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Papers by Chris Broodryk

Communicare; Journal for Communication Sciences in Southern Africa, 2016

This article, specifically section two on Afrikaner identity, draws on the author’s doctoral rese... more This article, specifically section two on Afrikaner identity, draws on the author’s doctoral research on the political impotence of contemporary Afrikaans language cinema in a study titled, Absences, exclusivities, utopias: Afrikaans films as a cinema of political impotence, 1994–2014 (2015).

The design options in the contemporary computerised era, lead to the digitised manipulation of pr... more The design options in the contemporary computerised era, lead to the digitised manipulation of proposed reality. Green screen is a technique used within film/television and permits compositing and manipulation of the proposed reality. This allows the filmmaker and the virtual designers to substitute the green screen area with whatever designed ‘environment’ the filmmaker desires. The challenges this pose to actors in being congruent with and thus creating (photo)realism in the designed world of the green screen is yet to be delineated and circumvented. When this technique is implemented it substantially limits the range of stimuli which the actor receives to feed his belief in the proposed circumstances and his behaviour. Such stimuli are crucial within the acting moment. Therefore within the green screen environment the actor has to imagine and experience that which will supplant the green screen and not the green screen itself – the end manipulated designed world. Within the field...

Journal of African Cinemas, 2018

Voices from the South: Digital Arts and Humanities, 2018

The aim of the present study is to evaluate the effect of Solanium melongena Fruits supplemented ... more The aim of the present study is to evaluate the effect of Solanium melongena Fruits supplemented diet on hyperglycemia, overweight, liver function and dyslipidemia in male New Zealand rabbits fed high fat and Sucrose solution diet. A qualitative phytochemical analysis of Solanium melongena fruits extract was performed using standard methods and phytochemical analysis showed presence of saponin, flavonoids, alkaloids, anthraquinones, tannins, steriods and terpenoids. A total of twenty male male New Zealand rabbits with mean weights between 489.00±8.0 to 493.00±10.5g were divided into five (5) groups (n=4), normal control group was fed normal rabbit chow and experimental groups were fed high fat diet and 30% sucrose solution. Body weights, blood sugar levels, key liver enzymes and lipid profile were examined, and the results demonstrated that, diet supplemented with 10% and 20% of Solanium melongena fruit possess a hypoglycemic ability, could aid weight reduction, restored liver function and acted as a good regulator of lipid profile levels.

Tydskrif vir Letterkunde, 2020

New Review of Film and Television Studies, 2014

The renowned and prolific Thomas Elsaesser has published extensively on film history and theory, ... more The renowned and prolific Thomas Elsaesser has published extensively on film history and theory, from studies of German cinema (silent German cinema, New German Cinema, the cinema of the Weimar republic, German auteurs) to the operation of postmodernism as mourning work. Such is the range of Elsaesser's scholarship that to refer to him as a film historian would be utterly restrictive for a film scholar who recently delivered an incisive introduction to Bela Tarr's apocalyptic masterpiece The Turin horse and has developed an intriguing line of thought around post-heroic narratives. Rather, Elsaesser is a media archaeologist par excellence, a prolific writer on German cinema, American cinema, silent cinema and cinema technologies.

South African Theatre Journal, 2014

Shakespeare in Southern Africa

This article examines how gender identity is represented in a filmic adaptation of Shakespeare's ... more This article examines how gender identity is represented in a filmic adaptation of Shakespeare's play text Romeo and Juliet within South Africa's postcolonial context, thereby positioning identity politics as crucial in the decolonial project. This article focuses on Minky Schlesinger's South African adaptation of Romeo and Juliet titled Gugu and Andile (2009). Schlesinger's film is compared to Franco Zeffirelli's Romeo and Juliet (1968) and Baz Luhrmann's William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet (1996) to comparatively contextualise and sharpen an analysis of gender identity in Schlesinger's film. In our analysis of the selected films we examine the mise-en-scène in each film to establish how the films comment on, subvert or maintain certain gender identities. 3 Irene Lara, "Goddess of the Américas in the decolonial imaginary: Beyond the virtuous virgin/pagan puta dichotomy,"

