Cinema Today

Andrew Sarris Politics and Cinema (New York: Columbia University Press, 1978—$12.95)

Randall M. Miller, ed. Ethnic Images in American Film and Television (Philadelphia: The Balch Institute, 18 South 7th St., 1978—$6.00, paper)

Feature Films on 8mm, 16mm and Videotape: A Directory of Feature Films Available for Rental, Sale, and Lease in the United States and Canada by James L. Limbacher (New York: Bowker, 1979—$24.00)

Guide to Short Films by Jeffrey Schrank (Rochelle Park, N.J.: Hayden Book Co., 1979—$7.95, paper)     

Mass Communication

Pearl Aldrich's The Impact of Mass Media (Rochelle Park, N.J.: Hayden Book Co., 1975—$7.99/4.75)

Alan Wells' Mass Media and Society (Palo Alto, Calif: Mayfield Publishing, 1975—price not given, paper)

Harry M. Clor (ed.) The Mass Media and Modern Democracy (Chicago: Rand McNally College Publishing Co., 1974—price not given, paper)

Joan Valdes and Jeanne Crow (eds.) The Media Reader (Dayton, Ohio: Pflaum, 1975—$11.95/7.95 with lower net costs to schools–and a teacher's guide available for $2.95, paper).

James F. Evans and Rodolfo N. Salcedo's Communications in Agriculture: The American Farm Press (Ames: Iowa State University Press 1974—price not given, paper)

Suzanne rallies' Science Fiction Primer for Teachers (Dayton, Ohio: Pflaum, 1974– $5.95, paper).

Francesco M Nicosia's Advertising, Management and Society: A Business Point of View (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1974— $10.95 with paperback available as well)     

General Media: Texts/Readers

Peter M. Sandman, David M. Rubin and David B. Sachsman's Media: An Introductory Analysis of American Mass Communications (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1972—$8.95)

Media Casebook: An Introductory Reader in American Mass Communications (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1972—$3.95, paper)

Rod Holmgren and William Norton (eds.) The Mass Media Book (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1972—$4.95, paper)

Alan Wells (ed) Mass Media and Society (Palo Alto, Calif: National Press Books, 1972—$9.95/6.95)

William Kuhns' The Information Explosion (New York: Thomas Nelson, 1971—$1.95, paper)     

Communications Research

Thomas F. Gordon and Mary Ellen Verna Mass Communication Effects and Processes: A Comprehensive Bibliography, 1950-1975 (Beverly Hills, Calif.: Sage Publications, 1978—$15.00),

Charles Winick, Deviance and Mass Media (Beverly Hills, Calif.: Sage Publications, 1979—$18.50/8.95),

Mail and Telephone Surveys: The Total Design Method by Don A. Dillman (New York: Wiley-Interscience, 1979—$19.95)

Fundamental Statistics in Psychology and Education by J.P. Guilford and Benjamin Fruchter (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1979—$16.00)

Jane T. Bertrand Communications Pretesting (Chicago: University of Chicago Community and Family Study Center, 1978—$3.50, paper)

Gary Gumpert and Robert Cathcart, Inter/Media: Interpersonal Communication in a Media World ( New York: Oxford University Press, 1979—$S.95, paper)     

The World of Music

Musical Instruments of the World: An Illustrated Encyclopedia (New York: Bantam Books, 1978—$9.95, paper)

Warren Craig's Sweet and Lowdown: America's Popular Song Writers (Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1978—$25.00)

Norm N. Nite's Rock On: The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Rock 'n Roll– The Modern Years, 1964-Present (New York: Crowell, 1978—$14.95)

Jerry Osborne and Bruce Hamilton's Popular and Rock Records 1948-1978 (Phoenix, Arix.: O'Sullivan Woodside & Co., 1978—$7.95, paper)

Kenny Rogers and Len Epand's Making it with Music: Kenny Rogers' Guide to the Music Business (New York: Harper & Row, 1978—$12.95)

Anthony Fawcett's California Rock/California Sound: The Music of Los Angeles and Southern California (Los Angeles: Reed Books, 1978—$19.95/9.95)

