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Green Documentary: Environmental Documentary in the Twenty-First Century
Bristol; Chicago: intellect (2014), vii, 175 pp.
"During the first decade of the twenty-first century, a stunning array of documentary films focusing on environmental issues has been met with critical and popular acclaim. Green Documentary is the first book-length study of this phenomenon. It explores how the films offer a variety of responses to
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New Documentaries in Latin America
New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2014), x, 287 pp.
"Examining the vast breadth and diversity of contemporary documentary production, while also situating nonfiction film and video within the cultural, political, and socio-economic history of the region, this book addresses topics such as documentary aesthetics, indigenous media, and transnational fi
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Video letters, mediation and (proper) distance: A qualitative study of international development communication in practice
Karlstad: Karlstad University, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Thesis (2014), 268 pp.
"This study focuses on the institutional practice of international development communication. Through a qualitative study of the Videoletters project, it examines a situated process of intervention in its complexity and analyzes how the specifics of mediation illuminate issues of proximity and dista
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Why Poverty? Facilitator's Guide
Cape Town: Steps (2013), 103 pp.
"This guide is designed to help facilitators and educators to engage with audiences. The aim is to deepen the understanding of the underlying causes of poverty and inequality as explored in the Why Poverty? films. Why Poverty? uses documentary film to get people talking about poverty. The collection
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Annäherung an eine Nische: Dokumentarfilme in Kambodscha
Südostasien, issue 4 (2013), pp. 18-20
»Die Khmer mögen keine Dokumentarfilme. Hier geht es nur um Unterhaltung.« Das haben mir lokale Filmemacher und TV Produzenten gesagt, als ich Kambodschas erstes unabhängiges Medien- und Kunstzentrum Meta House (www.meta-house.com) 2007 in der Hauptstadt Phnom Penh eröffnete. Ich wollte zu Kamb
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Documentary Filmmakers Handbook
Jefferson, NC: McFarland (2012), ix, 196 pp.
"A complete guide to all phases of documentary production, this is an essential handbook for student filmmakers and professional documentarians alike. Written in concise language and easy reference, the text provides a progression of real-world learning skills, including organization and design. Als
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Real World: Empowering Representations of Women through Film
IDS Bulletin (Institute of Development Studies), volume 43, issue 5 (2012), pp. 110-116
"This article makes an argument for the added value of the use of documentary film in development research communication. It draws broadly on the specific experience of the Real World film scheme developed by the Pathways of Women’s Empowerment Research Programme Consortium and Creative England, t
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Les cinémas d'Afrique des années 2000: Perspectives critiques
Paris: L'Harmattan (2012), 439 pp.
Funding Guide for Arab Documentary Producers
Beirut: DOCmed; Euromed Audiovisual (2012), 66 pp.
Panorama del audiovisual chileno
Santiago de Chile: Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (2011), 127 pp.
"Esta investigación aporta a la comprensión del contexto histórico-social de la construcción del cine documental en Ecuador desde una visión que valora y entiende al cine documental como parte de la cultura visual ecuatoriana, el mundo de las imágenes, su vida social y las representaciones que
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"This working paper aims to synthesize current efforts to develop comparable evaluation methods for social issue documentary films. Authored by two researchers who have been jointly documenting the field’s transformation over the past five years, this paper offers a framework for planning and eval
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"This illustration-filled book offers a self-teaching course in making documentaries, beginning with important advice on how to recognize, define, and research a theme that will ultimately become a movie's subject. Lessons that follow describe the equipment that filmmakers must either own or rent fo
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Apuntes para una historia del video en Chile
Santiago de Chile: Ocho Libros Editores (2010), 244 pp.
Documentales para la transformación: Guía para la elaboración de documentales sociales participativos
Madrid: ACSUR Las Segovias (2010), 48 pp.
"El objetivo de la Guía es acompañar procesos de formación en teoría y técnica audiovisual, así como en comunicación alternativa, que permitan a colectivos sociales la realización de documentales sociales participativos. La Guía se inserta bajo el paraguas de la comunicación alternativa qu
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Die Fernsehreportage
Konstanz: UVK, 2nd ed. (2010), 357 pp.
The Documentary Handbook
London: Routledge (2010), viii, 422 pp.
"The Documentary Handbook is a critical introduction to the documentary film, its theory and changing practices. The book charts the evolution of documentary from screen art to core television genre, its metamorphosis into many different types of factual TV programme and its current emergence in for
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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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