the world today? Why? by Jane Vetter Pdf

Seminar paper from the year 2007 in the subject Politics - Political systems in general and in comparison, University of North Florida, language: English, abstract: In international relations, we find many different actors with distinctive interests and certain individual instruments to realize goals. Within the following paper, our question cannot necessarily be how important nation-states are in comparison with international organizations such as the United Nations, for example. Instead, we have to find the best match in regard to outlining and observing today's political world. In the following, I will show that realism best describes our world today because of four striking reasons. First, realism is the easiest way to approach international politics and describing the world. Second, realism best applies to our daily individual lives and, therefore, dominates how we shape international relations. Third, the realist theory is our last resort when political circumstances get out of hand, and lives, sovereignty, and power are threatened. This is because we traditionally relied on realist approaches and, consequently, do not hesitate in further outlining our world with the help of realism since it makes us feel more secure in what we are doing. Fourth, realism marks today's hegemon, the United States, and, hence, today's world politics. This reasoning is not an attempt, however, to minimize other grand theories, liberalism and constructivism. International relations is a vast field and therefore must be complemented by alternative views in order to round out the picture and to arrive at valid and persuasive understandings of international politics.

History After Apartheid

Author : Annie E. Coombes
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2003-11-24
Category : History
ISBN : 0822330725

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History After Apartheid by Annie E. Coombes Pdf

DIVHow should post-apartheid South Africa present its history - in museums, monuments, and parks./div

Female Stories, Female Bodies

Author : Lidia Curti
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1998-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780814715734

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Female Stories, Female Bodies by Lidia Curti Pdf

On women authors and women in literature

Beauty and the Norm

Author : Claudia Liebelt,Sarah Böllinger,Ulf Vierke
Publisher : Springer
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2018-08-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783319911748

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Beauty and the Norm by Claudia Liebelt,Sarah Böllinger,Ulf Vierke Pdf

Recent decades have seen the rise of a global beauty boom, with profound effects on perceptions of bodies worldwide. Against this background, Beauty and the Norm assembles ethnographic and conceptual approaches from a variety of disciplines and across the globe to debate standardization in bodily appearance. Its contributions range from empirical research to exploratory conversations between scholars and personal reflections. Bridging hitherto separate debates in critical beauty studies, cultural anthropology, sociology, the history of science, disability studies, gender studies, and critical race studies, this volume reflects upon the gendered, classed, and racialized body, normative regimes of representation, and the global beauty economy.

The Representation of Blackness in Walt Disney's "The Princess and the Frog"

Author : Anna Wertenbruch
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2013-01-24
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9783656359081

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The Representation of Blackness in Walt Disney's "The Princess and the Frog" by Anna Wertenbruch Pdf

Seminar paper from the year 2012 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 1,3, Ruhr-University of Bochum (Englisches Seminar), course: New Orleans, language: English, abstract: The Princess and the Frog immediately captured the media’s and critics’ attention since the heroine and later princess, Tiana, is Disney’s first African-American protagonist. Some scholars claim that the timely release of the film in the first year of Barack Obama’s presidency renders The Princess and the Frog an appropriate marker of America’s so-called ‘new age’ of racial harmony: While a black president resides in the White House, a black princess lives in the Disney castle. When the characters sing “Dreams Do Come True in New Orleans” (Newman), the city – though accurately and authentically depicted – is presented as a dreamspace with racial harmony, contrary to the real New Orleans at that time. In this context, the peculiar absence of racial tension throughout the film might be an approach to overwrite the problematic position the city occupies in the minds of many Americans with a romantic fairy tale by Disney. Therefore it can be said that The Princess and the Frog serves as a tourist brochure for the city which makes viewers nostalgically look back. To prove my theses of how blackness is formed in The Princess and the Frog, I will have a closer look at the setting of the Disney-movie since New Orleans, which is often considered as a place of ‘racial difference’, plays an important role in the film’s construction of blackness. At first I will give a brief overview of the city’s colonial history before explaining the concept of Creolization and link this idea to New Orleans. In the following part of my paper, I will analyze the representation of blackness in Walt Disney’s film The Princess and the Frog by on the one hand referring to the setting and its depiction and on the other hand taking into account Tiana, the first African American princess, and her illustration in the film. Due to limitations of space and since the portrayals of New Orleans and Tiana provide lots of interesting material for an analysis, the display of voodoo and the study of other characters in the film is omitted in this paper. Finally, in the conclusion I sum up my findings and elaborate on an issue, or respectively, answer a question which was often posed and discussed about after the release of the film: Does Disney neglect stereotypes in The Princess and the Frog or promote them?

International Handbook of Financial Literacy

Author : Carmela Aprea,Eveline Wuttke,Klaus Breuer,Noi Keng Koh,Peter Davies,Bettina Greimel-Fuhrmann,Jane S. Lopus
Publisher : Springer
Page : 713 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2016-03-24
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789811003608

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International Handbook of Financial Literacy by Carmela Aprea,Eveline Wuttke,Klaus Breuer,Noi Keng Koh,Peter Davies,Bettina Greimel-Fuhrmann,Jane S. Lopus Pdf

This Handbook presents in-depth research conducted on a myriad of issues within the field of financial literacy. Split into six sections, it starts by presenting prevalent conceptions of financial literacy before covering financial literacy in the policy context, the state and development of financial literacy within different countries, issues of assessment and evaluation of financial literacy, approaches to teaching financial literacy, and teacher training and teacher education in financial literacy. In doing so, it provides precise definitions of the construct of financial literacy and elaborates on the state and recent developments of financial literacy around the world, to show ways of measuring and fostering financial literacy and to give hints towards necessary and successful teacher trainings. The book also embraces the diversity in the field by revealing contrasting and conflicting views that cannot be bridged, while at the same time making a contribution by re-joining existing materials in one volume which can be used in academic discourse, in research-workshops, in university lectures and in the definition of program initiatives within the wider field of financial literacy. It allows for a landscape of financial literacy to be depicted which would foster the implementation of learning opportunities for human beings for sake of well-being within financial living-conditions. The Handbook is useful to academics and students of the topic, professionals in the sector of investment and banking, and for every person responsible for managing his or her financial affairs in everyday life.

Soap Opera: Realism, Spectatorship and the Female Audience

Author : Lea Weller BA
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 12 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2013-11-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783656539438

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Soap Opera: Realism, Spectatorship and the Female Audience by Lea Weller BA Pdf

Essay from the year 2010 in the subject Sociology - Gender Studies, grade: A, University of Derby, course: BA in Sociology and Film and Television Studies, language: English, abstract: The soap opera is classed as a woman’s genre in which a fictional discourse of current affairs is discussed as speculated gossip. Charlotte Brunsdon (1995, 1997) has stated that the British soap opera has specific conventions, which make it a soap opera. Realism in a soap opera reflects the issues that are evident in society today and recognised by a female audience, allowing the viewer to connect with specific plots and characters. Brunsdon had become interested in the sudden intriguing criticisms of the feminist critics who argued about how the representations of the personal home life became an intriguing object of study.