Rock Critics' Choice: The Top 200 Albums (New York: Quick Fox, 1978—$4.95, paper)

Alan Kinzler's Bob Dylan: The Illustrated Record (New York: Harmony Books/Crown, 1978—$15.00/8.95)

John Blair's The Illustrated Discography of Surf Music 1959-1965 (J. Bee Productions, P.O. Box 1584, Riverside, Calif. 92502—$4.00, paper)

Alan Lomax's Folk Song Style and Culture (New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Books (Rutgers), 1978—$6.95, paper)

Nat Hentoff's The Jazz Life (New York: DaCapo, 1978—$5.95, paper)

George Hoefer, Music on My Mind: The Memoirs of an American Pianist (New York: DaCapo, 1978—$6.95, paper)

Valerie Wilmer's As Serious as Your Life: The Story of the New Jazz (London: Allison & Busby, 1977—E6.50 or about $13.00)     

Educational Media

Patterns of Performance: Public Broadcasting and Education: 1974-76 compiled by Robert D.B. Carlisle ($3.00, 146 pp., paper)

Public Radio/Television Survey: January-February 1978 (issued in four reports, Summer 1978)

The Economics of New Educational Media (Paris: Unesco and New York: Unipub, 1977—$11.90, paper)

James W. Brown, ed. Educational Media Yearbook: 1978 (New York: Bowker, 1978—$25.00)

The Public Broadcasting Report (Television Digest, 1836 Jefferson Place NW, Washington, D.C. 20036—$127 per year/biweekly)

Dean T. Jamison, Steven J. Flees, and Stuart J. Wells' The Costs of Educational Media: Guidelines for Planning and Evaluation (Beverly Hills, Calif.: Sage Publications, 1978—$16.95/7.95)     

Mass Media Production Guides

William Hawes' The Performer in Mass Media in Media Professions and in the Community (New York: Hastings House, 1978—$15.75/8.95)

Robert L. Hilliard, ed. Television Broadcasting: An Introduction (New York: Hastings House, 1978— $15.75/7.95)

Charles Bensinger's The Video Guide (Santa Barbara, Calif.: Video-Info Publications (P.O. Box 1507), 1977— $11.95, paper)

Mike Wolverton's And Now the News (Houston, Tex.: Gulf Publishing Co., 1977— $10.95)

The WAFL Book: A Guide to Film and Video in the Washington, D.C. Area (Washington Area Filmmakers League, P.O. Box 6475, Washington, D.C. 20009 —$5.45, including postage, paper)

David E. Fear's Technical Writing (New York: Random House, 1978—price not given, paper)     

Cinema History

Jack C. Ellis, A History of Film (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1979—$11.95, paper)

John L. Fell, A History of Films (New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1979— $14.95/9.95)

William K. Everson American Silent Film (New York: Oxford University Press, 1978—$17.50)

Jack Ellis, Charles Derry, and Sharon Kern, The Film Book Bibliography: 1940-1975 (Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1979—$28.50)

James Robert Parish and Michael R. Pitts, Hollywood on Hollywood (Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1978—$17.50)

Gerald Peary and Roger Shatzkin, eds. The Modern American Novel and the Movies (New York: Frederick Ungar Publishing, 1978—$14.50/6.95)

Richard Shale, comp. Academy Awards: An Ungar Reference Index (New York: Frederick Ungar, 1978—$24.50/ 8.95)

David Zinman 50 from the 50's: Vintage Films from America's Mid-Century (New Rochelle, N.Y.: Arlington House, 1979—$25.00)

Darlene Geis Walt Disney's Treasury of Children's Classics (New York: Harry Abrams, 1978—$25.00)

James Monaco Alain Resnais (New York: Oxford University Press, 1978—$5.95, paper).     

