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Bollywood: A Guidebook to Popular Hindi Cinema
London; New York: Routledge, 2nd ed. (2013), x, 268 pp.
"Ganz Brasilien glotzt Globo": Telenovelas in Brasilien. Ein Vergleich mit Mexiko
Berlin; Münster: Lit (2013), ix, 800 pp.
Soap Operas as a Matchmaker: A Cultivation Analysis of the Effects of South Korean TV Dramas on Vietnamese Women's Marital Intentions
Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, volume 90, issue 2 (2013), pp. 308-330
"This cultivation study examined the effects of South Korean soap operas on Vietnamese female audiences. It also assessed cultivation effects in combination with the theory of reasoned action. Based on a survey of 439 female viewers, it explicated the link between South Korean soap opera consumption
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Mobilizing the Hordes: Radio Drama as Development Theatre in Sub-Saharan Africa
Bamenda (CM): Langaa (2012), xvi, 277 pp.
Bollywood en Perú: Culturas populares y globalización de las emociones
Nueva Sociedad, issue 241 (2012), pp. 133-148
"En las décadas de 1970 y 1980 varias salas limeñas se llenaban de familias que iban a ver las largas y melodramáticas producciones de cine que llegaban desde la India. Hoy esas salas ya no existen, pero eso no impide que la incidencia del cine indio se haya mantenido –dvd piratas mediante– n
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The Magic of Bollywood: At Home and Abroad
New Delhi; Thousand Oaks: Sage (2012), xviii, 334 pp.
"This anthology aims to portray the “soft” power of Bollywood, which makes it a unique and powerful disseminator of Indian culture and values abroad. The essays in the book examine Bollywood's popularity within and outside South Asia, focusing on its role in international relations and diplomacy
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Telenovelas / culebrones / novelas (das oito) / suds/sudsers — téléromans / feuilletons télévisés — teleromanzi / romanzi sceneggiati: Eine Arbeitsbibliographie der Sekundärliteratur
Medienwissenschaft (Hamburg), volume 143 (2012), 577 pp.
"Die nachstehende Bibliographie versammelt Sekundarliteratur zur 'Telenovela' als einem seriellen melodramatischen Fernsehformat, sowohl dem Begriff als auch dem blosen Wort nach. Das bedeutet: es findet sich auch Literatur verzeichnet, deren Gegenstande von unterschiedlichen Experten nicht oder nur
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Ibero-American Observatory on Television Fiction Obitel 2012: Transnationalization of Television Fiction in Ibero-American Countries
São Paulo: Sulina; Globo Comunicação e Participações (2012), 618 pp.
The general analysis of this Yearbook is divided into three parts. The first is an introductory chapter that contains a comparative synthesis of fiction in the Obitel countries. This comparison is made from a quantitative and qualitative point of view that makes it possible to observe the developmen
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Remote Control: Indian Television in the New Millennium
New Delhi et al.: Penguin (2012), xix, 353 pp.
Global Television Formats: Understanding Television Across Borders
New York; London: Routledge (2012), xii, 392 pp.
"For decades, television scholars have viewed global television through the lens of cultural imperialism, focusing primarily on programs produced by US and UK markets and exported to foreign markets. Global Television Formats revolutionizes television studies by de-provincializing its approach to me
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The Radio Drama Handbook: Audio Drama in Context and Practice
New York: Continuum (2011), viii, 227 pp.
Soap Operas and Telenovelas in the Digital Age: Global Industries and New Audiences
New York: Peter Lang (2011), xiii, 305 pp.
"Ugly Betty" and the Emergence of the Latina/o Producers as Cultural Translators
Communication Theory, volume 21, issue 4 (2011), pp. 392-412
"A critical examination of Betty's adaptation process sheds light on the disjuncture between global television distribution trends and national television markets' business cultures. The process of bringing the "ugly duckling" format to the English-language mainstream media market can be better unde
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Body Parts on Planet Slum: Women and Telenovelas in Brazil
London: Anthem Press (2011), xxv, 156 pp.
"Based on a year's research from within a Brazilian slum, this study follows a series of unemployed women who watch up to six hours of telenovelas a day, often in the midst of arduous physical labour in the home. The women suffer in relation to their bodies, but simultaneously invest in a masochisti
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Observatorio iberoamericano de la ficción televisiva (Obitel) 2011: Calidad de la ficción televisiva y participación transmediática de las audiencias
São Paulo: Globo Comunicação e Participações (2011), 585 pp.
"A través de un estudio sistemático basado en el monitoreo de las producciones de ficción televisiva, este anuario presenta y analiza datos de producción, circulación, distribución y consumo de programas de ficción exhibidos en el 2010 y presenta una síntesis comparativa de lo que fue el añ
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Ghanaian Entertainment Brokers: Urban Change, and Afro-Cosmopolitanism, with Neo-Liberal Reform
Journal of African Media Studies, volume 3, issue 2 (2011), pp. 227-240
"This article deals with entertainment in the neo-liberal age. The key aim is to describe the emerging brokering practices of certain entrepreneurs within the entertainment industry in Ghana, and to explore the effects of these practices. On the one hand these entrepreneurs receive sponsorship from
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Learning Hindu Dharma from Television Cartoons: An Analysis of School Children in the Indian Civilization
Religion and Social Communication, volume 9, issue 2 (2011), pp. 113-132
Das war spitze! Jüdisches in der deutschen Fernsehunterhaltung. Zur gleichnamigen Ausstellung des Jüdischen Museums München vom 13. April bis 6. November 2011
Essen; München: Klaretxt Verlag; Jüdisches Museum (2011), 127 pp.
"In insgesamt zehn Stationen unternimmt die Ausstellung eine mentalitätsgeschichtliche Reise in unsere heimischen Wohnzimmer und zeichnet dabei filmische Strategien bei der fiktiven Darstellung "jüdischer" Themen und Figuren nach. Populären Persönlichkeiten der Medienöffentlichkeit, wie etwa de
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TV global: Erfolgreiche Fernseh-Formate im internationalen Vergleich
Bielefeld: transcript Verlag (2011), 278 pp.
Religion and Celebrity
Australian Religion Studies Review, volume 24, issue 3 (2011), pp. 227-360
"This issue of Australian Religion Studies Review examines the intersection of religion and celebrity, both major discourses in the modern world. The six articles examine the imbrication of celebrity with: three traditional religions, Christianity, Islam and Buddhism; the new religion of Candomblé;
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