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Pop Culture Russia! Media, Arts, and Lifestyle

Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO (2005), xxxi, 399 pp.
"Pop Culture Russia! introduces readers to the fascinating, often surprising, post-Soviet cultural landscape. With chapters on media, the arts, recreation, religion, and consumerism, the book offers an insightful survey of Russian mass culture from the death of Stalin in 1953 to the present, explori ... more

Cine argentino: Entre lo posible y lo deseable

Buenos Aires: Ediciones CICCUS, 2a ed. actualizada (2005), 375 pp.
"This is a historical and cultural survey of Indian cinema written by a social scientist and a film historian. The reader is provided with the social, political, religious and cultural context of India over nine decades [...] it is low on theory and high on description." (European Journal of Communi ... more
"Following the Sandinista Revolution in 1979, young bohemian artists rushed to the newly formed Nicaraguan national film institute INCINE to contribute to "the recovery of national identity" through the creation of a national film project. Over the next eleven years, the filmmakers of INCINE produce ... more
"Originally published in 1985, Liberated Cinema: The Yugoslav Experience received the first annual "Close-up" award from the Yugoslav Film Institute in 1986 for "outstanding scholarship and for promoting the values of Yugoslav film art internationally." This new edition has been revised and updated ... more
"Most of the facts in this book are gleaned from available sources, representing the most reliable ones we could find for each of India’s cinemas (the sources are listed below). Many of these are what we earlier called, somewhat dismissively, ‘official’. Given the nature of the Indian film ind ... more
"The Encyclopedia of Chinese Film, one of the first ever encyclopedias in this area, provides alphabetically organized entries on directors, genres, themes, and actors and actresses from mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan as well as 300 film synopses. Great care has been taken to provide solid cul ... more
"Ce guide répertorie quelque 1200 films et 800 réalisateurs dans leur contexte régional, culturel et sociopolitique et les "usines à reves" de Bombay, Madras, Calcutta, Hayderabad, Bangalore, Trivandrum, de l'Orisaa ou de l'Assam himalayen. Une importante bibliographie et des index de réalisate ... more
"Focusing on a variety of filmmaker's use of narrative allegories for the “conservative modernization” Brazil and other nations underwent in the 1960s and 1970s, Ismail Xavier examines the way Cinema Novo transformed Brazil's cultural memory. Includes discussions of Black God, White Devil, Land ... more
"Beschreibt und analysiert das chinesische Kino im späten Kaiserreich und in der Republik (1896-1949), die Filmproduktion der Volksrepublik China unter Mao Zedong (1942-1978), das chinesische Kino zur Zeit Deng Xiaopings (1978-1996), das Avantgardekino der 80er und 90er Jahre sowie das chinesische ... more