"One in a series of training manuals developed by the African Publishing Institute (API) of the African Publishers Network to facilitate intra-African training among its members, which can be used for both formal training or individual study. Arranged under three modules: (1) Communication Skills, (
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2) Negotiation Skills, and (3) Managing Staff, the course is designed to equip publishing staff with the “fundamental inter-personal skills necessary for professionalism in the publishing industry.” A variety of practical exercises and tasks are included to make the manual as interactive as possible." (Hans M. Zell, Publishing, Books & Reading in Sub-Saharan Africa, 3d ed. 2008, nr. 2484)
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"Der erste Teil verfolgt die Entwicklung des afrikanischen Kinos von der kolonialen Vereinnahmung hin zum Afrozentrismus. Im zweiten Teil des Buches werden einzelne Filme vorgestellt und analysiert, wobei besonders auf typisch afrikanische Stilmittel wie der Gebrauch von Stille, der mündlichen Übe
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rlieferung und des Humors eingegangen wird. Im letzten Teil des Buches untersucht der Autor den sozialen und ökonomischen Kontext der afrikanischen Film- und Fernsehindustrie." (Verlagsbeschreibung)
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"This book is about the problems and obstacles that African writers still encounter in their attempt to get published. It is an interesting, informed, and well-documented study that combines writers’ own testimony (based on responses to questionnaires) and factual investigation in order to explore
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the problem of the “ordeal” of the African writer. The author deals with some of the issues which confront African writers today, including issues of readership and which language to employ, the question of literacy and audience, and the inadequate number of publishing houses on the continent—as well as other obstacles such as censorship, imprisonment, exile, and worse. Several of the chapters shed new light on the publishing history, and author-publisher relations, of some African writers, both with publishers in the countries in the North as well as with African publishers, and the book includes a chapter on “African Writers and the Quest for Publication”, examining the careers of a number of African writers. An overview of “African Publishers, African Publishing” is provided in chapter four. It includes a discussion of the sometimes not very happy relations between African writers and African publishers, and also looks at the obstacles African publishing houses face, and how they treat their authors. The book concludes with a set of recommendations setting out what Charles Larson believes can be done to improve the plight of the African writer, and particularly the next generation of African writers. He also proposes the establishment of a pan-African publishing house, funded by people and institutions both from Africa and the West, with an unpaid advisory board predominantly from the African continent: “crucial to the entire proposal is the belief that Africans should be in control of the publication of their own writers and that the degree of dependence on the West (both financial and editorial) be determined by Africans themselves." (Hans M. Zell, Publishing, Books & Reading in Sub-Saharan Africa, 3d ed. 2008, nr. 1349)
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"Since we learn our cultural behavior in units, it is a useful artifice to compare cultural differences in units. To learn to communicate across cultures more quickly and more effectively, we can apply a framework of categories of potential obstacles (cultural units) to our own and to a target cultu
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re. Part I of this book addresses the need for successful communication across cultures and defines what constitutes a culture. Next, an original taxonomy of potential intercultural communication obstacles is constructed from the literature of communication, anthropology, psychology, sociology, business, and current events, as well as from interviews with persons of multicultural backgrounds. The categories are explained, and many are illustrated with anecdotes. Part II applies the framework of obstacles outlined in Part I to the differences in cultural units of the United States and Mexico. This application demonstrates how these cultural differences create misunderstanding and ineffectual communication in commonly occurring business and social situations. Part III prescribes an effective approach to intercultural communication between any two cultures, using the framework of potential obstacles to efficiently obtain results. We can act consciously to transcend the rules with which our own culture grips us." (Preface)
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Umfassendes Nachschlagewerk mit über 1000 Stichwörtern zu Geographie, Geschichte, Politik, Wirtschaft, Ländern, Gesellschaften, und Kulturen, Sprachen und Literaturen, Kunst und Musik, Religionen und Philosophie. Der Herausgeber stammt aus Kamerun, hat in München studiert und unterrichtet an der
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Humboldt-Universität und der FU Berlin. Über zweihundert Mitarbeiter.
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"How to Set Up a Film Festival has been written in response to the increasing number of film festivals being set up in the UK. It is not exhaustive but is intended to provide a broad framework for planning and to guide you through some of the questions you need to consider when starting out." (Intro
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duction)
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"Como sao feitos os programas de televisao? Quem sao os profissionais que trabalham na TV e o que fazem? Como funciona a engrenagem desse circo eletronico? Nossa televisao e uma das melhores do mundo, mas quase nao temos livros que expliquem como ela funciona. Daniel Filho - um dos maiores diretores
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e produtores da televisao brasileira - conta aqui alguns segredos dessa maquina, num livro inteiramente atual que inclui: capitulos sobre producao, direcao, equipe, atores, concorrencia e audiencia, entre outros, alem de um dedicado exclusivamente a Janete Clair, com facsimile do 1 capitulo da novela "Pecado capital"; mais de 800 imagens, incluindo material iconografico nunca publicado: fotos de cenas e bastidores de programas, storyboards, plantas de cenarios e desenhos de figurinos; alguns depoimentos de profissionais da TV, desde estrelas como Tony Ramos e Regina Duarte, ate autores como Gilberto Braga e Euclydes Marinho." (Descrição da casa editora)
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