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Decolonising Political Communication in Africa: Reframing Ontologies
Abingdon, Oxon; New York: Routledge (2022), xxviii, 226 pp.
"This book uses decolonisation as a lens to interrogate political communication styles, performance, and practice in Africa and the diaspora. The book interrogates the theory and practice of political communication, using decolonial research methods to begin a process of self-reflexivity and the cre
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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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Generation Africa - Facilitation Guide
Steps (2022), 76 pp.
"The Generation Africa project centres on the lived experiences of African youth, the largest youth demographic in the world, whose futures will determine the shape of global fortunes over the next few decades. Working with 25 filmmakers and production companies from 16 countries in Africa, the coll
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Hier und anderswo: Palästina-Israel im essayistischen Film (1960-2010)
Marburg: Schüren (2021), 423 pp.
Documentary Making for Digital Humanists
Key Guides
Cambridge: Open Book Publishers (2021), viii, 283 pp.
"This book sets out the fundamentals of filmmaking, explores academic discourse on digital documentaries and online distribution, and considers the place of this discourse in the evolving academic landscape. The book walks its readers through the intellectual and practical processes of creating digi
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When ‘Seeing Was Believing’: Visual Advocacy in the Early Decades of Humanitarian Cinema
Journal of Humanitarian Affairs, volume 3, issue 2 (2021), pp. 18-27
"Focusing on the pivotal period of 1919–23 and the large-scale humanitarian responses in Central and Eastern Europe, this paper discusses the development of advocacy in the movies made by organizations like the ICRC, Save the Children Fund or American Relief Administration. While aid agencies obse
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Frames and Framing in Documentary Comics
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2021), xv, 292 pp.
"Frames and Framing in Documentary Comics explores how graphic narratives reframe global crises while also interrogating practices of fact-finding. An analog print phenomenon in an era shaped by digitalization, documentary comics formulates a distinct counterapproach to conventional journalism. In w
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Territorio y memorias sin fronteras: Nuevas estrategias para pensar lo real
Bogotá: Corporación Universitaria Minuto de Dios (Uniminuto) (2021), 423 pp.
"Este libro es –nunca mejor dicho– el resultado de una memoria selectiva. Sus 19 títulos dan cuenta de un ciclo que cierra una etapa inicial del Seminario Pensar lo Real como espacio de reflexión en torno a ‘lo documental’. Estuvo inspirado en el espíritu de Pensar el documental, un encue
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Image-Making-India: Visual Culture, Technology, Politics
London; New York: Routledge (2021), x, 165 pp.
"Building upon long-term ethnographic research among image-makers in Delhi, Mumbai and other Indian cities, the author interrogates the dialogue between visual culture, technology and changing notions of political participation. The book explores selected artistic experiences in documentary and fict
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Big Perpetrator Cambodian cinema, the documentary duel and moral resentment
Screen, volume 62, issue 1 (2021), pp. 37-58
"Perpetrator cinema is a new global phenomenon, an unprecedented 21st-century boom in films that deal with genocidal or other mass-killing events by focusing on the perpetrator figure as their main protagonist or interviewee. In many respects it sheds light on the 21st-century emergence of the new p
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Darstellung von Migration und Flucht in dokumentarischen Formaten
Freiburg: Albert-Ludwigs-Universität, Master Thesis (2020), 71 pp.
"Die vorliegende Masterarbeit versuchte in einem Experiment herauszufinden, wie das journalistische Storytelling in dokumentarischen Filmformaten eingesetzt wird. Es konnte nachgewiesen werden, dass alle drei analysierten Filme sich einer alternativen Erzählkategorie zuordnen lassen und jeweils spe
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Directing the Documentary
Key Guides
Burlington; Oxford: Routledge, 7th ed. (2020), xxxix, 554 pp.
"Directing the Documentary is the definitive book on the documentary form, that will allow you to master the craft of documentary filmmaking. Focusing on the hands-on work needed to make your concept a reality, it covers the documentary filmmaking process from top to bottom, providing in-depth lesso
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Love and Resistance in the Films of Mai Masri
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2020), xxxii, 144 pp.
"This book covers Mai Masri’s three decades documenting iconic moments of Palestinian and Lebanese linked history. Her films, unique for giving agency to her subjects, tell much about the untold, unseen people, namely women and children, who lived these experiences of war and occupation. Former Le
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Perpetrator Cinema: Confronting Genocide in Cambodian Documentary
New York: Columbia University Press (2020), xxii, 285 pp.
"Perpetrator Cinema explores a new trend in the cinematic depiction of genocide that has emerged in Cambodian documentary in the late twentieth- and early twenty-first centuries. While past films documenting the Holocaust and genocides in Yugoslavia, Rwanda, and elsewhere have focused on collecting
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The Impact Field Guide and Toolkit: From Art to Impact [in Arabic]
Key Guides
London et al.: Doc Society, 2nd ed. (2019), 238 pp.
Documentary Resistance: Social Change and Participatory Media
New York: Oxford University Press (2019), xiii, 280 pp.
"The potential of documentary moving images to foster democratic exchange has been percolating within media production culture for the last century, and now, with mobile cameras at our fingertips and broadcasts circulating through unpredictable social networks, the documentary impulse is coming into
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Guía práctica y herramientas para el impacto: Del arte al impacto
Key Guides
London et al.: Doc Society (2019), 237 pp.
"El objetivo de esta guía va más allá de presentar herramientas y recursos, pretende crear comunidad. Igual que sucede con el proceso de evaluación, vimos una oportunidad para aprender cómo se produce el impacto y hacer un seguimiento de cómo las películas están catalizando el cambio social.
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Documentary Filmmaking in Contemporary Brazil: Cinematic Archives of the Present
New York: Oxford University Press (2019), viii, 265 pp.
"This work examines the vibrant field of documentary filmmaking in Brazil from the transition to democracy in 1985 to the present. Marked by significant efforts toward the democratization of Brazil's highly unequal society, this period also witnessed the documentary's rise to unprecedented vitality
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Mobile Africa: Human Trafficking and the Digital Divide
Bamenda: Langaa (2019), xviii, 739 pp.
"What happens at the nexus of the digital divide and human trafficking? This book examines the impact of the introduction of new digital information and communication technology (ICT) – as well as lack of access to digital connectivity – on human trafficking. The different studies presented in t
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