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Ten Arab Filmmakers: Political Dissent and Social Critique

Josef Gugler (ed.)

Bloomington; Indianapolis: Indiana University Press (2015), xiii, 254 pp.

"Ten Arab Filmmakers provides an up-to-date overview of the best of Arab cinema, offering studies of leading directors and in-depth analyses of their most important films. The filmmakers profiled here represent principal national cinemas of the Arab world―Algeria, Egypt, Lebanon, Morocco, Palestin ... more

Global Media Report 2015: Global Industry Overview

McKinsey (2015), 24 pp.

"Spending on media continues to shift from traditional to digital products and services at a rapid pace. By 2019, we believe digital spending will account for more than 50 percent of overall media spend. Within this, digital video spending will overtake physical spending by 2018, two years earlier t ... more

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The Routledge Companion to Religion and Popular Culture
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John Lyden, Eric Michael Mazur (eds.)

London; New York: Routledge (2015), xvii, 583 pp.

"Religion and popular culture is a fast-growing field that spans a variety of disciplines. This volume offers the first real survey of the field to date and provides a guide for the work of future scholars. It explores: "key issues of definition and of methodology, religious encounters with popular ... more

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Curating Africa in the Age of Film Festivals

Lindiwe Dovey

New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2015), xvii, 270 pp.

"Tracing the history of Africa's relationship to film festivals and exploring the festivals' impact on the various types of people who attend festivals (the festival experts, the ordinary festival audiences, and the filmmakers), Dovey reveals what turns something called a "festival" into a "festival ... more

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Von Helden, Bösewichten und Herrschern: Der sowjetische Märchenfilm zwischen Folkloretradition und Entstehungswirklichkeit. Mit einer umfangreichen Materialdokumentation sämtlicher in der Sowjetunion von 1938-1989 entstandenen Märchenlangspielfilme

Sebastian Hoferer

Freiburg im Breisgau: Albert-Ludwigs-Universität, Doctoral Thesis (2015), 500 pp.

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Popular Television in Eastern Europe During and Since Socialism

Timothy Havens, Anikó Imre, Katalin Lustyik (eds.)

London: Routledge (2015), xi, 285 pp.

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Sklaverei

Aus Politik und Zeitgeschichte, volume 65, issue 50-51 (2015), 46 pp.

"Seit jeher beuten Menschen andere Menschen aus. Die Geschichte der Sklaverei – lange Zeit als Eigentum an einer anderen Person definiert – endete jedoch nicht mit ihrer rechtlichen Abschaffung. Spätestens mit der Allgemeinen Erklärung der Menschenrechte von 1948 ist das Verbot von Sklaverei z ... more

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Wahr oder wahrscheinlich? Über die Risiken und Nebenwirkungen der Unstatistik

Thomas K. Bauer, Gerd Gigerenzer, Walter Krämer

Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb), Sonderausg. (2015), 211 pp.

Handbuch Indonesien

Gunnar Stange, Rolf Jordan, Kristina Großmann (eds.)

Angermünde: Horlemann (2015), 528 pp.

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Participatory Photography for Peace: Using Images to Open Up Dialogue After Violence

Valentina Baú

Journal of Peacebuilding & Development, volume 10, issue 3 (2015), pp. 74-88

"This article begins with a literature review of Participatory Photography (PP) that highlights how this tool has been mostly implemented for action research, advocacy, and public health purposes. It shows how scholars have only quite recently begun to recognise its ability to generate change among ... more

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Handbuch Cultural Studies und Medienanalyse

Andreas Hepp, Friedrich Krotz, Swantje Lingenberg, Jeffrey Wimmer (eds.)

Wiesbaden: Springer VS (2015), 461 pp.

Geschichte Palästinas: Von der osmanischen Eroberung bis zur Gründung des Staates Israel

Gudrun Krämer

Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb), Lizenzausg. (2015), 445 pp.

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The Business of Books 2015: An Overview of Market Trends in North America, Europe, Asia and Latin America

Rüdiger Wischenbart

Carlo Carrenho; Veronika Licher; Miha Kovac; Vinutha Mallya (contrib.)

Frankfurt am Main: Frankfurt Book Fair, revised and updated ed. (2015), 14 pp.

"The Business of Books 2015" looks at the developments and driving forces shaping the international book business today. The study provides data, in most cases going back between five and 10 years, to give the readers a more comprehensive understanding of today’s situation. In particular, the repo ... more

Book Donation Programmes for Africa: Time for a Reappraisal? Part I

Hans M. Zell, Raphaël Thierry

Zell Publishing Consultants (2015), 109 pp.

"This investigation attempts to shed more light on current book donation practices, and provides an overview and profiles of the work of the principal book aid organizations active in the English-speaking parts of sub-Saharan Africa; describing how they differ in their approach and strategies, donat ... more

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Afrika Filmfestival Leuven 2015

Guido Convents (ed.)

Leuven: vzw Film en Cultuurpromotie (2015), 210 pp.

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The Future of Shortwave

Thomas Whitherspoon

In: World Radio TV Handbook: The Directory of Global Broadcasting 2016

Oxford: WRTH Publications (2015), pp. 38-40

"Shortwave radio cannot be easily monitored by governments. This is why shortwave radio remains a vital lifeline of information about the outside world. Censorship of shortwave radio is comparatively unsuccessful, while the Internet is often subject to total blocking." (Pages 39-40)

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When the Marginalized Enter the National Spotlight: The Framing of Brazilian Favelas and Favelados

Tania Cantrell Rosas-Moreno

Global Media and Communication, volume 11, issue 1 (2015), pp. 61-80

"How are marginalized peoples and places framed in their dominant national media? Framing theory applied through a comparative narrative analysis of 313 news articles, 291 photos and 1051 telenovela scenes allowed Brazilian media representations of a marginalized people, favelados, and marginalized, ... more

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Media Control, Colonialism and the Making of an Authoritarian Postcolonial African State: The Case of Botswana

Sethunya Tshepho Mosime

African Journalism Studies, volume 36, issue 2 (2015), pp. 45-58

"Observing the emergence of public service broadcasting on the eve of colonialism in Botswana (early 60s to early 2000s), the central thesis of the article is that the roots of control of the media in contemporary Botswana can be traced to British anxieties about the possibility of a nationalist rev ... more

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Remediating Transcultural Memory: Documentary Filmmaking as Archival Intervention

Dagmar Brunow

Berlin; Boston, Mass.: De Gruyter (2015), 252 pp.

"Despite the growing field of media memory studies, the impact from film and media studies has been scarce within memory studies. This unique study offers new theorizations of three crucial concepts for media memory studies: remediation, transculturality and the archive. This book takes a closer loo ... more