"This volume is the first fully comprehensive account of film production in the Third World. Although they are usually ignored or marginalized in histories of world cinema," Third World countries now produce well over half of the world's films. Roy Armes sets out initially to place this huge output
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in a wider context, examining the forces of tradition and colonialism that have shaped the Third World--defined as those countries that have emerged from Western control but have not fully developed their economic potential or rejected the capitalist system in favor of some socialist alternative. He then considers the paradoxes of social structure and cultural life in the post-independence world, where even such basic concepts as "nation," "national culture," and "language" are problematic. The first experience of cinema for such countries has invariably been that of imported Western films, which created the audience and, in most cases, still dominate the market today. Thus, Third World film makers have had to ssert their identity against formidable outside pressures. The later sections of the book look at their output from a number of angles: in terms of the stages of overall growth and corresponding stages of cinematic development; from the point of view of regional evolution in Asia, Africa, and Latin America; and through a detailed examination of the work of some of the Third World's most striking film innovators. In addition to charting the broad outlines of filmic developments too little known in Europe and the United States, the book calls into question many of the assumptions that shape conventional film history. It stresse the role of distribution in defining and limiting production, queries simplistic notions of independent "national cinemas," and points to the need to take social and economic factors into account when considering authorship in cinema. Above all, the book celebrates the achievements of a mass of largely unknown film makers who, in difficult circumstances, have distinctively expanded our definitions of the art of cinema." (Publisher description)
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"This book presents the outcome of five case-studies carried out within Unesco's programme on the Contribution of the Media to Promoting Equality between Women and Men and Strengthening Women's Access to and Participation in Communication. More specifically, it forms part of an action centred on the
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Training, Recruitment and Advancement of Women in the Communication Professions. The case-studies on professional women in broadcasting deal with five countries located in both the developing and developed world: Canada, Egypt, Ecuador, India and Nigeria. One of the major preoccupations of Unesco's programme is to increase the access of women to decision-making positions. The obstacles to the movement of women into management and decision-making positions are particularly felt in the field of communication. A comparative analysis of the key issues, personnel policies and practices of five broadcasting organizations in different regions of the world not only furnishes a critique of current policies concerning women but offers proposals for action which could help to overcome barriers to women's access to high-level posts in the media." (Preface)
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"Through content analysis Frederick examines the ideological confrontation between the United States and Cuba as seen in their respective international radio newscasts on Voice of America and Radio Havana Cuba, accompanied by detailed explanations of his methodology." (Eleanor Blum, Frances G. Wilho
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it: Mass media bibliography. 3rd ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990 Nr. 611)
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"Describes, analyzes, and reproduces the front pages of eight newspapers published in the favelas of Rio, and lists eleven others. Includes a content analysis of the papers as a group and provides a bibliography." (Ann Hartness, Brazil in Reference Books 1965-1989. Scarecrow Press, 1991)
"[...] ¿De qué dispone la Iglesia chilena en este campo [de comunicación social]? ¿Quiénes y cómo publican y comunican? El Centro de Promoción y Desarrollo Social, CEPRODE y la Editorial Salesiana iniciaron hace dos años un trabajo de investigación sobre esta materia. Se hizo una recolecci
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n de datos que luego se sistematizaron y redactaron en la forma del presente documento de carácter restringido. Es sólo una primera aproximación y, por lo tanto, no está todo lo que debiera estar y hay vacíos en la información buscada. Sin embargo, es un trabajo que se hace por primera vez en Chile y que puede ser de gran utilidad para la Iglesia." (Introducción)
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"Collects 51 contributions to the Intercom Congress in September 1985, which deals with the relationship between media and communication science and education." (commbox)