Descriptions of new books

DISCUSSION by William S. Howell, Professor and Chairman of the Department of Speech and Theatre Arts, University of Minnesota, and Donald K. Smith, Associate Professor of Speech and Theatre Arts, University of Minnesota … 1956, 292 pages, 5 ¾ × 8½, $4.00 … The Macmillan Company.

COMMUNICATIVE READING, by Otis J. Aggertt, Associate Professor of Speech, Albion College, and Elbert R. Bowen, Professor of Speech and Drama, Central Michigan College … 1956, 480 pages, 5 ¾ × 8½, $4.25 … The Macmillan Company.

SPEECH CORRECTION IN THE SCHOOLS, by Jon Eisenson, Professor of Speech and Director of Speech and Hearing Clinic, Queens College, and Mardel Ogilvie, Assistant Professor of Speech, Queens College … 1957, 294 pages, 5¼ × 8, $4.25 … The Macmillan Company.

SPEECH FOR YOU by Charles Masten, Assistant Professor of Speech, Kansas State Teachers College of Emporia, and George R. R. Pflaum, Head of Department of Speech, Kansas State Teachers College of Emporia. vii + 311 pages. $2.40 … Row, Peterson and Company.

WHITE BEAUTY. Poems by Mildred Jones Keefe. $1.50 … Expression Company, Magnolia, Mass.

HANDBOOK OF SPEECH IMPROVEMENT, by Charles Kenneth Thomas, Professor of Speech and Director of the Speech Clinic, Cornell University. 1956 … 135 pages, 5 3/8× 8, 16 illustrations … The Ronald Press Company.

PARLIAMENTARY PROCEDURE SIMPLIFIED, by Melanie F. Menderson, teacher of parliamentary procedure and parliamentarian of many leading national organizations for the past 20 years … New third edition, 164 pages, $2.75 … The Dale Press, 1077 Celestial Street, Cincinnati 2, Ohio.

COMMUNICATION: HANDLING IDEAS EFFECTIVELY, by Roy Ivan Johnson, The University of Florida; Marie Schalekamp, Head of the Communication Skills Department, Mason City Junior College; and Lloyd A. Garrison, Dean of the Graduate College and Professor of Education, University of Denver … 1956, 361 pages, 6×9, $4.50. McGraw‐Hill Book Company, Inc.

FUNDAMENTALS OF COMMUNICATION. An Integrated Approach, by Wayne N. Thompson, Associate Professor of Humanities, Chicago Undergraduate Division, University of Illinois … 1957, 582 pages, 6× 9, $5.00 … McGraw‐Hill Book Company, Inc.

COMPETITIVE DEBATE. Rules and Techniques, 3rd Rev. Edition, by George McCoy Musgrave ... 170 pages, 5¼ × 7 7/8 ... 1957, $2.50 … The H. W. Wilson Company.     

Descriptions of new books

A DICTIONARY OF SPEECH PATHOLOGY AND THERAPY by S. D. Robbins, Professor Emeritus of Psychology, Emerson College, formerly President of the American Speech and Hearing Association and for twenty years Chairman of its Nomenclature Committee ... Limited Edition. Attractive stiff paperbound edition, $1.90 postpaid ... Library Text Edition, $2.95 postpaid... Sci‐Art Publishers, Harvard Square, Cambridge 38, Mass.

RADIO CLASSICS, adapted by Norman A. Bailey, Romulus Linney, and Dominik Cascio. Copyright 1956, 169 pages, 8½ × 11, mimeoprint, spiral bound. Price open. Burgess Publishing Company.

THE ABC's OF PLAY PRODUCING by Howard Bailey... 1955. 276 pages, $3.50... David McKay Company, Inc.

NTRODUCTION TO OPERA: A Guidebook Sponsored by the Metropolitan Opera Guild. Edited by Mary Ellis Peltz with an Annotated List of Recordings by C. J. Luten … 332 pages … 51/8 × 81/8… $1.65 (Paperbound Everyday Handbook) ... Barnes & Noble, Inc.

SPEAK CORRECTLY by Lillian Haut, Speech teacher, New York City Schools... 56 pages, soft cover. 5½ × 8½. $1.50 … Speech Handbooks, 105 West 72nd St., New York 23, N. Y.

