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Report on the Feature Documentary Film 'The Opium War': Focusing on the Director's Point of View

John La Raw
Seoul: Chung-Ang University, Gradutate School of Advanced Imaging Science, Multimedia and Film, Master Thesis (2018), xi, 82 pp.
"The main purpose of this report is to analyze the documentary feature film called 'The Opium War' based on the civilians' antidrug movement in the author's home place, Myanmar's Kachin state. The film mainly focuses on the antidrug movement 'Pat Jasan' organized by Myanmar civilians and which liter ... more
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La comunicazione secondo il pensiero di Pierpaolo Donati: Una prospettiva relazionale nell’analisi del processo della comunicazione umana

Ana Cristina Montoya
Roma: Università Pontificia Salesiana, Facoltà di Scienze della Comunicazione Sociale, Dissertazione per il Dottorato (2018), 268 pp.
"In sintesi, ogni azione comunicativa è preceduta da una relazione sociale, che la rende esplicita, che può influire su di essa e, a sua volta, può modificare quella relazione e farne emergere un’altra, si sia coscienti o meno. Da ciò si comprende che in una società come quella contemporanea, ... more
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The Routledge Companion to World Cinema

Rob Stone, Paul Cooke, Stephanie Dennison, Alex Marlow-Mann (eds.)
London; New York: Routledge (2018), xx, 522 pp.
"The Routledge Companion to World Cinema explores and examines a global range of films and filmmakers, their movements and audiences, comparing their cultural, technological and political dynamics, identifying the impulses that constantly reshape the form and function of the cinemas of the world. Ea ... more
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Paper: Material, Medium and Magic
Deep Insights

Neil Holt, Nicola von Velsen, Stephanie Jacobs (eds.)
Munich; London; New York: Prestel (2018), 269 pp.
"This fascinating book looks at every aspect of paper: its history, composition, production, application, and trade. Beginning with the anatomy of paper and its earliest forms, this book looks at paper as a symbol of political and economic importance and as a carrier of ideas, from literature to art ... more
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L'audiovisuel au Maroc en 10 questions: Approche socio-économique

Yassine Akhiate
Paris: L'Harmattan (2018), 202 pp.
"Le présent ouvrage s'intéresse à la socio-économie de l'audiovisuel au Maroc. Il dresse un panorama des différents questionnements qui concernent le secteur de l'audiovisuel, ses acteurs institutionnels et économiques, ainsi que la dynamique qui les anime. De précieux renseignements y sont f ... more
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Familienbilder: Reflexionen und Konstruktionen zum Thema Familie im aktuellen Spielfilm

Peter Hasenberg, Markus Leniger, Reinhold Zwick (eds.)
Marburg: Schüren (2018), 257 pp.
"Der vorliegende Band nähert sich dem Wandel der Familien im Spiegel von aktuellen Film- und Fernsehproduktionen. Zum einen geht es darum, wie Filme von «realistischen» Familien erzählen – im Alltag, aber auch in Extremsituationen, Krisen und Konflikten, zum anderen werden in den Figuren auch ... more
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Pensar la memoria desde el cómic latinoamericano

Hendrikje Grunow
Historia Crítica (2018), 9 pp.
"Las historietas y las novelas gráficas se han convertido no sólo en fuente de entretenimiento, sino también en objeto de estudio en el contexto latinoamericano, por lo menos desde la publicación del famoso Para leer al Pato Donald de Ariel Dorfman y Armand Mattelart, en 1972. Recientemente, est ... more
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Comics and sacred texts: Reimagining religion and graphic narratives

Asaf Gamzu, Ken Koltun-Fromm (eds.)
Jackson (MS): University Press of Mississippi (2018), xxi, 299 pp.
"In both visual and linguistic forms, graphic narratives reveal representational strategies to encounter the sacred in all its ambivalence. Through close readings and critical inquiry, these essays contemplate the intersections between religion and comics in ways that critically expand our ability t ... more
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Publishing & the Book in Africa: A Literature Review for 2017

Hans M. Zell
Zell Publishing Consultants (2018), 77 pp.
"The third in a series of annual reviews of select new literature in English that has appeared on the topic of publishing and the book sector in sub-Saharan Africa. Extensively annotated and/or with abstracts, the present list brings together new literature published during the course of 2017, a tot ... more
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Media effects: Ensaios sobre teorias da comunicação e do jornalismo. Vol. 4: Reflexividade, hermenêutica e Fake News

