"This guide is designed to introduce film preservation to the community of research organizations that now have collections of motion picture film. It is a basic primer for film preservation “beginners”—professionals trained in archival studies, librarianship, museum work, or a subject field b
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ut unschooled in this technical specialty." (Abstract)
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"Emphasizing post-independent films released since the 1950s and the burgeoning commercial film production of the last decade, Focus on African Films provides unique and pluralistic perspectives on filmmaking throughout Africa. As a whole, the collection highlights the distinct thematic, stylistic,
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and socioeconomic circumstances of African filmmaking. Individual essays show how conditions in Africa have generated a broad range of views and techniques, from the stylistically innovative documentaries of Jean-Marie Teno and Abderrahmane Sissako and the "documentary fiction" of Mahamat-Saleh Haroun to the vibrant art films of Jean-Pierre Bekolo and the new films from South Africa. Contributors also outline the direction of increasingly popular, less didactic sub-Saharan filmmaking in films such as Daniel Kamwa's Pousse-Pousse, Ngangura Mweze's La vie est belle, and Imungu Ivanga's Dôlé." (Publisher description)
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"Das Kinderfernsehen in Deutschland verzichtet in seinen Sendungen weitgehend auf Religion und religiöse Inhalte. David Biesinger beurteilt diesen Mangel aus der Perspektive der Zuschauer, also der Kinder, und klärt, welche Auswirkungen dies auf den Sozialisationsprozess und das religiöse Lernen
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hat. Er spricht sich deutlich für eine vermehrte Präsenz religiöser Inhalte im Kinderfernsehen aus und zeigt Entwicklungsperspektiven für das Kinderfernsehen auf. Selbst Theologe und Journalist, stößt Biesinger einen Dialog zwischen Religionspädagogik und Kinderfernsehen an, der bislang kaum geführt worden ist." (Verlagsbeschreibung)
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"Since the earliest days of the movies more than a century ago, moviemakers have been intrigued by "the greatest story ever told." They have tried, with varying degrees of success, to capture the life of Jesus on film. In Jesus at the Movies Barnes Tatum has created a fascinating and exhaustively-re
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searched viewer's guide to the movies about Jesus. Tatum guides the reader film-by-film from Sidney Olcott's silent classic "From the Manger to the Cross" through Denis Arcand's award-winning "Jesus of Montreal" to the future of Jesus movies. With his experience as author, biblical scholar, and teacher on religion and film, he presents this unique look at Jesus films in all dimensions: as cinematic art, as literature, as biblical history and as theology." (Publisher description)
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