Frank Baker Media Literacy Collection

NOTE: These materials are currently located inside the USC School of Mass Communication & Journalism and are available for checkout.
Questions about these materials should be directed to me.   fbaker1346@gmail.com

Frank Baker Collection in Media Literacy

Introduction: in 2012, I donated a large portion of my personal media literacy books to the University of SC so that educators and otherswould have access to the materials. Other materials were acquired through donations from the media literacy programs at The Center for Media Literacy, Appalachian State University and Project LookSharp.

Advertising/Marketing | Bias | Female/Male/Gender Issues | Film | Language/Literacy |
Magazines|Mass MediaMedia Education/Media Literacy/Media Studies|Media & Politics |
Media & Violence | News/Journalism | Photograph | Radio | Television Visual Literacy |
Unclassified | Miscellaneous


 

ADVERTISING/MARKETING

Acuff, Daniel S., & Reiher, Robert H. Kidnapped: How Irresponsible Marketers are Stealing the Minds of Your Children. 264 p. Chicago: Dearborn Trade Publishing. 2005

Arens, William F. Contemporary Advertising. 7th ed. 1 v. (various pagings). Boston : Irwin /McGraw-Hill, 1999.

Barban, A. M. Advertising: Its Role in Modern Marketing. 3rd ed. 630 p. Hinsdale, IL: Dryden Press, 1974.

Blumenthal, Howard J. Branded for Life: How Americans are Brainwashed by the Brands We Love. 255 p. Cincinnati, OH: Emmis Books, 2005.

Bogart, Leo. Commercial Culture: the Media System and the Public Interest. 384 p. New York : Oxford University Press, 1995.

Bogart, Leo. Strategy in Advertising: Matching Media and Messages to Markets and Motivations. 2nd ed. 406 p. Lincolnwood, IL: NTC Business Books, 1986.

Book, Albert C., et al. Radio & Television Commercial. 3rd ed ed. vi, 234 p. Lincolnwood , Ill : NTC Business Books, 1996.

Budd, Mike, Steve Craig, and Clayton M. Steinman. Consuming Environments: Television and Commercial Culture. xix, 225 p. NewBrunswick , N.J: Rutgers , University Press, 1999.

Cortese, Anthony J. Provocateur: Images of Women and Minorities in Advertising. 161 p. New York, NY: Rowman and Littlefield, 1999.

Darman, Peter. Posters of World War 1: Allied and Axis Propaganda 1939 – 1945. , New York, Metro, 2008.

Dunn, S. W. Advertising: Its Role in Modern Marketing. 3rd ed. 630 p. Hinsdale, IL: Dryden Press, 1974.

Ewen, Stuart and Elizabeth Ewen. Channels of Desire: Mass Images and the Shaping of American Consciousness. New York, McGraw Hill, 1982.

Ewen, Stuart. All Consuming Images: the Politics of Style in Contemporary Culture. xi, 306 p. New York : Basic Books, 1988.

Ewen, Stuart. Captains of Consciousness: Advertising and the Social Roots of the Consumer Culture. 257 p. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill, 2001.

Ewen, Stuart. Captains of Consciousness: Advertising and the Social Roots of the Consumer Culture. 261 p. New York : McGraw-Hill, 1976.

Ewen, Stuart. PR!: a Social History of Spin. 1st ed ed. xv, 480 p. New York : Basic Books, 1996.

Fowles, Jib. Advertising and Popular Culture. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 1996.

Fox, Roy.  Harvesting Minds: How TV Commercials Control Kids. Westport, CT: Praeger, 1996.

Fox, Stephen. The Mirror Makers: A History of American Advertising. 383 p. London: Heinemann, 1984.

Frith, Katherin Toland (ed.). Undressing the Ad: Reading Culture in Advertising. Vol. 54, 250 p. New York, NY: Peter Lang, 1997.

Goldman, Robert. Reading Ads Socially. 247 p. New York, NY: Routledge, 1992.

Goodrum, Charles, & Dalrymple, Helen. Advertising in America: The First 200 Years. 288 p. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1990.

Hafer, W. Keith and Gordon E. White. Advertising Writing. xiv, 271 p. St. Paul : West Pub. Co, 1977.

Hall , Jim . Mighty Minutes: an Illustrated History of Television’s Best Commercials. 1st ed. 172 p. New York: Harmony Books, 1984.

Heller, Steven (ed.). Sex Appeal: The Art of Allure in Graphic and Advertising Design. 272 p. New York, NY: Allworth Press, 2000.

Ikuta, Yasutoshi (ed.). The ‘60s America Portrayed Though Advertisements. 104 p. Tokyo: Graphic-Sha, 1989.

Ikuta, Yasutoshi (ed.). ‘50s American Magazine Ads. 112 p. Tokyo: Graphic-Sha, 1987.

Jackall, Robert, & Hirota, Janice M. Image Makers: Advertising, Public Relations, and the Ethos of Advocacy. 333 p. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2000.

Jacobson, Michael F., & Mazur, Laurie Ann. Marketing Madness: A Survival Guide for a Consumer Society Marketing Madness: A Survival Guide for a Consumer Society. 260. San Francisco, CA: Westview Press, 1995.

Jhally, Sut. The Codes of Advertising: Fetishism and the Political Economy of Meaning in the Consumer Society. 225 p. New York, NY: Routledge, 1990.

Jones, Duane. Ads , Women and Boxtops. Pleasantville, NY: Printers Ink Books, 1955.

Kanner, Bernice. The 100 Best TV Commercials…And Why They Worked. 252 p. New York: Random House, 1999.

Kanner, Bruce. The Super Bowl of Advertising: How the Commercials Won the Game. 215 p. Princeton: Bloomberg Press, 2004.

Kern-Foxworth, Marilyn. Aunt Jemima, Uncle Ben, and Rastus: Blacks in Advertising, Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow. xxi, 205 p. Westport , Conn : Greenwood Press, 1994.

Kilbourne, Jean. Can’t Buy My Love: How Advertising Changes the Way We Think and Feel. 366 p. New York , NY: Free Press, 1999.

Kilbourne, Jean. Can’t Buy My Love: How Advertising Changes the Way We Think and Feel. 366 p. New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, 1999.

Kilbourne, Jean. Deadly Persuasion: Why Women and Girls Must Fight the Addictive Power of Advertising.  New York: Free Press, 1999.

Kilbourne, Jean. Deadly Persuasion: Why Women and Girls Must Fight the Addictive Power of Advertising. 365 p. New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, 1999.

Klein, Naomi. No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies. 490 p. New York, NY: St. Martin’s Press, 1999.

Kotler, Philip and Gary Armstrong. Principles of Marketing. 7th ed. 1 v. (various pagings). Englewood Cliffs, N.J: Prentice Hall, 1996.

Landman, Jane and Considine, Michael. Giving the Name Away: Product Placement in Popular Cinema, Melbourne , Australian Teachers of Media. 1992.

Larson, Charles. Persuasion: Reception and Responsibility. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, 1998.

Lasn, Kalle. Culture Jam: How to Reverse America ‘s Suicidal Consumer Binge, and Why We Must. 1st Quill ed. xvii, 247 p. New York : Quill, 2000.

Lears, T. J. J. Fables of Abundance: a Cultural History of Advertising in America, 492 p. New York: Basic Books, 1994.

Leiss, William, Kline, Stephen, & Jhally, Sut. Social Communication in Advertising: Person, Products & Image of Well-Being. 327 p. New York: Methuen, 1986.

Marchand, Roland. Advertising the American Dream: Making Way for Modernity 1920-1940. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1986.

McGrath, Molly Wade. Top Sellers, U.S.A: Success Stories Behind America ‘s Best-Selling Products From Alka-Seltzer to Zippo. 1st ed. 186 p. New York : Morrow, 1983.

Messaris, Paul. Visual Persuasion: the Role of Images in Advertising. 297 p. Thousand Oaks : Sage Publications, 1997.

Meyers, William. The Image Makers: Power and Persuasion on Madison Avenue. 242 p. New York, NY: Times Books, 1984.

Moog, Carol. “Are They Selling Her Lips?”: Advertising and Identity. 236 p. New York, NY: William Morrow, 1990.

Nestle, Marion. Food Politics: How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition and Health. Berkeley: University CA Press, 2002.

Newman , Bruce. The Marketing of the President: Political Marketing as a Campaign Strategy. Thousand Oaks , CA: Sage, 1994.

O’Guinn, Thomas C., Chris T. Allen, and Richard J. Semenik. Advertising. 623 p. Cincinnati , Ohio : South-Western College Pub, 1998

O’Barr, William M. Culture and the Ad: Exploring Otherness in the World of Advertising. 212 p. San Francisco, CA: Westview Press, 1994.

Ogilvy, David. Confessions of an Advertising Man. 172 p. New York, NY: Atheneum, 1987.

Ogilvy, David. Ogilvy on Advertising. 224 p. New York, NY: Crown Publishers, 1983.

Preston, Ivan L. The Great American Blowup: Puffery in Advertising and Selling. Revised ed. 243 p. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 1996.

Ries, Al, & Ries, Laura. The Fall of Advertising & The Rise of PR. 295 p. New York: HarperCollins, 2002.

Ries, Al, & Ries, Laura. The Origin of Brands: How Product Evolution Creates Endless Possibilities for New Brands. 308 p. New York, NY: HarperCollins, 2004.

Rutherford, Paul. The New Icons? The Art of Television Advertising. 270 p. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1994.

Savan, Leslie. Sponsored Life: Ads, TV, and American Culture. 354 p. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1994.

Schmitt, Bernd and Alex Simonson, Marketing Aesthetics: The Strategic Management of Brands, Identity and Image , New York, Free Press, 1997.

Schofield, Perry (ed.). 100 Top Copy Writers and Their Favorite Ads. 219 p. New York: Printers’ Ink Publishing, 1954.

Schor, Juliet B. Born to Buy: The Commercialized Child and the New Consumer Culture. 275 p. New York, NY: Scribner, 2004.

Schudson, Michael. Advertising, the Uneasy Persuasion: Its Dubious Impact on American Society. 288 p. New York : Basic Books, 1984.

Schudson, Michael. Advertising, the Uneasy Persuasion: Its Dubious Impact on American Society. 288 p. New York, NY: Perseus Books, 1986.

Sheehan, Kim Bartel. Controversies in Contemporary Advertising. 333 p vols. Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications, 2003.

Shields, Vicki Rutledge, & Heinecken, Dawn. Measuring Up: How Advertising Affects Self-Image. 224 p. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002.

Sivulka, Juliann. Soap, Sex, and Cigarettes: A Cultural History of American Advertising. 448 p. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Publishing Company, 1998.

Stoltz, Donald, & Stoltz, Marshall. The Advertising World of Norman Rockwell. 209 p. New York, NY: Harrison House, 1986.

Sullivan, Luke. Hey, Whipple, Squeeze This!: a Guide to Creating Great Ads. 256 p. New York, NY: John Wiley, 1998.

Thomas, Susan Gregory. Buy, Buy Baby: How Consumer Culture Manipulates Parents and Harms Young Minds. 276 p. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2007.

Turow, Joseph. Breaking Up America: Advertising and the New Media World. 242 p. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1997.

Twitchell, James B. Adcult USA: The Triumph of Advertising in American Culture. 279 p. New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 1996.

Twitchell, James B. Lead Us Into Temptation: The Triumph of American Materialism. 310 p. New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 1999.

Twitchell, James B. Twenty Ads that Shook the World: The Century’s Most Groundbreaking Advertising and How it Changed Us All. 229 p. New York, NY: Three Rivers Press, 2000.

