In this article I critically discuss how Willie Esterhuizen's films explicitly present an affirmative heteronormative hegemonic masculinity despite numerous queer, destabilising possibilities that threaten such dominant ...

This study investigates identity construction in online (virtual) and offline (visceral) spaces. Throughout the emphasis is on gay male identity construction. Specifically, the article explores how performance theory can ...

This article argues that Steve Hofmeyr’s Afrikaner identity, an identity he performs across various media platforms, including a selection of feature length Afrikaans films, is a paradoxical hybrid of Afrikaner exceptionalism ...

Afrikaans film adaptations offer exciting opportunities for exploring the productive tensions between the source material and the adapted work. In this article, the authors aim to explore, by way of a case study, which key ...

The church-funded CARFO or KARFO (Afrikaans Christian Filmmaking Organisation) was established in 1947, and aimed to ‘[socialise] the newly urbanized Afrikaner into a Christian urban society’ (Tomaselli 1985:25; Paleker ...