"Cet ouvrage analyse comment les médias transfrontières tels que les radios internationales, la vidéo, les télévisions par satellite ou encore Internet, peuvent contribuer, dans les pays du tiers monde, à contourner les politiques nationales de censure." (Présentation)
"The Companion Encyclopedia of Middle Eastern and North African Film is a unique, one volume work which illuminates a fascinating variety of cinema which is little known outside its own area. The Encyclopedia is divided into nine chapters, each written by a leading scholar in the field. Each chapter
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covers the history and major issues of film within that area, as well as providing bibliographies of the leading films, directors and actors. The areas covered are: Central Asia, Egypt, Iran, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Kuwait, Libya, The Magreb, Palestine, Turkey. It contains more than 60 black and white photographs of featured films, includes references and suggestions for further reading at the end of each chapter, and the volume concludes with comprehensive name, film and general indexes." (Publisher description)
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"Les articles sont issus de trois conférences organisées à Accra en 1996, Kampala en 1997 et Accra en 1999 sur le thème "Les médias et la construction de la paix en Afrique". Le comportement et la coresponsabilité des médias pendant le génocide rwandais de 1994 ont été à l'origine de cett
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e réflexion. Dans ce contexte, les auteurs s'interrogent sur le rôle que les journalistes doivent (ou peuvent) jouer dans les sociétés africaines en cas de conflit et sur la possibilité pour eux d'adopter une attitude impartiale lorsque l'État justifie la répression sous diverses formes par l'argument de la sécurité nationale. Les explications d'ordre général sont étayées par des exemples individuels détaillés." (DÜI-Wgm)
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"No scholarly consensus exists about how the terms 'memory' and 'collective memory' may most fruitfully inform historical study. Hence there is still much room for reflection and clarification in this branch of cultural history. How war has been remembered collectively is the central question in thi
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s volume. War in the twentieth century is a vivid and traumatic phenomenon which has left behind it survivors who engage time and time again in acts of remembrance. Thus this volume, which contains essays by outstanding scholars of twentieth-century history, focuses on the issues raised by the shadow of war in this century. Drawing on material from countries in Europe, and from Israel and the United States, the contributors have adopted a 'social agency' approach which highlights the behaviour, not of whole societies or of ruling groups alone, but of the individuals who do the work of remembrance, who feel they have a duty to remember, and who want to preserve a piece of the past. More specifically, the traumatic collective memory resulting from the horors of the First World War, the Spanish Civil War, the Second World War, and the Algerian War is examined through studies of public forms of remembrance, such as museums and exhibitions, literature and film, thus demonstrating that a popular kind of collective memory is still very much alive." (Publisher description)
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"This collection • reveals the dynamic position of the arts and culture in post-independent countries through changes in both influences and audiences; • shows African theatre to be about aesthetics and rituals, the sociological and the political, the anthropological and the historical; • exam
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ines theatre’s role as a performing art that represents ethnic identities and defines intercultural relationships; • investigates African theatre’s capacity to combine contemporary cultural issues into the whole artistic fabric of performing arts; • considers the variety of voices, forms and practices through which contemporary African intellectual circles are negotiating the forces of tradition and modernity." (Back cover)
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"Does minority media contribute to ethnic cohesion and cultural maintenance? Or does an ethnic media encourage assimilation into the dominant culture by espousing that culture's products, images, and values? Ethnic Minority Media explores these issues by providing a broad sampling of case studies th
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at span a variety of ethnic minorities and countries. Each case study presents the different cultural, political, and economic conditions that figure prominently in the media's role in ethnic survival or demise. The contributors, many of them internationally regarded journalists, primarily study the print and broadcast media that minorities have established for their communities. They focus on previously neglected minority media in the United States (Hispanic and Native), Great Britain (Welsh), Ireland (Irish), Canada (Native), Australia (Aboriginal), Israel (Romanian), France (Occitan and Basque), Greenland (Inuit), Chile (Native), and Algeria (Berber). They analyze this phenomena on many levels, defining crucial terms, considering different audiences, and contrasting ethnic and mainstream media." (Publisher description)
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"Annotated listings of over 4,600 libraries, publishers, booksellers, magazines and periodicals, and major newspapers throughout Africa." (commbox)