General Mass Communications

Alan Gowans' The Unchanging Arts: New Forms for the Traditional Functions of Art in Society (J. B. Lippincott, $12.95)

Manley R. Irwin's The Telecommunications Industry: Integration vs. Competition (Praeger Special Studies in U.S. Economic and Social Development, $11.00).

Robert Shelton and Burt Goldblatt's The Country Music Story (Arlington House, 81 Centre Ave., New Rochelle, N.Y. 10801, $7.95).

Howard Stephenson (ed.) Handbook of Public Relations (McGraw-Hill, $24.50– second edition)

Scott M. Cutlip and Allen H. Center's Effective Public Relations (Prentice-Hall, $11.95).     

Print Media

Herbert S. Bailey's The Art and Science of Book Publishing (Harper & Row, $7.95).

Robert J. Glessingts The Underground Press in America (Indiana University Press, $6.50).

Ruth Kent's The Language of Journalism (Kent State University Press, $5.00/1.95)

Harold D. Lasswell and Daniel Lerner's The Prestige Press: A Comparative Study of Political Symbols (Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press, $12.00).     

Broadcasting

Kas Kalba's City Meets the Cable: A Case Study in Technoloqical Innovation and Community Decision-Making.

Anthony Piepe, Miles Emerson, and Judy Lannon's Television and the Working Class (Lexington, Mass.: Lexington Books/D.C. Heath, 1975—$14.50).

Lawrence W. Lichty's Broadcast program and Audience Analysis and its related Workbook (American Printing and Publishing Inc., 2909 Syene Road, Madison, Wisc. 53713— about $13.50, paper, two loose-leaf volumes without binders).

Robert L. Hilliard's Writing for Television and Radio (New York: Hastings House, 1976—$16.50 with a paperback text edition available for which no price was given).

Robert L. Hilliard and Hyman H. Field's Television and the Teacher: A Handbook for Classroom Use (New York: Hastings House, 1976—$5.95 paper).

Chuck Anderson's Video Power: Grassroots Television (New York: Praeger, 1975— $7.95).     

Publishing and Mass Communications

John P. Dessauer's Book Publishing: What it Is What it Does (New York: R.R. Bowker Co., 1974—$11.95)

Charles A. Madison's Irving to Irving: Author-Publisher Relations 1800-1974 (New York: R.R. Bowker, 1974– $19.95).

The American Film Institute Guide to College Courses in Film and Television (Washington, D.C.: Acropolis Books, 1975—$6.95, paper)

Bert Cowlan and Dennis Foote's A Case Study of the ATS-6 Health Education and Telecommunications Projects (Washington: Office of Education and Human Resources, Bureau for Technical Assistance, Agency for International Development, 1975—no cost given, paper).

Charles S. Steinberg's The Creation of Consent: Public Relations in Practice (New York: Hastings House, 1975—$13.50/6.95).

Maxwell Sackheim's My First 65 Years in Advertising (Blue Ridge Summit, Pa.: TAB Books, 1975—$9.95/5.95).

Sherman Briscoe's Black Press Information Handbook: 1974-75 (National Newspaper Publishers Association, 770 National Press Building, Washington D.C. 20004—$5.00, paper)     

Radio-Television Books

Harry Sova's American Radio: 1927 (available from the author c/o Department of Radio and Television, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana 47401, 4)1.00).

Robert Lewis Shayon's Open to Criticism (Beacon Press, $9.95)

LeRoy E. Kennel's Ecology of the Airwaves (Focal Pamphlet No. 21, Herald Press, Scottsdale, Arizona 15683, $1.50 paper).

Noel B. Gerson's Talk Show (William morrow, $6.95) which deals with a Carson or Cavett-like personality and you guessed it–his sex hang-ups which lead to his TV Downfall. The second is Allan Prior's The Contract (Simon and Schuster, $7.95)

John M. Stormes and James P. Crumpler's Television Communications Systems for Business and Industry (Wiley/Interscience, 4)11.95).     

The New Books

Raymond Spottiswoode's Focal Encyclopedia of Film and Television: Techniques (Hastings House, $37.50)

Eli L. Levitan's An Alphabetical Guide to Motion Picture, Television, and Videotape Production (McGraw-Hill, $24.50)

Ronald Brown's Telecommunications: The Booming Technology (Doubleday, $5.95)

Peter Hillson's Photography: A Study in Versatility (Doubleday, $6.95)

Dale Minor's The Information War (Hawthorne, $6.95)

Nicholas Johnson's, How to Talk Back to Your Television Set (Atlantic, $5.95)

Allen E. Koenig's Broadcasting and Bargaining (University of Wisconsin Press, $8.00)

Verne Edwards' Journalism in a Free Society (W.C. Brown, $6.95)     

General Media (Advertising)

Varda Langholz Leymore's Hidden Myth: Structure and Symbolism in Advertising (New York: Basic Books, 1975—$10.00).

