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"Twenty-eight experts examine broadcasting in 24 countries in this essay handbook. John Lent takes on Cuba and India; Benno Signitzer and Kurt Luger look at Austria; and Marvin Alisky reports on Chile, Mexico, and Peru. Other included countries are Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, China, the Fede ... more

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Les televisions du monde: Un panorama dans 110 pays

Guy Hennebelle (coord.)

Paris: Éditions du Cerf (1987), 520 pp.

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Third World Film Making and the West

Roy Armes

Berkeley: University of California Press (1987), xiii, 381 pp.

"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 ... more

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Intergovernmental Conference on Communication Policies in the Arab States: Final Report: Khartoum (Sudan) 19-23 July 1987

Paris: UNESCO (1987), 58 pp.

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Women and media decision-making: The invisible barriers

Margaret Gallagher et al.

Paris: UNESCO (1987), 121 pp.

"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 ... more

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The African Press

Martin Ochs

Cairo: American University Press in Cairo (1986), 138 pp.

"Although a number of books have been written on African journalism, this, according to Ochs, a professor of mass communication at the American University in Cairo, is the first to take an overall look at the continent as a whole, notwithstanding the lack of data and frequent change of ownership whi ... more

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La circulation internationale des émissions de télévision

Paris: UNESCO (1986), 61 pp.

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International Flow of News: An Annotated Bibliography

Hamid Mowlana (ed.)

Paris: UNESCO (1985), 272 pp.

"The first part includes studies international in scope, or deal with general theoretical, methodological and policy issues. The second part contains studies treating the regional or national flow of news by country for Africa, the Arab States, Asia, Eastern Europe, Western Europe, North America, an ... more

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International Flow of Television Programmes

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Le livre et la lecture en Algerie

Mahmoud Bouayed

Paris: UNESCO (1985), 61 pp.

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Development of Communication in the Arab States: Needs and Priorities

Yahya Abu Bakr, Saad Labib, Hamdy Kandil

Paris: UNESCO (1985), 60 pp.

"Taking a broad view, this report focuses on the need for communication planning and for recognition by Arab countries that communication must be placed in the larger context of comprehensive development planning. Several sections also consider the importance of developing capacity for production of ... more

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Philip G. Altbach, Amadio A. Aroleda, S. Gopinathan (eds.)

Portsmouth, New Hampsh.; London: Heinemann;Mansell (1985), xii, 226 pp.

"An in-depth look at the "state of the art" of book publishing in the Third World which examines not only the nuts and bolts but also its status as an important part of the knowledge distribution system. The first 50 pages discuss the status of textbook publishing, copyright, and distribution; the r ... more

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The Arab Image in the US Press

Issam Suleiman Mousa

New York: Peter Lang (1984), 187 pp.

"Current research on the Arab image in U.S. media tends to be strictly contemporary, linked to Israel and the Middle East conflict. This research, however, begins in 1917 with the downfall of Ottoman control and ends in 1948 with the creation of Israel. By means of a content analysis of the New York ... more

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International Publishing Today: Problems and Prospects

O. P. Ghai, Narendra Kumar

Manuel Salvat (honoured person)

Delhi: Bookman's Club (1984), 237 pp.

"An anthology on international publishing including such aspects as freedom to publish, publishing for human development, international book fairs, piracy, children's publishing, global problems of scholarly publishing, educational publishing, and - specifically for developing countries - training a ... more

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Le développement de l'information dans les pays arabes: Besoins et priorités

Yahya Abou Bakr, Saad Labib, Hamdy Kandi

Paris: UNESCO (1984), 62 pp.

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The Book Trade of the World. Vol. IV: Africa

Sigfred Taubert, Peter Weidhaas (eds.)

Munich: Saur (1984), 391 pp.

"The fourth and final volume of the Book Trade of the World, a series of books that aimed to provide a convenient reference tool to the world's publishing and bookselling industries, and to the institutions, organizations, and journals which are associated with them. The information on each country ... more

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Le livre et la lecture en Irak

Nawaf Adwan

Paris: UNESCO (1984), 36 pp.

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World Communications: A Handbook

George Gerbner, Marsha Siefert (eds.)

New York: Longman (1984), xv, 527 pp.

"Brings together 54 articles on research and policy on communications in the "three worlds" by scholars and policy makers from the U.S., Western Europe, the socialist countries including the U.S.S.R. and Eastern Europe, and the developing world, including Africa, Asia, and Latin America - 25 countri ... more

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