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Videogames in the Indian subcontinent: development, culture(s) and representations
London:
Bloomsbury
(2023), 261 pp., bibliogr. p.179-202, glossary p.236-238, index
ISBN 978-93-5435-971-2 (pdf);
"Drawing on a series of player and developer interviews and surveys conducted over the last five years, including some recent ones, this book provides a sense of how games have become a part of the culture of the region despite its huge diversity and plurality and opens up avenues for further study ...
Observatório Ibero-Americano da Ficção Televisiva OBITEL 2022: Transformaciones en la serialidad de la ficción televisiva iberoamericana en tiempos de streaming
Santiago de Chile:
Ediciones Universidad Católica de Chile
(2022), 373 pp., many tables
ISBN 978-956-14-2987-1
Other Editions: also published in English
"En algunos de los países, en mayor medida España y los EE.UU. Hispanos, la ficción ocupa de un modo consistente al menos el 40% de los tiempos de programación. Esto, en países que por niveles de ingreso deberían ser los con un mayor grado de acceso a otras fuentes de contenidos audiovisuales ...
Ibero-American Observatory of Television Fiction Obitel 2022: transformations in the seriality of Ibero-American television fiction in times of streaming
Santiago de Chile:
Ediciones Universidad Católica de Chile
(2022), 382 pp., many tables
ISBN 978-956-14-3000-6
Other Editions: also published in Spanish and Portuguese
"In some of the countries, to a greater extent Spain and the Hispanic USA, fiction consistently occupies at least 40% of the programming time. This occurs in countries that, due to income levels, should be those with a higher degree of access to other sources of fiction audiovisual content, such as ...
Trauma im Computerspiel: mediale Repräsentationen mentaler Extremerfahrungen
Bielefeld:
transcript
(2022), 322 pp., 69 illustr., bibliogr. p.287-317, list of computer games p.317-321
ISBN 978-3-8376-6152-1 (pbk); 978-3-8394-6152-5 (pdf)
CC BY
Other Editions: Dissertation, Universität zu Köln, 2021
"Über das Medium Computerspiel findet zunehmend eine Auseinandersetzung mit psychologischen Traumata statt. Posttraumatische Belastungsstörung, Krankheit und Tod sowie Depressionen und Phobien sind hierbei vorherrschende Themen und Motive. Thomas Spies zeigt in einem historischen Überblick und in...
Influencer: die Ideologie der Werbekörper
Bonn:
Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb)
(2022) Sonderausg., 191 pp.
ISBN 978-3-7425-0781-5
Other Editions: Berlin: Suhrkamp Verlag, 2021
"Die zunehmende Digitalisierung der Alltagskommunikation hat in den vergangenen Jahren eine neue Form der Werbung hervorgebracht: Influencer präsentieren ihren Alltag visuell in Bild- oder Videoform auf sozialen Plattformen und geben ihren Followern Tipps zu Themen wie Kosmetik und Schönheit, Gesu...
Lexicon of global melodrama
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Bielefeld:
transcript
(2022), 400 pp., 91 illustr.
ISBN 978-3-8394-5973-7 (pdf); 978-3-8376-5973-3 (print)
CC BY
"Welcome to the world of melodrama—and to the melodramas of the world. This book introduces nearly one hundred cinematic masterpieces from various periods and different cultural contexts—ranging from early Hollywood to emergent and popular Bollywood, from Latin American and New German Cinema to ...
From telenovelas to Netflix: transnational, transverse television in Latin America
Cham:
Palgrave Macmillan
(2021), xvii 265 pp., 60 illustr.
ISBN 978-3-030-77470-7 (ebook); 978-3-030-77469-1 (hbk)
"This book is about television in Latin America. Its national and regional industries create most television programming there within genres developed over time in the region. However, part of the programming has always come from the U.S., Europe and elsewhere. With cable, satellite and now streamin...
Comics beyond the page in Latin America
London:
UCL Press; University College London
(2020), xiv, 229 pp., figures, index
ISBN 978-1-78735-756-3 (hbk); 978-1-78735-755-6 (pbk); 978-1-78735-754-9 (pdf)
CC BY-NC-ND
"Despite lack of funding and institutional support, not since the mid-twentieth century have comics in the region been so dynamic, so diverse and so engaged with pressing social and cultural issues. Comics are being used as essential tools in debates about, for example, digital cultures, gender iden...
Latin American film industries
London; New York:
Bloomsbury; British Film Institute (bfi)
(2019), ix, 193 pp., bibliogr. p.154-184, index
ISBN 978-1-84457-310-3
"Focusing in particular on Argentina, Brazil and Mexico, Tamara Falicov examines commonalities among Latin American film industries, such as the challenges of procuring funding, competition from Hollywood, state funding battles, and the fickle nature of audiences, as well as censorship issues, compe...
