"Co-published with the Obor Foundation this is a collection of nine articles/reprints (previously published elsewhere) on key issues affecting the book industries in the developing world. They cover topics such as multinationals and Third World publishing, the economics of publishing, copyright, dis
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tribution, educational publishing and book provision, the transition from state to private sector publishing, and electronic publishing and new technologies that have transformed the book publishing process." (Hans M. Zell, Publishing, Books & Reading in Sub-Saharan Africa, 3d ed. 2008, nr. 215)
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"The book is designed to provide introductory techniques that allow students to engage immediately in their own research projects, and in so doing they learn various ways of conducting communication research both in theory and practice. The author has added new chapters on experimentation, historica
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l research, comparative research and participant observation." (Publisher description)
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"This is something of a benchmark volume on the subject of publishing and book development in Africa (and in some other developing countries). It contains the proceedings, and reflects the thinking and the deliberations that emerged from a seminar on“Understanding the Educational Book Industry”,
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which was organized by the World Bank in Washington, DC in September 1997. Participants included representatives of publishing houses and book trade associations from both industrial and developing countries, as well as donor representatives with a strong interest in strengthening publishing capacity in Africa and in other parts of the world. The objective of the seminar was to offer World Bank Group staff from education, finance, and private sector development networks with a better understanding of the nature of educational publishing, including the linkages between government textbook policies, the publishing industry, and Bank-financed textbook operations. It also provided an opportunity for some participants to voice their current grievances about the World Bank’s textbook procurement procedures and bidding systems. The book contains over 30 papers which are grouped under four major themes: “Policies for the Long-Term Provision of Educational Materials’” “Finance and Book Trade Issues”, “Procurement, Protection, and Copyright”, and “The Role of Publishing Partnerships”, together with a section on “The Publishing Industry in the Twenty-First Century”. Contributions include papers reporting about the publishing industries in various countries of Africa, in Central and South America, the Caribbean, as well as in Eastern Europe. A record of the discussions that took place follows each section." (Hans M. Zell, Publishing, Books & Reading in Sub-Saharan Africa, 3d ed. 2008, nr. 1885)
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"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
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urs et de films complètent ce premier ouvrage "pan-indien", destiné à etre traduit en Inde." (Le monde diplomatique 2/99)
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"In Bad Language, Naked Ladies, and Other Threats to the Nation, Anne Rubenstein examines how comic books—which were overwhelmingly popular but extremely controversial in post-revolutionary Mexico—played an important role in the development of a stable, legitimate state. Studying the relationshi
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p of the Mexican state to its civil society from the 1930s to the 1970s through comic books and their producers, readers, and censors, Rubenstein shows how these thrilling tales of adventure—and the debates over them—reveal much about Mexico’s cultural nationalism and government attempts to direct, if not control, social change. Since their first appearance in 1934, comic books enjoyed wide readership, often serving as a practical guide to life in booming new cities. Conservative protest against the so-called immorality of these publications, of mass media generally, and of Mexican modernity itself, however, led the Mexican government to establish a censorship office that, while having little impact on the content of comic books, succeeded in directing conservative ire away from government policies and toward the Mexican media. Bad Language, Naked Ladies, and Other Threats to the Nation examines the complex dynamics of the politics of censorship occasioned by Mexican comic books, including the conservative political campaigns against them, government and industrial responses to such campaigns, and the publishers’ championing of Mexican nationalism and their efforts to preserve their publishing empires through informal influence over government policies. Rubenstein’s analysis suggests a new Mexican history after the revolution, one in which negotiation over cultural questions replaced open conflict and mass-media narrative helped ensure political stability." (Publisher description)
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"Zunächst wird eine Übersicht über die Geschichte des Verlagswesens in Afrika, die wichtigsten wirtschaftlichen Akteure und ihre Produkte gegeben, um dann die Gründe für die Schwächen des Buchmarktes zu erörtern. Dabei werden unternehmerische Aspekte wie Kapital, Know-how sowie Vertriebsstruk
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turen, aber auch das Marktpotential der Zielgruppen diskutiert: die Bedeutung von Alphabetisierung, Lesekultur, Sprache und Kaufkraft. Es wird gezeigt, dass die Schwierigkeiten der Verlagsindustrie auch politische Hintergründe haben." (DSE Library Bonn)
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"[...] Sieht man von dem Mini-Kapitel 1 Weltüberblicke und Gesamtdarstellungen (64 Titel) und dem gleichfalls kurzen Kapitel 2 Einzelne Kontinente [...] (297) ab, entfällt der ganze Rest von 8825 Titeln auf Kapitel 3 auf nicht weniger als 181 Einzelne Staaten. Unter diesen sind natürlich jene bes
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onders interessant, die nennenswerte deutsche Minderheiten beherberg(t)en, da diese Abschnitte genau genommen eine Fortsetzung der vorhergehenden Bände darstellen und i.d.R. mehr Interesse beanspruchen können, als zahlreiche Kleinbeiträge z.B. über die Presse der USA aus deutscher Feder. Nehmen wir als Beispiel Rumänien. Von den insgesamt 228 Titeln entfallen immerhin 194 auf die Presse der deutschen Minderheit (von ganz wenigen Ausnahmen für andere Minderheiten abgesehen), geordnet nach regionalen Darstellungen, sodann nach Literatur über einzelne Orte, innerhalb nach allgemeinen Titeln, einzelnen Verlagen bzw. Druckereien und schließlich nach einzelnen Zeitungsunternehmen." (Klaus Schreiber, in: Informationsmittel für Bibliotheken (IFB) 6(1998) Nr.3-4)
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"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
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in Anguish, Red Light Bandit, Macunaíma, Antônio das Mortes, The Angel Is Born, and Killed the Family and Went to the Movies." (Publisher description)
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