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Rethinking Film Festivals in the Pandemic Era and After

Marijke de Valck, Antoine Damiens (eds.)

Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2023), xix, 342 pp.

"This edited collection aims to document the effects of Covid-19 on film festivals and to theorize film festivals in the age of social distancing. To some extent, this crisis begs us to consider what happens when festivals can't happen; while films have found new (temporary) channels of distribution ... more

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Ecocinema Theory and Practice 2

Stephen Rust, Salma Monani, Seán Cubitt (eds.)

London; New York: Routledge (2023), xvii, 249 pp.

"This second volume builds on the initial groundwork laid by Ecocinema Theory and Practice by examining the ways in which ecocritical cinema studies have matured and proliferated over the last decade, opening whole new areas of study and research. Featuring fourteen new essays organized into three s ... more

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The New Screen Ecology in India: Digital Transformation of Media

Smith Mehta

London: Bloomsbury; British Film Institute (bfi) (2023), ix, 174 pp.

"New Screen Ecology in India is an open access book that provides an in depth exploration of the digital transformation of the Indian media industry. Smith Mehta takes a deep dive into the world of social media platforms and their impact on contemporary film and television production, arguing that t ... more

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Le cinéma amazigh-berbère et les autres médias

Amar Améziane, Daniela Merolla (eds.)

Paris: L'Harmattan (2023), 227 pp.

"Des échanges intertextuels entre films, oralité et écriture ont caractérisé la production cinématographique des années 1990 et un certain nombre d’études leur ont été dédiées. Moins traitées par la recherche sont les relations entretenues par le cinéma avec la télévision et l’In ... more

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Film Practice in the Context of War in Greater North Kivu Region of the Democratic Republic of Congo: The Film Message as a Tool for Peace

Jean-Paul Paluku Kamili

Nairobi: Doctoral Thesis Daystar University (2023), xii, 348 pp.

"Greater North Kivu is a region in the East of the DRC characterized by an unending socio-cultural and political crisis that has brought about insecurity, war, massacres, and land conflicts since 1996. Efforts to resolve this war crisis to restore justice and peace have not been successful. The aim ... of this research was to evaluate the film practice in the Greater North Kivu region in the context of this war situation and if those films which were set against this reality had messages that focused on sustainable peace. The specific research questions of the study were: What could be the varying contexts of war and related conflicts from which each of the selected films acquires its character? In what way do the cinematographic messages reflect the context of war in the Greater North Kivu? How do the thematic messages aim to sensitize the population towards peace in the region? What are the opportunities and challenges of film making for peace in the region? What construct emerges as a typology of context and types of persuasion messages that may emerge from selected films of the study. The study adopted a qualitative research design, and constructivism and interpretivism philosophical research paradigms. The target population consisted of film makers in the Greater North Kivu, civil society, community and government leaders. The study concluded that the multiple contexts of the war manifest in the character of the variety of films produced but that the film codes reflecting this reality aim to break and change it thereby creating a new grammar for a new context. In addition, the film for sensitizing works with strategies of arousing emotions that are carefully selected with great sensitivity because of the fragile context of the war situation in its causes, consequences, and what is to be done. The thesis of this study is that the many contexts of the war situation in the region of study manifest themselves in the selected films chosen for the research. In a simultaneous manner the film maker’s codes aim to break the existing contexts to new beginnings. While the film codes may be of the grammar of existing context, their very ambition and motivation is to introduce a new grammar for a vision of a new context, transforming the old one. Based on the findings of the current study, the study recommends the film makers to continue to use potent symbolism in their stories to effectively sensitize the population to the situation and promote the necessary actions. The study recommends to the government and policymakers makers to allocate resources towards the Ministry of Arts and Culture to support local film production, recognizing its potential as a tool for peacebuilding and societal change." (Abstract) more

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Primer Foro Latinoamericano de Cine e Impacto Social: Memorias del Evento

Acción Impacta Cine; Taturana; Ambulante (2022), 17 pp.

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Transitional (in)justice in phasing out coal in China: Documentary as visual evidence to unveil the local experiences of coal transitions

Lisa Lin

Journal of Environmental Media, volume 3, issue 1 (2022), pp. 171-176

"This article examines how documentary film can be employed as visual evidence to create a thick description of environmental injustice among low-social-economic status communities in China. In particular, this article exemplifies the approach with a case study of a 2022 research project on transiti ... more

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Dokumentarfilm in Deutschland: Von den Anfängen bis zur Gegenwart

Peter Zimmermann

Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb) (2022), 398 pp.

"Die Geschichte des dokumentarischen Films in Deutschland ist mehr als bloße Filmgeschichte. In ihr spiegelt sich auch die Medien-, Mentalitäts- und Gesellschaftsgeschichte. So thematisiert der Dokumentarfilm seit seinen Anfängen im ausgehenden 19. Jahrhundert die politischen, kulturellen und soz ... more

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World Cinema in the Age of Netflix

Studies in World Cinema, volume 2, issue 1-2 (2022), pp. 1-184

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Labour in a Single Shot: Critical Perspectives on Antje Ehmann and Harun Farocki’s Global Video Project

Roy Grundmann, Peter J. Schwartz, Gregory H. Williams (eds.)

Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press (2022), 410 pp.

"This collection of essays offers a critical assessment of Labour in a Single Shot, a groundbreaking documentary video workshop. From 2011 to 2014, curator Antje Ehmann and film- and videomaker Harun Farocki produced an art project of truly global proportions. They travelled to fifteen cities around ... more

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Children’s Documentaries: Distance and Ethics in European Storytelling About the Wider World

Naomi Sakr, Jeanette Steemers

Journal of Children and Media, volume 16, issue 2 (2022), pp. 288-302

"The material challenges of funding, commissioning and distribution that are well known to inhibit production of children’s factual content about other countries and cultures operate in parallel with challenges arising from the moral responsibilities inherent in what Roger Silverstone called “th ... more

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Soutien aux secteurs du cinéma et de l'audiovisuel dans les pays ACP

ACP-UE Culture (2022), 16 pp.

"De nombreux artistes et créateurs émergent dans les pays ACP. Ils nous surprennent par leur dynamisme, mais aussi par leur capacité de résilience et de persévérance, surtout pendant la pandémie de la Covid-19. Les industries culturelles et créatives devraient, dès lors, pouvoir offrir aux ... more

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Mira: VIII. Lateinamerikanisches Independent Filmfestival

Bonn: Mira-Filmfestival (2022), 28 pp.

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Commodifying Violence in Literature and on Screen: The Colombian Condition

Alejandro Herrero-Olaizola

New York; London: Routledge (2022), xii, 188 pp.

"This book traverses the cultural landscape of Colombia through in-depth analyses of displacement, local and global cultures, human rights abuses, and literary and media production. Through an exploration of the cultural processes that perpetuate the "darker side" of Latin America for global consump ... more

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War in Film: Semiotics and Conflict Related Sign Constructions on the Screen

Frank Jacob (ed.)

Marburg: Büchner-Verlag (2022), 229 pp.

"Wars in films are […] always more than just the staging or presentation of a historical event; they offer an interpretation of these events that usually corresponds with other aspects, e. g. society's evaluation of war per se, or wishes about how specific events related to war should be commemora ... more

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Mapping Out Contemporary Brazilian Film: Reaching New Audiences

Hadija Chalupe Da Silva

Participations: Journal of Audience & Reception Studies, volume 19, issue 1 (2022), pp. 248-258

"In this industry reflection I draw on my professional interest in Brazilian film production an distribution and my archival research of Brazilian films exhibited in the UK between 1995 and 2019 in order to reflect on the factors which help such productions travel and the challenges which they face. ... more

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Visuelle Wahrheit und diskursive Deutung: Eine Feldbeschreibung katholischer Filmarbeit in Leitgedanken, Arbeitsbereichen und kulturellen Kommentaren
Inspiring Practice

Bonn: Sekretariat Deutsche Bischofskonferenz (2021), 198 pp.

"Katholische Filmarbeit dient der kirchlichen Gemeinschaft und dem Dialog zwischen Kirche und Gesellschaft. Sie ist in vielen Segmenten der Filmbranche und Kreativwirtschaft engagiert: in der Herstellung von Filmen bzw. Bewegtbildformaten und ihrer Verbreitung durch Vertrieb und Verleih, in der film ... more

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The Human Rights Film Network: Festival resilience in the time of Covid-19

Mariagiulia Grassilli, Alexandra-Maria Colta

NECSUS European Journal of Media Studies, volume 10, issue 1 (2021), pp. 275-282

"[...] This article focuses on how human rights festivals across the world have creatively and resourcefully resisted and adapted to Covid-19. It analyses the impact of this crisis on festival organisations within their contexts and on the global outreach that was possible thanks to the connections ... more

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The Celluloid Ceiling: A Gender-Based Analysis of the Israeli Film Industry

Lior Elefant, Etty Konor-Attias, Yael Hasson, Noga Dagan-Buzaglo

Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES); Adva Center (2021), 86 pp.

"This report examines the Israeli film industry from the perspective of gender. Over the past twenty years, there has been a growing involvement of women in the Israeli film industry. Since the establishment of Israel and up until the year 2000, women directed a mere 7% of screened Israeli narrative ... more

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Handbuch Filmgeschichte: Von den Anfängen bis heute

Willem Strank

München: UVK (2021), 258 pp.

"[Der Autor] skizziert die Filmgeschichte in 13 Kapiteln, die jeweils eine Dekade beleuchten. Pro Kapitel legt er das Hauptaugenmerk auf filmgeschichtliche Besonderheiten aus den USA, Europa und Deutschland. Auch auf globale Phänomene geht er ein, etwa aus Asien, Südamerika oder Afrika. Wichtige f ... more

Visuelle Wahrheit und diskursive Deutung: Eine Feldbeschreibung katholischer Filmarbeit in Leitgedanken, Arbeitsbereichen und kulturellen Kommentaren Inspiring Practice

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