BUSINESS SPEAKING by James F. Clyne, Charles A. Dwyer, Edward J. Kilduff, Ralph M. Zink, all of the school of Commerce, Accounts, and Finance, New York University ... 246 pages, 10 illus., $3.75, Oxford University Press, Inc. (to be published Fall, 1956.

BASIC PUBLIC SPEAKING by Paul L. Soper, Professor of English and Speech... Chairman of the Speech Staff, University of Tennessee... New second edition. 400 pages. 12 photographs. $3.85 (college ed.) ...Oxford University Press, Inc. (March, 1956)

THE ROAD TO PERSUASION by William Muehl, Associate Professor of Public Speaking, Yale University … 282 pages, $3.95 … Oxford University Press, Inc. (Published September, 1956)

DISCUSSION by William S. Howell, Professor and Chairman of the Department of Speech and Theatre Arts, University of Minnesota, and Donald K. Smith, Associate Professor of Speech and Theatre Arts, University of Minnesota... 1956, 292 pages, 5¾ × 82½, $4.00 … The Macmillan Company.

COMMUNICATIVE READING, by Otis J. Aggertt, Associate Professor of Speech, Albion College, and Elbert R. Bowen, Professor of Speech and Drama, Central Michigan College … 1956, 480 pages, 5¾× 8½, $4.25 … The Macmillan Company.

SPEECH CORRECTION IN THE SCHOOLS, by Jon Eisenson, Professor of Speech and Director of Speech and Hearing Clinic, Queens College, and Mardel Ogilvie, Assistant Professor of Speech, Queens College ... Published in November ... The Macmillan Company.

LANGUAGE: A MODERN SYNTHESIS, by Joshua Whatmough, Professor of Comparative Philology and Chairman of the Department of Linguistics at Harvard University. With Appendixes, Glossary, Index; illustrated with diagrams, spectrogram, and map. Pp. ix+270. 1956. $4.75. St. Martin's Press, Inc., 103 Park Avenue, New York 17, New York.     

Books in review

TRAINING THE VOICE FOR SPEECH, By C. Raymond Van Dusen: Professor of Speech and Chairman of the Department of Speech, University of Miami … Director of Speech Clinic at the University. New second edition. 276 pages, 6 × 9, 27 illus., $4.00 .... McGraw‐Hill Book Company, Inc.

MASON'S MANUAL OF LEGISLATIVE PROCEDURE, by Paul Mason: Member of the California Bar, formerly Assistant Legislative Counsel in California … now parliamentarian of the California State Senate and the American Legion Department of California. 640 pages, 5 × 7½, $6.50 … McGraw‐Hill Book Company, Inc.

BEGINNING TELEVISION PRODUCTION, by Melvin Robert White: Brooklyn College. Ill pages, 8½ by 11, photo offset, spiral bound, $2.50 … Burgess Publishing Company.     

The speech of diplomacy as a field for research

BLEEDING KANSAS, by Alice Nichols. … 5 5/8” × 8 5/8”, $4.50 …. Oxford University Press

ESSENTIALS OF DISCUSSION AND DEBATE by Halbert E. Gulley, University of Illinois … March 1955, 160 pages, paper‐bound, probable price $1.50 … Henry Holt and Company.

THE FUNK &; WAGNALLS BOOK OF PARLIAMENTARY PROCEDURE, by Lawrence W. Bridge, Certified Parliamentarian, Member of the National Association of Parliamentarians … 192 pages, 5 1/2 × 7 5/8, charts, tables, index, $3.00 … Funk &; Wagnalls Company.

HOW TO THINK CREATIVELY, by Eliot D. Hutchinson … 237 pages, $2.75 … Abingdon Press

HOW TO SPEAK—HERE, THERE, AND ON THE AIR, by John Dixon … 249 pages, $2.75 … Abingdon Press.

TELEVISION BROADCASTING, by Howard A. Chinn: Chief Engineer, Audio‐Video Division, General Engineering Department, Columbia Broadcasting System, Inc. … 695 pages, 6x9, 342 illus., $10.00 … McGraw‐Hill Series in Speech.

SPEECH IN THE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, by Mardel Ogilvie: Assistant Professor of Speech, Queens College … 318 pages, 6 × 9, 22 illus., $4.50 … McGraw‐Hill Series in Speech.     

