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)     

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.)     

10. MOTION PICTURES: FOREIGN

TELEVISION: AN INTERNATIONAL HISTORY OF THE FORMATIVE YEARS by R. W. Burns (London: Institution of Electrical Engineers “History of Technology Series, No. 22,”; 1998 [distribution in U.S. by IEEE Operations Center, 445 Hoes Lane, PO Box 1331, Piscataway, N] 08855–1331]—$120.00, ISBN 0–85296–914–7, 661 pp., photos, diagrams, tables, notes, appendices, bibliography, index)

RADIO DIPLOMACY AND PROPAGANDA: THE BBC AND VOA IN INTERNATIONAL POLITICS, 1956–1964 by Gary D. Rawnsley (London: Macmillan/New York: St Martin's Press “Studies in Diplomacy,”; 1996—$59.95, ISBN 0–333–64943–5, 224 pp., notes, bibliography, index)

WAR OF THE BLACK HEAVENS: THE BATTLES OF WESTERN BROADCASTING IN THE COLD WAR by Michael Nelson (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1997—$29.95, ISBN 0–8156–0479–3, 277 pp., photos, chronology, notes, bibliography, index)

PARTING THE CURTAIN: PROPAGANDA, CULTURE AND THE COLD WAR: 1945–1961 by Walter L. Hixson (New York: St. Martin's Griffin, 1997— $17.95, paper, ISBN 0–312–17680–5, 283 pp., photos, notes, index)

SOUNDS OUT OF SILENCE: A LIFE OF ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL by James Mackay (Edinburgh, Scotland: Mainstream Publishing, 1997—£20.00 or about $36.00, ISBN 1–85158–833–7, 320 pp., photos, notes, index)

ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF THE MAN WHO INVENTED THE TELEPHONE by Edwin S. Grosvenor and Morgan Wesson (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1997—$45.00, ISBN 0–8109–4005–1, 304 pp., photos [some color], bibliography, index)

GET ME A MURDER A DAY! A HISTORY OF MASS COMMUNICATION IN BRITAIN by Kevin Williams (London: Arnold/New York: St. Martin's Press, 1998—$59.95/19.95, ISBN 0–340–69158–1 hard, 0–340–61466–8 paper, 288 pp., end‐ notes, index)

THE DECLINE AND FALL OF PUBLIC SERVICE BROADCASTING by Michael Tracey (New York: Oxford University Press, 1998—$75.00/29.95, paper, ISBN 0–19–815925–0 hard, 0–19–815924–2 paper, 295 pp., notes, bibliography, index)

50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE TRANSISTOR! (Piscataway, NJ: IEEE, Proceedings of the IEEE, Vol. 86 [January 1998]—$20.00 [individual copies available from IEEE Operations Center, 445 Hoes Lane, PO Box 1331, Piscataway, NJ 08855–1331], ISSN 0018–9219,308 pp., photos, diagrams, references)

STEPHEN CRANE, JOURNALISM AND THE MAKING OF MODERN AMERICAN LITERATURE by Michael Robertson (New York: Columbia University Press, 1997—$45.00/16.95, ISBN 0–231–10968–7 hard, 0–231–10969–5 paper, 253 pp., photos, index, notes)

SINCE RECORDS BEGAN: EMI, THE FIRST 100 YEARS by Peter Martland (Portland, OR: Amadeus Press, 1997—$39.95, ISBN 0–57467–033–6, 359 pp., photos, bibliography, index)

DEFINING VISIONS: TELEVISION AND THE AMERICAN EXPERIENCE SINCE 1945 by Mary Ann Watson (Ft. Worth, TX: Harcourt Brace “American Since 1945,”; 1998—$22.50, paper, ISBN 0–15–503201–1, 303 pp., photos, bibliography, index)     

Book of the Month

MASS MEDIA: A CHRONOLOGICAL ENCYCLOPEDIA OF TELEVISION, RADIO, MOTION PICTURES, MAGAZINES, NEWSPAPERS AND BOOKS IN THE UNITED STATES by Robert V. Hudson (New York: Garland Publishing, 1987—$39.95)     

Radio and Television History

ROD SERUNG: THE DREAMS AND NIGHTMARES OF LIFE INTHE TWILIGHT ZONE by Joel Engel (Chicago: Contemporary Books, 1990—$18.95, ISBN 0-8092-4538-8,368 pp.)

