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FILM, THEATRE, AND MEDIA: Fall 1998

AFRICAN-AMERICAN NEWSPAPERS AND PERIODICALS A National Bibliography
JAMES P. DANKY, EDITOR Maureen E. Hady, Associate Editor Foreword by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
The authentic voice of African-American culture is captured in this first comprehensive guide to a treasure trove of writings by and for a people, as found in sources in the United States, Canada, and the Caribbean. This bibliography of over 6,000 entries is the indispensable guide to the stories of slavery, freedom, Jim Crow, segregation, liberation, struggle, and triumph. Besides describing many new discoveries, this work informs researchers where and how to find them.

Harvard University Press Reference Library February 1999 8 1/2 x 11 inches 816 pages
ISBN 0-674-00788-3

: $125.00x (£77.95) cloth

IN SEARCH OF AFRICA
MANTHIA DIAWARA
In 1996 Manthia Diawara, a distinguished professor of film and literature in New York City, returned to Guinea, thirty-two years after he and his family were expelled from the newly liberated country. Diawara's journey gives us the story of a quest for a childhood friend, for the past and present, and above all for an Africa that is struggling to find its future.

November 1998 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 inches 19 halftones, 1 map 288 pages
ISBN 0-674-44611-9 

: $27.95 (£17.50) cloth

TELECOMMUNICATION POLICY FOR THE INFORMATION AGE From Monopoly to Competition
GERALD W. BROCK
Gerald Brock develops a new theory of decentralized public decisionmaking and uses it to clarify the dramatic changes that have transformed the telecommunication industry from a heavily regulated monopoly to a set of market-oriented firms.

September 1998 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 inches 3 line illus. 336 pages
ISBN 0-674-87326-2

: $22.95x (£14.50) paper

WHAT THE PEOPLE KNOW Freedom and the Press
RICHARD REEVES
The power and status of the press in America reached new heights after spectacular reporting triumphs in the segregated South, in Vietnam, and during Watergate. Then new technologies created instantaneous global reporting which left the government unable to control the flow of information to the nation. But that was more power than the press could handle-and journalism crashed toward new lows in public esteem and public purpose. Richard Reeves was there at the rise and at the fall. From the Pony Express to the Internet, he chronicles what happened to the press as America accelerated into uncertainty

The Joanna Jackson Goldman Memorial Lecture on
American Civilization and Government
November 1998 5 x 7 1/2 inches 128 pages
ISBN 0-674-61622-7

: $19.95 (£12.50) cloth

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