Director and Professor, Centre for Cultural and Media Studies,
University of Natal, Durban, South Africa.
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Worked in the film industry and was co-writer of the White Paper on Film. His seminal books include The Cinema of Apartheid and Appropriating Images (1996). He is a Fellow of the University of KwaZulu-Natal, and was a Smithsonian Research Associate in its Department of Anthropology. His interests are political economy, African cinema and visual anthropology. 

• Elected a Fellow of the University of Natal in 1995.
• Smithsonian Research Associate, 1994-1997, in the Department of Anthropology.
• KWANZAA Award for The Cinema of Apartheid  from the Africa Network, Chicago.
• Fulbright Scholar 1990/1.
• External Examiner for Dept of Communication, University of Zambia.
• External Examiner and Staff (Faculty) Assessor, School of Communication, University of Ghana.
• Executive Council Member, African Council for Communication Education, Nairobi, Kenya.
• Board member, Cultural Environment Movement, Philadelphia.
• Steering Committee, Development Support Programme, Human Sciences Research Council, Pretoria.
• Media Expert, Committee on AIDS and STDs, Dept of National Health, Pretoria.
• Co-Writer, Film Policy White Paper, Department of Arts, Culture, Science and Technology, Pretoria (1995).
• Editor-in-Chief: CRITICAL ARTS: A JOURNAL FOR CULTURAL STUDIES, co-edited with the Centre for
• Research into Culture and Media, Murdoch University, Perth.

Books Published:

• THE CINEMA OF APARTHEID (Lake View Press, Chicago, 1988);
• APPROPRIATING IMAGES: THE SEMIOTICS OF VISUAL REPRESENTATION (Intervention Press, Denmark, 1996).
• Co-editor of THE PRESS IN SOUTH AFRICA; BROADCASTING IN SOUTH AFRICA and THE ALTERNATIVE PRESS IN SOUTH AFRICA (James Currey, London and Lake View Press, Chicago).

Other books edited:

• RETHINKING CULTURE (Anthropos, Johannesburg).
• Series Editor: Studies on the Southern African Media (Anthropos, Johannesburg).

Editorial board member:

• MEDIA, CULTURE & SOCIETY, PARA*DOXA, CONTINUUM, VISUAL ANTHROPOLOGY, SA THEATRE JOURNAL amongst others.

Published in RESEARCH IN AFRICAN LITERATURES, IRIS, CINEMACTION, CONTINUUM, VISUAL ANTHROPOLOGY, ORAL TRADITION, CINEASTE, JOURNAL OF COMMUNICATION INQUIRY, amongst other titles.