Twitchell, James B. Twenty Ads that Shook the World: The Century’s Most Groundbreaking Advertising and How it Changed Us All. 229 p. New York, NY: Crown Publishers, 2000.

Twitchell , James B, 20 Ads That Shook the World, New York, Crown, 2000.

Ulanoff, Stanley M. Advertising in America: An Introduction to Persuasive Communication. 492 p. New York, NY: Hastings House, 1977.

Vestergaard, Torben, & Schroder, Kim. The Language of Advertising. 182 p. Oxford: Basil Blackwell Publishers, 1985.

Weiss, Ann E. The School of Madison Avenue: Advertising and What it Teaches. 131 p. New York, NY: E.P. Dutton, 1980.

Wells, William, John Burnett, and Sandra E. Moriarty. Advertising: Principles & Practice. 4th ed. 731 p. Upper Saddle River , N.J: Prentice Hall, 1998.

Williams, Gareth. Branded? Products and Their Personalities. 95 p. London: V and A Publications, 2000.

Winter, Willis L., Zeigler, Sherilyn K., & Writght, John S. Advertising. 5th ed. 545 p. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1982.

Wolf, Naomi, The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty are Used Against Women, New York, Anchor, 1991.

Wright, John W. Commercial Connection: Advertising and the American Mass Media. 347 p. New York: Dell Pub. Co.,1979.

Yanker, Gary, Prop Art:Contemporary Political Posters, Greenwich, CT, Darien House , 1972.

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BIAS

Alterman, Eric. What Liberal Media?: the Truth About Bias and the News. 322 p. New York: Basic Books, 2003.

Cohen, Jeff and Norman Solomon. Through the Media Looking Glass: Decoding Bias and Blather in the News. 275 p. Monroe, ME: Common Courage Press, 1995.

Goldberg, Bernard. Arrogance: Rescuing America From the Media Elite. 310 p. New York: Warner Books, 2003.

—. Bias: a CBS Insider Exposes How the Media Distorts the News. 232 p. Washington, DC: Regnery Publishing, 2001.

Naureckas, Jim and Janine Jackson. FAIR Reader: an Extra! Review of Press and Politics in the ’90s. 254 p. Boulder, CO: WestviewPress, 1996.

Streissguth, Tom. Media Bias. 116 p. Tarrytown, NY: Marshall Cavendish Benchmark, 2007.

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FEMALE/MALE/GENDER ISSUES

Wolf, Naomi. Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women. 1st Anchor Books ed. 348 p. New York: Anchor Books, 1992.

Douglas, Susan J. Where the Girls Are. New York: Random House, 1994.

Mazzarella, Sharon R. and Norma Odom Pecora. Growing Up Girls: Popular Culture and the Construction of Identity. 228 p. New York: P. Lang, 1999.

Holtzman, Linda. Media Messages: What Film, Television, and Popular Music Teach Us About Race, Class, Gender, and SexualOrientation. 346 p., [16] p. of plates. Armonk, N.Y: M.E. Sharpe, 2000.

Rodriguez, Clara E. Latin Looks: Images of Latinas and Latinos in the U.S. Media. 288 p vols. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1997.

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FILM

*Adair, Gilbert: Vietnam on Film , Proteus Books, New York, 1981.

Agan, Patrick, The Decline and Fall of the Love Goddesses , Los Angeles , Pinnacle Books, 1979

*Atkins, Thomas, [ed] Sexuality in the Movies, De Capo , New York . 1984

Bayer, William, The Great Movies , New York, Ridge Press, 1973.

Bazalgette, Cary, & Buckingham, David (eds.). In Front of the Children: Screen Entertainment and Young Audiences. 220 p. London: British Film Institute.

Bergman, Andrew, We’re in the Money: Depression America and Its Films, New York, Harper , 1971.

Betrock, Alan, The I Was a Teenage Juvenile Delinquent Rock and Roll Horror, Beach Party Movie Book.  New York. St. Martins Press, 1986.

Bergan, Ronald, The United Artists Story, New York, Crown, 1986.

Bernstein, Jonathan, Pretty in Pink: The Golden Age of Teenage Movies , New York, St. Martin’s , 1997.

Bliss, Michael [ed] Doing it Right: The Best Criticism of Sam Peckinpah’s, The Wild Bunch, Carbondale, Southern University Illinois, 1994.

Blum, Daniel, A Pictorial History of the Talkies, Spring Books, New York 1968

Boggs, Joseph M. Art of Watching Films, The. 3rd ed. 459 p. Mountain View, CA : Mayfield Publishing Co., 1991.

Bone, Jan and Ron Johnson. Understanding the Film: an Introduction to Film Appreciation. 4th ed. 304 p. Lincolnwood, IL.: National Textbook Co, 1991.

*Bordwell, David and Kristin Thompson, Film Art:an Introduction , Redding MA. Addison Wesley, 1979

*Bordwell David et al The Classical Hollywood Cinema:Film Style and Production Mode to 1960.  New York, Columbia University Press, 1985.

Brode, Douglas, From Walt to Woodstock:How Disney Created the Counter Culture, Austin, University of Texas Press, 2004.

Brown, Peter, The Real Oscar:the story Behind the Academy Awards, Westport CT, Arlington House, 1981.

*Cagin, Seth and Philip Dray, Sex, Drugs ,Violence: Hollywood Films of the 70s. New York, Harper and Row, 1984.

Cagin, Seth and Philip Dray ,Born to Be Wild: Hollywood and the Sixties Generation, Boca Ratan, FL, 1994

Calder, Jenni, There Must be a Lone Ranger: The American West in Film and Reality, New York, McGraw Hill, 1974.

Caldwell, Sara., & Kielson, Marie-Eve. So You Want to Be a Screenwriter: How to Face the Fears and Take the Risks. 2nd ed. 223 p. New York: Allworth Press, 2000.

*Carnes, Mark C  [ ed] Past Imperfect: History According to the Movies, New York, Henry Holt and Co. 1995.

Cawletti, John[ ed] Focus on Bonnie and Clyde , Engelwood Cliffs, Prentice Hall , 1973.

Champlin, Charles, The Flicks or Whatever Happened tov Andy Hardy?  Pasadena, Ward Ritchie Press , 1977

Chesire, David. The Book of Movie Photography: A complete guide to all aspects of movie-making…288 p. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1987.

Cohen, Daniel, Horror Movies , Greenich CT, Bison Books, 1984.

*Considine David M, The Cinema of Adolescence. Jefferson, N C  McFarland, 1985.

Costanzo, William, Reading the Movies: Twelve Great Films on Video and How to Teach Them , Urbana Illinois NCTE, 1972

Croce Arlene , The Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers Book, New York, Vintage Books, 1972.

Custen, George, Twentieth Century’s Fox: Darryl F Zanuck and the Culture of Hollywood,  New York , Basic Books , 1977

Davies, Philip and Brian Neve, [ eds ]  New York, St. Martin’s Press, 1981. Cinema, Politics and Society in America,

Davies, Mary et al , A Pictorial History of the Movies , Northbrook , Illinois, Domus Books, 1974.

DeMoss, Robert G. Learn to Discern. 178 p. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan Publishing House, 1992.

Dick, Bernard F. Anatomy of Film. 2nd ed. 273 p. New York: St. Martin ‘s Press, 1990

Dickens, Homer, What a Drag: Men as Women and Women as Men in the Movies, New York, Quil, 1984.

Dittmar Linda and Gene Michaud [eds] From Hanoi to Hollywood:The Vietnam War in American Film , New Brunswick NJ, Rutgers, 1990.

Douglass, John S. and Glenn P. Harnden. Art of Technique: an Aesthetic Approach to Film and Video Production. 303 p. Boston: Allyn & Bacon, 1996.

Eisner , Lotte  , The Haunted Screen:Expressionism in the German Cinema, London, Secker and Warburg, 1983.

Eames, John, The MGM Story,  New York , Crown, 1976.

Eames, John, The Paramount Story, New York, Crown, 1985.

Emery, Robert, The Directors:Take One, New York, TV Books, 1999

Engel, Joel. Screenwriters on Screenwriting. 1st ed. 298 p. New York: Hyperion, 1995

Entman, Robert M. and Andrew Rojecki. Black Image in the White Mind: Media and Race in America. 305 p. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000.

Everson, William K, The Bad Guys:a Pictorial History of Movie Villains , Secaucus, NJ, Citadel, 1974.

Fields, Doug and Eddie James. Videos That Teach: Teachable Movie Moments From 75 Modern Film Classics. 173 p. Grand Rapids, MI:Zondervan, 1999.

Frank, Alan G, The Movie Treasury Horror Movies, London, Octopus Books, 1974.

Fraser, George MacDonald, The Hollywood History of the World, New York, Beech Tree Books, 1988

Fricke, John et al ,The Wizard of Oz, The Official  50th Anniversary Pictorial History,  New York , Warner Books, 1989

Gabler, Neal. Life the Movie: How Entertainment Conquered Reality. 1st ed. 303 p. New York: Knopf, 1998.

Gabler ,Neal , An Empire of their Own: How the Jews Invented Hollywood, New York, Crown, 1988.

Garland, Brock, War Movies, New York, Facts on File Publications, 1977.

Hall, Sandra, Critical Business: The New Australian Cinema in Review, Sydney, Rigby , 1985.

Hardy, Phil, The Western, New York, William Morrow, 1983.

Haun, Harry, The Cinematic Century:an Intimate Diary of America’s Affair with the Movies, New York, Applause, 2000.

Halliwell, Leslie, Halliwell’s Film and  Video Guide,  6th edition New York, Charles Scribner’s 1987

Hamilton, Peter and Sue Mathews, American Dreams: Australian Movies, Sydney, Currency Press, 1986.

Haskell , Molly, From Reverence to Rape: the Treatment of Women in the Movies , New York, Holt, Rhinehart, Winston, 1973.

Haver, Ronald, David O . Selznick’s Hollywood,  New York, Knopf, 1980.

Heide, Robert and John Gilman, Starstruck:the wonderful World of Movie Memorabilia. Garden City, NY, Dolphn Books, 1986.

Hill  Geoffrey, Illuminating Shadows:the Mythic Power of Film,  Boston, Shambpala Press 1992

Hirschman, Elizabeth, Heroes, Monsters and Messiahs:Movies and Television Shows as The Mythology of American Culture, Kansas City, Andrews McMeel, 2000.

Hirschhorn, Clive, The Warner Brothers Story, New York, Crown, 1979.

Hirschhorn, Clive, The Universal Story , New York, Crown , 1983.

Inglis, Ian , ]ed] Popular Music and Film, London, Wallflower Press, 2003.

Jeavons, Clyde, A Pictorial History of War Films, London, Hamlyn, 1974

Jeffords, Susan, Hard Bodies:Hollywood Masculinity in the Reagan Era. New Brunswick, Rutgers University Press , 1994.

Jewell, Richard and Vernon Harbin, The RKO Story , New York, Arlington Boks, 1982.

Kaminsky, Stuart, American Film Genres, Pflaum, 1974

Karney, Robyn  Chronicle of the Cinema, New York, Kindersley, Dorling , 1995

Katz, Steven D. Film Directing Shot by Shot: Visualizing From Concept to Screen. 371 p. Studio City, CA : Michael Wiese Productions in conjunction with Focal Press, 1991.

Koppes, Clayron and Gregory Black, Hollywood Goes to War: How Politics, Profits and Propaganda Shaped World War 11 Movies. New York, The Free Press, 1987

Laybourne, Kit. Animation Book: a Complete Guide to Animated Filmmaking, From Filp-Books to Sound Cartoons. 272 p., 8 p. of plates. New York: Crown Publishers, 1979

Lee, Spike, Do The Right Thing , New York, Simon and Schuster, 1989.

