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Mapping Out Contemporary Brazilian Film: Reaching New Audiences
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.
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Mira: VIII. Lateinamerikanisches Independent Filmfestival
Bonn: Mira-Filmfestival (2022), 28 pp.
Labour in a Single Shot: Critical Perspectives on Antje Ehmann and Harun Farocki’s Global Video Project
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
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Dokumentarfilm in Deutschland: Von den Anfängen bis zur Gegenwart
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
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"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
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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
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
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Reframing Africa? Reflections on Modernity and the Moving Image
Cape Town; Bethlehem, PA: African Minds; Media Studies Press (2022), ix, 246 pp.
"Reframing Africa is at root a project about the African archive broadly defined. It asks questions pertaining to this archive as a repository of historical knowledge, its systems of classification, and what strategies should be developed to ensure its preservation in light of state negligence. In a
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Commodifying Violence in Literature and on Screen: The Colombian Condition
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
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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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Children’s Documentaries: Distance and Ethics in European Storytelling About the Wider World
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
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The Human Rights Film Network: Festival resilience in the time of Covid-19
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
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Global Perspectives on Amateur Film Histories and Cultures
Bloomington: Indiana University Press (2021), ix, 336 pp.
"Through carefully curated essays, Salazkina and Fibla-Gutiérrez bring wider meaning and significance to the discipline through their study of alternative cinema in new territories, fueled by different historical and political circumstances, innovative technologies, and ambitious practitioners. The
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Understanding Indian Movies: Culture, Cognition, and Cinematic Imagination
Austin: University of Texas Press (2021), 293 pp.
"In this book, Patrick Colm Hogan sets out through close analysis and explication of culturally particular information about Indian history, Hindu metaphysics, Islamic spirituality, Sanskrit aesthetics, and other Indian traditions to provide necessary cultural contexts for understanding Indian films
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The Celluloid Ceiling: A Gender-Based Analysis of the Israeli Film Industry
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
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Development of the Global Film Industry: Industrial Competition and Cooperation in the Context of Globalization
London; New York: Routledge (2021), xxv, 243 pp.
"The global film industry has witnessed significant transformation in the past few years. Regions outside the US have begun to prosper while non-traditional production companies, such as Netflix have assumed a larger market share, and online movies adapted from literature have continued to gain in p
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Kino und Katharsis? Bilder vom Nationalsozialismus im deutschen Film
In: Aufarbeitung des Nationalsozialismus: Ein Kompendium
Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb), Sonderausg. (2021), pp. 534-556
Handbuch Filmgeschichte: Von den Anfängen bis heute
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
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Orientalische Bilder und Klänge: Eine transnationale Geschichte des frühen ägyptischen Tonfilms
Marburg: Schüren (2021), 288 pp.
"Als sich Ende der 1920er Jahre in den USA und Europa der Tonfilm durchsetzte, erkannten ägyptische Geschäftsleute dessen Potenzial für die arabische Welt. Sie erwarben innovative Tontechnik aus Deutschland und schickten ägyptische Stipendiaten zur Ausbildung nach Berlin und Paris. Nach ihrer R
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Hier und anderswo: Palästina-Israel im essayistischen Film (1960-2010)
Marburg: Schüren (2021), 423 pp.