THE PIED PIPERS OF ROCK 'n ROLL: RADIO DEEJAYS OF THE 50s AND 60s by Wes Smith (Marietta, GA: Longstreet Press, 1989—$16.95, ISBN 0-929264-69-X, 300 pp.)

GUNSMOKE.A COMPLETE HISTORY by SuzAnne Barabas and Gabor Barabas (Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co., 1990—$45.00, ISBN 0-89950-418-3, 832 pp.) is just that—a detailed narrative and then episode guide to both the radio (1952-61)

THE COMPLETE ACTORS TELEVISIONCREDITS, 1948-1988, VOLUME I: ACTORS by James Robert Parish and Vincent Terrace (Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1989—$59.50, ISBN 0-8108-2204-0, 560 pp.)

THE CHILDREN'S HOUR: RADIO PROGRAMS FOR CHILDREN, 1929-1956 by Marilyn Lawrence Boemer (Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1989—$25.00, ISBN 0-8108-2270-9, 230 pp.)

I REMEMBER TELEVISION: A MEMOIR by Ira Skutch (Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1989—$29.50, ISBN 0-8108-2271-7, 273 pp.)

LIVE TELEVISION: THE GOLDEN AGEOF1946-1958 IN NEW YORK by Frank Sturcken (McFarland & Co., P.O. Box 611, Jefferson, NC 28640—$29.95, ISBN 0-89950-523-6, 178 pp.)     

Commonwealth Media

TELEVISION COVERAGE OF THE 1983 GENERAL ELECTION by Barrie Gunter, et al. (Brookfield, VT: Gower, 1986—$37.95)

COMMUNICATIONS: THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE GUIDE TO THE UK TELECOMMUNICATIONS INDUSTRY edited by Manus Egan (London: Macmillan/Dedham, MA: Artech House, 1986—price not given, paper)

GEOGRAPHY, THE MEDIA AND POPULAR CULTURE edited by Jacquelin Burgess and John R. Gold (London: Croom Helm, 1985—price not given, 273 pp.)

TELEVISION, SEX ROLES AND CHILDREN: A DEVELOPMENTAL SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGICAL ACCOUNT by Kevin Durkin (Milton Keynes, UK: Open University Press, 1985—148 pp.)

HEALTH EDUCATION AND THE MEDIA edited by D.S. Leathar, et al. (Oxford: Pergamon Press, 1981 and 1986—602 and 262 pp.)

THE DESIGN DIMENSION: PRODUCT STRATEGY AND THE CHALLENGE OF GLOBAL MARKETING by Christopher Lorenz (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1986—167 pp.)

LANGUAGE AND THE NUCLEAR ARMS DEBATE: NUKESPEAK TODAY (London: Francis Pinter, 1985—244 pp.)

STUDENTS IN THE PRESS: 1955–75 by Michael Clarke (Dept of Sociology, University of Birmingham, PO Box 363, Birmingham BI5 2TT—L5.00, 185 pp.)

TEACHING THE MEDIA by Len Masterman (London: Comedia, 1985—L14.00/6.95, 341 pp.)

LAW AND THE MEDIA edited by Stuart M. Robertson (Ottawa: Canadian Bar Foundation, 1984–86—$38.00 for five paperback volumes)

TELLING TALES by John Fraser (Toronto: Collins, 1986—$19.95, 218 pp)

A FUNNY WAY TO RUN A COUNTRY: FURTHER MEMOIRS OF A POLITICAL VOYEUR (Edmonton: Hurtig, 1986—$19.95, 217 pp.)

CHINS AND NEEDLES: POLITICAL CARTOONS by Andy Donato (Toronto: Key Porter Books, 1986—$10.95, paper, 206 pp.)

PHOTOGRAPHY AND THE LAW by Christopher Du Vernet (Vancouver: International Self-Counsel Press, 1986—$7.95, paper, 150 pp.)

FROM COAST TO COAST: A PERSONAL HISTORY OF RADIO IN CANADA by Sandy Stewart (Toronto: CBC Enterprises, 1986—$12.95, paper, 191 pp.)

INSIDE SEVEN DAYS: THE SHOW THAT SHOOK THE NATION by Eric Koch (Toronto: Prentice-Hall of Canada, 1986—$19.95, 350 pp.)

