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Film Dramaturgy
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Comedies
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Anthropology of Media & Communication
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Ritual Communication & Media Rituals
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National Identity & Media, Nationalism & Communication
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Television Reception & Effects
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Catholic Church: Media Representation & Reporting
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Amar Chitra Katha (Comic Book Series, India)
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Religious Contents & Meanings in Cartoons & Comics
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Orthodox Churches
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Protestantism (Mainline)
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Communication Pastoral, Media Pastoral
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Film and Spirituality
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Liturgy, Liturgical Communication
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Pentecostal Churches & Communication
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African Cinema
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Religious Films
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Film Characters
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Crime Films
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Historical Films
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Melodramas
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Science Fiction Films
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Government Communication Strategies
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Traditional Communication
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Holocaust
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Dealing With the Past
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Visual Anthropology
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Dance, Folk Dances
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Collective Identities & Media
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Collective Memory & Media, Media Representation of History
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Narratives, Narrative Structures
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Religious Literature & Religious Motifs in Literature
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Mass Cultures
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Media Cultures
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Conspiracy Narratives, Conspiracy Theories
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Religious Education: Use & Role of Media
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Television Entertainment, Television Entertainment Programmes
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Television Fiction
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Sexuality: Media Representation, Sexually Explicit Media Content, Pornography
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Values
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Gender & Religious Communication
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Indigenous Communication
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Media & Information Literacy
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Media Literacy: Television
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Gandhi, Mohandas K. (1869-1948)
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Populism
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Influence of Media on Religious Meaning, Practice & Values
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Media Psychology, Communication Psychology
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Everyday Life
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Religion and Communication
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Islam and Communication
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Muslim Cinema & Film Representation of Islam
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Antisemitism
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Religion in Entertainment Programmes (Religiotainment)
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Religious Television Programmes
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Symbols
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Symbols: Religious
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Witchcraft, Sorcery
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African Communication Systems and the Digital Age
London et al.: Routledge (2021), 164 pp.
"African Communication Systems and the Digital Age contextualizes communication by bringing to the table African contributions to the field, examining the importance of African indigenous forms of communication and the intersection of African communication systems and the digital age. The book cover
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Comunicación gubernamental en acción: Narrativas presidenciales y mitos de gobierno
Buenos Aires: Biblos (2016), 284 pp.
Mythology and Society Continuum: A Study of an Indian Television Serial
Religion and Social Communication, volume 12, issue 1 (2014), pp. 19-34
"The study is based on the analysis of legends of 'Devon Ke Dev Mahadev', a mythological drama series that is shown on Indian television channel "Life OK" [...] The story revolves around Lord Shiva or Mahadev - the Lord of Lords as one of the three most powerful mythical characters. The serial is a
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Postnationalist African Cinemas
Manchester: Manchester University Press (2011), xii, 269 pp.
"Postnationalist African cinemas convincingly interrogates the ways in which African narratives locate postcolonial identities and forms beyond essentially nationalist frameworks. It investigates how the emergence of new genres, discourses and representations, all unrelated to an overtly nationalist
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Understanding Bollywood
In: The Handbook of Global Communication and Media Ethics
Robert S. Fortner; Mark Fackler (eds.)
Chichester: Wiley Blackwell (2011), pp. 577-601
"This essay brings together four key elements of Bollywood cinema: 1. the lure of the mythological; 2. the allure of the Muslim courtesan, and Urdu, Bollywood's language of love; 3. the hegemony of melodrama; and 4. the persistence of song and dance." (Page 577)
Religion in Literature and Film in South Asia
New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2010), xiv, 226 pp.
"This innovative, interdisciplinary collection of essays by scholars based in Europe and the United States offers stimulating approaches to the role played by religion in present-day South Asia." (Publisher description)
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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Anthropology and Mass Communication: Media and Myth in the New Millennium
New York: Berghahn, reprint (2008), xii, 321 pp.
