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Critical Arts: South-North Cultural and Media Studies A peer-reviewed cultural and media studies journal, with an emphasis on the south-north interactive Publication of the first issue occurred in 1980.

CRITICAL ARTS is a non-profit project owned and produced by an independent group of academics who comprise its editors, associate editors, editorial consultants and regional organisers. The journal is currently located in the Centre for Communication, Media and Society, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, where its editor-in-chief, Prof. Keyan Tomaselli, is director. The journal's editorial consu

ltants and editorial associates are presently drawn from South Africa, Botswana and Zimbabwe in Africa, and scholars in Scandinavia, England, USA, Canada and Australia. The editor-in-chief is Professor Keyan G. Tomaselli, and associate editors are Tom O'Regan, Ruth Teer-Tomaselli and Joe Muller. Managing editor is Dorothy Roome. CRITICAL ARTS has achieved a remarkable international reception since it was first published in 1980. A review in the prestigious Canadian cultural studies journal, BORDER/LINES, ranked CRITICAL ARTS above many of its First World contemporaries. CRITICAL ARTS regularly receives submissions from the rest of Africa (eg. Nigeria, Lesotho, Malawi, Ghana, Zambia, Namibia, Botswana, Ivory Coast etc). Other submissions have come from India, Australia, USA, UK, Britain, Belgium, France and Ireland. Our early authors included Nobel Laureate Nadine Gordimer, and internationally lauded writers like JM Coetzee, and Andre Brink. Added to these South Africans have been articles by eminent scholars Robert Stam, Richard Collins, Ien Ang, and Sam Paltridge amongst others. Theme issue editors have been appointed from South Africa, Namibia, USA, UK and Australia. CRITICAL ARTS is a truly international journal - an international authorship, an international editorial board and international readership.

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21/02/2025

CFP: Deadline Approaching:

Submit your work to this collection discussing Asian environmental issues from the perspective of cultural studies.

Please see our latest Call For Papers:
21/02/2025

Please see our latest Call For Papers:

Submit critical works that contribute to the complex representations, lived experiences, and voices from Central Asia, North Asia, and Himalayan Region.

Please consider submitting to our new special issue and circulate far and wide! Thanks.
12/02/2025

Please consider submitting to our new special issue and circulate far and wide! Thanks.

24/01/2025

All 2023 Issues of Critical Arts are online now. Check out Volume 37, Issue 6 (2023).

Remember many of our Articles are Open Access as are ALL our Book reviews. Here's what's inside:

Research Articles
1. Ideological Mediation: Metaphor Shifts in Translating the Communist Party of China’s Centenary Speech
Qijun Song and Junfeng Zhang
2. A Topic-Modelling-Assisted Discourse Study of DiDi’s Delisting from the New York Stock Exchange in Anglo-American Media Coverage
Bixi Jin
3. Constructing Attractiveness: Chinese Diplomatic Actors’ Cultural Soft-power Discursive Practices through the British Press
Liping Tang
4. China’s Image in the GCC Mainstream English Newspapers: A Corpus-Based Critical Discourse Analysis
Xiaojing Hu
5. Foreign Movies and TV Dramas as the Source of Political Argot in an Authoritarian Context: Memes and Creative Resistance in Chinese Social Media
Qi Zheng and Mengqi Li
6. Curating a Continued Dream: Logistical Power in Nanjing Imperial Examination Museum of China
Mengyu Luo and Run Wang

Commentary
7. Cultural Studies as “Export” Discipline and its Challenges
John Lowe

Book Reviews
8. Dezheng (William) Feng, Multimodal Chinese Discourse: Understanding Communication and Society in Contemporary China
Yuan Ping
9. Yifeng Sun and Dechao Li (eds), Transcultural poetics: Chinese literature in English translation
Yu Wan and Huijun Sun
10. Kean-Fung Guan, Chuansuo hei’an dalu: wanqing wenren duiyu feizhou tanxian wenben de yijie yu xiangxiang (Traversing the Dark Continent: Translating and Imaging African Exploration and Adventure in Late Qing China)
Yueyue Wang and Meihua Song
11. Blessed Ngwenya, Media Power and Hegemony in South Africa: The Myth of Independence
Baoqin Wu

https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rcrc20/37/6?nav=tocL

Critical Arts Volume 37, Issue 5 (2023) is online. Have you read it yet? Here's what's inside: African Themed Papers- A...
24/01/2025

Critical Arts Volume 37, Issue 5 (2023) is online. Have you read it yet? Here's what's inside:

African Themed Papers
- An Investigation of Exploitation and Labour Within Memes Production: A Case Study of South African Student Meme Pages
Gcina Mgcina and Ufuoma Akpojivi
- Zulu masculinities in South African soap opera: Uzalo, Imbewu and Isibaya
Melba Nzimande and Lauren Dyll
- The Decolonial Turn in Khoisan Studies: Opportunities, Pitfalls, and new Directions in Longstanding Debates Concerning Southern Africa’s Indigenous People
Rafael Verbuyst

