Resources Update
MASS MEDIA Robert N. Pierce, Keeping The Flame-Media and Government in Latin America (Hastings House, Publishers, 1979). $14.50, cloth; $8.95, paper, 270 pgs. The histories and...
...Guatemala-The Eternal Struggle is an introductory pamphlet to the country and its current conflict...
...13.95, cloth, 192 pgs...
...It concludes with a section on the "denuclearization" of Latin America...
...In Guatemala And Honduras documents increasing U.S...
...Thomas L. McPhail, Electronic Colonialism: The Future of International Broadcasting and Communication (Sage Publications, Inc., 1981...
...Militarizing Central America: The U.S...
...Texts on the means of communication-broadly defined to inJuly/Aug 1982 clude the circulation cycle generally-are grouped thematically...
...Big corporations, and the sophisticated technology they alone control, are defining the parameters of the information flow...
...17.50, cloth, 187 pgs...
...Of interest are the sections contrasting the Chilean media under Popular Unity and the Pinochet dictatorship...
...Focusing on potential areas of inter-state conflict, e.g...
...Hastings House, Publishers, 10 East 40th Street, New York, NY 10016...
...public television, discusses the issues and realities behind the call for a New World Information Order...
...military and economic intervention and U.S...
...International General, P.O...
...There is a new information order, but it's not one defined by the third world or UNESCO, says the United States' foremost media researcher and theoretician...
...Oxford University Press, 200 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10016...
...Suggestions for action...
...A final chapter addresses prospects for continued U.S...
...Revolution in Central America: A Survey of the Recent Documentaries is the title of an article by Dennis West in the spring 1982 issue of the U.S...
...film journal, Cineaste...
...Argentina-Chile, Peru-Ecuador and Nicaragua-Honduras, it gives examples of how the region has become inundated with advanced weapon systems...
...Policy in El Salvador, 1950 through 1981 (13 pgs., $1...
...Solidarity Publications, P.O...
...Nicaraguan daily newspapers Barricada and Nuevo Dlarlo can be received biweekly from Libreria del Pueblo, 2714 Bank Street, New Orleans, LA 70119...
...9.95, paper, 288 pgs...
...Box 40874, San Francisco, CA 94140...
...Sage Publications, Inc., 275 South Beverly Drive, Beverly Hills, CA 90212...
...domination in light of European and third world challenges...
...Much of these systems are from abroad, but recently home-grown industries have become increasingly important...
...A special section in SIPRI's 1982 Yearbook shows the high level of militarization of Latin America in the last 20 years...
...A Massacre In El Salvador's Morazan Province, December 7-17, 1981, Two statements by the FMLN/FDR (58 pgs., $2...
...Alcaravan is a magazine covering politics, literature and art in Honduras and the rest of Central America...
...Considering the region as a whole, Pierce looks at forms of government intervention and the media as government adversary or collaborator...
...32 pgs., 75 pence, Guatemala Working Group, c/o Latin America Bureau, 1 Amwell Street, London EC 1.) MISCELLANEOUS Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, World Armaments and Disarmament-SIPRI Yearbook 1982 (SIPRI, 1982...
...From a Canadian perspective, McPhail provides background and summary of the major issues and viewpoints behind the NWIO...
...Care is taken to appreciate third world demands and values while not bowing to the dictates of bureaucrats or elites at the cost of equitable development...
...L22.50, cloth, 517 pgs...
...While recognizing the contribution of the MacBride Commission, Smith finds it lacking as a blueprint for meaningful change...
...firms supplying military hardware...
...SOLIDARITY RESOURCES Available from Solidarity Publications are: Guatemala, The People Unitel-Unity Statement From The Guatemalan National Revolutionary Unity, URNG and Declaration Of The Guatemalan Patriotic Unity Committee, CGUP (25 pgs., $1.25...
...Entries are offered without commentary, except for a long introduction by the editor, a professor of the sociology of communication at Grenoble...
...and Cuba, pre-and post Batista...
...1.75, Cineaste, 419 Park Avenue South, New York, NY 10016...
...An Interview With Salvador Cayetano Carplo-'Marcial" Of The General Command of the FMLN (14 pgs., $1...
...Herbert I. Schiller, Who Knows: Information In The Age Of The Fortune 500 (Ablex Publishing Corporation, 1981...
...Smith, with long years of experience in British electronic media and U.S...
...Ablex Publishing Corporation, 355 Chestnut Street, Norwood, NJ 07648...
...4 pgs., $.50 single copy, $2.50 for 10, $12 for 100, National Action Research On The Military Industrial Complex [NARMIC], 1501 Cherry Street, Philadelphia, PA 19102...
...Yves de la Haye, ed., Marx and Engels on the Means of Communication-The Movement of Commodities, People, Information and Capital (IG/IMMRC, 1979...
...References are provided...
...Box 350, New York, NY 10013...
...5, paper, 171 pgs...
...Anthony Smith, The Geopolitics of Information-How Western Culture Dominates the World (Oxford University Press, 1980...
...Stockholm international Peace Research Institute, Oelgeschlager, Gunn & Hain Inc., 1278 Massachusetts Avenue, Harvard Square, Cambridge, MA 02138...
...Robert Armstrong and Philip Wheaton, Reform and Repression, U.S...
...As an overview of meetings and events, the book can be helpful, but one wishes the author had allowed himself to be more analytical, and perhaps, more partisan...
...20, cloth...
...10 yearly, Alcaravan, Editorial Guaymuras, Apartado Postal 1843, Tegucigalpa, Honduras...
...The histories and current practices of the media in relation to governments are the focus of case studies on Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Cuba, Mexico, Peru and Venezuela...
Vol. 16 • July 1982 • No. 4