Media Production

Mitchell V. Charnley and Blair Charnley, Reporting (New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1979—$9.95, paper)

Jerry McGuire's How to Write, Direct & Produce Effective Business Films and Documentaries (Blue Ridge Sunimit, Pa.: TAB Books, 1978—$14.95)

David W. Samuelson's Motion Picture Camera & Lighting Equipment: Choice & Technique (London and New York: Focal Press, 1977 (but not released in the US until February 1979)

David W. Samuelson's Motion Picture Camera Techniques (New York: Focal Press/Hastings House, 1978—$8.95, paper)

H. William Bockhus, Jr.'s Advertising Graphics (London: Collier Macmillan/New York: Macmillan, 1979—price not given, paper)

Stuart W. Hyde's Television and Radio Announcing (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1979-415.95)

Robert McLeish, The Technique of Radio Production (London and New York: Focal Press, 1979—$18.95)

David Lachenbruch's Videocassette Recorders: The Complete Home Guide (New York: Everest House, 1979—$6.95, paper)

Charles Bensinger, The Video Guide (Video-Info Publications, P.O. Box 1507, Santa Barbara, Calif. 93102—$14.95, paper)

Deirdre Boyle, ed. Expanding Media (Phoenix, Ar.: Oryx Press, 1977—$13.95)

Dan Poynter's The Self-Publishing Manual: How to Write, Print and Sell Your Own Book (Parachusting Publications, P.O. Box 4232, Santa Barbara, Calif. 93103—$14.95/9.95)     

General Media

Charles R. Wright's Mass Communication: A Sociological Perspective (New York: Random House, 1975—$3.50, paper)

Frederick C. Whitney's Mass Media and Mass Communications in Society (Dubuque, Iowa: Wm. C. Brown, 1975— approx $9.95, paper)

Francis and Ludmila Voelker's Mass Media: Forces in Our Society (New York: Harcourt Brace Javanovich, 1975—price not given, paper).     

Telecommunication

Morton I. Hamburg All About Cable: Legal and Business Aspects of Cable and Pay Television (Law Journal Press, 233 Broadway, New York, N.Y. 10007—$32.50),

Judith S. Duke Children's Books and Magazines: A Market Study (White Plains, N.Y.: Knowledge Industry Publications, 1979— $24.95)

Frederic W. Goudy Goudy's Type Designs: His Story and Specimens (New Rochelle, N.Y.: Myriade Press, 1978—$9.95, paper with hardback available)     

Foreign Communications

Masami Ito, et al. Broadcasting in Japan (London and Boston: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1978—E4.95/$9.50, paper)

Ibrahim Elsheikh Mass Media and Ideological Change in Egypt (1950-1973) (Amsterdam: University of Amsterdam, 1977—about $40.00, paper)

Mass Media and Cultural Relationships by Anthony Piepe, Sunny Crouch and Miles Emerson (1978, 169 pp.—price not given)

Trade Unionism in Television by Peter Seglow (1978, 287 pp.—price not given)

Cuadernos de Comunicaci(5n (Communication Notes) (Comunicolgia Aplicada de Mexico, S.A. Comunal No. 7, Mexico 20, D.F.—about $55 per year/12 issues).

Godwin C. Chu, Syed A. Rahim, and D. Lawrence Kincaid Institutional Exploration in Communication Technology (Honolulu: East West Communication Institute, East-West Center, 1978 —$3.00, paper)

P. Gould and J. Johnson, An Experiment in the Classification of Television Programs, October 1978, $3.00, paper), and the paper written for laymen, #5 (P. Gould, How Should We Classify Television Programs? October 1978, $2.50, paper)

Journalism Training: An Interim Report by Robert Amerson and John Herbst (30 pp. $1.75)

An Analysis of Ten International Radio News Broadcasts in English to Africa by Douglas A. Boyd and Donald R. MacKay (16 pp., $1.25)

A Look at the World's Radio News by Bert Cowlan and Lee M. Love (39 pp., $2.25)

Education for Communication Development: The Global View by Robert Lindsay (27 pp., $1.75)

A Brief Study on News Patterns in 16 Third World Countries by Edward T. Pinch (15 pp., $1.25)

International Telecommunications and the Requirements of News Services by Ithiel de Sole Pool and Stephen Dizard (19 pp., $1.25)

Foreign News in Nine Arab Countries by Gehan Rachty (21 pp., $1.25)

International News Wires and Third World News in Asia by Wilbur Schramm, et al. (79 pp., $4.00)