Asian Themed Papers
- Order and Chaos: A Study on the Female Figure and Metaphor in Nymph of the Luo River in the Context of Iconology and Spatial Study
Nan Li and Dawei Lu
- Exploring the Author–Translator–Publisher Relationship Using Bourdieu’s Capital: A Case Study of Jin Yong’s Martial Arts Fiction
Yingbin Sun and Linxin Liang
- More Than Just a Box: Music Storage Medium and the Mediatization of Chinese Rock Culture
Renyi He and Jiang Chang

Rapid Communication
- Rapid Communication: Critical Management Studies/Cultural Studies
Lauren Dyll and Keyan G. Tomaselli
- “I Searched for Form and Land, for Years and Years I Roamed”: Reflecting on an (A)Typical Academic Journey
Geoff A. Goldman

Book Reviews
- Jonathan D. Jansen, Corrupted: A Study of Chronic Dysfunction in South African Universities
Addamms Mututa
- Lakeyta M. Bonnette-Bailey and Jonathan I. Gayles (eds), Black Popular Culture and Social Justice: Beyond the Culture
Jie Guo and Xiaobo D**g
- David Frohnapfel, Alleviative Objects: Intersectional Entanglement and Progressive Racism in Caribbean Art
Jarula M. I. Wegner

Volume 37, Issue 5 of Critical Arts

24/01/2025

Critical Arts Volume 37, Issue 4 (2023) is available online. Here's what's inside:

Articles
- Cultural Studies in Interhemispherical Perspective. China, Africa, Asia and Australasia
Keyan Tomaselli and Yao Xiao
- Digital Globalization, Fan Culture and Transmedia Storytelling: The Rise of Web Fiction as a Burgeoning Literary Genre in China
You Wu
- Cartooning COVID-19 in China
Yingchi Chu
- To De-exoticize Chinese Stereotypes: US-Sino Communication in American Factory
Jing Yang and Kaiju Chen
- Acculturation and Ethnic Costume Preservation: A Grounded Theory Study on Heterogeneous Strategies in Japan and Korea
Ping Qu and Lanying Jiang
- Invoking Myths in Conflict Reporting: Evidences from Gorkhaland Agitation in India
Manoj Kumar Das and Barun Roy

Book Reviews
- Rose A. Sackeyfio, West African women in the diaspora: Narratives of other spaces, other selves
Chenchen Wang
- Kelly Kar Yue Chan and Chi Sum Garfield Lau (eds), Cross-Cultural Encounters in Modern and Premodern China: Global Networks, Mediation, and Intertextuality
Zhang Ya and Wang Shanshan
- Shuxian Ye, A Mythological Approach to Exploring the Origins of Chinese Civilization
Zhao Fang and Biyu Wu
- Zhao Xianzhang, Text-Image Theory: Comparative Semiotic Studies on Chinese Traditional Literature and Arts
Wang Yingzi
- M. Cristina Caimotto, Rachele Raus, Lifestyle Politics in Translation: The Shaping and Re-Shaping of Ideological Discourse
Pan Xie and Heng Hu

https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rcrc20/37/4?nav=tocList

Perhaps you missed Critical Arts Volume 37, Issue 3 (2023) It's available online. Here's what's inside: Articles1. Ruins...
24/01/2025

Perhaps you missed Critical Arts Volume 37, Issue 3 (2023) It's available online.

Here's what's inside:

Articles
1. Ruinscapes and Temporalities in Lauren Beukes’s Zoo City
Şevket Sarper Dörter
2. Theorizing Afrophobia Beyond Apartheid: Conflict Cultures in Neill Blomkamp’s District 9
Addamms Mututa
3. Small is Beautiful: Japanese Aesthetic Consciousness in the Animated Adaptation of The Borrowers
Sijia Wu
4. The Role of Wushu Martial Arts Representation in the Contemporary Mass Culture of the World
Chunlei Xue, Huizhong Bai, Yunfei Niu and Ruijie Zhang
5. A Bibliometric Study on Chinese Discourse (1994–2021)
Xi Wang and Xiaoyu Sun
6. How to build a “Dream” in political speech? A critical discourse analysis of the discursive construction of the Chinese Dream speech
Junchen Zhang
7. The Classical Chinese Gardens as a Medium: Rethinking the Visual Transformation in Chinese Culture in the Twentieth Century
Qi Shen and Yan Liu

Comments
8. The Art of Ignoring Facts
Marit Bakke and Eirik Stokke
9. The Art of Admitting to Shortcomings
Josephine M. Rasmussen and Vibeke M. Viestad

Book Reviews
10. Emmanuel K. Ngwainmbi, Dismantling Cultural Borders Through Social Media and Digital Communications: How Networked Communities Compromise Identity
Han Xiao and Lei Li
12. Peng Shao and Peiren Shao, A Global Communication Vision: Towards a Neo-Cosmopolitan Media Theory
Yilin Liu and Guofeng Wang
13. Helen Caple, Changpeng Huan and Monika Bednarek, Multimodal News Analysis across Cultures
Mingfeng Yang, Jiayu Wang and Yaru Zhao
14. Daniel McNeil, Thinking While Black: Translating the Politics and Popular Culture of a Rebel Generation
Nicholas Rickards

Volume 37, Issue 3 of Critical Arts

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