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World communication report: the media and the challenge of the new technologies

Lotfi Maherzi

Paris: UNESCO (1997), 298 pp., illustr., bibliogr. p.280-283, abbrev. p.284-287, glossary p.288-298

ISBN 92-3-103428-6

"The purpose of producing a second edition of the World Communication Report was pragmatic: the aim was to provide a reference work for decision-makers, planners, researchers, students, media professionals and the general public. In view of the scope of the subjects covered and the rapid outdating o... more

Mass media in sub-Saharan Africa

Louise M. Bourgault

Indianapolis, Indiana: Indiana University Press (1995), 294 pp., bibliogr. p.270-287, index

ISBN 0-253-31250-7; 0-253-20938-2

"Bourgault investigates three principal influences: the pre-colonial legacy of the oral tradition, the presence of an alienated managerial class, and the domination of African nations by systems based on political patronage. The first two chapters provide the theoretical framework. Subsequent chapte... more

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A passion for radio: radio waves and community

Bruce Girard (ed.)

Montreal; New York: Black Rose Books (1992), 212 pp.

ISBN 90-5638-0834 (ebook); 1-895431-35-2 (hbk); 1-895431-34-4 (pbk)

Other Editions: also published in French and Spanish

"The primary objective of this book is to present a wide range of community radio projects, not so that the “ideal” model can be identified, but in the hope that the book will serve as a useful tool for community broadcasters and potential community broadcasters looking to create or adapt models... more

Litterature d'Afrique noire: les conditions de production et de circulation du livre de 1960 a nos jours

Françoise Cévaér

Paris: Doctoral Thesis Université Paris-Nord (1992), 619 pp.

"Cette recherche propose un bilan statistique de la production litteraire africaine et une analyse des conditions materielles et economiques de production et de circulation des textes, tous deux revises a la lumiere des facteurs sociologiques et ideologiques qui les influencent." (Résumé)

Third World film making and the West

Roy Armes

Berkeley: University of California Press (1987), xiii, 381 pp., illustr., bibliogr. p.327-361, index

ISBN 0-520-05667-1; 0-520-05690-6

"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

World broadcasting systems: a comparative analysis

Sydney W. Head

Belmont: Wadsworth (1985), xix, 457 pp., abbrev., glossary p.403-420, bibliogr. p.421-438, index

ISBN 0-534-04734-3

"Instead of describing typical systems in their entirety ...," says Head in his foreword, "I decided to organize the text on the basis of the common problems faced by all systems" to show the basic, universal demands and dilemmas they all must face as each interacts with its particular national sett... more