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Bibliografía y filmografía selecta: El cine peruano a partir de 1972

Berlin: Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut Preußischer Kulturbesitz (2012), 32 pp.

South African Cinema 1896-2010

Bristol; Chicago: intellect (2012), 307 pp.
"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 ... more

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 ... more
"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 ... more
"Seit dem Ende der Kulturrevolution 1976 hat das festlandchinesische Kino verschiedene Phasen durchlaufen und erstaunliche Entwicklungen vollzogen. Im Zentrum dieses Buchs stehen Analysen herausragender Spielfilme der Vierten bis Sechsten Generation sowie wichtiger Werke der Neuen Dokumentarfilmbewe ... more
"Die konkrete Annäherung an das Kurdische Kino gestaltet die Autorin über die Aufarbeitung des Dritten Kinos und die Erläuterung des Transnationalen Filmschaffens. Die neusten kurdischen Produktionen sprengen bestehende wissenschaftliche Theorien, indem sie neue Raum-Zeitkonfigurationen definiere ... more

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 ... more
"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 ... more
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".
"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 ... more
"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 ... more

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

Apuntes para una historia del video en Chile

Santiago de Chile: Ocho Libros Editores (2010), 244 pp.
"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 ... more
"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 ... more

Writing National Cinema: Film Journals and Film Culture in Peru

Hanover, N.H; 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 ... more
"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 ... more