Lenne , Gerard,  Sex on the Screen:Eroticism in Film, New York, St. Martin’s ,1978

Levy Emanuel, Small Town America in Film: The Decline and Fall of Community, New York, Continuum Publishing , 1991.

Litwak, Mark, Reel Power: The Struggle for Influence and Success  in the New Hollywood.  New York, William Morrow, 1986.

Lloyd, Ann and Graham Fullers[ eds] , The Illustrated Who’s Who of the Cinema, New York, Macmillan, 1983.

McBride, Joseph and Michael Wilmington, John Ford, London, Secker and Warburg, 1974.

McFarlane, Brian , Australian Cinema 1970- 1985, Richmond, Vic. William Heinemann,  1987.

McFarlane , Brian and Geoff Mayer, New Australian Cinema :Sources and Parallels in American and British Film, Cambridge UK, Cambridge University Press, 1992,

McFarlane Brian, et al [eds] The Oxford Companion to Australian Film, Melbourne , Oxford University Press , 1999.

McGilligan, Patrick, White Heat, Madison, University of Wisconsin Press, 1984.

Maltin, Leonard, The Disney Films ,  New York , Jessie  Film Limited, 2000.

Malone, Peter, 200 Movies and Discussions, Melbourne, Chevalier Press, 1975.

Manvell , Roger, Masterworks of the German Cinema , New York, Harper and Row, 1973.

Mast, Gerald and Marshall Cohen. Film Theory and Criticism: Introductory Readings . 3rd ed. 852 p. New York : Oxford University Press, 1985.

Medved , Michael, Hollywood Versus America , New York, Harper Perennial, 1993.

Mellen, Joan, Big Bad Wolves:Masculinity in the American Film , New York, Pantheon Books, 1977.

Miller, Mark Crispin. Seeing Through Movies. 1st ed. 266 p. New York: Pantheon Books, 1990.

Monaco, James. American Film Now: the People, the Power, the Money, the Movies. 540 p. New York: Oxford University Press, 1979.

Monaco, James, How to Read a Film, New York, Oxford University Press, 1977.

Moran , Albert and Tom O’Regan [eds] The Australian Screen , Ringwood VIC, Penguin, 1989 .

Morella, Joe and Edward Epstein, Rebels:the rebel Hero in Films., Secaucus, NJ, Citadel Press, 1973.

Murray , Scott[ ed ] Australian Film 1978- 1994. Melbourne , Oxford University Press, 1994.

Murray Scott, [ed] Australian Cinema, St Leonard’s NSW, Allen and Unwin, 1994.

Myers, David, Bleeding Battlers from Ironbark:Australian Myths in Fiction and Films 1980s- 1990s, Rockhampton, Capricornia Institute , 1987.

Naughton, John and Adam Smith. Movies. p. New York, NY : Watson-Guptill Publications / New York , 1998.

Neale, Steve, [ed] Genre and Contemporary Hollywood, London, BFI Publishing, 2002.

Nichols, Bill [ed] Movies and Methods , Berkeley, University of California Press, 1976.

Norden, Martin, The Cinema of Isolation: a History of Physical Disability in the Movies.  New Brunswick, NJ.  1994.

O’Connor, John E and Martin Jackson, American History American Film, Interpreting the Hollywood Image.

New York, Frerick Ungar, 1979.

O’Connor, John [ed] I am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang, Madison, University of Wisconsin Press,  1981.

Parish, James Robert and Gregory Mank, MGM The Golden Years- 1928-1959. Westport  CT, Arlington House 1981

Peary, Gerald and Roger  Shatzkin,  The Classic American Novel and the Movies  , New York, Frederick Ungar,   1977

Pickard , Roy, Who Played Who on the Screen, New York, Hippocrene, 1988.

Pitts, Michael, Hollywood History and American Film,  Jefferson N.C McFarland, 1984.

Pye, Michael and Lynda Miles, The Movie Brats:How the Film Generation took Over Hollywood. New York  Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1979.

Rainer, Peter [ ed ] Loves and Hisses:The National Society of Film Critics Sound off on the Hotttest Movie Controversies,  San Francisco, Mercury House, 1992.

Reid, Mark A, Redefining Black Film, Berkeley, University of California Press , 1993.

Richards, Gregory B , Science Fiction Movies, Greenwich CT, Bison Books, 1984.

Rollins, Peter C. Hollywood As Historian: American Film in a Cultural Context. Rev. ed. p. cm. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1998.

Rosen, Marjorie, Popcorn Venus :Women, the Movies and the American Dream, New York, Avon, 1973.

Russo, Vito ,The Celluloid Closet: Homosexuality in the Movies, New York, Harper and Row, 1981.

*Ryan, Michael and Douglas Kellner, Camera Politcia:Ideology of Contemporary Hollywood Film. Bloomington, Indiana University Press. 1988.

Sarris , Andrew, The American Cinema:Directors and Directions 1929- 1968 , New York, Dutton , 1968.

Scherman, David E. (ed.). Life Goes to the Movies. 304 p. New York: Time-Life Books, 1975.

Schillaci, Anthony and John M Culkin , Films Deliver: Teaching Creatively with Film, New York, Citation Press , 1970.

Schmidt, Georg, Schmalenbach, Werner, & Bachlin, Peter. The Film: It’s Economic, Social, and Artistic Problems. 62 p. Switzerland: Holbein Publishing, 1948.

Scott, Bernard Brandon, Hollywood Dreams and Biblical Stories,  Minneapolis, Fortress Press 1994

Seydor, Paul , Peckinpah:the Western Films, Urbana, University of Illinois, 1980.

Shary, Timothy, Generation Multiplex:The Image of Youth in Contemporary American Cinema.  Austin, University Texas Press, 2002.

Silver, Alain and Elizabeth Ward, [eds] Film Noir: An Encyclopedic Reference to the American Style, Woodstock NY, Overlook Press, 1979.

Simmons ,Gary, Gattaca:Is The Sky The Limit? Melbourne, Australian Center for the Moving Image , 2003.

Smith, Julian, Looking Away: Hollywood and Vietnam, New York, Charles Scribner’s, 1975.

Smyth, J.E. Reconstructing American Historical Cinema from Cimarron to Citizen Kane. 447 p. Lexington, KY: University of Kentucky Press, 2009.

Stratton, David, The Last Wave:The Australian Fim Revival, Sydney, Angus and Robertson, 1980.

 Thompson, David, America in the Dark: The Impact of Hollywood Films on American Culture, New York, William Morrow, 1977.

Trent, Paul, The Image Makers:60 Years of Hollywood Glamour, London, Octopus Books, 1973.

Tudor, Andrew, Image & Influence: Studies in the Sociology of Film, New York, St. Martin’s, 1972.

Tudor, Andrew, Theories of Film, London, Secker and Warburg, 1974.

Tuska, Jon, The American West in Film:Critical Approaches to the Western , Lincoln, University of Nebraska Press , 1985

Tyler, Parker, A Pictorial History of Sex in Films , Secaucus NJ, Citadel Press , 1974.

Verhoeven , Deb [ed] Twin Peeks: Australian and New Zealand Feature Films , Melbourne, Damned Publishing, 1999.

Wilson, Wendy and Gerald Herman, American History on the Screen: Film and Video Resource.  Portland ,Maine, J Weston Walsh, 2002.

Williams, Linda, [ed] Viewing Positions :ways of Seeing Film, New Brunswick NJ, Rutgers University Press, 1994.

Willis , John , Screen World Annual. 16 volumes in this set ranging from 1982 to 1998.

Wollen, Peter. Signs and Meaning in the Cinema . New and enl. [3d ed.] ed. 175 p vols. Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 1972.

Wyatt, Justin, High Concept: Movies and Marketing in Hollywood, Austin, University of Texas Press, 1997.

Yeffeth, Glenn [ ed] Taking the Red Pill:  Science, Philosophy ad Religion in the Matrix.  Dallas, Penbella Books.  2003.

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PHOTOGRAPHY (see also visual literacy)

Graves, Ralph. Life: The First Decade. 205 p. New York: Time-Life Books, 1979.

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LANGUAGE/LITERACY

Bell, James K., & Cohn, Adrian A. Rhetoric in a Modern Mode. 395 p. Beverly Hills, CA: Glencoe Press, 1968.

Gilster, Paul. Digital Literacy. 276 p. New York: Wiley Computer Pub, 1997.

Goshgarian, Gary and Kathleen Krueger. Crossfire: an Argument Rhetoric and Reader. 2nd ed. 690 p. New York: HarperCollins College Publishers, 1997

Goshgarian, Gary. Exploring Language. 8th ed. 582 p. New York: Longman, 1998.

Katzer, Jeffrey, Kenneth H. Cook, and Wayne W. Crouch. Evaluating Information: a Guide for Users of Social Science Research. 4th ed. 297 p. Boston , Mass: McGraw-Hill, 1998.

Kelley, Michael R. Parents’ Guide to Television: Making the Most of It. x, 129 p vols. New York: Wiley, 1983.

Lutz, William. Doublespeak: From “Revenue Enhancement” to “Terminal Living”: How Government, Business, Advertisers , and Others Use Language to Deceive You. 1st ed. 290 p. New York: Harper & Row, 1989.

Postman, Neil. Conscientious Objections: Stirring Up Trouble About Language, Technology, and Education. 1st ed. 201 p. New York: Knopf, 1988.

Tompkins, Phillip K. Communication As Action: an Introduction to Rhetoric and Communication. 253 p. Belmont , CA: Wadsworth Pub. Co, 1982.

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MAGAZINES

Kitch, Carolyn L. Pages From the Past: History and Memory in American Magazines. 256 p vols. Chapel Hill , NC : University of North Carolina Press , 2005.

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MASS MEDIA

Albarran, Alan B. Media Economics: Understanding Markets, Industries, and Concepts. 1st ed. 227 p. Ames, IA: Iowa State University Press, 1996.

Alexander, Alison and Hanson, Jarice. Taking Sides: Clashing views on controversial issues in mass media and society, 4th Ed. 1997.Guilford, CT: McGraw-Hill.

Alexander, Alison and Hanson, Jarice. Taking Sides: Clashing views on controversial issues in mass media and society, 6th Ed. 2001.Guilford , CT , McGraw-Hill.

Atkin, Charles K. & Lawrence Marshall Wallack. Mass Communication and Public Health: Complexities and Conflicts. 198 p. Newbury Park: Sage Publications, 1990.

Atwan, Robert, Barry Orton, & William Vesterman. American Mass Media: Industries and Issues. 2nd ed. 426 p. New York: Random House, 1982.

Aufderheide, Patricia. Daily Planet: a Critic on the Capitalist Culture Beat. 347 p. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press , 2000.

Baehr, Ted. The Mide-Wise Family. 423 p. Colorado Springs, CO: Chariot Victor Publishing, 1998.

Bagdikian, Ben H. Media Monopoly. 2nd ed. 274 p. Boston: Beacon Press, 1987.

Barbour, William. Mass Media: Opposing Viewpoints. 306 p. San Diego, CA: Greenhaven Press, 1994.

Baughman, James L. Republic of Mass Culture, The: Journalism, Filmmaking, and Broadcasting in America Since 1941. 257 p. Baltimore, MD: John Hopkins University Press, 1992.

Bergendorff, Fred L., et al. Broadcast Advertising & Promotion: a Handbook for Students and Professionals.. 449 p. New York: Hastings House, 1983.

