"Nearly 200 countries are surveyed in this alphabetical, international guide to print and broadcast media. Each country profile contains a brief historical and political overview and sections focusing on news sources, the press, broadcasting, and a directory of major newspapers, broadcast organizati
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ons, agencies, and press associations. Most entries are two to four pages in length, although a few (Japan, United Kingdom, United States) are ten pages or longer. Drost passively states in his spare one-page introduction that: "A few words should perhaps be said on terminology: "owned by" is used loosely to cover a maze of ownership patterns; "independent" is used as a description of ownership, not political or editorial stance; a "daily" is published on at least four days per week; and "tabloid" refers to paper size not content." (Jo A. Cates: Journalism - a guide to the reference literature. Englewood, Col.: Libraries Unlimited, 2nd ed. 1997 nr. 129)
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"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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"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
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nd collection development. Articles also deal with various phases of book publishing in the U.S.S.R., India, Japan, Australia, the Arab countries, Latin America, Spain, Mexico and French-speaking Africa. The volume is a festschrift honoring Maneul Salvat, President of the International Publishers Association." (Eleanor Blum, Frances G. Wilhoit: Mass media bibliography. 3rd ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990 Nr. 1051)
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"Beginning with the 1975-76 television season and continuing for eight years, Shaheen, an American of Arabic descent, documented over 100 different popular entertainment programs, cartoons and major documentaries telecast on network, independent and public channels, totaling nearly 200 episodes, tha
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t related to Arabs. He concludes that TV in its various genre perpetrates four basic myths: they are all fabulously rich; they are barbaric and uncultured; they are sex maniacs with a penchant for white slavery; and they revel in acts of terrorism." (Eleanor Blum, Frances G. Wilhoit: Mass media bibliography. 3rd ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990 Nr. 780)
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"Eight previously unpublished studies which examine patterns of coverage and summarize attitudinal findings. The first chapter is a summary of content findings in later chapters, with more detailed discussion of coverage of Afghanistan and Iran; the next five chapters center upon Israel and Arab nat
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ions; the two final chapters deal with the coverage of the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan and the big news story of 1980 - the seizure of American hostages by Iran. References follow each chapter. Short subject index and a name index." (Eleanor Blum, Frances G. Wilhoit: Mass media bibliography. 3rd ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990 Nr. 470)
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"Articles derived from a symposium at Georgetown University, organized around four main themes: popular perception of Islam and the Arabs; Arab stereotyping in television entertaining; practices and constraints in American journalism; and American journalists in the Arab world. In a concluding artic
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le Hudson summarizes the papers, analyzing trends which seem to dominate media treatment of Arabs and cautiously suggesting two modest steps which would lead to improvement." (Eleanor Blum, Frances G. Wilhoit: Mass media bibliography. 3rd ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990 Nr. 200)
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"Offers critical reflections intended to contribute to an understanding of important points that the MacBride Report "rightfully stressed or unfortunately omitted." Contributors include Alfred Opubor, Kaarle Nordenstreng, Tamàs Szecsko, Rafael Roncagliolo, Oswalda Capriles, Nabil H. Dajani, Eapen K
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. Eapen, Jörg Becker, Herbert Schiller, Charles Foubert, and Hamelink." (Eleanor Blum, Frances G. Wilhoit: Mass media bibliography. 3rd ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990 Nr. 176)
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"Presents an overview of the problems and prospects of publishing in the Third World and includes a fairly comprehensive bibliography. In two parts, the first discusses major trends in the literature on publishing in the Third World and the second is the bibliography, listing books and journal artic
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les in French, English, Spanish and German arranged by country, region and by subject, with cross-referencing. Cites 969 references." (Hans M. Zell, Publishing, Books & Reading in Sub-Saharan Africa, 3d ed. 2008, nr. 170)
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"Unlike more recent books dealing with the press in the Middle East which focus upon the treatment of the Arab Israeli conflict, this one analyzes the news media as institutions, "to see what forms they have taken in the independent Arab states, how the self-governing Arab societies have chosen to c
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ontrol them, and how they relate to the political processes in the Arab world." The author, counselor for public affaire at the U.S. Embassy, Cairo and an expert on the region, looks in particular at the relationship between the mass media and the government with an eye to the extent of freedom that exists. Countries dealt with are the 18 nation states where Arabic is the official language of the people and the media. Much of the material is based on interviews and Arabic-languages sources. Notes and index." (Eleanor Blum, Frances G. Wilhoit: Mass media bibliography. 3rd ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990 Nr. 374)
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Describes approximately 375 schools and 85 archives in 76 countries around the world.
"Gives information on the uses of radio and TV in connection with literacy work in 40 countries in various parts of the world." (Eleanor Blum, Frances G. Wilhoit: Mass media bibliography. 3rd ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990 Nr. 706)