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Children's TV and Digital Media in the Arab World: Childhood, Screen Culture and Education
Deep Insights
London; New York: Tauris (2017), xiii, 248 pp.
"Children, defined internationally as under-18s, account for some 40 per cent of Arab populations and the proportion of under-fives is correspondingly large. Yet studies of children's media and child audiences in the region are as scarce as truly popular locally produced media content aimed at child
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(Re)imagining African Independence: Film, Visual Arts and the Fall of the Portuguese Empire
Oxford et al.: Peter Lang (2017), xvi, 287 pp.
"The fortieth anniversary of the independence of the African countries colonized by Portugal presents a valuable opportunity to reassess how colonialism has been «imagined» through the medium of the moving image. The essays collected in this volume investigate Portuguese colonialism and its filmic
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El Fondo Internacional para la Diversidad Cultural: Una nueva herramienta para la cooperación en el audiovisual
In: Diversidad e industria audiovisual: el desafío cultural del siglo XXI
México, DF: Fondo de Cultura Económica (FCE) (2017), pp. 109-143
Bilder des Alters und des Alterns in Film und Fernsehen: Eine Arbeitsbibliographie
Medienwissenschaft Berichte und Papiere, issue 175 (2017), 29 pp.
"Die folgende kleine Bibliographie versammelt Arbeiten, die sich mit den Dramaturgien und Konzeptionen der Altersdarstellung in Film und Fernsehen befassen. Es finden sich keine Untersuchungen zum rezeptivven oder produktiven Mediengebrauch Älterer. Die zahlreichen bis heute vorliegenden Inhaltsana
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Immediations: The Humanitarian Impulse in Documentary
Durham: Duke University Press (2017), xiv, 254 pp.
"Endangered life is often used to justify humanitarian media intervention, but what if suffering humanity is both the fuel and outcome of such media representations? Pooja Rangan argues that this vicious circle is the result of immediation, a prevailing documentary ethos that seeks to render human s
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Provision, Protection or Participation? Approaches to Regulating Children’s Television in Arab Countries
Media International Australia, volume 163, issue 1 (2017), pp. 31-41
"Free-to-air channels for Arabic-speaking children expanded alongside the emergence of a few Arab national regulatory agencies with varying degrees of independence from government and powers that could potentially influence children’s channels. Even so, the rationales that inform production and ac
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The Colonial Documentary Film in South and South-East Asia
Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press (2017), x, 246 pp.
District Thailand: Identification, Spectatorship, and The Hunger Games in Thailand
Participations: Journal of Audience & Reception Studies, volume 14, issue 1 (2017), pp. 88-107
"On May 22nd 2014, The Kingdom of Thailand experienced its latest successful military coup. A few months later, in November 2014, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 was released in Thai cinemas sparking new protests using symbols from the series. With this article, I seek to examine the reception o
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Public Financing for Film and Television Content: The State of Soft Money in Europe
Strasbourg: European Audiovisual Observatory, Coucnil of Europe (2016), 108 pp.
"In total, a yearly average of EUR 2.53 billion went to the 214 funds in a sample including 33 countries (Albania and Russia could not be tracked for this indicator) between 2010 and 2014 (a proportioned average of 196.2 funds a year, since not all the funds tracked existed over the entire period).
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A Companion to Russian Cinema
Hoboken: Wiley Blackwell (2016), xvi, 656 pp.
"A Companion to Russian Cinema provides an exhaustive and carefully organised guide to the cinema of pre-Revolutionary Russia, of the Soviet era, as well as post-Soviet Russian cinema, edited by one of the most established and knowledgeable scholars in Russian cinema studies. The most up-to-date and
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Ghost Movies in Southeast Asia and Beyond: Narratives, Cultural Contexts, Audiences
Leiden; Boston, MA: Brill (2016), xiii, 295 pp.
"Ghost Movies in Southeast Asia and Beyond explores ghost movies, one of the most popular film genres in East and Southeast Asia, by focusing on movie narratives, the cultural contexts of their origins and audience reception. In the middle of the Asian crisis of the late 1990s, ghost movies became m
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Nollywood: The Creation of Nigerian Film Genres
Chicago; London: University of Chicago Press (2016), xxviii, 375 pp.
"Haynes describes the major Nigerian film genres and how they relate to Nigerian society—its values, desires, anxieties, and social tensions—as the country and its movies have developed together over the turbulent past two decades. As he shows, Nollywood is a form of popular culture; it produces
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Arab Cinema Travels: Transnational Syria, Palestine, Dubai and Beyond
London: Palgrave Macmillan; British Film Institute (bfi) (2016), ix, 221 pp.
"Starting with the inventive traditions of Arabic travelogues, the text traces the manifold pathways that converge in the cinemas of Syria, Palestine and Dubai. Syrian production bursts out of long-held practices of studying abroad, this time in the film schools of the Eastern Bloc. Palestinian movi
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Learning Through Entertainment: The Effects of Bollywood Movies on the Job-Seeking Behavior of South Asian Female
International Communication Gazette, volume 78, issue 3 (2016), pp. 267-287
"This study examined the relationship between exposure to Bollywood movies and job-seeking behavior of South Asian females. Using survey data collected from 132 female participants, we explored the effects of exposure to Bollywood movies on job search self-efficacy, enjoyment and job-seeking behavio
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Animation in China: History, Aesthetics, Media
London; New York: Routledge (2016), xix, 252 pp.
"By the turn of the 21st century, animation production has grown to thousands of hours a year in the People's Republic of China (PRC). Despite this, and unlike American blockbuster productions and the diverse genres of Japanese anime, much animation from the PRC remains relatively unknown. This book
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Kurdish Documentary Cinema in Turkey: The Politics and Aesthetics of Identity and Resistance
Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing (2016), xii, 269 pp.
"Documentary film is proving to be a particularly complex tool for the Kurdish social and political existence, as Kurds lack the official tools of history-writing and cultural preservation that are categorically associated with the capacities of a state. By delving into Kurdish documentary films as
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Gringo Trails, Gringo Tales: Storytelling, Destination Perspectives, and Tourism Globalization
In: Voice & Matter: Communication, Development and the Cultural Return
Göteborg: Nordicom (2016), pp. 189-199
"The documentary film Gringo Trails explores the long-term effects of tourism globalization on cultures, economies and the environment in the developing world through the lens of budget backpacker travelers and their storytelling. This chapter explores the travel narrative to tourism globalization a
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The Bible in Motion: A Handbook of the Bible and its Reception in Film
Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter (2016), xviii, 921 pp.
"This two-part volume contains a comprehensive collection of original studies by well-known scholars focusing on the Bible’s wide-ranging reception in world cinema. It is organized into sections examining the rich cinematic afterlives of selected characters from the Hebrew Bible and New Testament;
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