John S. Wright and John E. Mertes's Advertising's Role ie Society. (St. Paul, Minn.: West Publishing Co., 1974—price not given, paper).

Allan M. Cartter's Ph.D's and the Academic Labor Market (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1976—$12.50).     

The Hollywood Palace

Frank Capra's The Name Above the Title (MacMillan, $12.50). Capra, who produced some of his major hits (“It Happened One Night” etc.)

Essoe, Gale and Raymond Lee. DeMille: The Man and His Pictures ($8.50)

Ladies in Distress ($10.00)

Lahue, Kalton C. Winners of the West: The Sagebrush Heroes of the Silent Screen ($10.00)

Lahue, Kalton C. Dreams for Sale: Rise and Fall of the Triangle Film Corporation ($8.50)

Lee, Raymond, and B.G. Van Hecker. Gangsters and Hoodlums: The Underworld in the Cinema ($8.95)

Lee, Raymond, The Films of Mary Pickford ($8.95)

Philip French's The Movie Moguls: An Informal History of the Hollywood Tycoons (Regnery, $5.95)

Mel Gussow's Don't Say Yes Until I Finish Talking: A Biography of Darryl F. Zanuck (Doubleday, $7.95)

Inactive Properties Including Furniture, Decorative, Objects, Paintings, Posters, Set Skeches and other Decorations, Full size and model boats and ships-airplanes and model trains. (McGraw-Hill, $10.00 paperback)

Ivan Butler's The Making of Feature Films: A Guide (Pelican Books Al232, $1.75)

Kenneth H. Roberts and Win Sharpies' A Primer for Film Making: A Complete Guide to 16 MM and 35 MM Film Production (Pegasus (Division of Bobbs-Merrill), $15.00/6.75)

Arthur F. McClure (ed.) The Movies: An American Idiom–Readings in the Social History of the American Motion Picture (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, $15.00)

Gerald Mast's A Short History of the Movies (Pegasus, $12.50/4.95)

Andre Glucksmann's Violence on the Screen (BFI, 81 Dean St., London, WiV 6AA, England, $1.20) which briefly (78 pp.)

Today's Film Maker (American Film Maker Inc., 250 Fulton Ave., Hempstead, Long Island, N. Y., $3.50)     

Films and Film-Makings: The Current Scene

I.C. Jarie's Movies and Society (Basic Books, $10.00)

Gone Youngblood's Expanded Cinema (Dutton, $9.95)

Robert Gessner's The Moving Image (Dutton $8.95)

Robert Richardson's Literature and Film (University of Indiana Press, $4.95)

Wolf Rilla's A-Z of Movie-Making (Viking/Studio Press Book, $6.95)     

Broadcast Journalism

Thomas R. Asher and J. Victor Hahn's Broadcast Media Guide for Candidates (Washington: Media Access Project, 1910 N Street N.W., 1974—price not given, but about $3.00, paper).

Bruce Herschensohn's The Gods of Antenna (New Rochelle, N.Y.: Arlington House, 1975—$7.95)

Robert M. Batscha's Foreign Affairs News and the Broadcast Journalist (New York: Praeger Special Studies, 1975-$15.00)

Stanley Field's The Mini-Documentary: Serializing TV News (Blue Ridge Summit, Pa.: Tab Books, 1975—$12.95)

Walter Winchell's Winchell Exclusive (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1975—$8.95)     

History of the Film (General)

Robert M. Honderson's D. W. Griffith: The Years at Biograph (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $7.50)

Martin Levin's edited collection, Hollywood and the Great Fan Magazines (Arbor House/ World, $10.00)

Kalton C. Lahue and Sam Gill's Clown Princes and Court Jesters (A.S. Barnes, $8.50)

Collecting Classic Films (Hastings House, $6.95)

Sheilah Graham's The Garden of Allah (Crown, $5.95)

Hugo Munsterberg's The Film: A Psychological Study (sub-titled The Silent Photoplay in 1916) (Dover Paperbacks, $2.00)

Sergei Eisenstein's Notes of a Film Director (Dover Paperbacks, $3.00)

Jay Leyda's Film Essays and a Lecture (Praeger Paperbacks, $2.95)

George P. Garrett, O.B. Hardison Jr., and Jane R. Gelfman, Film Scripts One (Appleton-Century-Crofts, price to be set)

Peter Noble's The Negro in Films (Port Washington, NY: Konnihat Press, $10.00)

Eileen Bowser's edited collection, Film Notes (Museum of Modern Art, $5.00)     

Motion Pictures

Richard Bunce's Television in the Corporate Interest (New York: Praeger Special Studies, 1976—price not given, but about $15.00).