Books in review

PRACTICAL PUBLIC SPEAKING: A Guide to Effective Communication, by Eugene E. White, Associate Professor of Speech and C. R. Henderlider, Associate Professor and Head of Speech Department, Cleveland College, Western Reserve University . . . 385 pages, 5½ × 8½, $3.50 (college edition) . . . The Macmillan Company.

SPEECH: A Handbook of Voice Training, Diction and Public Speaking, by Dorothy Mulgrave, with chapters by Wilbur Gilman and Wilbert Pronovost . . . 270 pages, $1.50 . . . Barnes & Noble, Inc.     

Literature of broadcasting: Books in review

THE TELEVISION COMMERCIAL, revised edition, by Harry Wayne McMahan. New York: Hastings House, 1957. 223 pp. $6.50.

THE AGE OF TELEVISION. By Leo Bogart. New York: Frederick Ungar Publishing Company, 1956. 348 pp. $6.50. Text edition, $4.75.

ELEMENTS OF COLOR IN PROFESSIONAL MOTION PICTURES, prepared by a Special Committee of the SMPTE, W. R. Holm, Chairman. Published (1957) by the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers, 55 West 42nd Street, New York 36; 104 pages, 27 in color, 53/4”; by 81/2”; hard‐bound. Price is $3.50 for single copies.

TELEVISION AUDIENCE RESEARCH FOR GREAT BRITAIN. By Arthur C. Nielsen. A. C. Nielson Company, 1955. 143 pp.

SAY IT SAFELY. By Paul P. Ashley. The University of Washington Press, 1957. 117 pp. $2.50.     

Literature of broadcasting: Books in review

TELEVISION AND RADIO ANNOUNCING. By Stuart W. Hyde. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1959. 451 pp. $6.00.

TELEVISION ADVERTISING. By Clark Aknew and Neil O'Brien. New York: McGraw‐Hill Book Company, 1958. 330 pp. $9.50.

INTRODUCTION TO MASS COMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH. Edited by Ralph O. Nafziger and David Manning White. Baton Rouge, Louisiana: Louisiana State University Press, 1958. 244 pp. $5.00.

THE MERGER. By Sterling Quinlan. New York: Doubleday & Co., Inc., 1958. 331 pp.

SCREEN WRITING AND PRODUCTION TECHNIQUES. By Charles W. Curran, New York. Hastings House, 1958. 240 pp., illus. $4.95.     

Literature of broadcasting: Books in review

BEST TELEVISION PLAYS. Ed. by Gore Vidal. New York: Ballantine Books, Inc., 1956. 250 pp. 35c.

TELEVISION PLAYS BY PADDY GHAYEFSKY. By Paddy Chayefsky. New York: Simon and Schuster. 1955. 268 pp. $1.50 (paperback).

TOP TV SHOWS OF THE YEAR, 1954–55. Ed. by Irving Settel New York: Hastings House, 1955. 269 pp. $5.50.

TELEVISION SCRIPTS FOR STAGING AND STUDY. By Rudy Bretz and Edward Stasheff. New York: Hill and Wang, Inc., 1953. 332 pp. $4.95.

TELEVISION'S IMPACT ON AMERICAN CULTURE. By William Y. Elliott. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press 1956. 382 pp. $4.95.

MASS COMMUNICATIONS. By Erik Barnouw. New York: Rine‐hart and Company, Inc., 1957. pp. 280. $4.00.

CONSUMER RESEARCH WITH PROJECTIVE TECHNIQUES. By Dietz Leonhard. Shenandoah, Iowa: World Publishing Co., 1955. 151 pp.

ON HUMAN COMMUNICATIONS: A Review, a Survey and a Criticism. By Colin Cherry. New York: The Technology Press of Massachusetts Institute of Technology and John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1957. 333 pp.

TELEVISION TECHNIQUES, revised edition, by Hoyland Bettinger, revised by Sol Cornberg. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1955. 236 pp. $3.75.

TV MEASUREMENT FOR THE SPONSOR. By American Research Bureau, Inc., 1956. 53 pp. (Free.)

FOUR THEORIES OF THE PRESS. By Fred S. Siebert, Theodore Peterson, and Wilbur Schramm. Urbana, Illinois: University of Illinois Press, 1956. 153 pp. $3.50.     

