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Media Parenting and the Construction of Media Identities in Northern Nigerian Muslim Hausa Video Films
Tabloid Journalism in South Africa: True Story!
Bloomington: Indiana University Press (2010), xvi, 218 pp.
"Less than a decade after the advent of democracy in South Africa, tabloid newspapers have taken the country by storm. One of these papers—the Daily Sun—is now the largest in the country, but it has generated controversy for its perceived lack of respect for privacy, brazen sexual content, and u
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The Anthropology of News & Journalism: Global Perspectives
Bloomington: Indiana University Press (2010), viii, 328 pp.
"The Anthropology of News and Journalism is the first book to explore the role of news and journalism in contemporary culture from an anthropological perspective—as a form of cultural meaning-making in its creation, content, and dissemination. Anthropology's global, comparative perspective and eth
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Indian Cinema in the Time of Celluloid: From Bollywood to the Emergency
Bloomington: Indiana University Press (2009), x, 441 pp.
"Ashish Rajadhyaksha argues that any exploration of the social uses to which cinema is put in a place like India can only make sense if it transforms our understanding of cinema itself. Taking as his timeframe the era of celluloid, which is also marked by public experiences of spectatorship and uses
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Media and Identity in Africa
Bloomington: Indiana University Press (2009), xvii, 333 pp.
India's Immortal Comic Books: Gods, Kings, and Other Heroes
Bloomington: Indiana University Press (2009), 240 pp.
"Combining entertainment and education, India's most beloved comic book series, Amar Chitra Katha, or "Immortal Picture Stories," is also an important cultural institution that has helped define, for several generations of readers, what it means to be Hindu and Indian. Karline McLain worked in the A
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TV China
Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press (2009), vi, 259 pp.
"If radio and film were the emblematic media of the Maoist era, television has rapidly established itself as the medium of the "marketized" China and in the diaspora. In less than two decades, television has become the dominant medium across the Chinese cultural world. TV China is the first antholog
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Nollywood: The Video Phenomenon in Nigeria
Oxford; Ibadan; Bloomington: James Currey Publishers; HEBN Publishers; Indiana University Press (2008), xii, 147 pp.
Frame by Frame III: A Filmography of the African Diasporan Image 1994-2004
Bloomington: Indiana University Press (2007), 1082 pp.
Performance and Politics in Tanzania: The Nation on Stage
Bloomington: Indiana University Press (2007), x, 175 pp.
"Laura Edmondson examines how politics, social values, and gender are expressed on stage. Now a disappearing tradition, Tanzanian popular theatre integrates comic sketches, acrobatics, melodrama, song, and dance to produce lively commentaries on what it means to be Tanzanian. These dynamic shows inv
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African Filmmaking: North and South of the Sahara
Deep Insights
Edinburgh; Bloomington: Edinburgh University Press; Indiana University Press (2006), xv, 224 pp.
Religion, Media, and the Public Sphere
Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press (2006), 325 pp.
"Increasingly, Pentecostal, Buddhist, Muslim, Jewish, Hindu, and indigenous movements all over the world make use of a great variety of modern mass media, both print and electronic. Through religious booklets, radio broadcasts, cassette tapes, television talk-shows, soap operas, and documentary film
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Postcolonial Images: Studies in North African Film
Bloomington: Indiana University Press (2005), xv, 278 pp.
"[...] Roy Armes examines the political and cultural context of the films and the film industry in the post-independence era. Since the birth of cinema, North Africa has been the site of countless European and U.S. film productions. This book, however, focuses on the postcolonial period, when indige
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The Press and Political Culture in Ghana
Bloomington: Indiana University Press (2005), 189 pp.
"Hasty decodes the styles and uncovers the strategies that characterize Ghana's major printed news media, focusing on the differences between news generated by the state and news that comes from private sources. Not only are the angles radically different, but so are ways of gathering the news, assi
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Focus on African Films
Bloomington: Indiana University Press (2004), ix, 327 pp.
"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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Intifada Hits the Headlines: How the Israeli Press Misreported the Outbreak of the Second Palestinian Uprising
Bloomington: Indiana University Press (2004), viii, 184 pp.
"In this nuanced and detailed study of newspaper reporting during the escalation of the second Intifada in the fall of 2000, Daniel Dor shows how real events are subject to distortion and manipulation by the media. In an analysis of the heart of Israel's media establishment—the newspapers Yediot A
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Africa Shoots Back: Alternative Perspectives in Sub-Saharan Francophone African Film
Bloomington; Oxford: Indiana University Press; James Currey Publishers (2003), viii, 230 pp.
Materializing the Nation: Commodities, Consumption, and Media in Papua New Guinea
Bloomington: Indiana University Press (2002), x, 202 pp.
"Why, in the current era of globalization, does nationality remain an important dimension of personal and collective identities? In Materializing the Nation, Robert J. Foster argues that the contested process of nation making in Papua New Guinea unfolds not only through organized politics but also t
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Liberated Cinema: The Yugoslav Experience, 1945-2001
Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2nd ed. (2002), xiv, 285 pp.
"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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African Words, African Voices: Critical Practices in Oral History
Bloomington: Indiana University Press (2002), vi, 322 pp.
"Until the advent of African independence, Africans were not considered fitting subjects for historical research and their words, voices, and experiences were largely absent from the continent's history. In 13 lively and provocative essays focusing on all areas of Sub-Saharan Africa, oral sources ar
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