Ralph M. Jennings and Veronica M. Jefferson's Television Station Employment Practices, 1975: The Status of Minorities and Women (New York: Office of Communication, United Church of Christ, 1976—price not given, but about $10.00, paper)

Horace Newcomb's Television: The Critical View (New York: Oxford University Press, 1976—$4.00, paper)

Asa Berger's The TV-Guided American (New York: Walker, 1976—$8.95)

Vincent Mosco's The Regulation of Innovations in the Broadcasting Market (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Program on Information Technologies and Public Policy, 1975—$3.00, paper)

James D. Scott's Cable Television: Strategy for Penetrating Key Urban Markets (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Graduate School of Business Administration, 1976—$5.50, paper)

R.W. Chandler's Sparks at Sea: The Experiences of a Ship's Radio Officer (North Pomfret, Vt.: David and Charles, 1973, but only recently released in the U.S.—$9.50)     

Hollywood: Films in General

Basil Wright's The Long View (New York: Knopf, 1974—$15.00)

Paul Sylbert's Final Cut: The Making and Breaking of Film (New York: Seabury Press, 1974—$7.95)

Gerson Kanin's Hollywood: Stars and Starlets, Tycoons and Flesh-Peddlers, Moviemakers and Moneymakers, Frauds and Geniuses, Hopefuls and Has-Beens, Great Lovers and Sex Symbols (New York: Viking Press, 1974—$8.95)

John Milton Hagen's Holly-Would! (New Rochelle, N.Y.: Arlington House, 1974—$7.95)

David Madden's Remembering James Agee (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1974—$8.95)

Richard Lawton's A world of Movies: 70 Years of Film Art (New York: Delacorte Press, 1974—$19.95)

Bob Willoughby and Richard Schickel's The Platinum Years (New York: Random House, 1974—$25.00)

Stephen H. Scheuer's The Movie Book (New York: Playboy Press with distribution by Simon and Schuster, 1974— $17.95)

Cecil Munsey's Disneyana: Walt Disney Collectibles (New York: Hawthorne, 1974—$19.95)

George Barris and Jack Scagnetti's Cars of the Stars (Jonathan David, Publisher, Middle Village, N.Y. 11379, 1974—$16.95)     

Broadcasting in General

Erik Barnouw's The Image Empires A History of Broadcasting in the United States From 1953 (Oxford University Press, $9.75)

Howard Koch's The Panic Broadcast (Little, Brown & Co., $4.95)

Howard W. Coleman's Caso Studios in Broadcast Management (Hastings House, $4.95)

Joe McGinniss' The Soiling of the President 1963 (Pocket Books, $1.25)

Alexander Kendrick's Prime Time: The Life of Edward R. Murrow (Avon, $1.65)

Nicholas Johnson's How To Talk Back to Your Television Set (Bantam, $1.25)

Herbert C. Kelman and Raphael S. Ezekiel's Cross-National Encounters (Jossoy-Bass (San Fransisco), $10.50)

Victor Gold's The Enemies He Has Made (Arlington House)

Bon Bagdikian's The Information Machine (Harper & Row)

Chester, Garrison, and Willis' Television and Radio (Appleton-Century-Crofts)     

Educational Media

Dorothy T. Taggart's A Guide to Sources in Educational Media and Technology (Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1976—$6.00).

Christine L. Wynar's 1974-75 Supplement [to] Guide to Reference Books for School Media Centers (Littleton, Colo.: Libraries Unlimited, Inc., 1976—18.00 in U.S.and Canada, $10.00 elsewhere).

Bernard Chibnall's The Organization of Media (Hamden, Conn.: Linnet Books/Shoestring Press, 1976—$5.50)

Robert D.B. Carlisle's Media and the Adult Student: One Man's Journal (Lincoln, Neb.: Great Plains National Instructional Television Library, 1976—price not known, paper).

Margaret E. Chisholm and Donald P. Ely's Media Personnel in Educational: A Competency Approach (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1976—$12.95)     

Motion Pictures

George Rehrauer's Cinema Booklist: Supplement Two (Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1977– $15.00), a 482 page update to the main volume (1972–see 4:1:9)

Bab-bars Anne Price and Theodore Price, Federico Felini: An Annotated International Bibliography (Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1978—$11.00).