Berger, Arthur Asa. Essentials of Mass Communication Theory. 208 p. Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications, 1995.

Berger, Arthur Asa. Media Analysis Techniques. 2nd ed. 220 p. Thousand Oaks, CA : Sage Publications, 1998.

Berger, Gilda. Violence and the Media. 176 p. New York: F. Watts, 1989.

Biagi, Shirley. Media/Impact: an Introduction to Mass Media. 4th ed. 428 p. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Pub. Co., 1999.

Blakely, Robert J. To Serve the Public Interest: Educational Broadcasting in the United States. 274 p. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1979.

Brown, Laurene Krasny. Taking Advantage of Media: A Manual for Parents and Teachers. 160 p. Boston, MA: Routledge, 1986.

Davison, W. Phillips & Frederick T. C. Yu. Mass Communication Research: Major Issues and Future Directions. 246 p. New York: Praeger, 1974.

Day, Louis A. Ethics in Media Communications: Cases and Controversies. 3rd ed. 435 p. United States: Wadsworth Publishing Co., 2000.

DeGaetano, Gloria. Parenting Well in a Media Age: Keeping Our Kids Human. 245 p. Fawnskin, CA: Personhood Press, 2004.

Dennis, Everette E., Arnold H. Ismach, & Donald M. Gillmor. Enduring Issues in Mass Communication. 380 p. St. Paul: West PublishingCo., 1978.

Craft, John, Frederic A. Leigh, & Donald G. Godfrey. Electronic Media. 394 p. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Thomson Learning, 2001.

Croteau, David & William Hoynes. Media/Society: Industries, Images, and Audiences. 2nd ed. 399 p. Thousand Oaks, CA: Pine Forge Press, 2000.

De Zengotita, Thomas. How the Media Shapes Your World and the Way You Live In It Mediated. 291 p. New York: Bloomsbury, 2005.

Dominick, Joseph R. Dynamics of Mass Communication. 3rd  ed. 616 p. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1990.

Dominick, Joseph R. Dynamics of Mass Communication. 6th ed. 568 p. Boston: McGraw Hill, 1999.

Dominick, Joseph R. Dynamics of Mass Communication: Media in the Digital Age. 7th ed. 528 p. Boston, MA: McGraw-Hill, 2002.

Ewen, Stuart, & Ewen Elizabeth. Channels of Desire: Mass Images and Shaping of American Consciousness. 312 p. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1982.

Folkerts, Jean, Stephen Lacy, & Lucinda Davenport. Media in Your Life: an Introduction to Mass Communication. 558 p. Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 1998.

Glessing, Robert J. & William Paul White. Mass Media: the Invisible Environment Revisited. 277 p. Chicago: Science Research Associates, 1976.

Harris, Richard Jackson. Cognitive Psychology of Mass Communication, 2nd ed. 313 p. Hillsdale, NJ: L. Erlbaum Associates, 1994.

Janowitz, Morris & Paul Morris Hirsch. Reader in Public Opinion and Mass Communication. 3rd ed. 440 p. New York: Free Press, 1981.

Jenkins, Henry. Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide. 308 p. New York: New York University Press, 2006.

Monaco, James. Media Culture: The People, The Products, The Power. 335 p. New York: Dell Publishing, 1978.

Murphy, Jane. Stay Tuned: Raising Media-Savvy Kids in the Age of the Channel-Surfing Couch Potato. 266 p. New York: Doubleday, 1996.

Patterson, Philip. Media Ethics: Issues and Cases. 314 p. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1997.

Real, Michael R. Mass-Mediated Culture. 289 p. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1977.

Rodman, George R. Making Sense of Media: an Introduction to Mass Communication. 1st ed. 530 p. Boston: Allyn & Bacon, 2001.

Ryan, John &  William M. Wentworth. Media and Society: the Production of Culture in the Mass Media. 255 p. Boston, MA: Allyn and Bacon, 1999.

Sloan, William David, & Mackay, Jenn Burleson. Media Bias: Finding It, Fixing It. 258 p. Jefferson, NC: McFarland Press, 2007.

Stanley, Robert Henry. Mediavisions: the Art and Industry of Mass Communication. 262 p. New York: Praeger, 1987.

Straubhaar, Joseph D., Robert LaRose, & Joseph D. Straubhaar. Media Now: Communications Media in the Information Age. 2nd ed. p. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Publishing Co, 2000.

Streitmatter, Rodger. Sex Sells! The Media’s Journey from Repression to Obsession. 283 p. Cambridge, MA: Westview Press, 2004.

Taylor, Alan. We, the Media: Pedagogic Intrusions into U.S. Mainstream Film and Television News Broadcasting Rhetorics. Frankfurt, Germany: Peter Lang, 2004.

Tobin, Joseph. Good Guys Don’t Wear Hats: Children Talk About the Media. 166 p. New York: Teachers College Press, 2000.

Tucker, Karen. Stay Tuned: Raising Media-Savvy Kids in the Age of the Channel-Surfing Couch Potato. 266 p. New York: Doubleday, 1996.

Vivian, John. Media of Mass Communication. 6th ed. 510 p. Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 2002.

Whetmore, Edward Jay. Mediamerica: Form, Content, and Consequence of Mass Communication. 332 p. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Publishing Co., 1979.

Wilkins, Lee. Media Ethics: Issues and Cases. 314 p. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1997.

Wimmer, Roger D. & Joseph R. Dominick. Mass Media Research: an Introduction. 6th ed. 499 p. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Publishing, 2000.

Wells, Alan. Mass Media and Society. 4th ed. 502 p. Lexington, MA: Lexington Books, 1987.

Ziegler, Lynn. Spongebeadz U & Media. 221 p. Bothell, WA: Book Publishers Network, 2007.

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MEDIA EDUCATION/ MEDIA LITERACY/MEDIA STUDIES

Adams, Dennis M. & Mary Hamm. Media and Literacy: Learning in an Electronic Age–Issues, Ideas, and Teaching Strategies. 2nd ed. 236 p. Springfield, IL: C.C. Thomas, 2000.

Andersen, Robin, & Strate, Lance (eds.). Critical Studies in Media Commercialism. 331 p. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.

Aspen Institute , Media Literacy: a Report of the National Leadership Conference on Media Literacy, 1993.

Baran, Stanley J. Introduction to Mass Communication: Media Literacy and Culture. 2001.
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Baran, Stanley J. Introduction to Mass Communication: Media Literacy and Culture. 2nd ed. 535 p. Boston: McGraw Hill, 2002.

Bazalgette, Cary and David Buckingham [eds] In Front of the Children: Screen Education and Young Audiences , BFI, London, 1995.

Berger, Arthur , Media Analysis Techniques , Newbury Park CA, Sage, 1991.

Berger, John, Ways of Seeing, London, BBC/Penguin, 1972.

Bertelsmann Foundation , School Improvement Through Media in Education, Gutersloh, 1995.

Board of Studies, Victoria ,Australia, Study Design :Media, Victorian Certificate of Education  ,1999.

Brown , Jane et al [eds] Sexual Media, Sexual Teens, Mahwah NJ, Erlbaum , 2002.

Brown, James A. Television “Critical Viewing Skills” Education: Major Media Literacy Projects in the United States and Selected Countries. 371 p. Hillsdale, NJ: L. Erlbaum Associates, 1991.

Buckingham, David, Children Talking Television:The Making of Television Literacy .   London, Falmer Press, 1993.

Buckingham, David and Julian Sefton Green, Cultural Studies Goes to School, London, Taylor and Francis, 1994.

Buckingham, David, [ed] Teaching Popular Culture: Beyond Radical Pedagogy, London, UCL Press, 1998

Buckingham, David, After the Death of Childhood:Growing up in the Age of Electronic Media, Polity, Cambridge,  2000.

Buckingham, David, Media Education: Literacy , Learning and Contemporary Culture . Cambridge , Polity, 2003.

Buckingham, David and Sara Bragg, Young People, Sex & The Media :The Facts of Life? Hampshire UK, Palgrave , 2004.

Buckingham, David , Beyond Technology:Children’sLearning in the Age of Digital Culture . Cambridge, Polity, 2007.

Buckingham, David. Watching Media Learning: Making Sense of Media Education. 234 p. London: Falmer, 1990.

Burton , Graeme. More Than Meets the Eye: an Introduction to Media Studies. 2nd ed. 240 p. London: Arnold, 1997.

Carlsson , Ulla and Cecilia, Von Feilitzen , In The Service of Young People? Studies and Reflections on Media in the Digital Age. Nordicom, International Clearinghouse on Children, Youth and the Media, 2006.

Considine , David M and Gail E Haley, Visual Messages: Integrating Imagery into Instruction, Engelwood CO, Libraries Unlimited, 1992.

Considine, David M. & Gail E. Haley. Visual Messages: Integrating Imagery into Instruction. 2nd ed. 371 p. Englewood, CO: Teacher Ideas Press, 1999.

Crump, Christine et al, Viewing and Representing in Context: 1 Melbourne , Thompson and Nelson, 2003.

Davies, John. Educating Students in a Media-Saturated Culture. 311 p. Lancaster, Pa: Technomic Publishing Co., 1996.

DeAbreau , Belinha, The Implementation of a Media Literacy Curriculum in the Public Schools : Three Case Studies. Doctoral dissertation , University of Connecticut. 2008 .

Dennis, Everette E. Media Studies Journal: Children and the Media. Vol 8(4), 223 p. New York: Media Studies Journal, Columbia University, 1994.

Downing, John, Ali Mohammadi, & Annabelle Sreberny. Questioning the Media: a Critical Introduction. 2nd ed. 511 p. Thousand Oaks,CA: Sage Publications, 1995.

Duncan, Barry, Mass Media and Popular Culture,  Toronto, Harcourt Brace 1988.

Duncan, Barry et al , Mass Media and Popular Culture,  Toronto, Harcourt Brace, 1996.

Duncan ,Barry and Kathleen Tyner, [eds] Visions/Revisions: Moving Forward with Media Education, Madison, WI, National Telemedia Council, 2003.

Eco , Umberto, A Theory of Semiotics , Bloomington, University Indiana Press, 1979.

Eisenberg, Michael B., Lowe, Carrie A., & Spitzer, Kathleen L. Information Literacy Skills: Essential Skills for the Information Age. 408 p. Westport, CT: Libraries Unlimited, 2004.

Ferreira, Eleonora Castaäno & Joäao Paulo Castaäno Ferreira. Making Sense of the Media: a Handbook of Popular Education Techniques. 123 p. New York: Monthly Review Press, 1997.

Fidler, Roger F. Mediamorphosis: Understanding New Media. 302 p. Thousand Oaks, CA : Pine Forge Press, 1997.

Flack, Jo, Media VCE Units 1- 4, Melbourne AU, Thompson, 2004.

Foster , Harold, The New Literacy:The Language of Film and Television , Urbana, NCTE, 1979.

Fox, Roy F. Images in Language, Media, and Mind. 246 p. Urbana, IL: National Council of Teachers of English, 1994.

Goodwyn, Andrew. English Teaching and Media Education. 128 p. Buckingham, England: Open University Press, 1992.

Greenaway, Peter, Teaching the Visual Media, Milton, Queensland, Jacaranda Press , 1991.

Greenfield, Patricia Marks, Mind & Media: The Effects of Television, Videogames and Computers , Cambridge , Harvard University Press, 1984.

Hart, Andrew. Teaching the Media: International Perspectives. 208 p. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum, 1998.

Hart, Andrew. Understanding the Media: a Practical Guide. 267 p. London: Routledge, 1991.

