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Camera in Times of Crisis: Focus on Africa

Kehinde Christopher Adewumi, Folasayo Enoch Olalere, Gambo Giles Duniya (eds.)

Bingley (UK): Emerald Publishing (2025), 208 pp.

"The presence of cameras, at the forefront of crises, either in the hands of journalists, bystanders or passers-by and sometimes even parties to the crises, has inspired multiple visual notations, commentaries and perspectives. Thus, efforts and resources are channelled towards documenting crises, t ... more

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World Cinema Fund: Supported Films 2004-2023

Berlin: Berlin International Film Festival (Berlinale) (2023), 223 pp.

"Founded in 2004, the WCF was initiated by the German Federal Cultural Foundation and the Berlin International Film Festival. It quickly established itself as one of the leading institutions in the field of international film funding for artistic and innovative productions. The WCF concentrates on b ... 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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Branding Brazil: Transforming citizenship on Screen

Leslie L. Marsh

New Brunswick et al.: Rutgers University Press (2021), vii, 207 pp.

"Branding Brazil examines a panorama of contemporary cultural productions including film, television, photography, and alternative media to explore the transformation of citizenship in Brazil from 2003 to 2014. A utopian impulse drove the reproduction of Brazilian cultural identity for local and glo ... more

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Film ab! Kunst, Geschäft und Widerstand: Kino im globalen Süden

welt-sichten, issue 6 (2020), pp. 12-33

"Viele Filme aus Ländern in Afrika, Asien und Lateinamerika befassen sich phantasievoll mit gesellschaftlichen Fragen. Unter welchen Bedingungen arbeiten Regisseurinnen in Algerien, Marokko und Tunesien? Warum sind afrikanische Religionen und Riten ein Thema im jungen nigerianischen Kino? Und wie g ... more

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Independent Filmmaking Across Borders in Contemporary Asia

Ran Ma

Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press (2020), 278 pp.

"Independent Filmmaking across Borders in Contemporary Asia examines an array of auteur-driven fiction and documentary independent film projects that have emerged since the turn of the millennium from East and Southeast Asia, a strand of transnational filmmaking that converges with Asia's vibrant ye ... more

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Formas de ver en el cine latinoamericano

Keith John Richards

La Paz: Plural Editores (2019), 440 pp.

"Revisar y recorrer el cine latinoamericano actual mediante 23 películas es, de hecho, un reto. Keith Richards ha tomado la opción inusual de analizar la cinematografía de una región entera mediante el prisma de las películas seleccionadas ("mirar el cine por derecho propio"). Lo más interesan ... more

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Refugees on Film: Assessing the Political Strengths and Weaknesses of the Documentary Style

P. Stuart Robinson

Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media, issue 18 (2019), pp. 107-122

"The article considers one dominant tendency of independent filmmaking, and its impact on the treatment of the refugee (broadly conceived): the application of contemporary documentary methods to both fiction and nonfiction works. The goal is a preliminary exploration of the complex, context-sensitiv ... more

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Kino in Kolumbien: Der innerkolumbianische Konflikt im Film zwischen Gewaltdiskurs und (trans-)nationaler Identität

Anne Burkhardt

Bielefeld: transcript (2019), 422 pp.

"Der landesinterne Konflikt in Kolumbien und die damit einhergehende Gewalt sind seit deren Ausbruch in den 1940er Jahren zentraler Gegenstand des kolumbianischen Kinos. Unter dem Einfluss sich wandelnder Gewaltdiskurse und Produktionsbedingungen entwerfen die kolumbianischen Filmemacher_innen viels ... more

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Dealing with the Past: Sarajevo Film Festival 10-17 August 2018

Sarajevo Film Festival (2018), 18 pp.

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The Precarious in the Cinemas of the Americas

Constanza Burucúa, Carolina Sitnisky (eds.)

Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2018), xxii, 308 pp.

"Historically, cinema in the Americas has been signed by a state of precariousness. Notwithstanding the growing accessibility to video and digital technologies, access to the material means of film production is still limited, affecting the spheres of production, distribution, and reception. Equally ... more

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Contemporary Latin American Cinema: Resisting Neoliberalism?

Claudia Sandberg, Carolina Rocha (eds.)

Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2018), xix, 284 pp.

"Contemporary Latin American Cinema investigates the ways in which neoliberal measures of privatization, de-regularization and austerity introduced in Latin America during the 1990s have impacted film production and film narratives. The collection examines the relationship between economic policies ... more

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16. Afrika Film Festival Köln, 13.-23. September 2018. Fokus: Innerafrikanische Migration

Köln: FilmInitiativ Köln (2018), 134 pp.

"The 16th Afrika Film Festival Köln will present 75 new films from Africa – with a wider focus on migration within Africa Let’s start with some numbers: there are currently 68 million displaced people worldwide, most of whom now reside in countries bordering their homelands. The wide range of r ... more

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Narrativas del miedo: Terror en obras literarias, cinemáticas y televisivas de Latinoamérica

Marco Ramírez, David Rozotto, Karem Langer (eds.)

New York et al.: Peter Lang (2018), xi, 212 pp.

"Narrativas del miedo: Terror en obras literarias, cinemáticas y televisivas de Latinoamérica es una colección de ensayos escritos en inglés y en español en los que se analizan distintas representaciones del miedo como un elemento estructural y simbólico en obras literarias, teatrales y visual ... more

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15. Afrika Film Festival Köln, 21. September bis 01. Oktober 2017. Fokus: Landgrabbing & Migration

Cologne: FilmInitiativ Köln (2017), 163 pp.

"Going to the cinema means going on a journey” reads one of the banners in Ouagadougou that have been put up to promote the legendary pan-African FESPACO film festival. Afrika Film Festival Köln has also been taking its guests on audiovisual journeys through African cinescapes for 25 years. More ... more

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Bibliografía selecta: La emigración en el cine mexicano desde 1982 hasta hoy

Sofía Forchieri

Berlin: Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut Preußischer Kulturbesitz (2017), 31 pp.

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40.doc: Una historia del documental argentino en 40 películas

Gustavo Noriega, Marcelo Panozzo

Buenos Aires: Margen Izquierdo (2016), 307 pp.

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Slums on Screen: World Cinema and the Planet of Slums

Igor Krstic

Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press (2016), ix, 283 pp.

"Combining approaches from the social sciences and the humanities, the book provides an interdisciplinary perspective while outlining a transnational history of films that either document or fictionalise the favelas, shantytowns, Elendsviertel, gecekondu, barrios populares or chawls of our diverse ' ... more

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Missionsfilm

Ludger Kaczmarek, Hans Jürgen Wulff

Westerkappeln (DE): DerWulff.de (2016), 15 pp.

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Von Helden, Bösewichten und Herrschern: Der sowjetische Märchenfilm zwischen Folkloretradition und Entstehungswirklichkeit. Mit einer umfangreichen Materialdokumentation sämtlicher in der Sowjetunion von 1938-1989 entstandenen Märchenlangspielfilme

Sebastian Hoferer

Freiburg im Breisgau: Doctoral Thesis Albert-Ludwigs-Universität (2015), 500 pp.