KOOKS AND KUKES, COUNTS AND NOACCOUNTS by William C. Heine (Edmonton: Hurtig, 1986—$24.95, 200 pp.)

THE NEWSMONGERS: HOW THE MEDIA DISTORT THE POLITICAL NEWS by Mary Anne Comber and Robert S. Mayne (Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1986—$22.95, 178 pp.)

THE MEDIA, THE COURTS AND THE CHARTER edited by Philip Anisman and Allen Linden (Toronto: Carswell, 1986—$45.00, 488 pp.)

THE JOURNALIST'S LEGAL GUIDE by Michael G. Crawford (Toronto: Carswell, 1986—$35.00, 288 pp.)

HENRY MAYER'S “IMMORTAL WORKS:” SCHOLARLY, SEMI-SCHOLARLY AMD NOT VERY SCHOLARLY AT ALL: A DESCRIPTIVE BIBLIOGRAPHY WITH INDEX, 1940–1985 by Murray Goot (Canberra: Department of Political Science/Australian National University, 1986—price not given)

COMMERCIAL MEDIA IN AUSTRALIA: ECONOMICS, OWNERSHIP, TECHNOLOGY, AND REGULATION by Allan Brown (Manchester, NH: University of Queensland Press, 1986—$43.50)

ABORIGINAL INVENTION OF TELEVISION: CENTRAL AUSTRALIA 1982–1986 by Eric Michaels (Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies, GPO Box 553, Canberra ACT 2601—price not given, paper)

GIRLS AND TELEVISION by Patricia Palmer (Social Policy Unit, Ministry of Education, GPO Box 33, Sydney 2001)

AN AUSTRALIAN FILM READER edited by Albert Moran and Tom O'Regan (Sydney: Currency Press, 1985—A$24.96)     

History

AM STEREO AND THE FCC: CASE STUDY OF A MARKETPLACE SHIBBOLETH by Mark J. Braun (Norwood, NJ: Ablex, 1994—$39.50/19.50, ISBN 0–89391–966–7 hard, 0–56750–000–5, paper, 216 pp.)

PHILCO RADIO 1928–1942: A PICTORIAL HISTORY OF THE WORLD'S MOST POPULAR RADIOS by Ron Ramirez and Michael Prosise (Schiffer Publishing, 77 Lower Valley Rd., Rt. 372, Atglen, PA 19310—$29.50, paper, ISBN 0–88740–547–9, 188 pp.)

SEE IT NOW CONFRONTS McCARTHYISM: TELEVISION DOCUMENTARY AND THE POLITICS OF REPRESENTATION by Thomas Rosteck (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1994—$29.95, ISBN 0–8173–0705–2, 247 pp.)

THE HOUSE THAT ROONE BUILT: THE INSIDE STORY OF ABC NEWS by Marc Gunther (Boston: Little, Brown, 1994— $23.95, ISBN 0–316–33151–1, 381 pp.)

SCIENCE OF COERCION: COMMUNICATION RESEARCH & PSYCHOLOGICAL WARFARE 1945–1960 by Christopher Simpson (New York: Oxford University Press, 1994—$29.95, ISBN 0–19–507193‐X, 204 pp.)

FIGHTING FOR AIR: IN THE TRENCHES WITH TELEVISION NEWS by Liz Trotta (Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 1994—$16.95, paper, ISBN 0–8262–0952–1, 399 pp.)     

7. TELECOMMUNICATIONS AND THE WEB

HISTORY OF THE MASS MEDIA IN THE UNITED STATES edited by Margaret A. Blanchard (Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn, 1998—price not given, ISBN 1–57958–012–2, 752 pp., photos, bibliographies, index)

MANIPULATING THE ETHER: THE POWER OF BROADCAST RADIO IN THIRTIES AMERICA by Robert J. Brown (Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 1998— $45.00, ISBN 0–7864–0397–7, 312 pp., photos, notes, bibliography, sources of broadcast recordings, index)

SALANT, CBS, AND THE BATTLE FOR THE SOUL OF BROADCAST JOURNALISM: THE MEMOIRS OF RICHARD S. SALANT edited by Susan and Bill Buzenberg (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1998—$27.00, ISBN 0–8133–9091–5, 326 pp., photos, chronology, index)

