"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
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throughout. It has been expanded to complete the story of the new Yugoslav cinema of the 1980s and to address major film developments that have taken place in the former Yugoslavia's five successor states. As in his analysis of past periods of Yugoslav cinema, Goulding situates the most recent developments within the context of film economics, state subsidies, and changing patterns of political control. Most significantly, however, he provides an insightful discussion of the ways in which critically important domestic feature films produced or co-produced from 1991 to 2001 reflect on recent brutal internecine warfare and other contemporary social, cultural, and political realities after the breakup of Yugoslavia." (Publisher description)
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"UNESCO’s involvement with the books programme started off as general in character, becoming focused in the 1990s on country-specific circumstances, culminating in the publication of the practical guide, The National Book Policy. Numerous actions were initiated and implemented under the programmes
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and include: the elaboration of national policies taking into account the concerns of both the public and private sectors; training; publication of guidelines; and the promotion of the value of reading by initiating activities on the occasion of World Book and Copyright Day – activities, which come under the two central themes: Books for All and Towards a Reading Society. The evaluation set out to assess “UNESCO in relation to the book” and thus was concerned with the Organization’s activities (policies, strategies and procedures relating to the production and dissemination capacities in the book and other cultural industries and to the promotion of culture, with special attention given to the sphere of children) during 1990-1997. The World Decade for Cultural Development (1988-1997) was used as a general frame of reference, together with the third Medium-Term Plan (starting in 1990)." (UNESCO website, 02.02.2011)
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"Describes the activities and publications of the innovative Community Publishing Process in Zimbabwe in order to train 7,000 village community workers, the majority of whom were women. Through a community based, participatory process of publishing, the project aims to enable marginalized groups to
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use their creative energies to build dynamic leadership, tackle poverty, take charge of their lives, and make the decisions to shape their future. Representatives of the village readership participated in creating the books and civic education manuals, contributed material orally, and tested and distributed it through local book launches. The project also initiated a series of children’s traditional stories and a book about children’s rights, produced with 500 children aged from three to seventeen. A local leadership programme for writers provides training in journalism and editing, and the publication of a monthly journal from a village publishing house equipped with a computer, duplicator and stapler. The author concludes by stating “as women radically questioning autocratic institutions and processes, we have been able to shape a tool that can be used by marginalized groups anywhere to claim their voice in the public life." (Hans M. Zell, Publishing, Books & Reading in Sub-Saharan Africa, 3d ed. 2008, nr. 1731)
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"Die voranschreitende Globalisierung der Medienkommunikation verlangt eine Revision vieler sozial- und kulturwissenschaftlicher Konzepte, die in ihrer Argumentation historisch von einer nationalen Gesellschaft ausgingen. Hierzu gibt es auf internationaler Ebene eine umfassende wissenschaftliche Disk
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ussion. Der Band führt sowohl theoretisch als auch auf aktuelle Beispiele bezogen in diese Diskussion über die transkulturelle Kommunikation ein. Er enthält zentrale Beiträge von Vertreterinnen und Vertretern aller Kontinente und verschiedener Disziplinen." (Verlagsbeschreibung)
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"En el presente estudio Juan Gargurevich se remonta a la primera etapa de la Colonia la cual significó no sólo una ruptura en las formas tradicionales de comunicación del mundo prehispánico, sino también el disloque de los instrumentos comunicativos de los conquistadores. El idioma español tuv
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o que enriquecerse frente a muchas cosas nuevas para él, a la par que los idiomas nativos se transformaban. La convivencia intercultural produjo desarrollos y problemas novedosos, pocas veces estudiados, en la práctica comunicativa. Ello se muestra, de manera particular, en la información intercambiada con la metrópoli a través de las famosas relaciones de viaje, cartas y otros documentos que configuran el inicio del periodismo escrito en el nuevo mundo." (Cubierta del libro)
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"Suddiviso in tre sezioni (testi dei Pontefici, atti della Curia romana, documenti della Chiesa italiana), il volume presenta lo sviluppo cronologico degli interventi della Chiesa sul cinema offrendo per ciascuno di essi una nota sintetica per una corretta comprensione. Sono raccolti non solo i docu
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menti dedicati esclusivamente al cinema ma anche brani significativi tratti da altri testi inerenti il mondo della comunicazione e della cultura in senso lato. Tramite gli indici il lettore ha inoltre la possibilità di avvicinarsi ai testi mediante una molteplicità di accessi: cronologico, per pontificato, tematico." (Descrizione della casa editrice)
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