3. PROPAGANDA STUDIES

CONSUMING ENVIRONMENTS: TELEVISION AND COMMERCIAL CULTURE by Mike Budd, Steve Craig, and Clay Steinman (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press “Communications, Media, and Culture,”; 1999— $50.00/22.00, ISBN 0–8135–2591–8 hard, 0–8135–2592–6 paper, 225 pp., photos, tables, charts, bibliography, index)

PACIFICA RADIO: THE RISE OF AN ALTERNATIVE NETWORK by Matthew Lasar (Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 1999—$34.95, ISBN 1–56639–660–3, 277 pp., photos, notes, index)

COPYCAT TELEVISION: GLOBALISATION, PROGRAM FORMATS AND CULTURAL IDENTITY by Albert Moran (Luton: University of Luton Press, 1998—£14.95, paper, ISBN 1–86020–537–2, 192 pp., illustrations, bibliography, index)     

Legislative Branch: House

Stephen Heath, QUESTIONS OF CINEMA (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1981—$22.50/$9.95)

Rick Altman, ed., GENRE: THE MUSICAL (London: Routledge and Regan Paul, 1981—$19.95)

A.J. Prats, THE ALTIONOMOUS IMAGE: CINEMATIC NARRATION AND HUMANISM (Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 1981—$14.50)

Thomas Allen Nelson, KUBRICK: INSIDE A FILM ARTIST'S MAZE (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1982—$37.50/$9.95)

Ingmar Bergman can be found in Paisley Livingston, INGMAR BERGMAN AND THE RITUALS OF ART (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1982—$19.95)

Annette Kuhn, WOMEN'S PICTURES: FEMINISM AND CINEMA (London: Routledge Et Kegan Paul, 1982—$9.95 paper)

Herbert Eagle ( ed . ) , RUSSIAN FORMALIST FILM THEORY (Av ailable from Michigan Slavic Publications, 3040 MLB, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor'48109 —no price given)

Robert Edmonds, THE SIGHTS AND SOUNDS OF CINEMA AND TELEVISION: HOW THE AESTHETIC EXPERIENCE INFLUENCES OUR FEELINGS (New York: Teachers College Press, 1982—no price given)

Gerald Mast, HOWARD HAWKS, STORYTELLER (New York: Oxford University Press, 1982—$29 95)

John R. May and Michael Bird (ed.), RELIGION IN FILM (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1982—$16.50/$7.95)     

British Communications

THE MASS MEDIA AND POWER IN MODERN BRITAIN by John Eldridge, Jenny Kitzinger and Kevin Williams (Oxford, England: Oxford University Press “Oxford Modern Britain”; series, 1997—£8.99, paper, ISBN 0–19–878171–7, 199 pp., photos, bibliography, index)

A JOURNALIST'S GUIDE TO SOURCES by David Spark (Jordan Hill, England/Newton, MA: Focal Press “Journalism Media Manual”; series, 1997—$28.95, paper, ISBN 0–240–51470‐X, 398 pp., appendices, index)

CREATING LOCAL TELEVISION: LOCAL AND COMMUNITY TELEVISION UNDER THE RESTRICTED SERVICES LICENSE by Dave Rushton (Luton, England: University of Luton Press/John Libbey Media, 1997—about $16.00, paper, ISBN1–89940–501–1, 96 pp. Diagrams, appendix)

THE PRESS AS PUBLIC EDUCATOR by Colin Lacey and David Longman (Luton, England: University of Luton Press/John Libbey Media, 1997—about $28, paper, ISBN 1–86020–536–4, 236 pp., tables, charts, bibliography, index)

MEDIA, CULTURE AND THE ENVIRONMENT by Alison Anderson (London: UCL Press/New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1997—$50/17.95, ISBN 0–8135–2394‐X hard, 0–8135–2395–8 paper, 236 pp., photos, diagram, references, index)     

History

EXHIBITING ELECTRICITY by K.G. Beauchamp (IEEE “History of Technology Series No. 21,”; IEEE Publishing and Information Services, 445 Hoes Lane, PO Box 1331, Piscataway, NJ 08855–1331—$85.00, ISBN 0–85296–895–7, 338 pp., photos, diagrams, tables, references, index)

