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Theses and Dissertations (Drama): Recent submissions
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(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 ...
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(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 ...
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(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 ...
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(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 ...
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(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 ...
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(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 ...
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Apartheid en verset : die ontwikkeling van 'n politieke protf.steater in Suid-Afrika tot Soweto 1976 (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 ...
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(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. ...
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(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 ...
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(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 ...
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(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 ...
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(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 ...
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(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 ...
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Assessment of a training programme for actors to make the shifts from theatre acting to film acting (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 ...
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(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 ...
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(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, ...
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(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 ...
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(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 ...
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(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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(University of Pretoria, 2018)Screendance as an interdisciplinary practice influenced by the histories of cinema and dance, necessitates a vocabulary aimed specifically at perceiving it as an autonomous art form. This study is a qualitative, practice-based ...
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