Abstract: | JAPANESE CULTURE AND COMMUNICATION: CRITICAL CULTURAL ANALYSIS by Ray T. Donahue (Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1998—$59.00/39.50, ISBN 0–7618–1248–2 hard, 0–7618–1249–0 paper, 377 pp., notes, references, index) STATISTICAL YEARBOOK: FILM, TELEVISION, VIDEO AND NEW MEDIA IN EUROPE: 1999 EDITION by the European Audiovisual Observatory (Strasbourg, France: European Audiovisual Observatory, 1999— 900ff or about $160, paper, ISBN 92–871–3885–0, 415 pp., tables, charts, notes, bibliography) MODERN HISTORY OF INDIAN PRESS by Sunit Ghosh (New Delhi: Cosmo Publications, 1998—no price available, ISBN 81–7020–697–9, 394 pp., index) ASIAN COMMUNICATION HANDBOOK edited by Anura Goonasekera and Duncan Holaday (Singapore: Asian Media Information and Communication Centre and School of Communication Studies, Nanyang Technological University, 1998—$65.00, ISBN 9971–905–65–5, 446 pp.) PUBLIC PURPOSES IN BROADCASTING: FUNDING THE BBC edited by Andrew Graham (Luton: University of Luton Press, 1999—£10.95, paper, ISBN 1–86020–561–5, 168 pp., tables, index) TELECOMMUNICATIONS IN AFRICA edited by Eli M. Noam (New York: Oxford University Press “Global Communications,”; 1999—$75.00, ISBN 0–19–510201–0, 306 pp., tables, chapter bibliographies, index) LIBERALIZING THE EUROPEAN MEDIA: POLITICS REGULATION AND THE PUBLIC SPHERE by Shalini Venturelli (Oxford and New York: Clarendon Press, 1998—£50.00, ISBN 0–19–823379–5, 316 pp., index, bibliography) |