FATHER CHARLES E. COUGHLIN: SURROGATE SPOKESMAN FOR THE DISAFFECTED by Ronald H. Carpenter (Westport, CT: Greenwood “Great American Orators No. 28,”; 1998—$69.50, ISBN 0–313–29040–7, 224 pp., bibliography, index)

A HISTORY OF MODERN COMPUTING by Paul E. Ceruzzi (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press “History of Computing,”; 1998—$35.00, ISBN 0–262–03255–4, 398 pp., photos, tables, notes, bibliography, index)

ELECTRONIC INVENTIONS AND DISCOVERIES: ELECTRONICS FROM ITS EARLIEST BEGINNINGS TO THE PRESENT DAY by G.W.A. Dummer (Bristol, England and Philadelphia: Institute of Physics Publishing, 1997 [4th ed]—$40.00, paper, ISBN 0–7503–0493–6, 284 pp., charts, tables, diagrams, bibliography, index)

ON THE AIR: THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF OLD‐TIME RADIO by John Dunning (New York: Oxford University Press, 1998—$55.00, ISBN 0–19–507678–8, 822 pp., index)

RUBEN SALAZAR: BORDER CORRESPONDENT, SELECTED WRITINGS, 1955–1970 edited by Mario T. García (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998—$18.95, paper, ISBN 0–520–21385–8, 283 pp., index)

EDISON: A LIFE OF INVENTION by Paul Israel (New York: John Wiley, 1998—$30.00, ISBN 0–471–52942–7, 552 pp., photos, diagrams, notes, index)

THE AIRWAVES OF NEW YORK: ILLUSTRATED HISTORIES OF 156 AM STATIONS IN THE METROPOLITAN AREA, 1921–1996 by Bill Jaker, Frank Sulek, and Peter Kanze (Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 1998—$55.00, ISBN 0–7864–0343–8, 205 pp., photos, bibliography, index)

ROUGH NEWS, DARING VIEWS: 1950s’ PIONEER GAY PRESS JOURNALISM by Jim Kepner (Binghampton, NY: Haworth Press “Gay and Lesbian Studies,”; 1998—$49.95/24.95, ISBN 0–7890–0140–3 hard, 0–56023–896–8 paper, 462 pp., notes, index)

BLACKLISTED: A JOURNALIST'S LIFE IN CENTRAL EUROPE by Paul Lendvai (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1998—$39.95, ISBN 1–86064–268–3, 213 pp. photos, index)

THE COMMERCE OF EVERYDAY LIFE: SELECTIONS FROM THE TATLER AND THE SPECTATOR edited by Erin Mackie (New York: St. Martin's Press “Bedford Cultural Editions,”; 1998—$45.00, ISBN 0–312–16371–1, 617 pp., selected bibliography)

THE DECADE THAT SHAPED TELEVISION NEWS: CBS IN THE 1950s by Sig Mickelson (Westport, CT: Praeger, 1998—$39.95, ISBN 0–275–95567–2, 242 pp., photos, notes, index)

MATHEW BRADY AND THE IMAGE OF HISTORY by Mary Panzer with an essay by Jeana K. Foley (Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1997—$39.95, ISBN 1–56098–793–6, 232 pp., illustrations, chronology, notes, appendix, index)

THE CORONA PROJECT: AMERICA'S FIRST SPY SATELLITES by Curtis Peebles (Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1997—price not given, ISBN 1–55750–688–4, 351pp., photos, notes, index)

EDISON'S KINETOSCOPE AND ITS FILMS: A HISTORY TO 1896 by Ray Phillips (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press “Contributions to the Study of Popular Culture No. 65,”; 1997—price not given, ISBN 0–313–30508–0, 209 pp., photos, diagrams, bibliography, index)

REPORTING VIETNAM: AMERICAN JOURNALISM 1959–1975 (New York: The Library of America, 1998—$35.00 each or $70.00 for the set, two vols., chronologies, notes, photos, glossary of military terms, index; as follows:)

Part One: 1959–1969 (ISBN 1–883011–58–2, 858 pp.)

Part Two: 1969–1975 (ISBN 1–883011–59–0, 857 pp.)

