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Algerian National Cinema
Manchester: Manchester University Press (2012), viii, 198 pp.
"This book, via an analysis of cinema, provides a discussion on some misunderstandings and assumptions about Algeria, which remains to a large extent underrepresented or misrepresented in the UK media. It is about Algerian national cinema and illuminates the ways in which the official mythologising
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South African Cinema 1896-2010
Bristol; Chicago: intellect (2012), 307 pp.
A Bibliography of Academic Work on Nigerian and Ghanaian Video Films
Journal of African Cinemas, volume 4, issue 1 (2012), pp. 99-133
"This reckoning of the academic work that has been published on Nigerian and Ghanaian video films does not include theses and dissertations, of which many have been written. I have included as many books on the subject as possible whatever their character, but in order to make the project manageable
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El cine de los otros: La representación de "lo indígena" en el cine documental ecuatoriano
Quito: FLACSO;Abya-Yala (2011), 128 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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Russia
Bristol; Chicago: intellect (2011), 333 pp.
"Be they musicals or melodramas, war movies or animation, Russian films have a long and fascinating history of addressing the major social and political events of their time. From Sergei Eisenstein’s anti-tsarist drama, Battleship Potemkin, to socialist realism, to the post-glasnost thematic explo
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Os Moçambicanos perante o cinema e o audiovisual: Uma historia político-cultural do Moçambique colonial até à República de Moçambique (1896-2010)
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Maputo; Holsbeek: Dockanema;Afrika Filmfestival (2011), 677 pp.
"This is the first monograph on the history of film culture ever for lusophone Africa. It consists of three parts: the colonial period (1896-1974), the first years of independence (1975-1991) and the years of the liberalization of the media (1992-2010). In these three periods attention is given to t
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Cinema in Ghana: History, Ideology and Popular Culture
Bergen: University of Bergen (2011), 303 pp.
"Cinema in Ghana- History, Ideology and Popular Culture, is an attempt to start a dialogue about national cinema in Ghana. The primary purpose of this thesis is not simply to provide a historical account of cinema in Ghana, but rather to question and dialogue with the history in order to locate the
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El cine que fue: 100 años de cine chileno
Santiago de Chile: ARCIS (2011), 192 pp.
El presente libro está constituido por diecisiete ponencias y/o artículos que se presentaron en el coloquio "El cine que fue: 100 años de cine chileno".
Cines regionales
Revista de la Integración (Lima), issue 5 (2010), pp. 70-77
"A partir de las primeras producciones ayacuchanas, que datan del año 1996, ha comenzado a constituirse una continua y creciente producción de largometrajes originados y producidos principalmente en sus propias regiones, con sus propios recursos, fuera del circuito de Lima, comúnmente pensado com
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The African Filmmaker and Content of African Films: A Study of the Perspectives of the Nigerian Film Audience
Global Media Journal - African Edition, volume 4, issue 1 (2010), pp. 84-115
"This paper attempts to appraise African filmmaking and the content of African films from a Nigerian film audience perspective. The study specifically explores the disposition of the audience towards contemporary African filmmaking for home video and cinema entertainment as well as the content of Af
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Viewing African Cinema in the Twenty-First Century: Art Films and the Nollywood Video Revolution
Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press (2010), vii, 248 pp.
Outside the Machine? Donor Values and the Case of Film in Tanzania
In: Viewing African Cinema in the Twenty-First Century: Art Films and the Nollywood Video Revolution
Mahir Saul; Ralph A. Austen (eds.)
Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press (2010), pp. 160-177
A Literature Review: Nigerian and Ghanaian Videos
Journal of African Cultural Studies, volume 22, issue 1 (2010), pp. 105-120
"The main purpose of this review of the published academic literature on Nigerian and Ghanaian video films is to foster self-awareness in this new field of study. This literature has been produced on three continents and out of many academic disciplines; in consequence, scholars tend to make few ref
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Apuntes para una historia del video en Chile
Santiago de Chile: Ocho Libros Editores (2010), 244 pp.
Tamil Cinema
Communication Research Trends, volume 28, issue 4 (2009), pp. 3-27
"India, unlike the USA, has multiple centers of production just as its languages and cultures still maintain their identities in India instead of being amalgamated into a singlular overarching popular culture as appears in the Los Angeles-dominated film industry of the United States. Even with produ
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Writing National Cinema: Film Journals and Film Culture in Peru
Hanover, NH; London: Dartmouth College Press;University Press of New England (2009), viii, 276 pp.
"Writing National Cinema traces the twenty-year history of the Peruvian film journal Hablemos de cine alongside that of Peruvian filmmaking and film culture. Similar to the influential French journal Cahiers du cinéma, Hablemos de cine began with a group of young critics interested in claiming the
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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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Film Production in Cambodia: Conditions and Structure of the Cambodian Film Production Market - Demand and Supply in Consideration of Film Genre
Erfurt: Thüringisch-Kambodschanische Gesellschaft (tkg) (2009), 177 pp.
"The glories past of the Cambodian cinema, with international well known filmmakers like the former King Sihanouk, seems to be well and truly over. The current breakdown of the Cambodian cinema industry shows an alarming circle and reflects a desolate situation. In this book the author Kirstin Wille
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Images et paix: Les Rwandais et les Burundais face au cinéma et à l'audiovisuel
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Leuven: Afrika Filmfestival (2008), 605 pp.
"Les Rwandais et les Burundais ont une culture cinématographique et audiovisuelle captivante et centenaire. Elle a été introduite pendant l’époque coloniale allemande et est ensuite tombée dans les mains des Belges qui l’ont développée après. Au Rwanda/Burundi, ils produisaient des films
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Namibia: Zwischen Filmmotiv und Filmwirtschaft. Entwicklung und Zukunftschancen der namibischen Filmindustrie seit der Unabhängigkeit 1990
Babelsberg: Hochschule für Film- und Fernsehen „Konrad Wolf“. Fachbereich I, Studiengang Film- und Fernsehproduktion, Diplomarbeit (2008), 105 pp.
"Welche Faktoren für die Produktion eines afrikanischen Films in Namibia nötig sind, wird in der vorliegenden Diplomarbeit analysiert. Gegenstand ist die Darstellung der Filmwirtschaft Namibias mit all ihren Aspekten, Vor- und Nachteilen. Sehr konkret wird die Entwicklung der letzten Jahre und des
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