WCFL: CHICAGO'S VOICE OF LABOR 1926–78 by Nathan Godfried (Urbana: University of Illinois Press “History of Communication Series,”; 1997— $49.95/19.95, ISBN 0–252–02287–4 hard, 0–252–06592–1 paper, 390 pp., photos, notes, bibliography, index)

THE MAN IN THE SHADOWS: FRED COE AND THE GOLDEN AGE OF TELEVISION by Jon Krampner (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1997—$32.95, ISBN 0–8135–2359–1, 243 pp., photos, notes, bibliography, appendices, index)

SPECIAL EDITION: A GUIDE TO NETWORK TELEVISION DOCUMENTARY SERIES AND SPECIAL NEWS REPORTS, 1980–1989 by Daniel Einstein (Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 1997‐$110.00, ISBN 0–8108–3220–8,928 pp., several indexes)

TECHNOLOGIES OF SEEING: PHOTOGRAPHY, CINEMATOGRAPHY AND TELEVISION by Brian Winston (London: British Film Institute/ Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1996—$49.95/24.95, ISBN0–85170–601–0 hard, 0–85170–602–9 paper, 176 pp., diagrams, notes, index)

RADIO VOICES: AMERICAN BROADCASTING, 1922–1952 by Michelle Hilmes (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1997‐$49.95/19.95, ISBN 0–8166–2620–0 hard, 0–8166–2621–9 paper, 353 pp., photos, notes, index)

WRITTEN OUT OF TELEVISION: THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF CAST CHANGES AND CHARACTER REPLACEMENTS, 1945–1994 by Steven Lance (Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 1996—$89.50, ISBN 0–8108–2902–9, 528 pp., photos, index)

A REPORTER'S LIFE by Walter Cronkite (New York: Knopf, 1996— $26.95, ISBN 0–394–57879–1, 384 pp., photos)     

Broadcasting

EMPIRE: WILLIAM S. PALEY AND THE MAKING OF CBS by Lewis J. Paper (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1987—$19.95)

INVENTING AMERICAN BROADCASTING: 1899-1922 by Susan J. Douglas (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1987—$29.50)

TELEVISION WESTERNS: MAJOR AND MINOR SERIES, 1946-1978 by Richard West (Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 1987—$19.95)

THE HISTORY OF PUBLIC BROADCASTING by John Witherspoon and Roselle Kovitz (Current, 2311 18th St. NW, Washington, DC 20009—$7.95, paper)

two illustrated discount books on TV history

RADIOS—THE GOLDEN AGE by Phillip Collins (San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1987—$14.95, paper with a hardback available)

CHILDREN AND TELEVISION: A CHALLENGE FOR EDUCATION edited by Michael Manley-Casimir and Carmen Luke (New York: Praeger, 1987—$39.95)

PRIMETIME: NETWORK TELEVISION PROGRAMMING by Richard A. Blum and Richard D. Lindheim (Stoneham, MA: Focal Press, 1987—$19.95, paper)

three recent television texts from Sage Publications     

Communication history

THE COMMERCIALIZATION OF NEWS IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY by Gerald J. Baldasty (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1992—$19.95, paper, ISBN 0–299–13404–0, 227 pp.)

HISTORY OF INTERNATIONAL BROADCASTING by James Wood (IEEE Service Center, 445 Hoes Lane, PO Box 1331, Piscataway, NJ. 08855–1331—$59.99, ISBN 0–86341–281–5, 258 pp.)

RADIO AND TELEVISION PIONEERS: A PATENT BIBLIOGRAPHY by David W. Kraeuter (Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1992—$35.00, ISBN 0–8108–2556–2, 329 pp.)

RELIGIOUS RADIO AND TELEVISION IN THE UNITED STATES 1921–1991—THE PROGRAMS AND PERSONALITIES by Hal Erickson (MacFarland, Box 611, Jefferson, NC 28640—$39.95, ISBN 0–89950–658–5,264 pp.)

RADIO MYSTERY AND ADVENTURE AND ITS APPEARANCES IN FILM, TELEVISION AND OTHER MEDIA by Jim Harmon (McFarland, Box 611, Jefferson, NC 28640— $$45.00, ISBN 0–89950–663–1, 368 pp.)

BLACKS AND WHITE TV: AFRICAN AMERICANS IN TELEVISION SINCE 1948 by J. Fred MacDonald (Chicago: Nelson‐Hall, 1992—price not given, paper, ISBN 0–8304–1326‐X, 345 pp.)