HISTORICAL DICTIONARY OF WAR JOURNALISM edited by Mitchel P. Roth (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1997—$85.00, ISBN 0–313–29171–3, 496 pp., appendices, index)

TEXAS SIGNS ON: THE EARLY DAYS OF RADIO AND TELEVISION by Richard Schroeder (College Station: Texas A&;M University Press “Centennial Series of the Association of Former Students No. 75,”; 1998—$29.95, ISBN 0–89096–813–6, 247 pp., photos, notes, bibliography, index)

THE DAYS OF LIVE: TELEVISION'S GOLDEN AGE AS SEEN BY 21 DIRECTORS GUILD OF AMERICA MEMBERS edited by Ira Skutch (Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press “Directors Guild of America Oral History No. 16,”; 1998—$49.50/26.00, ISBN 0–8108–3491‐X hard, 0–8108–3492–8 paper, 211 pp., index)     

Books of the Month

THE GENERAL: DAVID SARNOFF AND THE RISE OF THE COMMUNICATIONS INDUSTRY by Kenneth Bilby (New York: Harper & Row, 1986—$20.95)

THE BBC: ITS FIRST FIFTY YEARS by Asa Briggs (New York: Oxford University Press. 1985—$24.95)

BETWEEN COVERS: THE RISE AND TRANSFORMATION OF AMERICAN BOOK PUBLISHING by John Tebbel (New York: Oxford University Press, 1987—$24.95)     

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)     

Australian Communication

TELEVISION TODAY AND TOMORROW: IT WON'T BE WHAT YOU THINK by Gene F. Jankowski and David C. Fuchs (New York: Oxford University Press, 1995—$25.00, ISBN 0–19–507487–4, 237 pp.)

THE REMAKING OF RADIO by Vincent M. Ditingto (Newton, MA: Focal Press, 1995—$24.95, paper, ISBN 0–240–80174–1, 142 pp.)

SUPER‐HIGH‐DEFINITION IMAGES: BEYOND HDTV by Sadayasu Ono, et al. (Norwood, MA: Artech House, 1995—price not given, ISBN 0–89006–674–4, 154 pp.)

AN INTRODUCTION TO DIGITAL AUDIO by John Watkinson (Newton, MA: Focal Press, 1994—$34.95, paper, ISBN 0–240–51378–9, 392 pp.)

DIGITAL MULTIMEDIA CROSS‐INDUSTRY GUIDE edited by Philip V.W. Dodds (Newton, MA: Focal Press, 1995— $49.95, ISBN 0–240–80205–5, 321 pp.)

TELECOMMUNICATIONS MANAGEMENT: BROADCAST/CABLE AND THE NEW TECHNOLOGIES by Barry L. Sherman (New York: McGraw‐Hill, 1995—price not given, ISBN 0–07–056698–4, 431 pp.)

FILM INTO VIDEO: A GUIDE TO MERGING THE TECHNOLOGIES by Richard H. Kallenberger and George D. Cvjetnicanin (Newton, MA: Focal Press, 1994—$44.95, paper, ISBN 0–240–80215–2, 369 pp.)

THE CABLE NETWORKS HANDBOOK edited by Robert G. Picard (Carpelan Publishing, PO Box 2726, Riverside, CA 92516–2726—$39.95, no ISBN given)

AMERICA'S WATCHING: PUBLIC ATTITUDES TOWARD TELEVISION 1995 (Washington: National Association of Broadcasters, 1995—free on request, paper, no ISBN given, 40 pp.)

RADIO: THE FORGOTTEN MEDIUM edited by Edward C. Pease, and Everette E. Dennis (New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Books, 1995—$19.95, paper, ISBN 1–56000–798–2, 213 pp.)     

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)     

New Media

ELECTRONIC PUBLISHING PLUS: MEDIA FOR A TECHNOLOGICAL FUTURE edited by Martin Greenberger (White Plains, NY: Knowledge Industry Publications, 1985—$45.00/29.95)

NEWSPAPERS AND NEW MEDIA by David A. Patten (White Plains, NY: Knowledge Industry Publications, 1986—$34.95/24.95)

GREAT EXPECTATIONS: A TELEVISION MANAGER'S GUIDE TO THE FUTURE by Paul Bortz, et al. (Washington, DC: National Association of Broadcasters, 1986—$40.00, paper)

VIDEO DEMOCRACY: THE VOTE-FROM-HOME REVOLUTION by Richard Hollander (Lomond Publications, P.O. Box 88, Mt. Airy, MD 21771—$14.95)