Gilson Pôrto Jr., Nelson Russo de Moraes, Daniela Barbosa de Oliveira, Vilso Junior Santi, Leila Adriana Baptaglin (eds.)
Porto Alegre; Boa Vista: Editora Fi; Editora da Universidade Federal de Roraima (UFRR) (2018), 224 pp.
"Neste volume trabalhamos com Reflexividade, hermenêutica e Fake News adentrando em questões específicas do contexto social, político e cultural vivenciadas na contemporaneidade. Com um olhar atento para as teorias da comunicação, este volume adentra as peculiaridades das distintas regiões br ... more
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Western Missionaries and Origins of the Modern Chinese Press

Yuntao Zhang
In: Routledge Handbook of Chinese Media
Gary D. Rawnsley, Ming-Yeh T. Rawnsley (eds.)
London; New York: Routledge (2018), pp. 67-78
"For over a thousand years, Chinese journalism was dominated by the official gazette called DiBao (Peking Gazette). This organ of the imperial state comprised edicts, news of government appointments and court affairs, and served a small privileged readership. It was not until 1815 that what could be ... more
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Negotiating Dissidence: The Pioneering Women of Arab Documentary

Stefanie Van de Peer
Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press (2018), vii, 238 pp.
"In spite of harsh censorship, conservative morals and a lack of investment, women documentarists in the Arab world have found ways to subtly negotiate dissidence in their films, something that is becoming more apparent since the ‘Arab Revolutions’. In this book, Stefanie Van de Peer traces the ... more
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Otra mirada: 4.° encuentro de librarías y editoriales independientes iberoamericanos

Bogotá: Centro Regional para el Fomento del Libro en América Latina y el Caribe (CERLALC) (2018), 130 pp.
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Transnationalizing Radio Research: New Approaches to an Old Medium

Golo Föllmer, Alexander Badenoch (eds.)
Bielefeld: transcript Verlag (2018), 313 pp.
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Media effects: Ensaios sobre teorias da comunicação e do jornalismo. Vol. 2: Efeitos da terceira pessoa, enquadramento e teoria do cultivo

Gilson Pôrto Jr., Nelson Russo de Moraes, Daniela Barbosa de Oliveira, Leila Adriana Baptaglin (eds.)
Porto Alegre; Boa Vista: Editora Fi; Editora da Universidade Federal de Roraima (UFRR) (2018), 243 pp.
"Este volume trata-se de um trabalho experimental, onde pesquisadores da pós-graduação, em diversos níveis, debruçam-se sobre questões teóricas à luz de teorias da Comunicação e do Jornalismo. No segundo volume, destacam-se as pesquisas com foco no enquadramento, nos estudos culturais, na ... more
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Guide to developing digital games for early grade literacy for developing countries

Kenneth Y. T. Lim, John Comings, Richard Lee, Ming-De Yuen, Ahmed Hazyl Hilmy, Derek Chua, Bing Heng Song
Quezon City; Washington DC: Foundation for Information Technology Education and Development; World Vision (2018), 43 pp.
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The State of Digital Publishing: Facts and Figures from Ghana, Kenya, and Nigeria

Nancy Brown, Rachel Heavner
San Francisco: Worldreader (2018), 25 pp.
"At a glance, there are a number of societal and infrastructural barriers to overcome before digital publishing has a huge market in these three countries. However, there are certainly opportunities at hand, particularly when it comes to testing and vetting content, where digital books can save publ ... more
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Illustrated (Hi)stories

Elisabeth Desta (ed.)
Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb) (2018), 207 pp.
"Das Gedenken an den Ersten Weltkrieg in Deutschland und Europa ist nach wie vor sehr auf die europäische Perspektive beschränkt. Tatsächlich war der Krieg ein globaler: Millionen Soldaten aus kolonisierten Gebieten nahmen an den Kämpfen teil. Die Kolonialtruppen bildeten ein wesentliches Elemen ... more
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Conflict and Controversy in Small Cinemas

Janina Falkowska, Krzysztof Loska (eds.)
Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang (2018), 268 pp.
"This book examines small cinemas and their presentation of society in times of crisis and conflict from an interdisciplinary and intercultural point of view. The authors concentrate on economic, social and political challenges and point to new phenomena which have been exposed by film directors. Th ... more
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Can Machine Learning Help Us Measure the Trustworthiness of News?

Samhir Vasdev
Washington, DC: IREX (2018), 34 pp.
"IREX partnered with Lore.Ai to test whether machine learning software can automatically detect news articles that contains journalists’ own opinions. This matters because impartial, fact-based news is a powerful indicator for the quality of media and the vibrancy of an information ecosystem. A te ... more