Healy, Jane , Failure to Connect: How Computers Affect our Children’s Minds-for Better and Worse , New York, Simon and Schuster , 1998.

Heins , Marjorie, and Chrtina Cho, Media Literacy an Alternative to Censorship , New York, Free Expression Policy Project ,2002 .

Hobbs, Renee,  Digital and Media Literacy: A Plan of  Action ,  Washington D.C., Aspen Institute  2010.

Howard, Sue[ ed] Wired-Up: Young People and the Electronic Media , London, UCL, 1998.

Kist, William. New Literacies in Action: Teaching and Learning in Multiple Media. 160 p. New York: Teachers College Press, 2005.

Kubey, Robert [ ed] Media Literacy in the Information Age, New Brunswick, NJ, Transaction Press, 1997.

Lawrence, William P., & Aukoofer, Frank. America’s Team: The Odd Couple – A Report on the Relationship Between the Media and the Military. 216 p. Nashville, TN: The Freedom Forum First Amendment Center, 1995.

Lester, Paul Lester. Visual Communication: Images With Messages. 2nd ed. 402 p. Australia: Wadsworth Publishing Co., 2000.

Lester, Paul Martin, Visual Communication: Images with Messages, Belmont CA, Wadsworth, 1995.

Lloyd-Kolkin, Donna and Kathleen Tyner, Media and You : an Elementary Media Literacy Curriculum , Englewood Cliffs NJ, Educational Technology Publications , 1991.

McLuhan, Marshall , Understanding Media:Extensions of Man , New York, Mentor, 1964.

McLuhan, Marshall,  The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man , Toronto, University Toronto Press, 1966.

McLuhan , Marshall and Quentin Fiore, Bantam, New York, 1967.

McLaren, Peter. Rethinking Media Literacy: a Critical Pedagogy of Representation. 4 ed. 259 p. New York: P. Lang, 1995.

McMahon , Barrie & Robyn Quin, Real Images: Film & Television, South Melbourne, McMillan, 1986

Masterman, Len, Teaching the Media, London, Routledge, 1985.

Masterman Len and Francois Mariet,  Media Education in 1990’s Europe , Strasbourg, Council of Europe Press, 1994

Masterman, Len, Down Cemetry Road:Why the BFI’s Proposals for Moving Image Education are No Good. Alpha Media, Heswall, 2002.

Massey, Kimberly K. Readings in Mass Communication: Media Literacy and Culture. 295 p. Mountain View, CA: Mayfield Publishing, 1999.

New York Times,  Media Literacy for Drug Prevention , Unit for Middle School Educators, Office of National Drug Control Policy, Media Campaign: Helping Youth Navigate the Media Age : A New Approach to Drug Prevention, Findings of the National Youth Anti-Drug Media Campaign. Media Literacy Summit, White House , June 2001.

Pecora , Norma et al [eds] African Media, African Children, Nordicom, International Clearinghouse on Children, Youth and Media, 2007 .

Potter, W. James. Media Literacy. 2nd ed. 422 p. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 2001.

Rayner, Philip, Peter Wall, & Stephen Kruger. Media Studies: the Essential Introduction., 331 p. London: Routledge, 2001.

Richards, Chris, Teen Spirits : Music and Identity in Media Education, London, UCL, 1998.

Rideout , Victoria et al, Generation M: Media in the Lives of 8- 18 year-olds , Menlo Park CA, Kaiser Family Foundation.

Rovenerg, Bernard and David Manning White [eds] Mass Culture: The Popular Arts in America.

Sefton Green, Julian [ed ] Digital Diversions: Youth Culture in the Age of Multimedia , London, UCL Press, 1998.

Semali, Ladislaus & Ann Watts Pailliotet. Intermediality: the Teachers’ Handbook of Critical Media Literacy. 238 p. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1999.

Silverblatt, Art. Media Literacy: Keys to Interpreting Media Messages. 340 p. Westport, CN: Praeger, 1995.

Solomon, Jack, The Signs of Our Times: Semiotics, the Hidden Messages of Environments, Objects and Cultural Images ,  Los Angeles, Jeremy Tarcher, 1988.

Stewart, Colin, and Adam Kowaltzke, Media: new ways and meanings, Milton, QLND, Jacaranda, 1990.

Strasburger, Victor, et al, Children, Adolescents and the Media, Los Angeles , Sage, 2009.

Strasburger, Victor C. Adolescents and the Media. Vol. 33, 135 p. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 1995.

Taylor, Lisa and Andrew Willis. Media Studies: Texts, Institutions, and Audiences. 262 p. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishers, 1999.

Tyner, Kathleen, Literacy in a Digital  World: Teaching & Learning in the Age of Information , Mahwah NJ, Erlbaum, 1998.

Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority,  VCE Assessment Handbook: Media, Melbourne, 2005.

Walsh, David Allen. Dr. Dave’s Cyberhood: Making Media Choices that Create a Healthy Electronic Environment for Your Kids. 277 p. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2001.

Whetmore, Edward, Mediamerica :Form, Content and Consequences of Mass Communication, Belmont CA, Wadsworth, 1982.

Worsnop, Chris, Screening Images: Ideas for Media Education, Toronto, Wright Communications, 1999.

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MEDIA & POLITICS

Ansolabehere, Stephen & Shanto Iyengar. Going Negative: How Attack Ads Shrink and Polarize the Electorate. 243 p. New York: Free Press, 1995.

Ansolabehere, Stephen, Roy L. Behr, & Shanto Iyengar. Media Game: American Politics in the Television Age. 248 p. New York: Macmillan, 1993.

Davis, Richard. Press and American Politics: the New Mediator. 2nd ed. 357 p. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1996.

Diamond, Edwin & Stephen Bates. Spot: the Rise of Political Advertising on Television. 416 p. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1984.

Diamond, Edwin & Stephen Bates. Spot: the Rise of Political Advertising on Television. 3rd ed. 418 p. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1992.

Fiske, John. Media Matters: Race and Gender in U.S. Politics. Rev. ed. 304 p. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press , 1996.

Goodman, Amy, & Goodman, David. Static: Government Liars, Media Cheerleaders, and the People Who Fight Back. 338 p. New York: Hyperion, 2006.

Graber, Doris A. Mass Media and American Politics. 3rd ed. 408 p. Washington, DC: CQ Press, 1989.

Hart, Roderick P. Seducing America: How Television Charms the Modern Voter. 230 p. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994.

Hirsch, Alan. Talking Heads: Political Talk Shows and Their Star Pundits. 1st ed. 249 p. New York: St. Martin ‘s Press, 1991.

Jamieson, Kathleen Hall. Everything You Think You Know About Politics– and Why You’re Wrong. 287 p. New York: Basic Books, 2000.

Jamieson, Kathleen Hall & Karlyn Kohrs Campbell. Interplay of Influence: News, Advertising, Politics, and the Mass Media. 5th ed. 362 p. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth , 2000.

Jamieson, Kathleen Hall. Packaging the Presidency: a History and Criticism of Presidential Campaign Advertising. 3rd ed. 578 p. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996.

Kellner, Douglas. Television and the Crisis of Democracy. 287 p. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1990.

Lichter, S. Robert & Richard Noyes. Good Intentions Make Bad News: Why Americans Hate Campaign Journalism. 303 p. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 1995.

Lichter, S. Robert, Linda S. Lichter, & Stanley Rothman. Watching America . 1st ed. 322 p. New York: Prentice Hall Press, 1991.

Patterson, Thomas E., Social Science Research Council (U.S.), and Committee on Mass Communications and Political Behavior. Mass Media Election: How Americans Choose Their President. 203 p. New York: Praeger, 1980.

Patterson, Thomas E. Out of Order. 1st ed. 301 p. New York: A. Knopf, 1993.

Patterson, Thomas E. Out of Order. 1st ed. 301 p. New York: A. Knopf, 1994.

Patterson, Thomas E. and Robert D. McClure. Unseeing Eye: the Myth of Television Power in National Politics. 218 p. New York: Putnam, 1976.

Plissner, Martin. Control Room: How Television Calls the Shots in Presidential Elections. 244 p. New York: Free Press, 1999.

Rosenstiel, Tom. Strange Bedfellows: How Television and the Presidential Candidates Changed American Politics, 1992. 1st ed., 368 p. New York: Hyperion, 1993.

Schram, Martin. Great American Video Game: Presidential Politics in the Television Age. 1st ed. 328 p., 8 p. of plates. New York: Morrow, 1987.

Schultz, David A. It’s Show Time!: Media, Politics, and Popular Culture. 277 p. New York: P. Lang, 2000.

Thomas, Helen. Watchdogs of Democracy: The Waning Washington Press Corps and How it has Failed the Public. 218 p. New York: Scribner, 2006.

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MEDIA & VIOLENCE

Gore, Tipper. Raising PG Kids in an X-Rated Society. 219 p. Nashville, TN: Abingdon Press, 1987.

Leonard, John. Smoke and Mirrors: Violence, Television, and Other American Cultures. 290 p vols. New York : New Press, 1997.

Levine, Madeline. See No Evil: a Guide to Protecting Our Children From Media Violence. xi, 290 p vols. San Francisco : Jossey-Bass Publishers, 1998.

—. 1st ed ed. xvi, 256 p vols. New York : Doubleday, 1996.Viewing Violence: How Media Violence Affects Your Child’s and Adolescent’s Development.

Schwarz, Ted. Kids and Guns: the History, the Present, the Dangers, and the Remedies. 128 p vols. New York : Franklin Watts, 1999.

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NEWS/ JOURNALISM

Alan, Jeff & James Martin Lane. Anchoring America: the Changing Face of Network News. 426 p. Chicago: Bonus Books, 2003.

Allan, Stuart. News Culture. 229 p. Buckingham UK: Open University Press, 1999.

Barnouw, Erik. The Image Empire: A History of Broadcasting in the United States from 1953. Vol. 3. New York: Oxford University Press, 1970.

Beaubien, Michael P. & John S. Wyeth. Views on the News: the Media and Public Opinion. 221 p. New York: New York University Press, 1994.

Bennett, W. Lance. News, the Politics of Illusion. 2nd ed. 216 p. New York: Longman, 1988.

Bennett, W. Lance. News: the Politics of Illusion. 3rd ed. 233 p. White Plains, NY: Longman, 1996.

Bennett, W. Lance. News: the Politics of Illusion. 4th ed. New York: Addison Wesley Longman, 2001.

Berkowitz, Daniel A. Social Meanings of News: a Text-Reader. 535 p. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 1997.

Bollier, David, Market Journalism: New Highs, New Lows, Washington DC, Aspen Institute , 1997.

Botzakis, Stergios. What’s Your Source? Questioning the News. 32 p. Mankato, MN: Capstone Press, 2009.

Broder, David S. Behind the Front Page: a Candid Look at How the News Is Made. 393 p. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1987.

Broder, David, Behind the Front Page: A Candid Look at How the News is Made, New York, Simon and Schuster, 1987

Broderick, James F., & Miller, Darren W. Consider the Source: A Critical Guide to 100 Prominent News and Information Sites on the Web. 457 p. Medford, NJ: CyberAge Books, 2007.

Browne, Donald R et al, Television /Radio News & Minorities, Queenstown MD , The Aspen Institute , 1994.

Buckingham, David, The Making of Citizens: Young People , News and Politics, London, Routledge, 2000.

Capella , Joseph and Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Spiral of Cynicism: The Press and the Public Good, New York, Oxford, 1997.

Charnley, Mitchell V. Reporting. 3d ed. 388 p. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1975.