The Multinational News Pool by Roger Tatarian (19 pp., $1.25)

International Conferences: Process and Effects by Rosemarie Rogers, et al. (March 1978, 53 pp., $3.00)

Hemisphere Communications in Historical Perspective by James Nelson Goodsell (September 1978, 18 pp., $1.25)

Kaarle Nordenstreng and Herbert I. Schiller, eds. National Sovereignty and International Communication (Norwood, N.J.: Ablex Publishing Corp., 1979—$21.50)

Rosemary Righter's Whose News? Politics, the Press and the Third World (London: Andre Deutsch/New York: Times Books, 1978—$12.50)

Frank Barton The Press of Africa: Persecution & Perseverance (New York: Holmes & Meier/Africana Publishing Co, 1979—$29.50)

Godwin C. Chu, ed. Popular Media in China: Shaping New Cultural Patterns (Honolulu: University Press of Hawaii, 1978—$12.00)     

General Media and Society

Atwan, Robert, Barry Orton, and Alliam Vesterman. American Mass Media: Industries and Issues (New York: Random House, 1978—$8.95, paper)

Dennis, Everette E., Arnold H. Ismach, and Donald M. Gillmor, eds. Enduring Issues in Mass Communication (St. Paul, Minn.: West P.' _fishing Co., 1978—price not given, paper)

White, David Manning, and John Pendleton, eds. Popular Culture: Mirror of American Life (Del Mar, Calif.: Publisher's Inc., 1977—$11.95/6.25)

Charlene J. Brown, Trevor R. Brown, and William L. Rivers' The Media and the People (New York: Holt, Rinehart a Winston, 1978 —price not given, paper)

Malcolm Muggeridge's Christ and the Media (Grand Rapids, Mich.: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 1977— $5.95)     

Television

Erik Barnouw's The Sponsor: Notes on a Modern Potentate (New York: Oxford University Press, 1978—$10.00)

Bert Randolph Sugar's “The Thrill of Victory”: The Inside Story of ABC Sports (New York: Hawthorn Books, 1978—$12.00)

David L. Wolper and Quincy Troupe's The Inside Story of TV's “Roots” (New York: Warner Books, 1978—$2.25, paper)

James Robert Parish and Mark Trost's Actors' Television Credits, Supplement 1 (Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1978—$16.00)

Jerry Mender's Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television (New York: Wm. Morrow, 1978—$11.95/4.95)

Mary Lewis Coakley's Rated X: The Moral Case Against TV (New Rochelle, N.Y.: Arlington House, l978—$9.95)

TV and Elections: Proceedings of the Meeting (Prix Italia Secretariat, c/o RAI, Radiotelevisione Italiana, Viale Mazzini, 14, Rome—price not provided, paper)

FTC Staff Report on Television Advertising to Children (Federal Trade Commission, Washington D.C. 20580—free on request, paper)

The CoEvolution Quarterly (Winter 1977/78, Issue 16 available from Box 428, Sausalito, Calif. 94965—$3.50, paper)     

General Media,Minorities, and Research

Ronald G. Hick A Survey of Mass Communication (Gretna, La.: Pelican Publishing Co., 1977—$7.95, paper)

Everette E. Dennis The Media Society: Evidence About Mass Communication in America (Dubuque, Iowa: Wm. C. Brown, 1978—$6.95, paper)

Leslie J. Friedman Sex Role Stereotyping in the Mass Media: An Annotated Bibliography (New York: Garland Publishing, 1977—$25.00)

Maurine Beasley and Sheila Silver Women in Media: A Documentary Source Book (Women's Institute for Freedom of the Press, 3306 Ross Place, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20008—$5.95, paper)

Preben Sepstrup Consumption of Mass Communication: Construction of a Model on Information Consumption Behavior (Handelsvidenskabelig Boghandel, Fuglesangsalle 4, DK-8210 Aarhus V, Denmark—D. kr . 12, paper)

J. Michael Crabtree and Kenneth E. Moyer Bibliography of Aggresive Behavior: A Reader's Guide to the Research Literature (Alan R. Liss, Inc., 150 Fifth Ave., New York, N.Y. 10011—$35.00).