Monetising the dividual self: the emergence of the lifestyle blog and influencers in Malaysia
New York; Oxford:
Berghahn
(2019), xiii, 221 pp., figures, bibliogr. p.199-216, index
ISBN 978-1-78920-118-5 (hbk); 978-1-78920-119-2 (ebook)
"Combining theoretical and empirical discussions with shorter thick description case studies, this book offers an anthropological exploration of the emergence in Malaysia of lifestyle bloggers – precursors to current social media microcelebrities and influencers. It tracks the transformation of pe...
Telenovelas en el mundo latino
Lima:
Universidad del Pacífico
(2018), 215 pp., index
ISBN 978-9972-57-398-9
Other Editions: English ed.: Telenovelas in pan-latino context. Routledge, 2018
"El presente libro ofrece una visión general de fácil comprensión sobre la historia de la telenovela en América Latina. Las telenovelas, una variedad aparte de series televisivas que se originan en América Latina, invoucran temas clave de raza, clase, identidad sexual y violencia, entretejiendo...
The trauma graphic novel
New York; London:
Routledge
(2017), x, 179 pp., index
ISBN 978-1-138-23888-6 (pbk); 978-1-315-29661-6 (online)
"The end of the twentieth century and the turn of the new millennium witnessed an unprecedented flood of traumatic narratives and testimonies of suffering in literature and the arts. Graphic novels, free at last from long decades of stern censorship, helped explore these topics by developing a new s...
Perspectives from the global entertainment and media outlook 2017–2021: Curtain up! User experience takes center stage
Price Waterhouse Coopers (pwc)
(2017), 40 pp.
"To thrive in a marketplace that is increasingly competitive, slower-growing, and dependent on personal recommendations, companies must develop strategies that engage, grow, and monetize their most valuable customers — i.e., their fans. To do so, they must combine excellent content with breadth an...
Cultural revolution in Iran: contemporary popular culture in the Islamic Republic
London; New York:
Tauris
(2017) new paperback ed., xiv, 287 pp., illustr., index
ISBN 978-1-78453-513-1
Other Editions: 1st ed. 2013
"Despite the repressive power of the current regime the immense creativity of popular cultural practices, that negotiate and resist a repressive system, is a potent and dynamic force. This book draws on the expertise and experience of Iranian and international academics and activists to address dive...
Grassroots comics as participatory communication in the Khwe community, South Africa
In: Entertainment-education for health behaviour change: issues and perspectives in Africa
Chima E. Onuekwe (ed.)
Victoria, BC:
Friesen Press
(2015), pp. 109-132
"The subject of this paper is communicating with indigenous communities via grassroots comics, in this case the Khwe San who live in Platfontein in the Northern Cape province of South Africa. The study is largely informed by contemporary shifts in development theory, particularly that of participato...
Humor gráfico: manual de uso para la historia
Los Polvorines:
Universidad Nacional de General Sarmiento Ediciones UNGS
(2015), 123 pp., bibliogr. p.113-123
ISBN 978-987-630-203-6
Other Editions: Revised version of an appendix to the author's doctoral thesis, Universidad de Buenos Aires in 2010
"El primer capítulo, titulado “Hacia una conceptualización del humor gráfico”, se propone aportar herramientas conceptuales y teóricas que nos permitan concebir al humor gráfico como un tipo particular de discurso social. El capítulo comienza con un intento de organización conceptual de l...
Ringvorlesung Games: Retro-Games, Gamification, Augmented Reality
München:
Hooffacker
(2014), 128 pp.
ISBN 978-3-9815512-1-1
"Chancen und Risiken von Computerspielen, Retro Gaming, Gamification, Sim Games und Augmented Reality: Im Wintersemester 2013/2014 haben sich Professorinnen und Professoren aus ganz Bayern an der ersten bayernweiten Ringvorlesung Games beteiligt. Der MedienCampus Bayern und Games/Bavaria haben für ...
TV's Betty goes global: from telenovela to international brand
London; New York:
Tauris
(2013), xv, 259 pp., index
ISBN 978-1-780762678
"Premiering in 2006, Ugly Betty, the award-winning US hit show about unglamorous but kind-hearted Betty Suarez (America Ferrera),is the latest incarnation of a worldwide phenomenon that started life as a Colombian telenovela,Yo soy Betty, la fea, back in 1999. The tale of the ugly duckling has since...
Soap operas as a matchmaker: a cultivation analysis of the effects of South Korean TV dramas on Vietnamese women’s marital intentions
Journalism & mass communication quarterly, volume 90, issue 44958 (2013), 23 pp.
"This cultivation study examined the effects of South Korean soap operas on Vietnamese female audiences. It also assessed cultivation effects in combination with the theory of reasoned action. Based on a survey of 439 female viewers, it explicated the link between South Korean soap opera consumption...
Body parts on planet slum: women and telenovelas in Brazil
London:
Anthem Press
(2011), xxv, 156 pp., glossary p.137-138, bibliogr. p.139-148, index
ISBN 978-0-85728-446-4 (online); 978-0-85728-797-7 (print)
"Based on a year's research from within a Brazilian slum, this study follows a series of unemployed women who watch up to six hours of telenovelas a day, often in the midst of arduous physical labour in the home. The women suffer in relation to their bodies, but simultaneously invest in a masochisti...