Christensen, Mark, National Broadcasting Company, &  Cameron Stauth. Sweeps: Behind the Scenes in Network TV. 416 p. Toronto: Bantam Books, 1985.

Donahue, Hugh Carter. Battle to Control Broadcast News: Who Owns the First Amendment? 238 p. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1989.

Donaldson, Sam, Hold on Mr. President, New York, Random, 1987.

Downie, Leonard & Robert G. Kaiser. News About the News: American Journalism in Peril. 1st ed d. 292 p. New York: A.A. Knopf, 2002.

Entman, Robert, Democracy without Citizens: Media and the Decay of American Politics, New York, Oxford, 1989.

Epstein, Edward Jay. Between Fact and Fiction: the Problem of Journalism. 1st ed. 232 p. New York: Vintage Books, 1975.

Fallows, James M. Breaking the News: How the Media Undermine American Democracy. 1st ed. 296 p. New York: Pantheon Books, 1996.

Frankel, Max. 11-Sep-01. 147 p. Kansas City, KS: Andrews McMeel Publishing, 2001.

Gans , Herbert, Democracy and the News, New York, Oxford University, 2003.

Germond, Jack and Jules Witcover,  Whose Broad Stripes and Bright Stars? The Trivial Pursuit of the Presidency, 1988.

Goldstein, Tom. News at Any Cost: How Journalists Compromise Their Ethics to Shape the News. 301 p. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1985.

Gore, Al, The Assault on Reason, New York, Penguin, 2007.

Halberstam, David , The Powers That Be , New York, Knopf, 1979

Hamill, Pete. News Is a Verb: Journalism at the End of the Twentieth Century. 1st ed. 102 p. New York: Ballantine, 1998.

Hamilton, John Maxwell & George A. Krimsky. Hold the Press: the Inside Story on Newspapers. 190 p. Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, 1996.

Herman, Edward and Noam Chomsky, Manufacturing Consent:The Political Economy of the Mass Media, New York, Pantheon, 1988.

Hughes, Robert, Culture of Complaint, New York, Warners Books, 1994.

Iggers, Jeremy. Good News, Bad News: Journalism Ethics and the Public Interest. 179 p. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1998.

Jackson, Brooks and Kathleen Hall Jamieson,  New York, Random House , 2007.

Jamieson, Kathleen Hall, Dirty Politics: Deception, Distraction and Democracy, New York, Oxford, 1992

Jeffords, Susan and Lauren Rabinovitz, [eds] Seeing Through the Media: The Persian Gulf War. New Brunswick, NJ ,Rutgers , 1994.

Kalb, Marvin. One Scandalous Story: Clinton, Lewinski, & 13 Days That Tarnished American Journalism. 306 p. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2001.

Kees, Beverly, & Phillips, Bill. Nothing Sacred: Journalism, Politics and Public Trusts in a Tell-All Age. 144 p. Nashville, TN: The Freedom Forum First Amendment Center, 1994.

Kellner, Douglas, The Persian Gulf TV War, Boulder CO, Westview, 1992.

Klein  Joe, Politics Lost: How American Democracy was Trivialized by People Who Think You’re Stupid, New York, Doubleday  , 2006.

Kurtz, Howard. Media Circus: the Trouble With America ‘s Newspapers. 1st paperback ed. 434 p. New York: Times Books, 1994.

Lee, Martin and Norman Solomon, Unreliable Sources: a Guide to Detecting Bias in the News Media, New York, Lyle Stuart, 1990.

Mayer, Martin. Making News. Rev. and updated [ed.] ed. 345 p vols. Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Press, 1993.

McChesney, Robert, Rich Media-Poor Democracy :Communication Politics in Dubious Times. New York , Free Press , 1999 .

McGinnis, Joe, The Selling of the President 1968, London, Andre Deutsch, 1970.

Mindich, David T.Z. Tuned Out: Why Americans Under 40 Don’t Follow the News. 172 p. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005.

Moen, Daryl R. Newspaper Layout & Design: a Team Approach. 3rd ed. 238 p. Ames, IA: Iowa State University Press, 1995.

Mowlanda, Hamid et al [ eds] The Triumph of the Image: the Media’s War in the Persian Gulf, a Global Perspective, Boulder CO, Westview, 1992.

Nimmo, Dan and James Combs , Nightly Horrors: Crisis Coverage in Television Network  News , Knoxville, University Tennessee Press, 1985.

Rather , Dan, The Camera Never Blinks:Adventures of a TV Journalist ,  New York, William Morrow, 1977.

Report of the 20th Century Fund Task Force on Television and the Campaign  of 1992, 1-800- PRESIDENT , New York, 1993.

Rich, Carole. Writing and Reporting News: a Coaching Method. 2nd ed. 610 p. Belmont: Wadsworth Pub. Co, 1997

Rogers, Donald. Press Versus Government: Constitutional Issues. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1986.

Rollins, Ed, Bare Knuckles and Back Rooms: My Life in American Politics, New York, Broadway, 1996.

Rowse, Arthur E. Drive-by Journalism: the Assault on Your Need to Know. 274 p. Monroe, ME: Common Courage Press, 2000.

Sabato, Larry , Feeding Frenzy: How Attack Journalism has Transformed American Politics, New York, Free Press, 1991.

Scheuer, Jeffrey , The Big Picture:Why Democracies Need Journalistic Excellence,  New York, Routledge, 2008.

Shogan, Robert, Bad News: Where The Press goes Wrong in the Making of the President, Chicago, Ivan Dee, 2001.

Solomon, Norman & Reese W. Erlich. Target Iraq: What the News Media Didn’t Tell You. 188 p. New York: Context Books, 2003.

Sommerville, C. John. How the News Makes Us Dumb: the Death of Wisdom in an Information Society. 155 p. Downers Grove, IL :InterVarsity Press, 1999.

Stephens, Mitchell. History of News: From the Drum to the Satellite. 401 p., 16 p. of plates. New York: U.S.A: Viking, 1988.

Stone Robert and Julene Fischer, Images of War:The Vietnam Experience , Boston, Boston Publishing Company, 1986.

Taylor, Paul, See How They Run: Electing the President in an Age of Mediacracy , New York, Knopf, 1990.

Time Life, The Best of Life , New York, 1973.

Thompson, Hunter S, Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail  72. New York, Fawcett, 1973.

Trostle, J.P. (ed.). Attack of the Political Cartoonists: Insights and Assaults from Today’s Editorial Pages. 159 p. Madison, WI: Dark Storm Press, 2004.

Tuchman, Gaye. Making News: a Study in the Construction of Reality. 244 p. New York: Free Press, 1978.

Weaver, Paul. News and the Culture of Lying. 243 p. New York: Free Press, 1994.

Westin, Av. Newswatch: How TV Decides the News. 274 p., 8 p. of plates. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1982.

Woodruff, Judy, & Maxa, Kathleen. This is Judy Woodruff at the White House. 229 p. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, 1982.

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RADIO

Blue, Howard. Words at War: World War II Era Radio Drama and the Postwar Broadcasting Industry Blacklist. xiii, 407 p., [16] p. of plates vols. Lanham: Scarecrow Press, 2002.

Frith, Simon. Facing the Music: a Pantheon Guide to Popular Culture. 1st ed ed. 229 p vols. New York : Pantheon Books, 1988.

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TELEVISION

Abelman, Robert & David J. Atkin. Televiewing Audience: the Art & Science of Watching TV. 235 p. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press, 2002.

Allen, Robert C. (ed.). Channels of Discourse. 310 p. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1987.

Auletta, Ken , Three Blind Mice: How the TV Networks Lost  Their Way,  New York, Random, 1991.

Axelrod, Lauryn. TV-Proof Your Kids: A Parents Guide to Safe and Healthy Viewing. 272 p. Secaucus, NJ: Citadel Press, 1997.

Bennett, Steve, & Bennett, Ruth. Kick the TV Habit: A Simple Program for Changing Your Family’s Television Viewing and Video Game Habits. 132 p. New York: Penguin Books, 1994.

Berry, Gordon L., & Asamen, Joy Keika. Children and Television: Images in a Changing Sociocultural World. 332 p. Newbury Park, CA: Sage Publications, 1993.

Bianculli, David. Teleliteracy: Taking Television Seriously. 315 p. New York: Continuum, 1992.

Blumenthal, Howard J. & Goodenough, Oliver R. This Business of Television: A Practical Guide to the TV/Video Industries for Producers, Directors, Writers, Performers, Agents, and Executives. 660 p. New York: Billboard Books, 1991.

Bogart, Leo. The Age of Television. 515 p. New York: Frederick Ungar Publishing, 1972.

Buckingham, David. Moving Images: Understanding Children’s Emotional Responses to Television. 328 p. New York: Manchester University Press, 1996.

Budd, Mike et al, Consuming Environments:Television and Commercial Culture , New Brunswick, NJ, Rutgers , 1999.

Butler , Jeremy G. Television: Critical Methods and Applications. 369 p. Belmont, CA : Wadsworth Publishing, 1994.

Cable in the Classroom , Thinking Critically About Media: Schools & Families in Partnership , Alexandria, VA, 2002.

Cantor, Joanne, Mommy I’m Scared: How TV and Movies Frighten Children and What We Can Do to Protect Them, San Diego, Harcourt Brace, 1998.

Charren, Peggy, & Sandler, Martin W. Changing Channels: Living (Sensibly) with Television. 269 p. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, 1983.

Chen, Milton. The Smart Parent’s Guide to Kids’ TV. 209 p. San Francisco, CA: KQED Books and Tapes, 1994.

Comstock, George, & Paik, Haejung. Television and the American Child. 386 p. New York: Academic Press, 1991.

Comstock, George A. & Rubinstein, Eli A. Television and Social Behavior. 546 p. Rockville, MD: National Institute of Mental Health, 1972.

Cowan, Geoffrey. See No Evil. 323 p. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1979.

Cowan, Geoffrey. See No Evil: the Backstage Battle Over Sex and Violence on Television. 1st Touchstone ed. 323 p. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1980

Currey-Wilson, Ellen. The Big Turnoff: Confessions of a TV-Addicted Mom Trying to Raise a T-Free Kid. 339 p. Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2007.

Dalton, Mary M. & Linder, Laura R. (eds.). The Sitcom Reader: America Viewed and Skewed. 337 p. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2005.

Davis, Douglas. Five Myths of Television Power, or, Why the Medium Is Not the Message. 255 p. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1993.

Davis, Michael. Street Gang: The Complete History of Sesame Street. 406 p. New York: Viking, 2009.

Davis , Walter et al [eds] Watching What We Watch: Prime Time Television Thru The Lens of Faith, Louisville, Geneva Press, 2001.

Denison , D. C. As Seen on TV. 239 p. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1992.

Doner, Colonel V. The Responsible Parent’s Guide to TV. 160 p. Lafayette, LA: Huntington House, 1988.

Eliot, Marc. Televisions, One Season in American Television. 1st ed. 179 p. New York: St. Martin ‘s Press, 1983.

Fine, Duncan. Why TV is Good for Kids: Raising 21st Century Children. 314 p. Sydney: Macmillan, 2006.

Fireman, Judy [ ed] TV Book: The Ultimate Television Book, New York, Workman, 1977.

Fisch, Shalom M. & Rosemarie T. Truglio. “G” Is for Growing: Thirty Years of Research on Children and Sesame Street. 271 p. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum, 2001.

Fisherkeller, JoEllen. Growing Up with Television: Everyday Learning Among Young Adolescents. 210 p. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 2002.

Fiske, John Television Culture. 353 p. London: Methuen , 1987.

Fowles, Jib. Television Viewers Vs. Media Snobs: What TV Does for People. 253 p. New York: Stein and Day, 1982.

