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"Esta investigación aporta a la comprensión del contexto histórico-social de la construcción del cine documental en Ecuador desde una visión que valora y entiende al cine documental como parte de la cultura visual ecuatoriana, el mundo de las imágenes, su vida social y las representaciones que ... more
"Postnationalist African cinemas convincingly interrogates the ways in which African narratives locate postcolonial identities and forms beyond essentially nationalist frameworks. It investigates how the emergence of new genres, discourses and representations, all unrelated to an overtly nationalist ... 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

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)
"Seit dem Ende der Kulturrevolution 1976 hat das festlandchinesische Kino verschiedene Phasen durchlaufen und erstaunliche Entwicklungen vollzogen. Im Zentrum dieses Buchs stehen Analysen herausragender Spielfilme der Vierten bis Sechsten Generation sowie wichtiger Werke der Neuen Dokumentarfilmbewe ... 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
"Since the mid 1990s the European Union (EU) and its member states, most prominently France and Germany, have encouraged cinematic co-productions between Europe and the Middle East. A large number of films were completed within various EU support and cooperation programmes, ranging from special inte ... more
"The translation of films from languages such as English, Hindi/Urdu or Chinese into Swahili is a phenomenon that has quickly grown into a successful business in Tanzania in the last couple of years. The films are mainly products of the USA, of India and China, but also of countries such as Thailand ... more
"Die Filmproduktion befindet sich im Umbruch: Die Anzahl der Marktteilnehmer und Distributionswege wächst, gleichzeitig sinkt aber das Produktionsvolumen der Sender für unabhängige Filmhersteller. Joachim Knaf analysiert die bestehenden Geschäftsmodelle der AV-Produzenten und stellt mit einem Fa ... more
"This paper attempts to appraise African filmmaking and the content of African films from a Nigerian film audience perspective. The study specifically explores the disposition of the audience towards contemporary African filmmaking for home video and cinema entertainment as well as the content of Af ... more
"This booklet documents the participatory video methodology as an affordable and easy-to-use video tool enabling community members to record their experience and strengthen their own knowledge on disaster risks and climate change, as well as to increase their capacity to act on that knowledge and se ... more