MAKING ROOM FOR TV: TELEVISION AND THE FAMILY IDEAL IN POSTWAR AMERICA by Lynn Spigel (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992—$15.95, paper, ISBN 0–226–76967–4,236 pp.)

WIRELESS IMAGINATION: SOUND, RADIO, AND THE AVANT‐GARDE edited by Douglas Kahn and Gregory Whitehead (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1992—$35.00, ISBN 0–262–11168–3, 452 pp.)     

Broadcasting

TALK RADIO AND THE AMERICAN DREAM by Murray B, Levin (Lexington, MA: Lexington Books, 1987—$22.00)

WHO SHOT THE SHERIFF? THE RISE AND FALL OF THE TELEVISION WESTERN by J. Fred MacDonald (New York: Praeger, 1987—$29.95)

LIVE TV: AN INSIDE LOOK AT DIRECTING AND PRODUCING by Tony Verna (Stoneham, MA: Focal Press, 1987—$22.95)

TV CAREERS BEHIND THE SCREEN by Jane Blanksteen and Avi Odeni (New York: John Wiley, 1987—$12.95, paper)

THE BROADCASTER'S DICTIONARY by James R. McDonald (Windriver Books, Box 481, Broomfield, CT 80020—$20.00 incl. postage, paper)

Three recent publications by the National Association of Broadcasters (Publications Dept., 1771 N St. NW. Washington, DC 20036)

TELECOMMUNICATIONS MANAGEMENT: THE BROADCAST &; CABLE INDUSTRIES by Barry L. Sherman (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1987—$29.95)

CHANNELS OF DISCOURSE: TELEVISION AND CONTEMPORARY CRITICISM edited by Robert C. Allen (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1987—$25.00/7.95)

THE HOUR OF TELEVISION: CRITICAL APPROACHES by N.D. Batra (Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press. 1987—$29.50)     

Books in review

DOCUMENTS IN AMERICAN BROADCASTING. Edited by Frank J. Kahn. New York: Appleton‐Century‐Crofts, 1968. 598 pp. $4.95 (paper).

RADIO, TELEVISION AND AMERICAN POLITICS. By Edward W. Chester. New York: Sheed and Ward, 1969. 342 pp. $7.50/3.45.

THE REPORT OF THE COMMISSION ON OBSCENITY AND PORNOGRAPHY. New York: Bantam Books, 1970. 700 pp. $1.65 (paper).

HOW TO TALK BACK TO YOUR TELEVISION SET. By Nicholas Johnson. Boston: Little‐Brown, 1970. ix+228 pp. $5.75. [re‐issued with added bibliographies and an index by Bantam Books, 1970. 245 pp. 95¢.]

MEDIA SOCIOLOGY: A READER. Edited by Jeremy Tunstall. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1970. x+574 pp. $12.50.

TELEVISION: SELECTIONS FROM “TV GUIDE” MAGAZINE. Edited by Barry G. Cole. New York: Free Press, 1970. 605 pp. $12.50/5.95.

INTRODUCTION TO MASS COMMUNICATIONS. By Edwin Emery, Phillip H. Ault, and Warren K. Agee. New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1970 (third edition). 444 pp. $8.95.

THE MASS MEDIA AND MODERN SOCIETY. By William L. Rivers, Theodore Peterson, and Jay W. Jensen. San Francisco: Rinehart Press, 1971 (second edition). 342 pp. $8.95.

THE COMMUNICATIVE ARTS: AN INTRODUCTION TO MASS MEDIA. By Charles S. Steinberg. New York: Hastings House, 1970. 371 pp. $10.00/6.00.

TELECOMMUNICATIONS: THE BOOMING TECHNOLOGY. By Ronald Brown. New York: Doubleday, 1970. 191 pp. $5.95.

THE EMMY AWARDS: A PICTORIAL HISTORY. By Paul Michael and James Robert Parish. New York: Crown, 1970. 384 pp. $9.95.     

