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International Perspectives on the Funding of Public Service Media Content for Children
Media International Australia, volume 163, issue 1 (2017), pp. 42-55
"Funding original children’s television has never been easy because this is rarely a commercially attractive proposition unless you target a global audience and tap into ancillary revenues from licenced merchandise. As a case of market failure, policy makers who wish to ensure the production of a
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15. Afrika Film Festival Köln, 21. September bis 01. Oktober 2017. Fokus: Landgrabbing & Migration
Cologne: FilmInitiativ Köln (2017), 163 pp.
"Going to the cinema means going on a journey” reads one of the banners in Ouagadougou that have been put up to promote the legendary pan-African FESPACO film festival. Afrika Film Festival Köln has also been taking its guests on audiovisual journeys through African cinescapes for 25 years. More
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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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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.
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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Building Successful and Sustainable Film and Television Businesses: A Cross-National Perspective
Bristol: intellect (2017), 300 pp.
"This edited collection focuses on successful small and medium-sized film and television companies in Norway, Denmark, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom. Using original interviews with company founders and other employees, contributors explore case studies of businesses that have made successfu
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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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A Passion for Video: 25 Stories About Making, Translating, Sharing and Using Videos on Farmer Innovation
Deep Insights
Nairobi; Wageningen: Access Agriculture; Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA) (2016), 56 pp.
"The stories in this volume were gathered as part of a Writeshop held in Nairobi on 9–10 November, in the context of the Access Agriculture Week 9–13 November, 2015. People are story-tellers as well as creatures who walk and make tools. Stories are important to us. Statistics tell us what happen
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Guatemalas Durst nach Filmen
Eine Welt (DEZA), issue 2 (2016), pp. 31-33
"Im Februar 2015 hat Jayro Bustamante an den Filmfestspielen Berlin den Silbernen Bären für seinen ersten Spielfilm «Ixcanul» gewonnen. Gleichzeitig hat sich mit dem Film ein lateinamerikanisches Land auf der Landkarte des Kinos eingetragen. Walter Ruggle wirft einen Blick auf die Situation des
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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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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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Diversity and the Film Industry: An Analysis of the 2014 UIS Survey on Feature Film Statistics
Montreal: UNESCO Institute for Statistics (2016), 39 pp.
"Based on data collected from 97 countries through the UIS 2014 Survey on Feature Film Statistics, the following observations on diversity can be made: In 2012, the number of feature films greatly increased throughout the world, and the following year a new production record was hit: 7,610 movies. H
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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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Cine y cuidado de la casa común: Manual de cine foros sobre ambiente
Key Guides
Quito: Asociación Católica Latinoamericana y Caribeña de Comunicación (SIGNIS ALC) (2016), 212 pp.
"En este manual se ofrecen herramientas y estrategias de comunicación para la capacitación, además de una riquísima selección de alrededor de 200 películas recomendadas para los procesos de reflexión y debate sobre la urgencia de cuidar y defender la naturaleza. Este manual es fruto de varios
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Slums on Screen: World Cinema and the Planet of Slums
Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press (2016), ix, 283 pp.
"Combining approaches from the social sciences and the humanities, the book provides an interdisciplinary perspective while outlining a transnational history of films that either document or fictionalise the favelas, shantytowns, Elendsviertel, gecekondu, barrios populares or chawls of our diverse '
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Nollywood Central
London: Palgrave Macmillan; British Film Institute (bfi) (2016), 175 pp.
"Nollywood is often portrayed by the popular press as an unruly industry, with mysteriously fast and cheap production and shadowy distribution networks. In the first overview of Nigeria's burgeoning video film industry, Jade L. Miller reveals that this portrayal is over-simplistic and often untrue.
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The Routledge Companion to Cinema & Gender
London; New York: Routledge (2016), xix, 492 pp.
"The contributions in this volume address a variety of geographical and cultural contexts through an analysis of cinema, from the representation of women and Islam in Middle Eastern film, and female audience reception in Nigeria, to changing class and race norms in Bollywood dance sequences. The boo
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