"The catalog lists all films on Brazilian Indians in the German Collection "Institut für den Wissenschaftlichen Film" (Göttingen, Germany). Information about each silent, 16 mm film includes a summary of its content, translation of title into Portuguese, director, duration, color, and date. Arrang
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ed by subject with an index of Indian tribes and a bibliography." (Ann Hartness, Brazil in Reference Books 1965-1989. Scarecrow Press, 1991)
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"[...] designed to acquaint the student, researcher, librarian and anyone interested in motion pictures and television with the important English-language reference works in these fields." (Introduction) Fisher has indeed accomplished this. The 731 carefully selected and comprehensively annotated en
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tries of resources include bibliographic guides; dictionaries and encyclopedias; indexes, abstracts and databases; biographies and credits; film reviews and television programming; catalogs; directories and yearbooks; filmographies and videographies; bibliographies; handbooks and miscellaneous sources; core periodicals; research centers and archives; and societies and associations. Emphasis is on the U.S., but some publications from England, Canada and Australia are included. As a general rule each entry contains author/s, title, place of publication, pagination, date and, where available, Library of Congress and ISSN or ISBN information. An appendix gives database service suppliers, with addresses and telephone numbers. Author/title and subject indexes. This is an essential sourcebook." (Eleanor Blum, Frances G. Wilhoit: Mass media bibliography. 3rd ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990 Nr. 1649)
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"This is the final report of the research commission "toward a Latin Audiovisual Space." The term "Audiovisual Space" marks the emergence of a new diplomatic vocabulary to indicate the rapid new developments of communication and information systems, particularly television, which demand new strategi
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es, policies and both national and international projects. "Space" indicates geographic boundaries which in this case includes countries speaking French and Spanish or some variation thereof. The report is in four parts: 1) an analysis of the imbalance of the international flows of culture, information, and communications; 2) a linkage between culture and industry to show the main tendencies in the restructuring of the international economy which condition to a large extent the search for audiovisual space; 3) an evaluation of efforts already undertaken to find potential partners and forms of cooperation not only between countries of the North and South, but also South and South; 4) a discussion of the contradictions of reconciling the conquest of foreign markets with the value of domestic expression of national individuality. In the introduction Nicholas Garnham points out this book's relevance to Anglo Saxon reades. He says, "It deals cogently with two of the central contemporary cultural debates, the future of European audiovisual culture and the New World Information." The authors reject the simplistic view that sees the "South as Good and the North as Bad." The individual histories of each country are considered on the recognition that cultural, like economic imperialism, works through the specificities of the local power structure." (Eleanor Blum, Frances G. Wilhoit: Mass media bibliography. 3rd ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990 Nr. 711)
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"Comprendre le tiers monde, son unité et sa diversité : plus que jamais, le cinéma apparaît comme un moyen privilégié de répondre à cette préoccupation. Mais où trouver les films du tiers monde et sur le tiers monde ? Quel est leur contenu et comment le disent-ils ? Ce dossier répond à c
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es questions et on y trouve la mise en situation de quelque 300 films, par une soixantaine de spécialistes : près de 40 pays y sont étudiés, mais aussi les grandes séries de films didactiques sur le tiers monde, ainsi qu’une dizaine de thèmes transversaux et un rappel des principales théories du développement." (Description de la maison d'édition)
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"The present study on the importation of films for cinema and television in Egypt is part of a series of case studies related to the structure, nature and flow of "transnational communication" and its socio-economic and cultural impact. Having its own reputable film industry and television organizat
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ion and being itself a film exporting country, Egypt was selected for this study, which was undertaken in 1979. However, the study shows that Egypt is heavily dependent on a small number of foreign companies, based in a few industrialized countries, which supply most of the films for cinema and television programming. The research emphasizes the need not only to examine the volume of imported communication material (a phenomenon already described in another UNESCO publication as "one way flow of information") but also the effects related to their content." (Foreword)
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"The compilers point out that little attention has been paid to mass communication in most Pacific islands, and their research proves them correct. There is one citation each for Easter Island and Midway Island. Hawaii has almost 2,000. This Center for Cultural and Technical Interchange Between East
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and West bibliography contains citations to 3,332 books, periodicals, articles, documents, and pamphlets, and covers the years 1854-1975, with some entries from 1976. Topics include the press, newspapers, freedom of the press, broadcasting, news agencies, organizations, radio broadcasting, cinema, and television in the Pacific Islands. Entries are arranged alphabetically by more than 20 island groupings and broken down into specific subject areas, rumbered, and arranged chronologically within those subjects. Richstad also produced The Pacific Islands Press: A Directory (East-West Communication Institute, 1973)." (Jo A. Cates: Journalism - a guide to the reference literature. Englewood, Col.: Libraries Unlimited, 2nd ed. 1997 nr. 99)
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