"VideoCulture war ein internationales, medienethnographisches Praxis- und Forschungsprojekt, das von 1997 bis 2000 an der PH Ludwigsburg in Kooperation mit Kollegen aus London, Los Angeles, New York, Budapest und Prag durchgeführt wurde. Jugendliche zwischen 14 und 19 Jahren aus unterschiedlichen s
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oziokulturellen Milieus produzierten insgesamt 36 eigene Videofilme. Das Buch dokumentiert das Projekt, und eine begleitende CD-ROM enthält Videofilme und Projektmaterialien." (commbox)
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"This book focuses on a selection of internationally known Latin American films. The chapters are organized around national categories, grounding the readings not only in the context of social and political conditions, but also in those of each national film industry. It is a very useful text for st
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udents of the region's cultural output, as well as for students of film studies who wish to learn more about the innovative and often controversial films discussed." (Publisher description)
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"India produces more films than any other country in the world, and these works are avidly consumed by non-Western cultures in Africa, Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and by the Indian communities in Australia, Britain, the Caribbean Islands, and North America. Jyotika Virdi focuses on how this dom
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inant medium configures the "nation" in post-Independence Hindi cinema. She scrutinizes approximately thirty films that have appeared since 1950 and demonstrates how concepts of the nation form the center of this cinema's moral universe. As a kind of storytelling, Indian cinema provides a fascinating account of social history and cultural politics, with the family deployed as a symbol of the nation. Virdi demonstrates how the portrayal of the nation as a mythical community in Hindi films collapses under the weight of its own contradictions--irreconcilable differences that encompass gender, sexuality, family, class, and religious communities. Through these film narratives, the author traces transactions among the various constituencies that struggle, accommodate, coexist uneasily, or reconstitute each other over time, and, in the process, reveal the topography of postcolonial culture." (Publisher description)
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"This book is aimed at anyone involved in the setting up of a local cinema from local government officers to individuals wanting to rescue or reopen a cinema. It celebrates what has already been achieved and provides practical tips to those wanting to know how it was done. It is intended as a practi
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cal guide through the myriad issues requiring resolution when embarking on a project of this kind. Part One covers a range of technical aspects relating to the planning and operation of small scale cinemas while the case studies in Part Two describe successful enterprises operating in a number of different locations and circumstances." (Introduction, page 4)
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"This second volume of Lights, Camera ... Faith! provides new thought-provoking passages into the world of the Gospels through popular film. By exploring 74 movies in the light of the Sunday Scriptures, Malone and Pacatte create a dialogue between Scripture and film, engaging faith through culture a
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nd culture through faith. Insight, inspiration, and information meet in this valuable resource for anyone who appreciates deeper meaning in movies. Ideal for homilists, parish discussion groups, young adult groups, film educators, and professionals." (Publisher description)
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"Originally published in 1985, Liberated Cinema: The Yugoslav Experience received the first annual "Close-up" award from the Yugoslav Film Institute in 1986 for "outstanding scholarship and for promoting the values of Yugoslav film art internationally." This new edition has been revised and updated
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throughout. It has been expanded to complete the story of the new Yugoslav cinema of the 1980s and to address major film developments that have taken place in the former Yugoslavia's five successor states. As in his analysis of past periods of Yugoslav cinema, Goulding situates the most recent developments within the context of film economics, state subsidies, and changing patterns of political control. Most significantly, however, he provides an insightful discussion of the ways in which critically important domestic feature films produced or co-produced from 1991 to 2001 reflect on recent brutal internecine warfare and other contemporary social, cultural, and political realities after the breakup of Yugoslavia." (Publisher description)
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"Suddiviso in tre sezioni (testi dei Pontefici, atti della Curia romana, documenti della Chiesa italiana), il volume presenta lo sviluppo cronologico degli interventi della Chiesa sul cinema offrendo per ciascuno di essi una nota sintetica per una corretta comprensione. Sono raccolti non solo i docu
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menti dedicati esclusivamente al cinema ma anche brani significativi tratti da altri testi inerenti il mondo della comunicazione e della cultura in senso lato. Tramite gli indici il lettore ha inoltre la possibilità di avvicinarsi ai testi mediante una molteplicità di accessi: cronologico, per pontificato, tematico." (Descrizione della casa editrice)
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