"Conjunto de entrevistas -y biofilmografías- con destacadas directoras mexicanas (María Novaro, Busi Cortés, Dana Rotberg, Eva López-Sánchez y Guita Schyfter), además de otras dos con Alfredo Joskowicz y Hugo Hiriart." (Descripción de la casa editorial)
"The hard-hitting autobiography of the renowned, high profile TV investigator. In twenty-five years of investigative reporting Roger Cook has been knocked unconscious a dozen times, hospitalized on almost thirty occasions, and has had twenty-three bones broken by those who have resented his ruthless
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persistence – or just objected to the fact that he exists at all. He was born 6 April 1943 in New Zealand. His father – a timid man afraid of attack from Japanese submarines rumoured to have been sighted in Auckland harbour – soon found refuge and a new start for his family in Sydney, Australia. If anything was going to prepare Roger Cook for what he was to become, it was growing up in the Australia of the 1950s – a melting-pot of different nationalities, scarred by the war, and with an unsophisticated and sometimes brutal education system. After school and college he found his broadcasting feet at a Sydney commercial radion station, moving on to the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. He then emigrated to Britain to tackle BBC radio, where he prospered at ‘The World At One’. His brainchild, however, was ‘Checkpoint’, which became the most popular programme on Radio 4 after ‘Today’. During its twelve-year run, Cook and his team exposed a breadth of institutional incompetencies, bad law, injustices and naked criminality. The result was a series of awards for good journalism, significant changes in legislation, and the arrest and conviction of countless fraudsters and strong-arm villains. For his pains, Cook earned the sobriquet of ‘The Most Beaten-up Journalist in Britain’. Eventually he transferred the idea to television, where for twelve years ‘The Cook Report’ flourished. Organised crime, drug-smuggling, pornography, animal cruelty, the IRA. Cook has attacked them all in search of justice – and won. Published to coinincide with ‘Cook Report’ TV specials in June, August, October and December, Dangerous Ground is his breathtaking story." (Abstract)
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"The Encyclopedia of Chinese Film, one of the first ever encyclopedias in this area, provides alphabetically organized entries on directors, genres, themes, and actors and actresses from mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan as well as 300 film synopses. Great care has been taken to provide solid cul
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tural and historical context to the facts. The alphabetical entries are preceded by a substantial historical section, incorporating material on the the main studios and analysing the impact of Chinese film abroad as well as at home in recent years." (Publisher description)
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"For me, growing up in Detroit, Coughlin was a fascinating figure of local lore: both loved and hated, he was clearly someone whose career cannot be reduced to a single dimension. It may well be argued that the conventional standards of biography should not be applied to media figures, for theirs is
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a life of fused private and public selves. In the case of Charles Coughlin, to know the real man behind the microphone is certainly beyond the ken of the author. Here lies the particular dilemma of this study: how to discern whether the subject is the mirror of his audience or its manipulator. And this remains the problem regardless of how one feels about his message. Moreover, the temptation to obliterate this duality—inner versus other-directed self—must be set aside. For as a media personality Charles Coughlin was both the creator and the captive of his enthusiastic public." (Preface)
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"Seine Anhänger nannten ihn "Vater der chilenischen Arbeiterpresse", seine Gegner "Säer des Hasses". Auf Kundgebungen versuchte er durch seine Reden, die er anfangs unter das Motto "Heute zwei, morgen vier" stellte, möglichst viele Anhänger für die Sache zu gewinnen. Während der Regierungszeit
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der Volkseinheit in Chile von 1979 bis 1973 wurde Luis Emilio Recabarren zum ersten Mal (posthum) geehrt, indem der Rundfunksender der Dachgewerkschaftseinheitszentrale "Central Unica de Trabajadores" nach ihm benannt wurde. Später versuchte die chilenische Militärdiktatur (1973 bis 1990), seinen Namen und die mit ihm verbundene Geschichte der chilenischen Arbeiterbewegung im ersten Viertel unseres Jahrhunderts für immer auszulöschen. Heute noch, 70 Jahre nach Recabarrens Tod, sind viele Aspekte seines Wirkens unerforscht, obwohl sich Legenden um Recabarren in Chile ranken und diese lebendig und populär geblieben sind. Wer war dieser Mann, der viele Jahre verfolgt wurde, welche Rolle spielte er während der bewegten Jahre der Formierungsphase der chilenischen Arbeiterbewegung, welche sozialen Ideen europäischer Herkunft wurden in der chilenischen Gesellschaft praktisch umgesetzt und welche kulturellen Produkte wurden entwickelt? Die Autorin beantwortet in ihrem Werk den Fragenkatalog umfassend und stellt das Wirken Recabarrens in seinem politischen, wirtschaftlichen und sozialen Kontext ausführlich dar." (Verlagsbeschreibung)
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"Arnold Janssen gehört zu den großen Missionaren der katholischen Kirche. Dieses Buch möchte sein Leben und Werk in Bild- und Textdokumenten begleiten. Die Bilder sind Aufnahmen aus seiner Zeit und von Orten, an denen er gelent und gewirkt hat. Die Texdokumente sind seinen eigenen Briefen, Erinne
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rungen oder Veröffentlichungen entnommen. Gelegentlich kommen auch Zeitgenossen wie etwa sein Bruder Wilhelm (Bruder Juniperus OFMCap.) im Rahmen der verbindenden Texte zu Wort, die sein Leben schildern." (Seite 5)
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"Bio-bibliographical and professional data about researchers in the field of communication and directory. Biennal updating of this publication is planned." (Ann Hartness, Brazil in Reference Books 1965-1989. Scarecrow Press, 1991)