"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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"The central theme of this book [about suppressive journalism practices in Pakistan] is the persecution of newspapers and punitive actions taken against dissenting journalists. The first chapter deals with the one and three-quarters of a century of the ruthless repression and suppression under forei
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gn domination. The rest deal with the four distinct phases of our checkered history and offers an objective accourt of the captivity of the Press, and roles of various regimes and agencies, including proprietors of newspapers, editors, working journalists, their associations and unions" - Preface. In concentrating on the issue of freedom, this also shows much of the structure of Pakistan's contemporary press." (Eleanor Blum, Frances G. Wilhoit: Mass media bibliography. 3rd ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990 Nr. 317)
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"Luthra brings to his history of broadcasting in India more than 50 years of personal involvement, along with documents from the National Archives and correspondence and notes in files at the Directorate General of All India Radio. Emphasis is on the early years because, he says, "very little is now
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remembered of that period," and it is important that those who lived through it recapture it for history. This is a straight chronological account of events and the people who took part in them, with no effort to place the growth of Indian broadcasting in a social or cultural context, but which nevertheless serves as a useful starting place for research. An earlier book along the same lines is by Broadcasting in India (Bombay: Allied Publishers, 1965. 268 pages) by G. C. Awasthy, a former AIR employee." (Eleanor Blum, Frances G. Wilhoit: Mass media bibliography. 3rd ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990 Nr. 697)
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"An anthology sponsored by the World Association for Christian Communication, whose articles examine the MacBride Report and expound the philosophy that communication is a basic human right to be shared by the developing and developed countries alike. There is a 24-page bibliography of books, pamphl
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ets, documents, periodicals and articles on the NWICO by Colleen Roach." (Eleanor Blum, Frances G. Wilhoit: Mass media bibliography. 3rd ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990 Nr. 245)
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"India has to reach to the level, where it can provide food, clothing, and shelter to each individual, within the shortest possible time. Thus, it has become necessary to gear up the developmental process in India, where almost 80 percent of the population lives in rural areas isolated from the urba
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n centres and have low rates of literacy," says Sinha in his introduction. Using the village of Bihar as a case study, he explores the role and relevance of the mass media, especially television, and face-to-face communication. His introduction contains a very brief history of television." (Eleanor Blum, Frances G. Wilhoit: Mass media bibliography. 3rd ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990 Nr. 406)
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"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
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est of the book takes a country-and-region approach, covering Africa as a whole and more specifically Ghana, Kenya and Egypt; India; China; the Philippines; an overview of Latin America and of Brazil in particular; the role of U.S. publishers and textbooks; and finally, the modernization of publishing in Japan." (Eleanor Blum, Frances G. Wilhoit: Mass media bibliography. 3rd ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990 Nr. 985)
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