Gelman, Marrie and Gene Accas, The Best in Television: 50 Years of the Emmy’s, Los Angeles , General Publishing , 1998.

Greenfield, Jeff, Television:The First Fifty Years, New York, Crescent, 1981.

Goethals, Gregor T. TV Ritual: Worship at the Video Altar. 164 p. Boston: Beacon Press, 1981.

Hattemer, Barbara, & Showers, Robert. Don’t Touch That Dial: The Impact of the Media on Children & the Family. 238 p. Lafayette, LA: Huntington House, 1993.

Hendershot, Heather. Saturday Morning Censors: Television Regulation Before the V-Chip. 285 p. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1998.

Hewitt, Don. Minute by Minute. 1st ed. 223 p. New York: Random House, 1985.

Hilliard, Robert L. Writing for Television and Radio. 6th ed. 496 p. Belmont: Wadsworth Publishing, 1997.

Himmelstein, Hal. Television Myth and the American Mind. 336 p. New York: Praeger, 1984.

Jarvik, Laurence Ariel. PBS, Behind the Screen. 336 p. Rocklin, CA: Forum, 1997.

Jenkins, Henry. Textual Poachers: Television Fans & Participatory Culture. 343 p. New York: Routledge, 1992.

Jones, Gerard,Honey I’m Home: Sitcoms Selling the American Dream, New York, St. Martin’s, 1992.

Jurs, Addie. TV Becoming Unglued: A Guide to Help Children Develop Positive TV Habits. 136 p. San Marcos, CA: Robert Erdmann Publishing, 1992.

Kaye, Evelyn. The ACT Guide to Children’s Television: How to Treat TV with TLC. 226 p. Boston: Beacon Press, 1979.

Kaye, Evelyn. The Family Guide to Children’s Television: What to Watch, What to Miss, What to Change, and How to Do It. 194 p. New York: Pantheon Books, 1974.

Kubey, Robert. Creating Television: Conversations with the People Behind 50 Years of American TV. 509 p. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2004.

Lane, Christopher, & Lane, Melodie. Parenting by Remote Control: How to Make the Media Work For Rather Than Against Your Family. 243 p. Ann Arbor, MI: Servant Publications, 1991.

Lesser, Gerald. Children and Television: Lessons from Sesame Street. 290 p. New York: Random House, 1974.

Liebert, Robert M. & Joyce N. Sprafkin. Early Window: Effects of Television on Children and Youth. 3rd ed. 306 p. New York: PergamonPress, 1988.

Leibman, Nina, Living Room Lectures: The 50s Family in Film and Television, Austin, University Texas Press,  1995.

Lichter, S Robert et al, Prime Time: How TV Portrays American Culture, Washington D.C., Regnery, 1994.

Luck, Peter, 50 Years of Australian Television: Sydney, New Holland, 2005.

Lumby, Catharine. Why TV is Good for Kids: Raising 21st Century Children. 314 p. Sydney: Macmillan, 2006.

Macbeth, Tannis,  Tuning in to Young Viewers: Social Science Perspectives on Television, Thousand Oaks, CA, Sage, 1996.

MacCabe, Colin, [ed] High Theory Low Culture : Analyzing Popular Television and Film. New York, St. Martin’s, 1986.

Mander, Jerry. Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television. 371 p. New York: Morrow, 1978.

Mankiewicz, Frank & Joel L. Swerdlow. Remote Control: Television and the Manipulation of American Life. 308 p. New York: Times Books, 1978.

Marc, David. Demographic Vistas: Television in American Culture. 214 p. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press , 1984.

Mason, Dale, & Mason, Karen. How to Get the Best Out of TV Before it Gets the Best of You. 260 p. Nashville: Broadman and Holman, 1996.

Mazzocco, Dennis W. Networks of Power: Corporate TV’s Threat to Democracy. 208 p. Boston, MA: South End Press, 1994.

McClure, Holly. Death by Entertainment: Exposing Hollywood’s Seductive Power Over You and Your Family. Little Rock: Lion’s Head Publications, 2001.

Miller, Mark Crispin. Boxed In: The Culture of TV. 349 p. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 1988.

Montgomery, Kathryn C. Target: Prime Time. 272 p. New York: Oxford University Press, 1989.

Neuman, Susan B. Literacy in the Television Age: the Myth of the TV Effect. 2nd ed. 233 p. Norwood, NJ: Ablex, 1995.

Newcomb, Horace. Television: the Critical View. 4th ed. 647 p. New York: Oxford University Press, 1987.

Noronha, Shonan F. R. Opportunities in Television and Video Careers. 141 p. Lincolnwood, IL: VGM Career Horizons, 1998.

O’Connor, John E. American History, American Television: Interpreting the Video Past. 420 p. New York: Ungar, 1983.

Overton, Willis F. Early Childhood Television Viewing and Adolescent Behavior. Vol. 66(1), 156 p. Boston: Blackwell Publishers, 2001.

Palmer, Edward, Television and America’s Children: a Crisis of Neglect, New York, Oxford, 1988.

Pawlowski, Cheryl. Glued to the Tube: The Threat of Television Addiction to Today’s Family. 284 p. Naperville, IL: Sourcebooks, 2000.

Powers, Ron, The Beast, the Eunuch and the Glass-Eyed Child:Television in the 80s and Beyond, New York, Anchor, 1991 .

Pungente, John and Martin O’Malley, More than Meets the Eye:Watching Television Watching Us, Toronto, McLelland and Stewart, 1999.

Rattigan, Annabel and Terrie Waddell , Lounge Critic : The Couch Theorists Companion, Melbourne, Australian Center for the Moving Image 2004.

Scheuer, Jeffrey. Sound Bite Society: Television and the American Mind. 230 p. New York: Four Walls Eight Windows, 1999.

Scheider, Cy. Children’s Television: The art, the Business and How It Works. 228 p. Lincolnwood, IL: NTC Business Books, 1989.

Schrag, Robert L. Taming the Wild Tube: A Family’s Guide to Television and Video. 165 p. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1990.

Schramm, Wilbur, Lyle, Jack, & Parker, Edwin B. Television in the Lives of Our Children. 324 p. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1961.

Singer, Dorothy, Singer, Jerome, & Zuckerman, Diana M. Use TV to Your Child’s Advantage. 203 p. Reston, VA: Acropolis Books, 1990.

Stark, Steven D. Glued to the Set: the 60 Television Shows and Events That Made Us Who We Are Today. 340 p. New York: Free Press, 1997.

Shanahan, James & Michael Morgan. Television and Its Viewers: Cultivation Theory and Research. 267 p. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1999.

Skornia, Harry, Television and Society: an Inquest an Agenda for Improvement, New York, McGraw  Hill, 1965.

Tichi, Cecelia. Electronic Hearth: Creating an American Television Culture. 249 p. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991.

Traverso, Debra Koontz. TV Time: 150 Fun Family Activities that Turn Your Television Into a Learning Tool. 216 p. New York: Avon Books, 1998.

Turnbull, Sue and Vyvyan Stranieri, Bite Me: Narratives Structures and Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Melbourne, Australian Center for the Moving Image, 2003.

Turner, Chris, Planet Simpson:How a Cartoon Masterpiece Defined a Generation, Cambridge Mass, De Capo Press, 2004.

Van Evra, Judith. Television and Child Development. 218 p. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1998.

Vidal, Gore (ed.). Best Television Plays. 250 p. New York: Ballantine Books, 1956.

Williams, Raymond, Television:Technology and Cultural Form,  New York, Schocken, 1974.

Winn, Marie. Unplugging the Plug-in Drug. 206 p. New York: Penguin Books, 1987.

Winn, Marie. The Plug-In Drug: Television, Children and the Family. 288 p. New York: Viking, 1985.

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VISUAL LITERACY

Bordo, Susan. Twilight Zones: the Hidden Life of Cultural Images From Plato to O.J. 279 p. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1999.

Curtiss , Deborah, Introduction to Visual Literacy , Englewood Cliffs NJ, Prentice Hall , 1987.

Dondis, Donis, A Primer of Visual Literacy, Boston, MIT press, 1973.

Dyer, Richard, The Matter of Images :Essays on Representation, London, Routledge, 1993.

Messaris, Paul. Visual “Literacy”: Image, Mind, and Reality. 208 p. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1994.

Weaver, Marcia. Visual Literacy: How to Read and Use Information in Graphic Form. 245 p. New York: Learning Express, 1999.

Stein, Harry. How to Interpret Visual Resources. 88 p. New York: Watts, 1983.

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UNCLASSIFIED

Adatto, Kiku. Picture Perfect: The Art and Arifice of Public Image Making. 200 p. New York: HarperCollins, 1993.

Bamford, Rosemary A. & Krista, Janice V. Making Facts Come Alive: Choosing Quality Nonfiction Literature K-8. 359 p. Norwood, MA: Christopher-Gordon Publishers, 1998.

Barnouw, Erik. The Sponsor: Notes on a Modern Potentate. 220 p. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1978.

Barthes, Roland. Image Music Text. 220 p. New York, NY: Hill and Wang, 1977.

Berger, Arthur Asa. Popular Culture Genres: Theories and Texts. Vol. 2, 170 p. Newbury Park, CA: Sage Publications, 1992.

Bignell, Jonathon. Media Semiotics (2nd ed.). 241 p. New York, NY: Manchester University Press, 2002.

Boorstin, Daniel J., & Kelley, Brooks Mather (eds.). Perspectives: Readings on American History in the 20th Century. 216 p. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1992.

Bowles, Dorothy A., Diane L. Borden, & Dorothy A. Bowles. Creative Editing. 3rd ed. 418 p. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Publishing Co., 2000.

Carson, Diane & Lester D. Friedman. Shared Differences: Multicultural Media and Practical Pedagogy. 322 p. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1995.

Chance, Jean & William McKeen. Literary Journalism: a Reader. 214 p. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Thomson Learning, 2001.

Chapple , Steve and Reebee Garofalo, Rock and Roll is Here to Pay: The History & Politics of the Music Industry, Chicago, Nelson Hall, 1977 .

Clark, Lynn Schofield. From Angels to Aliens: Teenagers, the Media, and the Supernatural. 292 p. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003.

Cottle, Thomas J. Mind Fields: Adolescent Consciousness in a Culture of Distraction. 252 p. New York: Peter Lang, 2001.

Curtain-Phillips, Marilyn. Math Attack: How to Reduce Math Anxiety in the Classroom, at Work and in Everyday Personal Use. Kearney, NE: Morris Publishing, 2006.

Czitrom, Daniel J. Media and the American Mind: From Morse to McLuhan. 254 p. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1982.

Dorling Kindersley Publishing, Inc. Multimedia: the Complete Guide. 1st American ed. 192 p. New York, NY: DK Pub, 1996.

Ellis, Elmo Israel & Elmo Israel Ellis. Opportunities in Broadcasting Careers. Rev. ed. 149 p. Lincolnwood, IL: VGM Career Horizons, 1999.

Ettema , James and D Charles Whitney, [eds] Audiencemaking: How the Media Create the Audience , Thousand Oaks, CA, Sage , 1994.

Gitlin, Todd. Media Unlimited: How the Torrent of Images and Sounds Overwhelms Our Lives. 1st ed. 260 p. New York: Metropolitan Books, 2001.

Goodstein, Anastasia. Totally Wired: What Teens and Tweens Are Really Doing Online. 205 p. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2007.

Healy, Jane M. Failure to Connect: How Computers Affect Our Children’s Minds–for Better and Worse. 350 p. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1998.

