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Latin American Women Filmmakers: Production, Politics, Poetics
London et al.: Bloomsbury Academic (2017), xx, 268 pp.
"Latin American women filmmakers have achieved unprecedented international prominence in recent years. Notably political in their approach, figures such as Lucrecia Martel, Claudia Llosa and Bertha Navarro have created innovative and often challenging films, enjoying global acclaim from critics and
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A Companion to Russian Cinema
Hoboken: Wiley Blackwell (2016), xvi, 656 pp.
"A Companion to Russian Cinema provides an exhaustive and carefully organised guide to the cinema of pre-Revolutionary Russia, of the Soviet era, as well as post-Soviet Russian cinema, edited by one of the most established and knowledgeable scholars in Russian cinema studies. The most up-to-date and
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The Routledge Companion to Cinema & Gender
London; New York: Routledge (2016), xix, 492 pp.
"The contributions in this volume address a variety of geographical and cultural contexts through an analysis of cinema, from the representation of women and Islam in Middle Eastern film, and female audience reception in Nigeria, to changing class and race norms in Bollywood dance sequences. The boo
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Clásicos del cine mexicano: 31 películas emblemáticas desde la época de oro hasta el presente
Madrid; Frankfurt am Main: Iberoamericana; Vervuert (2016), 656 pp.
"El objetivo que se ha perseguido con esta antología es el de presentar el desarrollo histórico del cine mexicano durante 80 años, así como también el de dar a conocer la riqueza de los temas y géneros que caracteriza la producción cinematográfi ca de México, desde sus principios hasta las
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Slums on Screen: World Cinema and the Planet of Slums
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 '
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Nollywood Central
London: Palgrave Macmillan; British Film Institute (bfi) (2016), 175 pp.
"Nollywood is often portrayed by the popular press as an unruly industry, with mysteriously fast and cheap production and shadowy distribution networks. In the first overview of Nigeria's burgeoning video film industry, Jade L. Miller reveals that this portrayal is over-simplistic and often untrue.
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Guatemalas Durst nach Filmen
Eine Welt (DEZA), issue 2 (2016), pp. 31-33
"Im Februar 2015 hat Jayro Bustamante an den Filmfestspielen Berlin den Silbernen Bären für seinen ersten Spielfilm «Ixcanul» gewonnen. Gleichzeitig hat sich mit dem Film ein lateinamerikanisches Land auf der Landkarte des Kinos eingetragen. Walter Ruggle wirft einen Blick auf die Situation des
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SIGNIS and Cinema: Looking for God Behind the Screen
Opole (PL); Brussels: Uniwersytet Opolski, Wydzial Teologiczny; Signis Europe (2016), 85 pp.
Nollywood: The Creation of Nigerian Film Genres
Chicago; London: University of Chicago Press (2016), xxviii, 375 pp.
"Haynes describes the major Nigerian film genres and how they relate to Nigerian society—its values, desires, anxieties, and social tensions—as the country and its movies have developed together over the turbulent past two decades. As he shows, Nollywood is a form of popular culture; it produces
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40.doc: Una historia del documental argentino en 40 películas
Buenos Aires: Margen Izquierdo (2016), 307 pp.
The Bible in Motion: A Handbook of the Bible and its Reception in Film
Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter (2016), xviii, 921 pp.
"This two-part volume contains a comprehensive collection of original studies by well-known scholars focusing on the Bible’s wide-ranging reception in world cinema. It is organized into sections examining the rich cinematic afterlives of selected characters from the Hebrew Bible and New Testament;
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Diversity and the Film Industry: An Analysis of the 2014 UIS Survey on Feature Film Statistics
Montreal: UNESCO Institute for Statistics (2016), 39 pp.
"Based on data collected from 97 countries through the UIS 2014 Survey on Feature Film Statistics, the following observations on diversity can be made: In 2012, the number of feature films greatly increased throughout the world, and the following year a new production record was hit: 7,610 movies. H
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Kurdish Documentary Cinema in Turkey: The Politics and Aesthetics of Identity and Resistance
Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing (2016), xii, 269 pp.
"Documentary film is proving to be a particularly complex tool for the Kurdish social and political existence, as Kurds lack the official tools of history-writing and cultural preservation that are categorically associated with the capacities of a state. By delving into Kurdish documentary films as
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Ghost Movies in Southeast Asia and Beyond: Narratives, Cultural Contexts, Audiences
Leiden; Boston, MA: Brill (2016), xiii, 295 pp.
"Ghost Movies in Southeast Asia and Beyond explores ghost movies, one of the most popular film genres in East and Southeast Asia, by focusing on movie narratives, the cultural contexts of their origins and audience reception. In the middle of the Asian crisis of the late 1990s, ghost movies became m
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The Bible revisited: Neue Zugänge im Film
Marburg: Schüren (2016), 352 pp.
Der Film Hara Harwaa Reihaby von Emma Chodzaa als Instrument der staatlichen Beeinflussung des kollektiven Gedächtnisses in Abchasien
Frankfurt, Oder: Europa-Universität Vidriana, Bachelor Thesis (2016), 53 pp.
"Die Fallanalyse hat gezeigt, dass eine Erzählung vom Krieg 1992-93 propagiert wird, die einer abchasischen Version des Narrationsschemas 'Die Vertreibung von fremden Feinden' entspricht. Ein zentrales Element der Erzählung ist zudem, so ergab die Interpretation, eine betont positive Darstellung d
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La vida en la pantalla: Del cine a la sociedad digital
México, DF: Buena Prensa (2016), 126 pp.
"Con mirada contemplativa, el espectador de cine e internet es capaz de encontrar 'al otro' en la pantalla. Hoy es necesario conmoverse, detenerse ante el prójimo y poner los ojos en la periferias visuales. No importa de qué lado de la pantalla estemos. Cinéfilo y jesuita, el autor de este libro
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