THE NEW TELEVISION TECHNOLOGIES by Lynne Schafer Gross (Dubuque, IA: Wm. C. Brown, 1986—price not given, paper)

USING COMPUTERS: HUMAN FACTORS IN INFORMATION SYSTEMS by Raymond S. Nickerson (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1986—$22.50)

THE CULT OF INFORMATION: THE FOLKLORE OF COMPUTERS AND THE TRUE ART OF THINKING by Theodore Roszak (New York: Pantheon, 1986—$17.95)     

Journalism

THE INTERNATIONAL HERALD TRIBUNE: THE FIRST HUNDRED YEARS by Charles Robertson (New York: Columbia University Press, 1987—$35.00)

JOHN F. KENNEDY AND THE MEDIA: THE FIRST TELEVISION PRESIDENT by Joseph P. Berry, Jr. (Lanhan, MD: University Press of America, 1987—$24.50/11.75)

WHEN YOU ARE THE HEADLINE: MANAGING A MAJOR NEWS STORY by Robert Irvine (Homewood, ILL: Dow Jones-Irwin, 1987—price not given)

NEWS: THE POLITICS OF ILLUSION by W. Lance Bennett (New York: Longman, 1988—$13.95, paper)     

Broadcasting

SPECIAL EDITION: A GUIDE TO NETWORK TELEVISION DOCUMENTARY SERIES AND SPECIAL NEWS REPORTS, 1955–1979 by Daniel Einstein (Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow, 1987—$87.50)

CRYSTAL SET TO SATELLITE: THE STORY OF CALIFORNIA BROADCASTING—THE FIRST 80 YEARS (California Broadcasters Assn., 1127 11th St., Suite 730, Sacramento, CA 95814—$6.00, paper)     

CBQ Currents Topical Essays About Contemporary Issues

COMPATIBILITY STANDARDS, COMPETITION, AND INNOVATION IN THE BROADCASTING INDUSTRY by Stanley Besen and Leland Johnson (Santa Monica, CA: Rand, 1986—$7.50, paper)

Museum of Broadcasting, a guide to their published program catalogs

1986 TELEVISION FINANCIAL REPORT, and 1986 RADIO FINANCIAL REPORT by Cynthia Stanley (Washington, DC: National Association of Broadcasters, 1986—price not given, but about $100 each, spiral bound)     

Foreign/International media systems

PUBLIC DIPLOMACY AND INTERNATIONAL POLITICS: THE SYMBOLIC CONSTRUCTS OF SUMMITS AND INTERNATIONAL RADIO NEWS by Robert S. Fortner (Westport, CT: Praeger, 1994‐$55.00, ISBN 0–275–93594–9, 216 pp.)

TELEVISION AND THE VIEWER INTEREST: EXPLORATIONS IN THE RESPONSIVENESS OF EUROPEAN BROADCASTERS edited by Jeremy Mitchell and Jay G. Blumler, et al. (London: John Libbey, 1994‐$48, paper, ISBN 0–86196–440–3, 256 pp.)

TELECOMMUNICATIONS DEVELOPMENT: THE CASE OF AFRICA by L. Kwabena Riverson (Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1993‐$34.00, ISBN 0–8191–9315–1, 115 pp.)

TELEVISION/RADIO NEWS & MINORITIES by Donald R. Browne, Charles M. Firestone, and Ellen Mickiewicz (Aspen Institute Publications Office, PO Box 222, 109 Houghton Lab Lane, Queenstown, MD 21658— apparently free on request, paper, ISBN 0–89843–154–9, 177 pp.)

MEDIA IN EUROPE TOWARDS THE MILLENNIUM (Club de Bruxelles, 10 rue du College St. Michel, B‐1150, Brussels, Belgium—price not given, no ISBN given) is a 420 page combination of a five‐part study (230 pp.)

TELECOMMUNIQUE ASIA (Argus, 6151 Powers Ferry Road, NW, Atlanta 30330–9562‐$997 charter price, bi‐weekly [24 issues per year], no ISSN given)

OFTEL 1993 ANNUAL REPORT (London: HMSO, 1994‐LI5.10, paper, ISBN not given, 130 pp.)

