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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

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World Press Encyclopedia, Vol. 2

George Thomas Kurian (ed.)

New York: Facts on File (1982), pp. 645-1202

"Country chapters identify and describe major and selected specialized newspapers and mass circulating magazines. Tables provide basic information for the dailies. Each chapter also carries a discussion of press laws, censorship, state-press relations, and attitudes toward foreign media. Detailed su ... more

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Communication in the Community: An International Study on the Role of the Mass Media in Seven Communities

Paris: UNESCO (1981), 85 pp.

"This publication consists of short accounts of seven studies carried out in seven different countries on the part played by the media in the development of "social consciousness" in two widely different social groups in each of the countries concerned. The research on which the accounts are based h ... more

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Broadcasting Around the World

William E. McCavitt

Blue Ridge Summit, Pa.: Tab Books (1981), 336 pp.

"Description of broadcasting systems in 18 countries: South Africa, Poland, Russia, Japan, South Korea, Israel, Canada, the United States, Brazil, Guyana, India, Federal Republic of Germany, Britain, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Sweden and Australia. Each chapter has been written by an individua ... more

Assistance to Third World Broadcasters: Source Directory

Miriam Williford

New York: Ford Foundation;BBC (1979), approx. 120 pp.

Worldwide Markets for English-Language Books

George Kurian (ed.)

White Plains, NY: Knowledge Industry Publications (1978), 327 pp.

"A description of the book trade in the seven major English-speaking countries of the world, which, grouped by size of market, are the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Republic of South Africa, Australia, India, and New Zealand. A special section gives eleven minor markets in alphabetical ... more

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Access: Some Western Models of Community Media

Frances J. Berrigan (ed.)

Paris: UNESCO (1977), 229 pp.

"The three studies contained in this volume trace the emergence of 'community media' in Western society—specifically new approaches to broadcasting and electronic media in North America and Western Europe [...] The orientation of the studies is not purely towards research, though where research ha ... more

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Media Studies in Education

Susan Bennett et al.

Paris: UNESCO (1977), 92 pp.

"Covers aspects of media education in the secondary schools in certain European countries where it is emphasized: France, Italy, Federal Republic of Germany, The Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Denmark, Finland, Sweden, the U.S.S.R. (cinema only), and the U.S.A. In all countries except the U.S. fil ... more

Weltgeschichte der Kinder- und Jugendliteratur: Versuch einer Gesamtdarstellung

Carmen Bravo-Villasante

Hannover et al.: Schroedel (1977), 436 pp.

Perspectives on Publishing

Philip G. Altbach, Sheila McVey (eds.)

Lexington, Mass.; Toronto: Lexington Books (1976), 283 pp.

Radio Power: Propaganda and International Broadcasting

Julian Hale

Philadelphia: Temple University Press (1975), 196 pp.

"An introduction to the practice of overseas broadcasting as propaganda and the various ideological philosophies back of it, in terms both of sender and receiver. Analysis centers around Nazi Germany, the Communist countries, the U.S.'s Voice of America, Britain's BBC, and the undeveloped parts of t ... more

The First Casualty: From the Crimes to Vietnam. The War Correspondent as Hero, Propagandist, and Myth Maker

Phillip Knightley

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich (1975), 465 pp.

"The title indicates the scope of this excellent history of the war correspondent, including photographers, as Knightley traces him (and a few hers) from the beginning of this type of journalism in the Crimes in the 1850s to the war in Vietnam over a century later. In between he covers various wars, ... more

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Race as news

Paris: UNESCO (1974), 173 pp.

"Monograph on the communication impact of the mass media on race relations and racial prejudice. Discusses communication research on such related questions as ethnic groups, attitudes change, emigration and immigration, the role of the press and problems of a multi-racial society." (www.unesdoc.unes ... more

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Flashback: Films and History

Paris: UNESCO;La Baconnière (1974), 256 pp.

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International Inventory of Television Programme Structure and the Flow of TV Programmes Between the Nations

Tapio Varis

Tampere: University of Tampere (1973), 264 pp.

Cinematographic Institutions

International Film and Television Council (IFTC)

Paris: UNESCO (1973), 98 pp.

"Primarily "a study of institutions of the public or public utility character whose purpose is to promote the art and technique of the cinema and their applications in education, science and culture." Thus, film and trade associations and trade union types of associations are not dealt with. It uses ... more