• Representing issues of South African land ownership in animated film 

  Thom, Bianka (University of Pretoria, 2024-07-26)

  This study aims to understand how issues of South African land ownership can be depicted in animation. A Screenwriting as Creative Practice Research methodology is used to investigate how Conceptual Metaphor Theory can ...
• Psychological and visionary modes of creativity : a jungian analysis of westworld towards a potential design pedagogy 

  De Villiers, Courtney Jade (University of Pretoria, 2019-08)

  This study explores the potential pedagogical value Jungian strategies may bring to creativity studies and design education. The study is largely interdisciplinary insofar as it draws from several disciplines including ...
• Exploring white Afrikaner identity through filmic fantasy tropes 

  van Eeden, Marista (University of Pretoria, 2023-12-08)

  This dissertation aims to explore how fantasy tropes and Afrikaans mythological narratives can be used to create a framework for a fantasy screenplay that critically engages with white Afrikaner identity. The investigation ...
• Hierdie woorde en sinne het ek iewers geërf : reflecting on Afrikaner identity through intertextuality in Johnny is nie dood nie (Olwagen 2017) and Kanarie (Olwagen 2018) 

  Haasbroek, Francois (University of Pretoria, 2023)

  The research study focuses on configurations of filmic intertextuality in Christiaan Lugones’s feature films Johnny is nie dood nie (2017) and Kanarie (2018), and examines how they enable audiences of the films to reflect ...
• Decolonial storying : embodied memory in facilitating choreographic composition 

  Haskins, Nicola (University of Pretoria, 2022)

  The study is situated in the field of choreographic composition within the context of higher education in South Africa. It aims to design and qualitatively reflect on the perceived efficacy of decolonial teaching and ...
• Female subjectivity in selected women-centric television drama serials 

  De Kock, Laurika (University of Pretoria, 2023-01-30)

  Since 2010, there has been a proliferation of women-centric television series and serials in the international television landscape due to substantial socio-political and -economic changes as well a changing television ...
• Apartheid en verset : die ontwikkeling van 'n politieke protf.steater in Suid-Afrika tot Soweto 1976 

  Pretorius, Hermanus (University of Pretoria, 1994)

  When the National Party came into power in 1948, Apartheid began to influence all facets of South African life, also that of the theatre. This study documents Apartheid legislation and the resistance against it, then ...
• Recycling ghosts : reimagining C. Louis Leipoldt's play "Die Laaste Aand" (1930) 

  Van der Merwe, Petronella Hendrina (University of Pretoria, 2021)

  Post-colonial South Africa is haunted. More specifically, contemporary white Afrikaner identity is tormented by ghosts - as vestiges and reminders of the tyrannical injustices of the past. This study investigates how C. ...
• Orality in playback theatre : a discourse analysis 

  Zanjam, Ngefor Shella (University of Pretoria, 2021-12)

  This thesis explores the dynamics involved in the transitions between an oral and orally-based storytelling mode of narration, and the performance-based presentation of that story, as encountered in the storytelling processes ...
• The Lamb's Wrath : Cannibalism, Divinity, and Apocalypse in Hannibal 

  Janse van Rensburg, Dené (University of Pretoria, 2019)

  This study proposes that the television series Hannibal (Fuller 2013-2015), with its aesthetic and thematic emphasis on Christian motifs and imagery, is a contemporary apocalyptic fiction. Specifically, this study argues ...
• Embodied shiftings to bridge actor-character dissonance 

  Haarhoff, Emil Ernst (University of Pretoria, 2020-11-01)

  When a script stipulates actions, gestural routines and mental models for a character that clash with the personal values of the actor, it creates dissonance between what the actor (as person) believes, represents or ...
• Drama-based second language teaching and learning 

  Kruger, Marlene (University of Pretoria, 2020)

  This study engages with the domains of second language teaching and learning (L2TL), drama-based teaching and learning (DBTL) and embodied cognition in order to establish how the effective implementation of DBTL may ...
• Expansionary engagements : Butterworth's didactic-democratic spectrum model in physical theatre choreography 

  Janse van Rensburg, Walt (University of Pretoria, 2019)

  This study aims to identify my personal choreographic approach to physical theatre-making and then to experientially expand on it by engaging with Joanne Butterworth‘s five-tier Didactic-Democratic spectrum model for ...
• The efficacy of a pre-recorded digital performing arts skills development module for fourth-year drama students at a South African University : a case study 

  Faber, Stephen (University of Pretoria, 2019)

  The purpose of this study is to develop, present and assess a skillsdevelopment module in pre-recorded digital performing arts (PRDPA) that may enable performing artists to become practitioners of pre-recorded digital performing ...
• Assessment of a training programme for actors to make the shifts from theatre acting to film acting 

  Bester, Lelia (University of Pretoria, 2019)

  The lack of standardised and structured training, underscored by an academic discourse on film acting, necessitates the designing of a training programme that critically engages with this notion. This study aims to contribute ...
• Audience Perception of Emotion in a Physical Theatre Performance 

  Papenfus, Zelné (University of Pretoria, 2020)

  This article engages with audience perception of emotion in a physical theatre performance. Two primary, yet conflicting, scholarly discourses relating to how human beings perceive emotions in themselves and in others are ...
• Distinguishing between Intended and Perceived Emotions in a 'Dance-based' Physical Theatre Performance 

  Papenfus, Zelné (University of Pretoria, 2020)

  Dance-based physical theatre as a sub-strand of Physical Theatre, is positioned as a continuum of dance. Dance-based physical theatre performers are encouraged to embrace their personal uniqueness and previous dance training, ...
• Angels in South Africa. Playing with queerness in South African theatre 

  Vermeulen, Vasti (University of Pretoria, 2018)

  Angels in South Africa: Exploring Modern Progressive and Queer Realities in South Africa through Theatre is a thesis based on the development of the South African experimental play, Angels in South Africa. The play is a ...
• The empathetic physician : using process drama to facilitate the training of empathy skills in healthcare education 

  Schweickerdt, Louise (University of Pretoria, 2018)

  Introduction This study used elements of process drama to explore and facilitate training of empathy skills in medical students. To do so, a training session through role-play was introduced, which was evaluated through ...
• Bosbok Ses films: Exploring postheroic narratives 

  Britz, Danielle (University of Pretoria, 2017)

  Much of Afrikaans cinema before and after 1994 is characterized by a historically dominant heroic narrative. In response to this dominance, this study offers a postheroic framework for contemporary Afrikaans cinema to ...

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