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Postmodern theory, contemporary visual culture - Research Output

Research articles in refereed specialist journals:

du Preez AA: 2009. The sublime and the cultures of the extreme: An exploration. Communicatio: South African Journal for Communication Theory and Research/Suid-Afrikaanse Tydskrif Vir Kommunikasieteorie en Navorsing, 35 (2), pp 201-218.

Sonnekus T, van Eeden J: 2009. Visual representation, editorial power, and the dual 'othering' of black men in the South African gay press: The case of Gay Pages. Communicatio: South African Journal for Communication Theory and Research/Suid-Afrikaanse Tydskrif Vir Kommunikasieteorie en Navorsing, 35 (1), pp 81-100.

Sonnekus T: 2009. Macho men and the queer imaginary: A critique of selected gay 'colonial' representations of homomasculinity. De Arte, 80, pp 37-53.

Smith A J, Dreyer E: 2009. Themes of the genetic engineering and the homunculus in Patricia Piccinini's sculptural installation, We are family. De Arte, 79 / Oct, pp 23-33, Full Text

Books:

du Preez AA: 2009. Gendered Bodies and New Technologies: Rethinking Embodiment in a Cyber-Era. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 186 pp.

Chapters in books:

van Eeden J: 2009. Mapping fun in the sun. In Suntropes. Sun City and (post-)apartheid culture in South Africa, (7), August Verlag, Berlin (imprint of Walther Konig, Koln), pp 187-224.

van Marle K: 2009. Tentative reflections on (gendered) subjectivities - Liminality, refusal and post-apartheid law. In Taking a Hard Look: Gender and Visual Culture, (9), Cambridge Scholars Publishing, pp 165-181.

Swanepoel PJ: 2009. Tarzan: the man we love to hate. In Taking a Hard Look: Gender and Visual Culture, (12), Cambridge Scholars Publishing, pp 221-233.

du Preez AA: 2009. For Real: Hysteria, Transsexuality and Femininity-as-Masquerade. In Taking a Hard Look: Gender and Visual Culture, (13), Cambridge Scholars Publishing, pp 237-252.

Viljoen ES: 2009. From bedroom to boardroom: Corporate culture in two South African glossy men's magazines. In Taking a Hard Look: Gender and Visual Culture, (6), Cambridge Scholars Publishing, pp 101-126.

van Eeden J: 2009. Postcards of the comic other and touristic representation. In Taking a Hard Look: Gender and Visual Culture, (7), Cambridge Scholars Publishing, pp 131-149.

Papers in refereed, published conference proceedings:

Viljoen ES: 2009. Masculine ideals in post-apartheid South Africa: the rise of men's glossies. In Imaging ourselves: Visual Identities in Representation, Research Centre, Visual Identities n Art and Design, Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture, University of Johannnesburg, pp 146-159.

van Eeden J: 2009. Starring the Himba: postcards and touristic representation. In Imaging ourselves: Visual Identities in Representation, Research Centre, Visual Identities in Art and Design, Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture, University of Johannesburg, pp 136-145.

 

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