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Appropriating History: The Soviet Past in Belarusian, Russian and Ukrainian Popular Culture
Bielefeld: transcript Verlag (2024), 316 pp.
"Popular media play an important role in reconstructing collective imaginations of history. Dramatic events and ruptures of the 20th century provide the material for playful as well as neo-imperialist and nationalist appropriations of the past. The contributors to the volume investigate this phenome
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Transnational Convergence of East Asian Pop Culture
London; New York: Routledge (2023), 238 pp.
"This book observes and analyses transnational interactions of East Asian pop culture and current cultural practices, comparing them to the production and consumption of Western popular culture and providing a theoretical discussion regarding the specific paradigm of East Asian pop culture. Drawing
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Mujer, diversidad y cine en Colombia: Perspectivas de género e imágenes de la mujer en el siglo XXI
Bogotá: Editorial Universidad del Rosario (2023), xv, 381 pp.
"La representación de la mujer en el cine de Colombia ha tendido a estar asociada a nociones de sumisión, victimización o sexualización, sugiriendo una cierta uniformidad, invisibilidad y repetición acerca de su existencia social y cinematográfica. A pesar de esta complejidad cultural e histó
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Mediating Violence from Africa: Francophone Literature, Film, and Testimony after the Cold War
Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press (2023), xx, 227 pp.
"Mediating Violence from Africa explores how African and non-African Francophone authors, filmmakers, editors, and scholars have packaged, interpreted, and filmed the violent histories of post–Cold War Francophone Africa. This violence, much of which unfolded in front of Western television cameras
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Documentary Storytelling: Creative Nonfiction on Screen
New York; London: Routledge, 5th ed. (2023), xix, 373 pp.
"For nearly two decades, Documentary Storytelling has reached filmmakers and filmgoers worldwide with its unique focus on the key ingredient for success in the global documentary marketplace: storytelling. As this revised, updated fifth edition makes clear, nonfiction storytelling is not limited to
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Rethinking Film Festivals in the Pandemic Era and After
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
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Film- und Fernsehanalyse
München: UVK, 4. überarb. und erw. Aufl. (2023), 486 pp.
"Die Rezeption von Filmen und Fernsehsendungen ist sowohl vom Wissen und den Emotionen der Zuschauer:innen als auch von sozialen Kontexten abhängig. Es reicht daher nicht aus, die "Sprache" von Film und Fernsehen zu analysieren, sondern es müssen auch die Form, die Gestaltung, die Dramaturgie und
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Small Cinemas of the Andes: New Aesthetics, Practices and Platforms
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2023), xix, 378 pp.
"This book examines the emergence of small cinemas of the Andes, covering digital peripheries in Ecuador, Bolivia, Peru and Colombia. The volume critically assesses heterogeneous audiovisual practices and subaltern agents, elucidating existing tensions, contradictions and resistances with respect to
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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
Nairobi: Daystar University, Doctoral Thesis (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
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Le cinéma amazigh-berbère et les autres médias
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
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Ecocinema Theory and Practice 2
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
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Grauen ohne Grenzen: Horror in Film & Literatur
iz3w, issue 394 (2023), pp. 22-41
"Wie einst im ursprünglichen Gothic die verlassenen Schlösser des Feudalismus als Orte des Spuks in die bürgerliche Ära hineinragten, so sind es heute die globalen Ruinen des geplatzten Traums von Freiheit, Gleichheit und Brüderlichkeit, in denen das Grauen haust: Von den vom Immobiliencrash ge
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Belt and Road Initiative-Supported Co-Production Films: Film Policy and Disoriented Remembrance of the Silk Road Past
International Communication Gazette, volume 85, issue 1 (2023), pp. 48-62
"Through policy analysis and close reading of two films, this article reveals films’ increasing role in China’s geopolitical plan, the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). The co-production film Xuanzang shows that the Silk Road past is used to illustrate BRI’s pledge for a beneficial future. Even
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Le temps à l’épreuve des médias: Brésil-France (xxe-xxie siècles)
Paris: L'Harmattan (2023), 335 pp.
"L'ouvrage, conçu entre France et Brésil, aborde le champ audiovisuel sous un angle inédit : celui du temps qui passe. Il réunit des contributions d'historiennes et de spécialistes des sciences de l'information et de la communication qui s'attellent à comprendre les rapports qu'entretiennent l
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The New Screen Ecology in India: Digital Transformation of Media
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
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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
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Documentaries and China's national image
London; New York: Routledge (2023), viii, 245 pp.
"Based on theoretical frameworks of media sociology, political economy of communication and cultural studies, the book traces the development of Chinese documentary and discusses social transformation and cultural representation embodied in documentaries related to China. It is revealed how these wo
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War in Film: Semiotics and Conflict Related Sign Constructions on the Screen
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
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