TRENDS AND ISSUES (Australian Broadcasting Authority, Canberra, Australia)

JAHRESBIBLIOGRAPHIE MASSENKOMMUNIKATTON 1992 by Wilbert Ubbens (Berlin: Wissenschaftsverlag Volker Spiess, 1994—price not given, paper, ISBN 3–89166–179–7, 390 pp.)

REPORTERS SANS FRONTIERES: 1994 REPORT—FREEDOM OF THE PRESS THROUGHOUT THE WORLD (London: John Libbey, 1994—about $30, paper, ISBN 0–86196–452–7, 389 pp.)     

Electronic Media

THE FUTURE OF TELEVISION: A GLOBAL OVERVIEW OF PROGRAMMING, ADVERTISING, TECHNOLOGY AND GROWTH by Marc Doyle (Lincolnwood, IL: NTC Business Books, 1992‐$39.95, ISBN 0–8442–3461–3, 187 pp.)

TELE‐ADVISING: THERAPEUTIC DISCOURSE IN AMERICAN TELEVISION by Mimi White (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1992‐$29.95/10.95, ISBN 0–8078–2055–5 hard, 0–8078–4390–3, 218 pp.)

THE FACTS ON FILE DICTIONARY OF FILM AND BROADCASTTERMS by Edmund F. Penney (New York: Facts on File, 1991‐$29.95/14.95, ISBN 0–8160–1923–1 hard, 0–8160–2782‐X paper, 251 pp.)

SOCIETY'S IMPACT ON TELEVISION: HOW THE VIEWING PUBLIC SHAPES TELEVISION PROGRAMMING by Gary W. Selnow and Richard R. Gilbert (Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1993‐$49.95, ISBN 0–275–94390–9, 240 pp.)

TELELITERACY: TAKING TELEVISION SERIOUSLY by David Bianculli (New York: Continuum, 1992—$24.95, ISBN 0–8264–0535–5, 315 pp.).

THE RADIO STATION by Michael Keith, with Joseph M. Krause (Stoneham, MA: Focal Press, 1993—price not given, paper, ISBN 0–240–80159–8, 315 pp.)

ELECTRONIC MEDIA PROGRAMMING: STRATEGIES AND DECISION MAKING by Raymond L. Carroll and Donald M. Davis (New York: McGraw‐Hill, 1993—price not given, ISBN 0–07–010298–8, 532 pp.)

WHY VIEWERS WATCH: A REAPPRAISAL OF TELEVISION EFFECTS by Jib Fowles (Newbury Park, CA: Sage Publications, 1992‐$19.95, paper, ISBN 0–8039–4077–7, 280 pp.)

CRITICAL THINKING IN AN IMAGE WORLD: ALFRED KORXYBSKI'S THEORETICAL PRINCIPLES EXTENDED TO CRITICAL TELEVISION EVALUATION by Geraldine E. Forsberg (Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1993–18.50, paper, ISBN 0–8191–8971–5, 208 pp.)

TUNED IN: TELEVISION IN AMERICAN LIFE by Lloyd DeGrane (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1991‐$11.95, paper, ISBN 0–252–06222–1, about 80 pp.)

BROADCASTING/CABLE AND BEYOND: AN INTRODUCTION TO MODERN ELECTRONIC MEDIA by Joseph Dominick, Barry Sherman, and Gary Copeland (New York: McGraw‐Hill, 1993—price not given, ISBN 0–07–017819–4, 493 pp.)

CABLE TELEVISION LAW 1993: LEARNING TO LIVE WITH THE 1992 CABLE ACT (Practicing Law Institute, 810 Seventh Ave., New York, NY 10019‐$80.00, paper, two vols, no ISBN given, 1,040 pp.)

BASIC LIGHTING WORKTEXT FOR FILM & VIDEO by Richard K. Ferncase (Stoneham, MA: Focal Press, 1992—price not given, paper, ISBN 0–240–80085–0, 109 pp.)

SINGLE‐CAMERA VIDEO PRODUCTION by Robert B. Musburger (Stoneham, MA: Focal Press, 1993‐$22.95, paper, ISBN 0–240–80034–6, 195 pp.)

THE AGE OF MISSING INFORMATION by Bill McKibben (New York: Random House, 1992‐$20.00, no ISBN available, 261 pp.)

POLITICAL BROADCAST CATECHISM (National Association of Broadcasters, 1771 N St. NW, Washington, DC 20036–1992, price not given, ISBN 0–89324–151–2, 103 pp.)