Peer review declaration The publisher (AOSIS) endorses the South African 'National Scholarly Book... more Peer review declaration The publisher (AOSIS) endorses the South African 'National Scholarly Book Publishers Forum Best Practice for Peer Review of Scholarly Books.' The manuscript was subjected to rigorous two-step peer review prior to publication, with the identities of the reviewers not revealed to the author(s). The reviewers were independent of the publisher and/or authors in question. The reviewers commented positively on the scholarly merits of the manuscript and recommended that the manuscript be published. Where the reviewers recommended revision and/or improvements to the manuscript, the authors responded adequately to such recommendations. Research Justification This volume captures the status of digital humanities within the Arts in South Africa. The primary research methodology falls within the broader tradition of phenomenological hermeneutics, with a specific emphasis on visual hermeneutics. Some of the tools utilised as part of the visual hermeneutic methods are geographic information system (GIS) mapping, sensory ethnography and narrative pathways. Digital humanities is positioned here as the necessary engagement of the humanities with the pervasive digital culture of the 21st century. It is posited that the humanities and arts, in particular, have an essential role to play in unlocking meaning from scientific, technological and data-driven research. The critical engagement with digital humanities is foregrounded throughout the volume, as this crucial engagement works through images. Images (as understood within image studies) are not merely another text but always more than a text. As such, this book is the first of its kind in the South African scholarly landscape, and notably also a first on the African continent. Its targeted audience include both scholars within the humanities, particularly in the arts and social sciences. Researchers pursuing the new field of digital humanities may also find the ideas presented in this book significant. Several of the chapters analyse the question of dealing with digital humanities through representations of the self as viewed from the Global South. However, it should be noted that self-representation is not the only area covered in this volume. The latter chapters of the book discuss innovative ways of implementing digital humanities strategies and methodologies for teaching and researching in South Africa.

HTS Teologiese Studies / Theological Studies

The church-funded CARFO or KARFO (Afrikaans Christian Filmmaking Organisation) was established in... more 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 2009:45). This initiative was supported and sustained by the Dutch Reformed Church (DRC), which had itself been part of the sociopolitical and ideological fabric of Afrikaans religious life for a while and would guide Afrikaners through tensions between religious conservatism and liberalism and into apartheid. Given Afrikaans cinema’s ties with Christian religious and political conservatism, we explore the role – even the centrality – of the Afrikaans church in cultural activity before 1994, and then after 1994. Here, Afrikaans church is an inclusive term that brings together various denominations of Afrikaans-speaking churches, but which mainly suggests the domination of the DRC. After establishing the role of the Afrikaans church in the way described above, we move...

Research in Dance Education

South African Theatre Journal

Studies in Theatre and Performance

A much-needed anthology of writings about the process of documenting performance, focusing on the... more A much-needed anthology of writings about the process of documenting performance, focusing on the professional approaches to recovering, preserving and disseminating knowledge of live performance.

This article argues that Steve Hofmeyr’s Afrikaner identity, an identity he performs across vario... more 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 and claims to victimhood. The exceptionalism and self-imposed victimhood are engaged in an across-media dialogue, as Steve Hofmeyr’s social media and political activist persona speak to his participation in three Afrikaans language films: Pretville
(Korsten, 2012), Platteland (Else, 2011) and Treurgrond (Roodt, 2015). Hofmeyr’s presence foregrounds and exacerbates an already problematic ideological context in which attempts at
multiculturalism are rendered moot by the conservatism in these films, especially where land – the farm – is concerned. While Pretville invents a 1950s South African town that fails to correspond to any inhabited reality of that time, Platteland offers an Afrikaans musical-western wherein Hofmeyr dominates as patriarch. Finally, the attempts of Treurgrond at raising farm murder awareness are nullified through casting Hofmeyr as a farmer facing a land claim, given Hofmeyr’s active
campaigning against an alleged Boer genocide.

Exploring the Collective Unconscious in the Age of Digital Media, 2000

Ilha Do Desterro a Journal of Language and Literature Revista De Lingua E Literatura, 2011