Media Regulation

AMERICAN BROADCASTING AND THE FIRST AMENDMENT by Lucas A. Powe Jr. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987—$25)

BEYOND BROADCASTING: PATTERNS IN POLICY AND LAW by Don R. Le Due (New York: Longman, 1987—price not given)

CABLE TELEVISION AND THE FIRST AMENDMENT by Patrick Parsons (Lexington, MA: Lexington Books, 1987—$24.00)

THE QUESTION OF PORNOGRAPHY: RESEARCH FINDINGS AND POLICY IMPLICATIONS by Edward Donnerstein, et al. (New York: Free Press, 1987 $24.95)

PRIVACY IN A PUBLIC SOCIETY: HUMAN RIGHTS IN CONFLICT by Richard F. Hixson (New York: Oxford University Press, 1987—$19.95)     

F. Memoirs and Biography

ON TELEVISION by Pierre Bourdieu, translated from the 1996 French original by Priscilla Ferguson (New York: The New Press, 1998—$18.95, paper, ISBN 1–56584–407–6, 104 pp., appendix, translator's note, bibliography, notes, index)

BUYER'S GUIDE TO FIFTY YEARS OF TV ON VIDEO by Sam Frank (Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 1999—$22.95, paper, ISBN 1–57392–226–9, 1,498 pp., index)

THE TELEVISION STUDIES BOOK edited by Christine Geraghty and David Lusted (London: Arnold / New York: St. Martin's Press, 1998—$59.95/18.95, ISBN 0–340–66232 hard, 0–340–66231‐X paper, 337 pp., index)

WHY WE WATCH: THE ATTRACTIONS OF VIOLENT ENTERTAINMENT edited by Jeffrey H. Goldstein (New York: Oxford University Press, 1998—$49.95/17.95, ISBN 0–19–511820–0 hard, 0–19–511821–9 paper, 270 pp., illustrations, references, subject and name indexes)

BROADCASTING IN AMERICA: A SURVEY OF ELECTRONIC MEDIA by S. W. Head, C. H. Sterling, L. B. Schofield, T. Spann, and M. A. McGregor (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1998 [8th ed.]—$52.00, paper, ISBN 0–395–87371–1, 337 pp., 280 photos &; graphics, bibliography, index, instructor's manual)

PRIME TIME LAW: FICTIONAL TELEVISION AS LEGAL NARRATIVE edited by Robert M. Jarvis and Paul R. Joseph (Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press, 1998—price not given, ISBN 0–89089–805–7 hard, 0–89089–808–1 paper, 323 pp., notes, index)

MASTERPIECE THEATRE AND THE POLITICS OF QUALITY by Lawrence A. Jarvik (Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 1999—$60.00, ISBN 0–8108–3204–6, 261 pp., notes, bibliography, index)

TELEVISION VIOLENCE: A GUIDE TO THE LITERATURE edited by P.T. Kelly (Nova Science Publishers, 6080 Jericho Turnpike, Suite 207, Commack, NY 11725—price not given, ISBN 1–56072–299–1, 193 pp., index)

UNDERSTANDING SOCIETY, CULTURE, AND TELEVISION by Paul Monaco (Westport, CT: Praeger, 1998—$55.00, ISBN 0–275–96057–9, 152 pp., bibliography, index)

ENCYCLOPEDIA OF TELEVISION NEWS edited by Michael D. Murray (Phoenix: Oryx Press, 1999—price not given, ISBN 1–57356–108–8, 315 pp., photos, further reading, index)

STUDENT TELEVISION IN AMERICA: CHANNELS OF CHANGE by Tony Silvia and Nancy F. Kaplan (Ames, IA: Iowa State University Press, 1998— $29.95, paper, ISBN 0–8138–2160–6, 243 pp., illustrations, selected bibliography, appendixes, index)

LIVING COLOR: RACE AND TELEVISION IN THE UNITED STATES edited by Sasha Torres (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1998—$49.95/17.95, ISBN 0–8223–2178–5 hard, 0–8223–2195–5 paper, illustrations, selected bibliography, index)     

Books in review

LIVING ROOM WAR. By Michael J. Arlen. New York: The Viking Press, 1969. xiv+ 242 pp. $5.95.

PROPAGANDA AND PROMOTIONAL ACTIVITIES, An Annotated Bibliography. Edited by Harold D. Lasswell, Ralph D. Casey and Bruce Lannes Smith. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1969. xxiii+ 450 pp. $10.00.

COLOR TELEVISION, The Business of Colorcasting. Edited by Howard W. Coleman. New York: Hastings House, Publishers, 1968. 287 pp. $8.95.