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The Magic of Bollywood: At Home and Abroad

New Delhi; Thousand Oaks: Sage (2012), xviii, 334 pp.
"This anthology aims to portray the “soft” power of Bollywood, which makes it a unique and powerful disseminator of Indian culture and values abroad. The essays in the book examine Bollywood's popularity within and outside South Asia, focusing on its role in international relations and diplomacy ... more

Cultura y communicación: La cooperación española e Iberoamérica

In: Políticas de comunicación y ciudadanía cultural iberoamericana
Barcelona: Gedisa (2012), pp. 345-360
"The article deals with two recent Iranian films, al-Masih (Teh Messiah) by Nader Talebzadeh and Maryam al-Muqaddasah (Holy Mary) by Shahriar Bahrani. Both movies are about religious characters shared by Islam and Christianity: Zechariah, Mary and Jesus. The article explores the way the filmmakers h ... more
"En las décadas de 1970 y 1980 varias salas limeñas se llenaban de familias que iban a ver las largas y melodramáticas producciones de cine que llegaban desde la India. Hoy esas salas ya no existen, pero eso no impide que la incidencia del cine indio se haya mantenido –dvd piratas mediante– n ... more
"Dieses Studienhandbuch stellt in kompakter Form das komplette Instrumentarium der Filmanalyse vor. Systematisch werden Filmgeschichte, Filmtheorie und das Zeichensystem des Films erläutert und durch Beispiele aus mehr als 100 Jahren Filmgeschichte veranschaulicht. Dabei werden auch neueste Entwick ... more

50 Jahre Steyl Medien: Überlegungen zur Rolle des Missionsfilms gestern und heute

In: Steyler Missionschronik 2012/13
Nettetal: Steyler Verlag (2012), pp. 139-144, p.161
Souvent considéré comme une activité des plus nuisibles, le piratage des contenus audiovisuels n’en constitue pas moins, depuis des décennies, pour de nombreuses populations aux quatre coins du monde, un moyen majeur d’accéder aux produits des industries culturelles. Nourri d’enquêtes de ... more

Understanding Bollywood

In: The Handbook of Global Communication and Media Ethics
Chichester: Wiley Blackwell (2011), pp. 577-601
"This essay brings together four key elements of Bollywood cinema: 1. the lure of the mythological; 2. the allure of the Muslim courtesan, and Urdu, Bollywood's language of love; 3. the hegemony of melodrama; and 4. the persistence of song and dance." (Page 577)

Russia

Bristol; Chicago: intellect (2011), 333 pp.
"Be they musicals or melodramas, war movies or animation, Russian films have a long and fascinating history of addressing the major social and political events of their time. From Sergei Eisenstein’s anti-tsarist drama, Battleship Potemkin, to socialist realism, to the post-glasnost thematic explo ... more
"Cinema in Ghana- History, Ideology and Popular Culture, is an attempt to start a dialogue about national cinema in Ghana. The primary purpose of this thesis is not simply to provide a historical account of cinema in Ghana, but rather to question and dialogue with the history in order to locate the ... more
"This is the first monograph on the history of film culture ever for lusophone Africa. It consists of three parts: the colonial period (1896-1974), the first years of independence (1975-1991) and the years of the liberalization of the media (1992-2010). In these three periods attention is given to t ... more

Reclams Sachlexikon des Films

Stuttgart: Reclam, 3., aktual. Aufl. (2011), 836 pp.
"Die konkrete Annäherung an das Kurdische Kino gestaltet die Autorin über die Aufarbeitung des Dritten Kinos und die Erläuterung des Transnationalen Filmschaffens. Die neusten kurdischen Produktionen sprengen bestehende wissenschaftliche Theorien, indem sie neue Raum-Zeitkonfigurationen definiere ... more