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Television Coverage of International Affairs

William C. Adams (ed.)

Norwood, New Jers.: Ablex (1982), 253 pp.

"How adequately and fairly does U.S. television treat foreign news? This issue is addressed in 13 content analyses groupsd in five parts: "Global Coverage," "Third World," "The West and Presidential Diplomacy," "Southeast Asia," and "Audience." The contributors also survey pertinent literature. Bibl ... more

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World Congress on Books

Paris: UNESCO (1982), 22 pp.

"In two parts: 'International Book Year Plus Ten' and 'Toward a Reading Society: Targets for the 80s.' The first of these is an analysis of present trends and forecasts for the future such as problems facing governments and all who are concerned with the production and distribution of books in an in ... more

Third Cinema in the Third World: The Aesthetics of Liberation

Teshome H. Gabriel

Ann Arbor, Mich.: UMI Research Press (1982), 147 pp.

"Third Cinema filmmakers equate film with a weapon and view the act of filming as more than a political act," says Gabriel in this explanation of a new cinematic movement based on the rejection of traditional Hollywood films in favor of those of social and political relevance, especially where the T ... more

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The New World and International Information Order

John A. Lent

Singapore: Asian Mass Communication Research and Information Centre (AMIC) (1982), 103 pp.

"Lent states as his purpose to " 1) concisely background the issues and form of the debate in its evolution during the past decade and a half; 2) briefly critique the literature of the controversy; 3) provide a comprehensive bibliography of books, monographs, documents and periodicals that deal with ... more

A Select Bibliography: Book Publishing and Related Subjects - 1982

Karachi: UNESCO Regional Office for Book Development in Asia and the Pacific (1982), 85 pp.

"Contains more than 900 entries on book publishing, including development and promotion; production processes like composition, copy preparation, editing; distribution; marketing; bookselling, copyright; graphic arts, lithography; paper, printing; seminars and training courses; typography; general a ... more

Christian Communication Directory Asia

Franz-Josef Eilers (ed.)

Aachen: Catholic Media Council (CAMECO);World Association for Christian Communication (WACC);Lutheran World Federation (LWF) (1982), 1036 pp.

"Represents a systematic effort to collect all relevant information on Christian media institutions for Asia except the Near East, with emphasis on institutions related to the three organizations compiling the data. Classification is in nine categories: Church Communication Centres, News and Informa ... more

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Mass Communication in China

John Howkins

New York: Longman (1982), xvii, 160 pp.

"An inside look at the media since the fall of Mao Tse Tung, based largely on first-hand evidence the author collected on the spot. After an analysis of the role of communications in today's China, Howkins deals with the various media - broadcasting, film, publishing, telecommunications (''From Beac ... more

Abuse of Women in the Media

Penang (MY): Consumers' Association of Penang (1982), 85 pp.

"This booklet contends that the lifestyle of women in the Third World, including Malaysia, has been influenced by the Western media which represent "the interests and values of an alien and dominant culture" and project a Western brand of consumption which is discriminatory, oppressive and male-orie ... more

Balkan Cinema: Evolution After the Revolution

Michael Jon Stoil

Ann Arbor, Mich.: University Microfilm International Research Press (1982), 160 pp.

"Stoil examines film in Bulgaria, Rumania, Yugoslavia, and to a lesser extent Albania (where cinema is scarce and the authorities only minimally cooperative), conducting interviews, viewing films and searching through archives and other materials in order to explain long-term changes in content beca ... more

The Military and the Media

Alan Hooper

Aldershot, Hants: Gower (1982), xv, 247 pp.

"Hooper, an officer in the British Royal Marines, bases his study largely on first-hand research consisting of personal observation of the news process in the press, radio and television, interviews with various personalities in the military and the media, and visits to a number of military establis ... more

International Perspectives on News

L. Erwin Atwood, Stuart J. Bullion, Sharon M. Murphy (eds.)

Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press (1982), 203 pp.

"A symposium in which participants and individual speakers addressed ideological and empirical approaches to national development, international perceptions, global news flow, and education from a mass communication perspective. Presentations reflected a wide range of sometimes conflicting views on ... more

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International Circulation of Books

Edward Wegman

Paris: UNESCO (1982), 29 pp.

"An examination of '' [...] the position of books in the service of international understanding and international trade in books, including distribution networks and problems. It then turns to the standards that have been set and other measures to liberalize the flow of books." (Introduction). A lon ... more

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International Radio Broadcasting: The Limits of the Limitless Medium

Donald R. Browne

New York: Praeger (1982), 369 pp.

"Browne calls this book a selective history of international radio broadcasting designed to help the reader 'understand better the reasons for the birth and growth of international stations in particular and international radio in general, the sorts of internal and external pressures that bear upon ... more

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Broadcasting in the Arab World: A Survey of Radio and Television in the Middle East

Douglas A. Boyd

Philadelphia: Temple University Press (1982), 306 pp.

"Against a background of the historical, religious, geographical, climatic, political, economic and linguistic factors that make radio and television unique as they affect its development, Boyd discusses broadcasting in the Arab League countries - Egypt, the Sudan, Lebanon, Syria, Jordon, North Yeme ... more

Newspapers in Asia: Contemporary Trends and Problems

John A. Lent (ed.)

Hong Kong: Heinemann Asia (1982), xxiii, 597 pp.

"Articles dealing with daily, and in some cases non-daily, newspapers from the late 1960s through the late 1970s in 23 Asian countries, ranging from Afghanistan in the area Lent calls West Asia, to Japan in East Asia. Not included are the Asian portion of the Soviet Union, countries of the Middle Ea ... more

World Press Encyclopedia. Vol. 1

George Thomas Kurian (ed.)

New York: Facts on File (1982), 641 pp.

"This is a survey of the state of the press in 180 countries, organized in four sections: Section I, "The International Press"; Section II, "The World's Developed Press Systems"; Section III, "Smaller and Developing Press Systems, " and Section IV, " Minimal and Underdeveloped Press Systems." Covera ... more

Women and the Mass Media in Africa: Case Studies from Sierra Leone, the Niger and Egypt

Elma Lititia Anani, Alkaly Miriama Keits, Awatef Abdel Rahman

Addis Ababa: United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (1981), 38 pp.

"Three studies, each backgrounding the press as a whole, its image of women, and their professional status in the mass media." (Eleanor Blum, Frances G. Wilhoit: Mass media bibliography. 3rd ed. U ... more

Media and the Russian Public

Ellen Mickiewicz

New York: Praeger (1981), xii, 156 pp.

"An examination of the mass media available in Soviet Russia and of attitudes toward the various ones. Although the author was somewhat hampered because partisan and political subjects were not considered appropriate for opinion surveys, she was nevertheless able to learn not only about media exposu ... more

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