"Contributors discuss popular religion, popular music, comics, television, sports, photo-novels, film, festivals and carnivals, cartoons and newspapers. Most of the approaches are critical-methodological within the various disciplines of the writers, including literature, cultural anthropology, soci
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ology, philosophy, music, mass communications and history. Two approaches in particular emerge - the cultural imperialist and the semiological - based mostly on the works of Umberto Eco." (Eleanor Blum, Frances G. Wilhoit: Mass media bibliography. 3rd ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990 Nr. 191)
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"Within the larger framework of economic, politics and culture of the film industry in Argentina, Mexico, Brazil, Chile and Bolivia, Schnitman discusses problems of production, distribution and exhibition 1930-1980, showing emergent patterns which are both contradictory and complementary. Background
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chapters describe "The Silent Years, 1896-1930" and "The International Context," featuring the film industry in the U.S., 1930-1948. An appendix gives statistics on Latin American film. Contains a list of references and a name and a subject index." (Eleanor Blum, Frances G. Wilhoit: Mass media bibliography. 3rd ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990 Nr. 1466)
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"Includes bibliographies; filmographies; books in Spanish, Portuguese and English; general articles and articles on Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Cuba, Jamaica, Mexico, Nicaragua and Venezuela; Hispanic cinema in the U.S.; and a listing of film periodicals in Spanish, Portuguese and English. Ab
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out 150 entries in all." (Eleanor Blum, Frances G. Wilhoit: Mass media bibliography. 3rd ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990 Nr. 1641)
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