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"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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La aventura del cine boliviano 1952-1985
La Paz: Editorial Gisbert (1985), 354 pp.
"Este libro tiene tres niveles, el más importante es el análisis y la interpretación de lo que significa desde el punto de vista de su sentido y de sus contenidos el cine boliviano contemporáneo, el otro tiene que ver con la visión histórica del periodo 1952-1985. En ambos el autor ha buscado
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El cine boliviano según Luis Espinal
La Paz: Editorial Don Bosco (1982), 209 pp.
"He dividido este texto en tres partes claramente diferenciadas: La primera "Espinal: el testimonio de una obra ejemplar" es una aproximación al hombre, siempre desde la perspectiva de su trabajo profesional en el campo del cine, aunque he tratado, sobre todo en el acápite segundo de esta parte, d
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Cine boliviano: Del realizador al crítico
La Paz: Editorial Gisbert (1979), 297 pp.
"Los autores han abordado en este libro el problema del cine boliviano porque, a pesar de los vacíos y las limitaciones impuestas, una nueva conciencia crítica florece en el espectador, quien comienza a comprender el cine como instrumento de conocimiento de nuestra realidad. Esa nueva conciencia y
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Mapping Out Contemporary Brazilian Film: Reaching New Audiences
Participations: Journal of Audience & Reception Studies, volume 19, issue 1 (2022), pp. 248-258
"In this industry reflection I draw on my professional interest in Brazilian film production an distribution and my archival research of Brazilian films exhibited in the UK between 1995 and 2019 in order to reflect on the factors which help such productions travel and the challenges which they face.
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Orientalische Bilder und Klänge: Eine transnationale Geschichte des frühen ägyptischen Tonfilms
Marburg: Schüren (2021), 288 pp.
"Als sich Ende der 1920er Jahre in den USA und Europa der Tonfilm durchsetzte, erkannten ägyptische Geschäftsleute dessen Potenzial für die arabische Welt. Sie erwarben innovative Tontechnik aus Deutschland und schickten ägyptische Stipendiaten zur Ausbildung nach Berlin und Paris. Nach ihrer R
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Iranian National Cinema: The Interaction of Policy, Genre, Funding and Reception
Abingdon, Oxon; New York: Routledge (2020), xii, 210 pp.
"This book examines transformations in the production and domestic and international reception of Iranian cinema between 2000 and 2013 through the intersection of the political markers - the presidential terms of Reformist president Mohammad Khatami and his successor, the conservative Mahmoud Ahmadi
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Cinemas of the Mozambican Revolution: Anti-Colonialism, Independence and Internationalism in Filmmaking, 1968-1991
Suffolk: Boydell & Brewer (2020), xvi, 292 pp.
"In one of the first cultural acts to follow independence in 1975, Frelimo's new socialist government of Mozambique set up a National Institute of Cinema (the INC). In a country where many people had little previous experience of cinema, the INC was tasked to "deliver to the people an image of the p
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"Indian Film Stars offers original insights and important reappraisals of film stardom in India from the early talkie era of the 1930s to the contemporary period of global blockbusters. The collection represents a substantial intervention to our understanding of the development of film star cultures
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Rethinking Testimonial Cinema in Postdictatorship Argentina: Beyond Memory Fatigue
Bloomington: Indiana University Press (2019), 272 pp.
"By critically examining how trauma theory and subaltern studies have previously been applied to testimonial cinema, Garibotto rereads Argentinian films produced since 1983 and calls for an alternate interpretive framework at the intersection of semiotics, theories of affect, scholarship on hegemony
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Allegory in Iranian Cinema: The Aesthetics of Poetry and Resistance
London: Bloomsbury Academic (2019), xiv, 282 pp.
"Iranian filmmakers have long been recognised for creating a vibrant, aesthetically rich cinema whilst working under strict state censorship regulations. As Michelle Langford reveals, many have found indirect, allegorical ways of expressing forbidden topics and issues in their films. But for many, a
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The Oxford Handbook of Chinese Cinemas
Oxford et al.: Oxford University Press, paperback ed. (2019), xvii, 709 pp.
"The volume is divided into three parts, focusing respectively on historical periodizations, categories that share formal characteristics, and structural elements involved in the production, distribution, and reception of the works themselves. In historical terms, topics range from the birth of Chin
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New Video Generation: The Myanmar Motion Picture Industry in 2017
In: Myanmar Media in Transition: Legacies, Challenges and Change
Singapore: ISEAS (2019), pp. 287-306
"Following a summary of secondary and primary sources on the subject of film production in Burma, I will present an overview of the history of the Burmese film industry, from the British colonial period, to independence, to the years of the Burmese Socialist Program Party, and then the SLORC/SPDC ye
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Historia del cine boliviano 1897-2017
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La Paz: Plural Editores (2018), 420 pp.
L'audiovisuel au Maroc en 10 questions: Approche socio-économique
Paris: L'Harmattan (2018), 202 pp.
"Le présent ouvrage s'intéresse à la socio-économie de l'audiovisuel au Maroc. Il dresse un panorama des différents questionnements qui concernent le secteur de l'audiovisuel, ses acteurs institutionnels et économiques, ainsi que la dynamique qui les anime. De précieux renseignements y sont f
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Indian Documentary Film and Filmmakers: Practising Independence
Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press (2018), 209 pp.
"Based on detailed onsite observation of documentary production, circulation practices and the analysis of film texts, this book identifies independence as a 'tactical practice', contesting the normative definitions and functions assigned to culture, cultural production and producers in a neoliberal
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Cine-Ethiopia: The History and Politics of Film in the Horn of Africa
East Lansing: Michigan State University Press (2018), xx, 295 pp.
El cine boliviano hoy
Ciencia y Cultura (La Paz), volume 22, issue 41 (2018), 219 pp.
Syrien, mon amour: Das syrische Filmerbe von 1974 bis heute
Karlsruhe: Kinemathek Karlsruhe (2018), 31 pp.
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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