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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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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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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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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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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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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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Syrien, mon amour: Das syrische Filmerbe von 1974 bis heute
Karlsruhe: Kinemathek Karlsruhe (2018), 31 pp.
El cine boliviano hoy
Ciencia y Cultura (La Paz), volume 22, issue 41 (2018), 219 pp.
Cine-Ethiopia: The History and Politics of Film in the Horn of Africa
East Lansing: Michigan State University Press (2018), xx, 295 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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Historia del cine boliviano 1897-2017
Deep Insights
La Paz: Plural Editores (2018), 420 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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Clásicos del cine mexicano: 31 películas emblemáticas desde la época de oro hasta el presente
Madrid; Frankfurt am Main: Iberoamericana; Vervuert (2016), 656 pp.
"El objetivo que se ha perseguido con esta antología es el de presentar el desarrollo histórico del cine mexicano durante 80 años, así como también el de dar a conocer la riqueza de los temas y géneros que caracteriza la producción cinematográfi ca de México, desde sus principios hasta las
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40.doc: Una historia del documental argentino en 40 películas
Buenos Aires: Margen Izquierdo (2016), 307 pp.
Kurdish Documentary Cinema in Turkey: The Politics and Aesthetics of Identity and Resistance
Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing (2016), xii, 269 pp.
"Documentary film is proving to be a particularly complex tool for the Kurdish social and political existence, as Kurds lack the official tools of history-writing and cultural preservation that are categorically associated with the capacities of a state. By delving into Kurdish documentary films as
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