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China's iGeneration: Cinema and Moving Image Culture for the Twenty-First Century
New York et al.: Bloomsbury Academic (2014), xvi, 349 pp.
"Following China's accession to the WTO in 2001, personal and collective experiences of changing social conditions have added new dimensions to the increasingly diverse Sinophone media landscape, and provided a novel complement to the existing edifice of blockbusters, documentaries, and auteur cultu
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Fernando Birri: Eine Bibliographie
Westerkappeln: DerWulff.de (2014), 22 pp.
"Fernando Birri wurde als Nachkomme italienischer Auswanderer am 13.3.1925 in Santa Fe de la Vera Cruz (Argentinien) geboren. Er ist nicht nur (Dokumentarfilm-) Regisseur, sondern auch Theoretiker, Dichter und Puppenspieler. Birri studierte Film am Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rom; schon
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Citizen journalism footage im Dokumentarfilm: Demokratiefördernde Potenziale dokumentarischer Hybride
Frankfurt am Main: Goethe Universität, Institut für Theater-, Film- und Medienwissenschaft, Master Thesis (2014), 84 pp.
"Es lässt sich also feststellen, dass der Dokumentarfilm der Demokratie insofern zuträglich ist, da er seinen Schwerpunkt auf der Gewährleistung der Validierungs-, Orientierungs-, Informations-, Bildungs- und Sozialisationsfunktion hat, während das citizen journalism footage sich insbesondere da
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New Documentaries in Latin America
New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2014), x, 287 pp.
"Examining the vast breadth and diversity of contemporary documentary production, while also situating nonfiction film and video within the cultural, political, and socio-economic history of the region, this book addresses topics such as documentary aesthetics, indigenous media, and transnational fi
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African Video Movies and Global Desires: A Ghanaian History
Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press (2013), xii, 246 pp.
"African Video Movies and Global Desires is the first full-length scholarly study of Ghana's commercial video industry, an industry that has produced thousands of movies over the last twenty years and has grown into an influential source of cultural production. Produced and consumed under circumstan
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Framing Africa: Portrayals of a Continent in Contemporary Mainstream Cinema
New York: Berghahn (2013), vi, 183 pp.
"The first decade of the 21st century has seen a proliferation of North American and European films that focus on African politics and society. While once the continent was the setting for narratives of heroic ascendancy over self (The African Queen, 1951; The Snows of Kilimanjaro, 1952), military o
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Film und Politik in Myanmar: Gesellschaftlicher Wandel durch politischen Film?
Südostasien, volume 29, issue 4 (2013), pp. 23-25
"Myanmar durchläuft derzeit einen rasanten gesellschaftlichen Öffnungsprozess. Nicht zuletzt wachsen die Freiräume für politische Aktivisten, Journalisten und Filmemacher. Welche Wirkungen aber haben Filme auf politische Reformen in Myanmar, dessen Medienzensur zu den striktesten Zensursystemen
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Routledge Handbook of Indian Cinemas
London; New York: Routledge (2013), xv, 470 pp.
"After years of marginalization by academics in the Western world, Indian cinemas have moved from the periphery to the center of world cinema in a comparatively short space of time. Bringing together contributions from leading scholars in the field, this Handbook looks at the complex reasons for thi
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Directory of World Cinema: Latin America
Bristol; Chicago: intellect (2013), 251 pp.
Cinema in Central Asia: Rewriting Cultural Histories
London; New York: Tauris (2013), xx, 297 pp.
"Cinema in Central Asia is the first comprehensive and up-to-date account of the cinema of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan from its origins to the present day. Bringing together specialists from Central Asia, Russia, Europe and the United States, this companion to the
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Taking Nigeria to the Movies: The Innovative Regulatory Role of the National Film and Video Censors Board
Journal of African Media Studies, volume 5, issue 3 (2013), pp. 261-274
"The National Film and Video Censors Board (NFVCB) of Nigeria [...] has powers that go beyond film classification and censorship. This has been manifested especially through its attempt to regularize film distribution in Nigeria through the introduction of a distribution framework. Many resented thi
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The Education of the Filmmaker in Africa, the Middle East, and the Americas
New York et al.: Palgrave Macmillan (2013), xiv, 302 pp.
Global Nollywood: The Transnational Dimensions of an African Video Film Industry
Bloomington: Indiana University Press (2013), viii, 371 pp.
Cinema and Development in West Africa
Bloomington: Indiana University Press (2013), xiv, 222 pp.
"Cinema and Development in West Africa shows how the film industry in Francophone West African countries played an important role in executing strategies of nation building during the transition from French rule to the early postcolonial period. James E. Genova sees the construction of African ident
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Bollywood: A Guidebook to Popular Hindi Cinema
London; New York: Routledge, 2nd ed. (2013), x, 268 pp.
Art and Networks: The National Film School of Denmark's "Middle East Project"
In: The Education of the Filmmaker in Africa, the Middle East, and the Americas
New York et al.: Palgrave Macmillan (2013), pp. 125-150
"Seen from the perspective of film directors in the Middle East, the NFSD‘s Middle East Project makes a clear contribution in a number of areas: focusing on documentary flimmaking, it provides opportunities for flimmakers from the region to engage with realities that are important to them, but per
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Südostasien auf der Leinwand: Film, Gesellschaft, Politik
Südostasien, issue 4 (2013), pp. 3-64
"In dieser Ausgabe wollen wir die neuen Filmszenen der südostasiatischen Filmproduktion näher betrachten und würdigen. Gleichzeitig wollen wir eine erstmals in deutscher Sprache erscheinende Gesamteinführung in das Thema »Film in Südostasien« anbieten. Den folgenden Fragen wurde dabei eine be
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Annäherung an eine Nische: Dokumentarfilme in Kambodscha
Südostasien, issue 4 (2013), pp. 18-20
»Die Khmer mögen keine Dokumentarfilme. Hier geht es nur um Unterhaltung.« Das haben mir lokale Filmemacher und TV Produzenten gesagt, als ich Kambodschas erstes unabhängiges Medien- und Kunstzentrum Meta House (www.meta-house.com) 2007 in der Hauptstadt Phnom Penh eröffnete. Ich wollte zu Kamb
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