DUNCAN'S RADIO MARKET GUIDE 1993 EDITION (Duncan's American Radio, PO Box 90284, Indianapolis, IN 46290‐$265, paper, about 350 pp.)

BROADCAST AND CABLE SELLING by Charles Warner and Joseph Buchman (Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, 1993—price not given, ISBN 0–534–19770–1, 447 pp.)

DUNCAN'S RADIO COMMENTS... by James H. Duncan, Jr. (Duncan's American Radio, Box 90284, Indianapolis, IN 46290‐$50.00

PRICING & RATE FORECASTING USING BROADCAST YIELD MANAGEMENT by Shane Fox (Washington, DC: National Association of Broadcasters, 1992—price not given, paper, ISBN 0–89324–150–4, 138 pp.)     

Changing Technologies

UNDERSTANDING NEW MEDIA: TRENDS AND ISSUES IN ELECTRONIC DISTRIBUTION OF INFORMATION,edited by Benjamin M. Compaine (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Ballinger, 1984—$29.95).

ELECTRONIC MARKETING: EMERGING 'IV AND COMPUTER CHANNELS FOR INTERACTIVE HOME SHOPPING, by Lawrence Strauss (White Plains, New York: Knowledge Industry Publications, 1983—$34.95).

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY , by Peter Zorkoczy (White Plains, New York: Knowledge Industry Publications, 1982—$29.95).

INFORMATION NETWORK SYSTEM: TELECOMMUNICATIONS IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY, by Yasusada Kitahara (Edison, New Jersey: Heinemann Educational Books, 1983—$15.00).

CABLE TELEVISION , by William Grant (Reston, Virginia: Reston Publishing, 1983—$23.95).

CABLE TELEVISION: AN ASSESSMENT OF CRITICAL ISSUES IN WASHINGTON, D.C. (Washington, D.C.: Institute for District Affairs of the University of the District of Columbia, n.d., but 1984—price not given, paper).

THE NEW TECHNOLOGIES: CHANGES AND CHALLENGES IN PUBLIC RELATIONS—A SOURCEBOOK OF GENERAL INFORMATION (Washington, D.C.: The Media Institute, 1983—price not given, paper).

INTRODUCING CELLULAR COMMUNICATIONS: THE NEW MOBILE TELEPHONE SYSTEM , by Stan Prentiss (Blue Ridge Sumniit, Pennsylvania: Tab Books, 1984-$9.95, paper).

CHANGING INFORMATION CONCEPTS AND TECHNOLOGIES: A READER FOR THE PROFESSIONAL LIBRARIAN White Plains, New York: Knowledge Industry Publications, 1982—price not given, paper).

BOOKS, LIBRARIES AND ELECTRONICS: ESSAYS ON THE FUTURE OF WRITTEN COMMUNICATION (White Plains, New York: Knowledge Industry Publications, 1982—$24.95).

THE SUBCARRIER PAGING GUIDE, by Alan A. Reite and ThOrnas J. Buono (Subcarrier Publishing, P.O. Box 57011, Washington, D.C. 20037—$75.00, paper).     

Propaganda

CUBAN-AMERICAN RADIO WARS: IDEOLOGY IN INTERNATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS by Howard H. Frederick (Norwood, NJ : Ablex, 1986—$34.50)

IMPERIALISM, MEDIA, AND THE GOOD NEIGHBOR: NEW DEAL FOREIGN POLICY AND UNITED STATES SHORTWAVE BROADCASTING TO LATIN AMERICA by Fred Fejes (Norwood, NJ: Ablex, 1986—$32.50)

PROPAGANDA AND PERSUASION by Garth S. Jowett and Victoria O'Donnell (Beverly Hills, CA: Sage, 1986 price not given)

EXPORTING THE FIRST AMENDMENT: THE PRESS-GOVERNMENT CRUSADE OF 1945–1952 by Margaret A. Blanchard (New York: Longman, 1986—$39.95)

COMMUNICATION FOR ALL: NEW WORLD INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION ORDER edited by Philip Lee (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 1986—$11.95, paper)

WESTERN BROADCASTING OVER THE IRON CURTAIN edited by K.R.M. Short (New York: t. Martin's Press, 1986—$32.50)