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Research for Development: A Practical Guide

Sophie Laws, Caroline Harper, Nicola Jones, Rachel Marcus
Los Angeles, Calif.: Sage, 2nd ed. (2013), xvii, 425 pp.
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Dictionnaire de la bande dessinée d'Afrique francophone

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The Education of the Filmmaker in Africa, the Middle East, and the Americas

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Framing Africa: Portrayals of a Continent in Contemporary Mainstream Cinema

Nigel Eltringham (ed.)
New York: Berghahn (2013), vi, 183 pp.
"The first decade of the 21st century has seen a proliferation of North American and European films that focus on African politics and society. While once the continent was the setting for narratives of heroic ascendancy over self (The African Queen, 1951; The Snows of Kilimanjaro, 1952), military o ... more
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Doreen Strauhs
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Taking Nigeria to the Movies: The Innovative Regulatory Role of the National Film and Video Censors Board

Ikechukwu Obiaya
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"The National Film and Video Censors Board (NFVCB) of Nigeria [...] has powers that go beyond film classification and censorship. This has been manifested especially through its attempt to regularize film distribution in Nigeria through the introduction of a distribution framework. Many resented thi ... more
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Soap Operas as a Matchmaker: A Cultivation Analysis of the Effects of South Korean TV Dramas on Vietnamese Women’s Marital Intentions

Hong Tien Vu, Tien-Tsung Lee
Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, volume 90, issue 1-2 (2013), 23 pp.
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Missionary Printing

M. Antoni Üçerler
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"As Europeans began to travel to all corners of the earth beginning in the 15th century, they were determined not only to conquer new lands but also to spread their faith. From Johann Gutenberg they had learned the power of the printed word, and were determined to use this revolutionary new technolo ... more
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K. Moti Gokulsing, Wimal Dissanayake (eds.)
London; New York: Routledge (2013), xv, 470 pp.
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Del laboratorio chileno a la comunicación-mundo: Un itinerario intelectual de Armand Mattelart

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Research Methods for Memory Studies

Emily Keightley, Michael Pickering (eds.)
Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press (2013), vi, 256 pp.
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Medien und psychische Prozesse: Wie sich Traumata und Wünsche in Medien ausdrücken und deren Entwicklung antreiben

Christina L. Steinmann
Bielefeld: transcript Verlag (2013), 258 pp.
"Was treibt die Medienentwicklung an? Wie und warum prägen sich neue Medienformen aus? Christina L. Steinmann schlägt eine Perspektive vor, in der sich Traumata und Wünsche in Medien einschreiben und deren Entwicklung beeinflussen. Medien werden dabei als Ausdruck, Symptom und Auslagerungsort psy ... more
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Practical Guide for Digital Switchover (DSO) in Cameroon

Lishan Adam, Mike Jensen, Steve Song, Russell Southwood
Association for Progressive Communications (APC); Balancing Act (2013), 77 pp.
"The digital switchover (DSO) is the commonly accepted name given to the process of changing the underlying radio broadcast technology from the outdated analogue system to a system based on equipment capable of transmitting and receiving digital signals. This guide was produced to help with the proc ... more
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Nación TV: La novela de Televisa

Fabrizio Mejía Madrid
México, DF: Grijalbo (2013), 203 pp.
"Aquí está la historia de medio siglo de la televisión mexicana, desde su primera transmisión una misa, hasta los líos familiares para hacerse de su control. Por sus páginas desfilan lo mismo comediantes, cantantes, productores de telenovelas, conductores de noticieros, que presidentes de la R ... more
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Key Concepts in Creative Industries

John Hartley et al.
Los Angeles et al.: Sage (2013), xii, 184 pp.
"This book is the first to present an organized study of the key concepts that underlie and motivate the field of creative industries. Written by a world-leading team of experts, it presents readers with compact accounts of the history of terms, the debates and tensions associated with their usage, ... more
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TV's Betty Goes Global: From Telenovela to International Brand
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Janet McCabe, Kim Akass (eds.)
London; New York: Tauris (2013), xv, 259 pp.
"Premiering in 2006, Ugly Betty, the award-winning US hit show about unglamorous but kind-hearted Betty Suarez (America Ferrera), is the latest incarnation of a worldwide phenomenon that started life as a Colombian telenovela, Yo soy Betty, la fea, back in 1999. The tale of the ugly duckling has sin ... more
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Storytelling in World Cinemas. Vol. 2: Contexts

Lina Khatib (ed.)
London; New York: Wallflower Press (2013), x, 198 pp.
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Our Friend, the Internet: Postcolonial Mediatization in Morocco

Ines Braune
Communications: The European Journal of Communication Research, volume 38, issue 3 (2013), pp. 267-289
"This article investigates the 'discursive notion' of communication technology, as embedded in the discussion of mediatization. Instead of focusing on the technical structure of media and its impact on society, I will alternatively turn my attention to its symbolic dimension. I will look beyond the ... more
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Dimensions of Advertising Theory and Practice in Africa

Rotimi Williams Olatunji, Beatrice A. Laninhun (eds.)
Dakar: Amalion Publishing (2013), xxii, 256 pp.