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The Routledge Companion to Cinema & Gender

Kristin Lené Hole, Dijana Jelaca, E. Ann Kaplan, Patrice Petro (eds.)
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 ... more
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Learning Through Entertainment: The Effects of Bollywood Movies on the Job-Seeking Behavior of South Asian Female

Azmat Rasul, Arthur A. Raney
International Communication Gazette, volume 78, issue 3 (2016), pp. 267-287
"This study examined the relationship between exposure to Bollywood movies and job-seeking behavior of South Asian females. Using survey data collected from 132 female participants, we explored the effects of exposure to Bollywood movies on job search self-efficacy, enjoyment and job-seeking behavio ... more
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Ibero-American Observatory of Television Fiction Obitel 2016: (re)invention of TV Fiction Genres and Formats

Maria Immacolata Vassallo de Lopes, Guillermo Orozco Gómez (eds.)
Porto Alegre: Sulina; Globo Comunicação e Participações (2016), 540 pp.
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Animation in China: History, Aesthetics, Media

Sean Macdonald
London; New York: Routledge (2016), xix, 252 pp.
"By the turn of the 21st century, animation production has grown to thousands of hours a year in the People's Republic of China (PRC). Despite this, and unlike American blockbuster productions and the diverse genres of Japanese anime, much animation from the PRC remains relatively unknown. This book ... more
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National Survey Into the Reading and Book Reading Behaviour of Adult South Africans 2016

South African Book Development Council; TNS (2016), 103 pp.
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Eritrea: From Liberation to Oppression

Katja Dorothea Buck, Mirjam van Reisen (eds.)
Hamburg: Evangelisches Missionswerk in Deutschland (EMW) (2016), 167 pp.
"This publication will contribute to ensuring that the breadth of human rights violations in Eritrea becomes known, and that the issue of human trafficking migrates more strongly upwards into the public eye." (Back cover)
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Survey on Children’s Readership Preferences and Market Demands for Children’s Reading Materials in Rwanda

Hannah Mathews
Save the Children (2016), 57 pp.
"A qualitative study into the readership preferences of children in Rwanda, from the perspective of over seventy children under the age of nine from around the country, and ten key publishing houses in Kigali." (Abstract)
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50 anos de rádio em Angola: "Só malandros"

José Maria Pinto de Almeida
Casal de Cambra (PO): Caleidoscópio (2016), 246 pp.
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Arab Book Publishing

Christof Galli
In: Library and Information Science in the Middle East and North Africa
De Gruyter Saur (2016), pp. 1-27
"The persistence of print publishing means that librarians must continue to collect and pay attention to publishing developments in this type of material. The fractured environment and lack of unified distribution mechanisms, a situation that is only exacerbated by ongoing turmoil in the region will ... more
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How ICT4D Research Fails the Poor

Roger W. Harris
Information Technology for Development, volume 22, issue 1 (2016), pp. 177-192
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Postcolonial Studies Meets Media Studies: A Critical Encounter

Kai Merten, Lucia Krämer (eds.)
Bielefeld: transcript Verlag (2016), 262 pp.
"The book brings together experts from Media and Communication Studies with Postcolonial Studies scholars to illustrate how the two fields may challenge and enrich each other. Its essays introduce readers to selected topics including »Media Convergence«, »Transcultural Subjectivity«, »Hegemony ... more
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Repensando la investigación en ciencias sociales: Guía de trabajos de grado para comunicadores sociales

Rafael Loayza Bueno, Guadalupe Peres Cajías
La Paz: Universidad Católica Boliviana; Plural Editores (2016), 174 pp.
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Der Film Hara Harwaa Reihaby von Emma Chodzaa als Instrument der staatlichen Beeinflussung des kollektiven Gedächtnisses in Abchasien

Annika Gläser
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 ... more
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Radionovena: Florece la vida en territorios de paz

Milton Álvarez
In: Siembras del buen vivir: Entre utopías y dilemas posibles
Quito: Asociación Latinoamericana de Educación Radiofónica (ALER) (2016), pp. 163-170
"Surge el propósito, desde La Esquina Radio [Medellín, Colombia] en aprovechar el interés de las comunidades por la celebración cultural de la novena navideña, y a partir de ese acto, potenciar el encuentro ciudadano y la reflexión ciudadana, sin ningún tinte religioso, realizando una transmi ... more
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A Passion for Video: 25 Stories About Making, Translating, Sharing and Using Videos on Farmer Innovation
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Jeffery Bentley, Eric Boa, Mundie Salm (eds.)
Nairobi; Wageningen: Access Agriculture; Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA) (2016), 56 pp.
"The stories in this volume were gathered as part of a Writeshop held in Nairobi on 9–10 November, in the context of the Access Agriculture Week 9–13 November, 2015. People are story-tellers as well as creatures who walk and make tools. Stories are important to us. Statistics tell us what happen ... more
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Reporting on the Independence of the Belgian Congo: Mwissa Camus, the Dean of Congolese Journalists

Marie Fierens
African Journalism Studies, volume 37, issue 1 (2016), pp. 81-99
"Many individuals were involved in the Belgian Congo's attainment of independence. Born in 1931, Mwissa Camus, the dean of Congolese journalists, is one of them. Even though he was opposed to this idea and struggled to maintain his status as member of a certain ‘elite’, his career sheds light on ... more
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What Do We Lose When We Lose a Library? Proceedings of the Conference Held at the KU Leuven 9-11 September 2015

Leuven: University Library Leuven (2016), 222 pp.
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La comunicación pensada desde América Latina, 1960-2009

Erick Torrico Villanueva
Salamanca: Comunicación Social Ediciones y Publicaciones (2016), 268 pp.
"La Comunicación pensada desde América Latina (1960-2009) aborda las contribuciones a la constitución moderna del campo conceptual de la comunicación durante el periodo 1960-2009, así como los límites del pensamiento teórico comunicacional latinoamericano expresado en libros, artículos y tex ... more
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Handbuch nicht standardisierte Methoden in der Kommunikationswissenschaft
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Stefanie Averbeck-Lietz, Michael Meyen (eds.)
Wiesbaden: Springer VS (2016), xi, 585 pp.
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Diversity and the Film Industry: An Analysis of the 2014 UIS Survey on Feature Film Statistics

Luis A. Albornoz
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 ... more