Profile: Prof Chris Broodryk

Prof Chris Broodryk
Associate Professor, Film

Prof Broodryk is coordinator of Film Praxis on MA and PhD level. If you have any queries about pursuing an MA or PhD with Prof Broodryk, please email him for more information.

Recent Publications

Editor, Public Intellectualism in South Africa: Critical Voices form the Past (2021, Wits University Press).

Broodryk, C. 2024. "Reflecting on analogue faces and digital masks through Mission: Impossible (1996-2023)". Persona Studies, 9(2): 16-31. DOI: https://doi.org/10.21153/psj2024vol9no2art1927.

Broodryk, C. 2023. “Terry Gilliam, ‘The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, and Cinephilia.” In A Critical Companion to Terry Gilliam edited by Sabine Planka, Philip van der Merwe & Ian Bekker. London: Rowman & Littlefield, pp. X-Y.

Broodryk, C. 2021. “William Pretorius and the public intellectualism of the film critic”, in Public Intellectuals in South Africa: Critical Voices from the Past edited by Chris Broodryk. Johannesburg: Wits University Press, pp. 108-128.

Broodryk, C & Joynt, S. 2021. “Redemption in the South African West: violence, colonialism and oppression in ‘Five Fingers for Marseilles’ (2018)”. Critical Arts, DOI:10.1080/02560046.2021.1989007.

Prinsloo, T & Broodryk, C. 2021. “(Re-)interpretations and (re-)creations in contemporary Afrikaans cinema: adapting popular non-fictions into popular film in ‘Vergeet My Nie’ (Forget Me Not).” Stilet, 33(1): 52-75.

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