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Perpetrators in Documentaries on Genocide
Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press (2026), 268 pp.
"Perpetrators in Documentaries on Genocide is a wide-ranging comparative study that analyses how numerous genocides and their perpetrators have been presented in documentary film. Spanning seven 20th-century genocides across three continents and combining interviews with filmmakers, distant reading,
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Reportage in the Chinese-Speaking World
Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press (2026), xiii, 292 pp.
"Reportage in the Chinese-Speaking World examines reportage as an important aesthetic form of cultural production in the Sinophone world. Originating as a proletarian nonfiction form in interwar Europe, reportage spread around the world, coming into its own in the Sinophone world from the 1930s to t
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Communicating a World-in-Crisis
New York: Peter Lang (2025), xiv, 391 pp.
"We live in a world increasingly defined by systemic, deepening and compounding crises. They threaten not only future human existence but also the planetary web-of-life. With the help of academics, creative practitioners and activists, this book explores some of the innovative ways in which differen
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Media Travels: Toward an Atlas of Global Media
Amherst College Press (2025), viii, 200 pp.
"Through careful and informed analysis, these eleven accessibly written chapters illustrate the particularities of different media practices and situate them within social, historical, and geographical contexts. Examples range from South African video games to Korean TV series popular in Latin Ameri
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Shaping Global Cultures Through Screenwriting: Women Who Write Our Worlds
Bristol: Intellect (2025), 658 pp.
"This volume, Shaping Global Cultures through Screenwriting: Women Who Write Our Worlds, tells stories of women who have worked with and within communities to bring the communities’ stories to life through screenwriting. In gathering these examples, we asked for stories that achieved some level
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La Mestiza me llama: Oralidad y escrituralidad sobre el Santuario de las Lajas
Bogotá: Universidad Externado de Colombia, Maestría en Comunicación Creativa y Medios Emergentes (2025), 75 pp.
"La presente investigación permitió evidenciar cómo la tradición oral y la escrituralidad vinculadas al Santuario de Las Lajas no solo funcionan como medios de transmisión cultural, sino también como agentes activos en la transformación del entorno geográfico, social y simbólico de la regi
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The ethics of representing perpetrators in documentaries on genocide
European Journal of Cultural Studies, volume 27, issue 5 (2024), pp. 928-946
"Current discourse on the representation of genocide claims that we are currently experiencing ‘the shift from the era of the witness to the era of the perpetrator’. This raises ethical concerns over why and how documentaries engage with perpetrators. Based on an assessment of 203 documentaries
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Holocaust Representations in Animated Documentaries: The Contours of Commemoration
Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1st ed. (2024), xvii, 242 pp.
"Animated documentaries dealing with the Holocaust, Holocaust survivors, and their descendants constitute a new phenomenon and inaugurate a new field of Holocaust commemoration. This book is the first comprehensive analysis of animated Holocaust documentaries. It explores movies produced in the USA,
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Wild paroxysms of the turbulent 90s: How 'The Traitors' documentary exposed the Russian liberal milieu
Bonn: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2024), 13 pp.
"The story which The Traitors tells is pretty simple and well known to academic scholars who deal with the modern Russian state: it was corrupt from its inception and Putin’s regime is in no way an aberration, but smooth continuity of the Yeltsin system. The documentary precipitated a wave of slan
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Historical Media Memories of the Rwandan Genocide: Documentaries, Films, and Television News
Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press (2024), xii, 297 pp.
"The Rwandan genocide is the second most audio-visually recreated genocide after the Holocaust, with approximately 200 films and documentaries produced in 39 countries between 1994 and 2021. Historical Media Memories of the Rwandan Genocide studies the construction, the development, and the recreati
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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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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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Gente alzada en cámaras: Canibalismo cultural y subjetividad en el video indígena
Bogotá: Universidad Pontificia Javeriana (2023), 133 pp.
"En el umbral del nuevo siglo, las naciones indígenas en Colombia pasaron de ser presentadas en el cine y el video a ser agentes de su representación: para esto, pueblos e individuos han delineado estrategias de apropiación y comunicación. Gente alzada en cámaras analiza cómo dos directores de
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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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The Mediation of Sustainability: Development Goals, Social Movements, and Public Dissent
Lanham; Boulder; New York; London: Rowman & Littlefield (2023), 250 pp.
"This book examines the way in which SDG initiatives have been disseminated by mainstream media, in government discourse and by NGO’s, charitable organisations, and campaign groups. It questions to what extent sustainability narratives are being supported and how they are represented; how saving t
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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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What Difference Does it Make? The Importance of Documentary to Sustainable Development Goals in a Post-Truth World
In: The Mediation of Sustainability: Development Goals, Social Movements, and Public Dissent
Rowman & Littlefield (2023), pp. 117-136
"The landscape of documentaries has changed greatly in the twenty-first century. From a niche form, with few productions, to global distribution via social media. Post-truth documentaries largely have a sense of outsiders challenging the status quo, delivered by self-proclaimed experts with anecdote
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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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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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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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