Dennis R. Bohnenkamp and Sam L. Grogg Jr., eds. The American Film Institute Guide to College Courses in Film and Television (Princeton, N.J.: Peterson's Guides, 1978—$9.75, paper)

Ian C. Jarvie's Movies as Social Criticism: Aspects of their Social Psychology (Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1978—$10.00)

Robert Stanley's The Celluloid Empire: A History of the American Motion Picture Industry (New York: Hastings House, 1978—$15.75/7.95)

Richard Koszarski, ed. Hollywood Directors 1941-1976 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1977—$4.95, paper)

Andre Bazin's Orson Welles: A Critical View (New York: Harper & Row, 1978— $10.00)

James Naremore's The Magic World of Orson Welles (New York: Oxford University Press, 1978—$15.95)

Paul Michael's The Academy Awards: 50th Anniversary Edition (New York: Crown, 1978— $14.95)

James Beveridge's John Grierson, Film Master (New York: Macmillan, 1978— $17.95)

John McCabe's Charlie Chaplin (New York: Doubleday, 1978—$10.00)

Leonard Maltin's The Great Movie Comedians, From Charlie Chaplin to Woody Allen (New York: Crown, 1978—$10.95)

S. C. Earley An Introduction to American Movies (New York: New American Library Mentor Books, 1978—$2.25, paper)

Ron Haydock's Deerstalker! Holmes and Watson on Screen (Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1978—$12.50)

Matthew J. Bruccoli, ed., F.Scott Fitzgerald's Screenplay for Three Comrades (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1978—$10.00/3.95)     

TOC

Joe McGinnis The Selling of the President 1963 (Trident, $5.95)

Jay G. Blumler and Denis (sic) McQuail's Television and Folitics: Its Uses and Influence (Chicago, $10)

Alexander Kendrick's Prime Time: The Life of Edward R. Murrow (Little, Brown, $8.95).     

The Flood of Film Books Continues

Peter Pollack, The Picture History of Photography (Abrams, $25.00)

David Simon, Fifty Classic Motion Pictures (Crown, $9.95)

David Essoe's The Films of Clark Gable (Citadel, $10.00)

John Springer's The Fondas (Citadel, $10.00)

Pola Negri's Memoirs of a Star (Doubleday, $7.95)

Alexander Walker's Stardom (Stein & Day, $10.00)

T.J. Ross, Film and the Liberal Arts (Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, price unknown)

Lewis Jacob's The Movies as Medium (Farrar Straus & Giroux, $8.95; or Noonday paporback, $3.95)

Benjamin B. Hampton, A History of the Movies, originally published in 1931 and re-issued now as History of the American Film Industry (Dover paporbacks, $4.00)

The Literature of Cinema

Don Slay, Conversations: Volume I (Kaleidoscope Press (Albuquerque, New Mexico), $10.00)

Raymond Durgnat, The Crazy Mirror: Hollywood Comedy and the American Imago (Horizon Press, $7.50)

Harry M. Geduld and Ronald Gottesman's edited collection Serge Eisenstein and Upton Sinclair: Tho Making and Unmaking of “Quo Viva Mexico” (Iniana University gross, $15.00)

Verne and Sylvia Carlson's Professional 16/35 mm Cameraman's Handbook (Hastings House, $15.00)

Julius Bellone's edited collection, Rennaisance of the Film (Collier paperbacks, $2.95)

Richard Randall's excellent Censorship of the Movies (University of Wisconsin Press, $7.95)     

History of the Film: Coffee-Table Books

Richard Griffith and Arthur Mayer The Movies (Simon and Schuster, $19.95)

Larry Carr's Four Fabulous Faces (Arlington House, $40.00, available from Nostalgia Book Club at $19.95)

David Shipman's The Groat Movie Stars: The Golden Years (Crown, $10.00 which with 450 pictures covers the history of Hollywood stars from the 1920s to 1945— just before the system began to come apart

Alan G. Barbour's Days of Thrills and Adventure (Macmillan, $6.95, also available in Collier paperback, $3.95)

Richard Gertner of Films In America: 1929-1969 (Golden Press, $12.95, but $9.95 before January 1st)

Raymond Lee's Not so Dumb: Animals in the Movies (A.S. Barnes, $8.50)

Charles Higham's Tho Films of Orson Welles (University of California Press, $10.95)     

Popular Music

Steve Chapple and Reebee Garofalo Rock 'n' Roll is Here to Pay (Chicago: Nelson-Hall Publishers, 1977— $14.95/7.95).

Fred Dellar and Roy Thompson The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Country Music (New York: Harmony Books (Crown Publishers), 1977— $17.95),

J. Philip Di Franco, The Beatles in Richard Lester's A Hard Day's Night: A Complete Pictorial Record of the Movie (New York: Chelsea HOUSE' Publishers/Penguin Books, 1977—$12.50/5.95).

Lynda Rosen Obst The Sixties: The Decade Remembered Now by the People Who Lived It Then (New York: Random House/Rolling Stone Press, 1977—$19.95/9.95)

Bill Gutman Duke: The Musical Life of Duke Ellington (New York: Random House, 1977—$6.95),