CRITICAL ARTS A Journal for Media Studies Vol 4 No 2 1986 , The Production of Popular Knowledge Ntongela Masilela Dept of Communication Technical University of Berlin David Maughan Brown Dept of English, University of Natal Nhlanhla Ngcobo, Hammarsdale KwaZulu Education Department NjabuJo Ndebele Dept of English, University of Lesotho DonPinnock Dept of Journalism and Media Studies, Rhodes University Robert Stam Dept of Cinema Studies, New York University Clifford Shearing Institute of Criminology, Toronto University Les Switzer Dept of Communication, University of Houston ADVERTISING MANAGER Alex Holt Contemporary Cultural Studies Unit University of Natal PRODUCTION EDITOR ErkLouw Contemporary Cultural Studies Unit, University of Natal Published by: Critical Arts Projects of the Universities of Natal, Rhodes and the Witwatersrud. Typeset by University of Natal Printed by the Multicopy Centre University of Natal, King George V Ave, Durban ISSN 0256-0046 EDITOR Keyan G Tomaselli Contemporary Cultural Studies Unit, University of Natal. ASSOCIATE EDITORS Susan Gardner Dept of Anthropology, Rhodes University Johan Muller Dept of Education, Witwatersrand University Ian Steadman School of Dramatic Art, Witwatersrand University Ruth Tomaselli Freelance Editor and Researcher EDITORIAL CONSULTANTS Eve Berteben Dept of English, University of Cape Town David CopUn CHIC Programme, State University of New York Tim Couzens African Studies Institute, Witwatersrand University Harriet Gavshon Freelance Film Maker Trish Gibbon Dept of English, University of Durban-Westville Tom Guback Institute of Communication Research University of Illinois Richard Halites Institute of Management and Development Studies, University Temple Hauptfleisch Centre for SA Theatre, HSRC Graham Hayman Dept of Journalism and Media Studies, Rhodes University Peter Horn Dept of German, University of Cape Town WiUielm Liebenberg Dept of Afrikaans, Rhodes University ofTranskei Copyright is vested with the Editors and individual authors CONTENTS Vol 4 No 2 1986 GUEST EDITORS: JOHAN MULLER, NICO CLOETE AND LULI CALLINICOS ARTICLE THE WHITE HANDS: Academic Social Scientists and forms of popular knowledge and production ... Johan Muller and Nico Cloete THE PEOPLE'S PAST: Towards Transforming the Present ... Luli Callinicos Recording Living Memory in South Africa .. . Tina Sideris Popularising the Working Class Past . . . K a te Pfordresher POPULARISING WRITING AND THE DEMOCRATISATION OF KNOWLEDGE: Review Article of Factory and Family, Vukani Makhosikazi and Working Women . .. Linda Cooper REVIEWS Driven to Work by Donald Paranzee Reviewed by Tony Voss And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief as Photos by John Berger Reviewed by Lini Stiebel Contemporary Cultural Studies and the Unit at the University of Natal by Keyan Tomaselli Reviewed by Les Switzer Notes on Contributors 1 21 41 55 65 -81 82 85 87 Cover design adapted from a Detention Action Committee poster. Text artwork and design by Eric Louw. Critical Arts is published two or three times a year. Articles are indexed in Film Literature Index, Communications Abstracts, International Bibliography of Theatre, MLA international Bibliography, IMMRC and the Centre for South African Theatre. The only film journal organized thematically A Film Quarterly of Theory, Criticism, and Practice ~ Edited by Peter Lehman, Ohio University, Athens In-depth critical analyses...challenging and controversial theories... provocative interviews with filmmakers... reviews of the newest film books...examination of every genre and historical period...coverage of all national cinemas...WISE A N C LE brings you film from every point of view. Each issue is devoted to a single topic. Past issues have focused on such diverse subjects as Jean Luc Godard, Japanese Cinema, Melodrama, John Ford, Political Cinema, and Film Aesthetics. 1, Japanese i, and Film Eater ay sabseriptUm to WIDE ANGLE (published quarterly) G SIS.OO/year Individual D $26.00/year Institution Add «2 SO oulaidc Ihc U.S. Maryland residents pkase add 5% tales la>. Prepayment required. Subscription will bejin with tbc current issue. U Cheek lor Booay oraWI-payable to The John. Hopkine University Preas U VISA O MaaurCani Carrii Addraat Cky Eip. Daw Suit Zip Mailorder to: The John. Hopkina Uoivenily Praia Journal. Divieioa Baltimore. Maryland 21218