"This is the first book to offer a systematic overview of the themes, topics and methodologies in the emerging dialogue between anthropologists studying mass communication and media analysts turning to ethnography and cultural analysis. Drawing on dozens of semiotic, ethnographic and cross-cultural
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Nationalist Myths and Modern Media: Contested Identities in the Age of Globalization
London; New York: Tauris (2006), 280 pp.
"A fascinating look at the role of the media in fostering nationalism, with a comparative approach that shows the interactions between American, Russian and German nationalism. Extreme nationalism is a subject of enormous contemporary significance today. Does patriotic pride inevitably develop into
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Filming the Gods: Religion and Indian Cinema
London: Routledge (2006), x, 198 pp.
"Filming the Gods examines the role and depiction of religion in Indian cinema, showing that the relationship between the modern and the traditional in contemporary India is not exotic, but part of everyday life. Concentrating mainly on the Hindi cinema of Mumbai, Bollywood, it also discusses India'
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Media Anthropology
Thousand Oaks: Sage (2005), 350 pp.
"Media Anthropology represents a convergence of issues and interests on anthropological approaches to the study of media. The purpose of this reader is to promote the identity of the field of study; identify its major concepts, methods, and bibliography; comment on the state of the art; and provide
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Popularkino als Ersatzkirche? Das Erfolgsprinzip aktueller Blockbuster
Münster: Lit (2004), 416 pp.
"Die Autorin untersucht aktuelle Blockbuster-Filme, um zu allgemeingültigen Erfolgskriterien für Popularfilme zu gelangen. Dabei wird aufgezeigt, daß Blockbuster unsere Sehnsüchte, Wünsche und Ängste unter Zuhilfenahme mythisch-symbolischer Gestaltungselemente beantworten. Zudem fungieren die
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Representing Religion in World Cinema: Filmmaking, Mythmaking, Culture Making
New York; Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan (2003), vi, 272 pp.
Fernsehmythen und religiöse Bildung: Grundlegung einer medienerfahrungsorientierten Religionspolitik am Beispiel fiktionaler Fernsehunterhaltung
Frankfurt am Main: Gemeinschaftswerk der Evangelischen Publizistik (GEP) (2001), 399 pp.
45 Master Characters: Mythic Models for Creating Original Characters
Cincinnati, Ohio: Writer's Digest (2001), 298 pp.
Vor dem Dreh kommt das Buch: Ein Leitfaden für das filmische Erzählen
Gerlingen: Bleicher (2001), 416 pp.
"Der Autor arbeitete als Lektor und Dramaturg. Er hat eine Professur an der Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg im Fachbereich Drehbuch inne. "In diesen Leitfaden fließen nicht nur Schneiders eigene Erfahrungen aus seiner zehnjährigen Lehrtätigkeit ein, sondern auch die Essenz der wichtigsten und for
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Fernsehen als Mythos: Poetik eines narrativen Erkenntnissystems
Wiesbaden: Westdeutscher Verlag (1999), 347 pp.
"Die Autorin beschreibt die spezifische ästhetische Erscheinungsform des Fernsehens, die Vermittlungsstruktur seiner Inhalte, narrative Vermittlungsformen und seine kollektive mediale Wirkung. Dabei wird erstmals die Vielzahl der vorliegenden Publikationen zu Teilaspekten der Fernsehvermittlung in
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Espelhos míticos da cultura de massa: Cinema, TV e quadrinhos na Índia
São Paulo: Annablume (1999), iii, 106 pp.
Religiöse Funktionen des Fernsehens? Medien-, kultur- und religionswissenschaftliche Perspektiven
Wiesbaden: Westdeutscher Verlag (1999), 297 pp.
"Die Beiträge dieses Bandes suchen einen interdisziplinären Zugang zum Verhältnis von Fernsehen und Religion. Aus verschiedenen Fachperspektiven setzen sie sich mit der Frage auseinander, ob das Fernsehen Kommunikationsformen und Funktionen der Religion übernommen hat." (Verlagsbeschreibung)
Mythen der Nationen: Völker im Film
Berlin: Deutsches Historisches Museum (1998), 408 pp.
