CRITICAL ARTS A Journal for Media Studies , !I i.I.. '"""'"!I"I ~i !![ ~ ) (Special Issue: Censorship in South Africa) June 1980 Vol 1 No 2 CRITICAL ARTS Vol 1 No 2 June 1980 EDITORS Keyan G Tomaselli John van Zyl BOARD EDITORIAL Eve Bertels en Tim COuzens Peter Horn Peter Hume Ian Steadman by Published Cr~tical Arts Study Group U1nJlversityof the Witwatersrand an Smuts Avenue South Africa 2001 Johannesburg. EDITORIAL A Journal for Media We ex- to meet the demand. Reader response to the first issue of Critical Arts: Studies was well above that anticipated. The initial print run of 500 copies was supplemented by an additional 300 pect our distribution figure to reach over 1000 by the end of the year. It is also interesting to note that the Journal 1S being ordered by an Clearly, increasing number of universities in the United States. Critical Arts is fulfilling a previously unserviced academiL need. In this column 1n the first issue we stated that this issue would carry a special edition on Drama and Theatre. A quick perusal of the Contents Although there are ten departments of drama in page will show otherwise. South Africa, only two papers were forthcoming, one from a French semiotician, and the other from a post-graduate student. This lack of response, seen ~n conjunction with a readership profile of this Journal, suggests that 1ts major contribution will be in related areas such as sociology, anthropology, political science, history and African Studies. That is not to say that it is irrelevant to the departments of drama at South African universities. ~o the courses presently Journal-rs-concerned with the arts, media and communication in a Third World context, and follows a paradigm similar to a number of other journals in related disciplines. The direction followed by the Editorial Board is committed to study of orocess and form from the point of view of popular culture. Perhaps we have clung to our elitist chimeras for so long that those of us involved in the performing arts, film, television etc. are unaware of the underlying principles which structure our narrow vision of the world. This issue, then, carries a numDer of articles on censorship and one on advertising. These papers were drawn from the Conference on Censorship held at the University of Cape Town the conference is carried on pages 42-45. The third issue will be devoted to Drama and Theatre and the fourth to mass media in South Africa. The cover was designed by Paul Roumanoff. Paul was also re~ponsib1~ f~r the cover design of the first issue. Thanks also to our tj01 st, Chnst,na Langsberg. The content of Critical Arts may well be irrelevant from 22nd-25 April 1980. A report on offered in those departments. This I Cover design by Paul Romanoff CONTENTS MAJOR ARTICLES Vol 1 No 2 June 1980 1. 2. 3. 4. "Ideology and Censorship in South African Film" Keyan G Tomaselli "Censorship and the Author" Andre P Brink "New Forms of Strategy - No Change of Heart" "Triangular John M Coetzee Structures of Desire in Advertising" - Nadine Gordimer "The First National Conference on Censorship" Forthcoming Conference: "Ethnographic Film Festival" - Jan F Beekman CONFERENCE REPORT 5. 6. BOOK REVIEW 7. 8. 9. 16 27 34 42 46 47 49 51 - Alex Davids "Waving or Drowning" "Reply to Richard W Harvey" "On Reading 'On Reading The South African Fi1m Industry'" Stan Miller Harriet Gavshon - NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS Keyan G Tomaselli teaches film and television in the School of Dramatic Art, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg Andre P Brink is a novelist and Professor of Afrikaans at Rhodes University, Grahamstown Nadine Gordimer is a novelist John M Coetzee lectures In the EngliSh Dept. University of Cape Town Jan F Beekman is Professor of Public Administration, University of Cape Town Alex Davids lectures Iii the Department of Engli<;h,University of Cape Town Harriet.Gavshon 1S a fourth year student in the School of Dramatic Art, UnlverS1ty of the Witwatersrand Sta~ M;~ler ;s ~OPY.D;rector for Grey Advertising and Marketing. He ~as worded 1n the fllm lndustry as a scriptwriter and film and TV commerc1als pro ucer