Healy, Jane , Endangered Minds: Why Your Children Don’t Think and What We Can Do About It, New York ,Touchstone, 1990.

Heinich, Robert. Instructional Media and Technologies for Learning. 6th ed. 428 p. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Merrill, 1999.

Hutchison, David. Playing to Learn: Video Games in the Classroom. 256 p. Westport, CT: Libraries Unlimited, 2007.

Katz, Jon. Virtuous Reality: How America Surrendered Discussion of Moral Values to Opportunists, Nitwits, and Blockheads Like William Bennett. 1st ed. 212 p. New York: Random House, 1997.

Klosterman, Check. Chuck Klosterman IV: A Decade of Curious People and Dangerous Ideas. 416 p. New York, NY: Scribner, 2006.

Larson, Charles U. Persuasion: Reception and Responsibility. 253 p. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Publishing Co., 1995.

Larson, Charles U. Persuasion: Reception and Responsibility. 9th ed. 395 p. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth/Thomson Learning, 2001. 

Laufer, Peter, Inside Talk Radio:America’s Voice or Just Hot Air , New York, Birch Lane Press, 1995.

Lewis, Peter M. & Corinne Pearlman. Media & Power: From Marconi to Murdoch: a Graphic Guide. 187 p. London: Camden Press, 1986.

Maeroff, Gene I. Hechinger Institute on Education and the Media. Imaging Education: the Media and Schools in America. 232 p. New York: Teachers College Press, 1998.

Marr, David, The Henson Case,  Melbourne, Text Publishing, 2008.

McKibben, Bill. Age of Missing Information. 261 p. New York: Plume, 1992.

Meyrowitz, Joshua. No Sense of Place: the Impact of Electronic Media on Social Behavior. 416 p. New York: Oxford University Press, 1985.

Murray, David, Joel Schwartz, & S. Robert Lichter. It Ain’t Necessarily So: How the Media Remake Our Picture of Reality. 266 p. New York:Penguin Books, 2002.

Orlik, Peter B. Electronic Media Criticism: Applied Perspectives. 2nd ed. 405 p. Mahwah, NJ: L. Erlbaum Associates, 2001.

Parenti, Michael. Make-Believe Media: the Politics of Entertainment. 241 p. New York: St. Martin ‘s Press, 1992.

Paulos, John Allen. Mathematician Reads the Newspaper, 1st Anchor pbk. ed. 212 p. New York: Anchor Books, 1996.

Pavlik, John V. & Shawn McIntosh. Converging Media: an Introduction to Mass Communication. 563 p. Boston: Pearson, 2004.

Petracca, Michael & Madeleine Sorapure. Common Culture: Reading and Writing About American Popular Culture. 3rd ed. 642 p. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2001.

Postman, Neil, Conscientious Objections , New York, Vintage, 1988.

Postman, Neil, Technopoly:The Surrender of Culture to Technology, New York, Vintage, 1993.

Radford, Benjamin. Media Mythmakers: How Journalists, Activists, and Advertisers Mislead Us. 324 p. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2003.

Rhodes, Richard. Vision of Technology: A Century of Vital Debate About Machines, Systems and the Human World. 399 p. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1999.

Roamnowski, William, Eyes Wide Open: Looking for God in Popular Culture, Grand Rapids, MI, Brazo, 2001.

Rushkoff, Douglas. Coercion: Why We Listen to What “They” Say. 321 p. New York: Riverhead, 1999.

Rushkoff, Douglas. Media Virus!: Hidden Agendas in Popular Culture. 1st ed. 338 p. New York: Ballantine Books, 1994.

Rushkoff, Douglas. Playing the Future: How Kids’ Culture Can Teach Us to Thrive in an Age of Chaos. 1st ed. 279 p. New York: HarperCollins, 1996.

Schaffer, David Williamson. How Computer Games Help Children Learn. 242 p. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.

Schrage, Michael. Shared Minds: the New Technologies of Collaboration. 227 p. New York: Random House, 1990.

Schwoch, James, Mimi White, & Susan Reilly. Media Knowledge: Readings in Popular Culture, Pedagogy, and Critical Citizenship. 170 p. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1992.

Sclove, Richard. Democracy and Technology. 338 p. New York: Guilford Press, 1995.

Sloan, W. David, James Glen Stovall, & James D. Startt. Media in America : a History. 436 p. Worthington, OH: Publishing Horizons, 1989.

Smolla, Rodney A. Suing the Press. 277 p. New York: Oxford University Press, 1986.

Stein, Jay Wobith. Mass Media, Education, and a Better Society. 164 p. Chicago: Nelson-Hall, 1979.

Sterling, Christopher H. & John M. Kittross. Stay Tuned: a Concise History of American Broadcasting. 562 p. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Publishing Co., 1978.

Strasburger, Victor C. Adolescents and the Media: Medical and Psychological Impact. 137 p. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 1995.

Strasburger, Victor C. & Barbara J. Wilson. Children, Adolescents, and the Media. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 2002.

Twentieth Century Fund, Task Force on Public Television, and Richard Somerset-Ward. Quality Time? The Report of the Twentieth Century Fund Task Force on Public Television With Background Paper by Richard Somerset-Ward. 188 p. New York: Twentieth Century Fund Press, 1993.

Twitchell, James B. Carnival Culture: the Trashing of Taste in America. 306 p. New York: Columbia University Press, 1992.

Twitchell, James B. For Shame: the Loss of Common Decency in American Culture. 1st ed244 p. New York: St. Martin ‘s Press, 1997.

Walsh, David. Selling Out America’s Children: How America Puts Profits Before Values and What Parents Can Do. 172 p. Minneapolis: Fairview Press, 1994.

Warren, Michael. Seeing Through the Media: a Religious View of Communication and Cultural Analysis. 1st paperback ed. 213 p. Harrisburg, PA: Trinity Press International, 1997.

White, David Manning & John Pendleton. Popular Culture: Mirror of American Life. 360 p. Del Mar, CA: Publisher’s Inc., 1977.

Wineburg, Sam, Historical Thinking & Other Unnatural Acts: Charting the Future of Teaching the Past, Philadelphia, Temple, 2001.

Wood, Julia T. Communication Theories in Action: an Introduction. 2nd ed. 364 p. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Thomson Learning, 2000.

Wood, Julia T. Gendered Lives: Communication, Gender, and Culture. 4th ed. 417 p. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Thomson Learning, 2001.

Zettl, Herbert. Video Basics 3 Instructor’s Edition. 414 p. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, 2001.

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MISCELLANEOUS

Comics

Blackbeard, Bill and Martin Williams, [eds] The Smithsonian Collection of Newspaper Comics , Washington D.C. , Smithsonian Institute Press, 1977.

Bridwell, E Nelson, [ed] Superman :From the Thirties to the Eighties, New York, Crown, 1983.

Horn, Maurice, Women in the Comics , New York, Chelsea House, 1977 .

Kelly, Mrs Walt and Bill Crouch Jr, The Best of Pogo, New York, Fireside, 1982.

Journals/Periodicals 

American Behavioral Scientist
2004 September , High Time for DIS-Illusioning Ourselves and Our Media Literacy in the 21st Century: Strategies for Schools Part 1.

2004  October  High Time for DIS-Illusioning Ourselves and Our Media Literacy in the 21st Century: Strategies for Schools Part 2.

CLIPBOARD: Jesuit Communication Project, Canada

1994 Summer

2000 Summer/Winter.

English Quarterly: Media Literacy

Canadian Council of Teachers  of English , Vol 25, No- 2-3. 

EXTRA: Washington DC Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting 

1992, June

1994 Nov/Dec.

1995, March/April.

Journal of Film and Video

2002, Winter.

Journal of Popular Film and Television

1984 , Spring.

2002 Spring ,Media Literacy & Education Issue . 

Media and Values 

Summer 1986

Winter 1988

Winter , Spring  1989 ,

Summer , Fall  1990,

Spring Summer, Fall , Winter,  1991

Winter, Fall 1992.

1992 Living in the Image Culture:

Fall 1993.

MEDIACY: Association for Media Literacy, Canada

Spring 1997

Winter 2000

Metro:Media and Education Magazine  [ Australian ]1989 Autumn

1990 Autumn

1991 Spring

1994 Summer, Winter

Issue #17  [no date ]

No 140 [ stopped placing year on cover or index ]

It  morphed into  Screen Education.

1998 , No. 15

1999 , Screen Education 20/21 , Summer.

2008 , Screen Education , No 52. Summer

Movie Study Guides: Australian

*Dead Calm

*Fairy Tale

*Fighting Back

*JFK

*The Last Wave

*Mr Holland’s Opus

*Newsfront

*Neverending Story

*Mediagraph 27 The China Syndrome [ circa 1979 ]

*Muriel’s Wedding .

One Hundred and One Dalmatians

*Pinocchio

*Puberty Blues

*Sirens

Movie  Study Guides: American 

Amazing Grace

Because of Winn Dixie

Bridge to Terabithia

Charlotte’s Web

Hoot

I am David

*BEAT THE DRUM: Discovering South Africa, from Journeys in Film.  NM

Movie  Study Guides: Created by Undergrad and Graduate Education Majors at Appalachian State University 

Bridging Contents Theme: Hotel Rwanda & Rabbit Proof Fence

*Amistad

*Akeelah and the Bee

*August Rush

*Bridge to Terabithia

*Dead Poet’s Society

*Devil’s Arithmetic

*Glory x 2

*Holes

*Hoot

*Karate Kid

*Kit Kittredge: An American Girl

*Narnia:Lion, Wirch and Wardrobe.

*Night at the Museum

*The Patriot

*Pay it Forward

*Seabiscuit

*Second Hand Lions

*The Tale of Despereaux

*Toy Story

*Whale Rider

Strategies for Media Literacy 

1990, Winter .

1991 Summer

1992 , Winter

1993 Summer/Fall 

Telemedium also known as The Journal of Media Literacy 

The following  32   volumes.

1992, First Quarter.,  Third/Fourth Quarter.

1993, First/2nd Quarter, 2nd/3rd quarter.

1994, Spring, Summer, Fall

1995, Spring, Fall, Winter

1996, Spring, Summer, Fall

1997 , Fall

1998 , Summer, Fall

1999, Summer, Fall

2000, Spring

2001, Winter, Summer, Fall

2002, Spring, Fall

2003, Spring

2004 Summer, Fall

2005, Spring, Summer

2006, Summer

2007 Winter , Spring ,

2008, Vol 55 1& 2.

2009 , Vol. 56 1 & 2

Television and Children 

1983

Winter, Spring, Fall

Popular Music and Society, Bowling Green State University

Fall 1987

The Velvet Light Trap

Fall 1973

Fall , Winter , 1974

Fall , Winter, 1975

Winter 1977

Summer 1985.

Media Literacy Conference Programs and Other Media Education Conference Programs and Reports 

1986, International Visual Literacy Association, Madison WI, Visible and Viable :The Role of Images in Instruction and Communication

Aspen Institute , National Leadership Conference on Media Literacy , 1992. Agenda and Invitation & Reports.

[see also 1993 published report from this meeting ]

1992, Minnesota Alliance for Arts in Education.

1993, Harvard University, Graduate School  of Education,  Institute on Media Education,

Boone, NC, Appalachian State University and the National Telemedia  Council, The National Media Literacy Conference , 1995.

St. Paul, Minnesota 1999

Washington D.C. Office of National Drug Control Policy , [The White House] Roundtable on Faith , Media Literacy & Youth Drug Prevention, August 30th, 2001.

Baltimore, MD, 2003.

Youth Media Reporter, 2007. New York, Academy for Educational Development.

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