Marcia Guttentag and Shalom Saar, Evaluation Studies Review Annual, Volume 2: 1977 (Beverly Hills, Calif.: Sage Publications, 1977—$29.95)

Paul C. Cozby Methods in Behavioral Research (Palo Alto, Calif.: Mayfield Publishing, 1977—$6.95, paper)     

Popular Music

Brian Rust The American Record Label Book (New Rochelle, N.Y.: Arlington House, 1978— $20.00)

Bill Harry Mersey Beat: The Beginnings of the the Beatles (London: Omnibus Press/New York: Quick Fox, 1978—E2.50/$4.95, paper)

Mary Laverne Dimmick The Rolling Stones: An Annotated Bibliography (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1978—$7.95)

Judith Glassman The Year in Music: 1978 (New York: Crown Publishers, 1978—$15.95)

Lionel Salter The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Classical Music: A Guide to Composers and Recommended Recordings (New York: Crown Books (Harmony Books)/London: Salamander Books, 1978—$17.95/8.95)

Gerald Bordman American Musical Theatre: A Chronicle (New York: Oxford University Press, 1978—$35.00)     

2. GENERAL COMMUNICATIONS

William L. Rivers and William T. Slater's Aspen Handbook on the Media: Research, Publications, Organizations (Palo Alto, Calif.: Aspen Program, 770 Welch Rd., Suite 453, 1973— $1.95, paper)

John McHale's The Changing Information Environment: A Selective Topography (Center for Integrative Studies, School of Advanced Technology, SUUT-Binghamton, Binghamton, N.Y. 13901—no price indicated).

Donis A. Dondis' A primer of Visual Literacy (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1973— $9.95)

Anthony Sampson's The Sovereign State of ITT (New York: Stein &; Day, 1973—$10.00)

Z.A.B. Zeman's Nazi Propaganda (New York: Oxford University Press, 1973-.42.95, paper),

Edmund Carpenter's Oh What A blow That Phantom Gave Me! (New York: Holt, Rinehart &; Winston, 1973– $5.95),

Joe Morella, Edward Z. Epstein and Eleanor Clark's The Amazing Careers of Bob Hope: From Gags to Riches (New Rochelle, N.Y.: Arlington House, 1973—$8.95)     

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)     

Media Production

Barrie Redfern's Local Radio (London and New York: Focal Press, 1978—$8.95, paper)

Norman Crowhurst's How to Select and Install Your Own Speakers (Blue Ridge Summit, Pa.: TAB Books, 1979—49.95, and also in paperback)

Hindman, Janes, Larry Kirkman, and Elizabeth Monk. TV Acting: A Manual for Camera Performance (1979—$15.50/7.95 , 191 pp.)

Williamson, Daniel R. Newsqathering. (1979—$13.50/7.50 , 250 pp.)

Stonecipher, Harry W. Editorial and Persuasive Writing: Opinion Functions of the News Media (1979—$13.95/7.95, 256 pp.)

Richard Robinson's The Video Primer: Equipment, Production, and Concepts (New York: Quick Fox, 1979—$14.95/6.95)

Marshall Lee's Bookmaking: The Illustrated euide to Design/production/editing (New York: R.R. Bowker, 1979—$25.00)

Lenny Lipton's Lipton on Filmmaking (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1979—$7.95, paper, with a hardback also available)

Philip C. Geraci's Photojournalism: Making Pictures for Publication (Dubuque, Iowa: Kendall/Hunt Publishing, 1978—$12.95, paper)     

General Mass Communication

Jack Temple Kirby's Media-Made Dixie: The South in the American Imagination. (Baton Rouge, La.: Louisiana State University Press, 1978—$9.95)

Dan Nimmo's Political Communication and Public Opinion in America (Santa Monica, Calif.: Goodyear Publishing Co., 1978—price not given, but available in hard and paper editions)

Raymond G. Smith's The Message Measurement Inventory: A Profile for Communication Analysis (Bloomington, Ind.: Indiana University Press, 1978—$12.50)

Fred Fedler's An Introduction to the Mass Media (New York: Harcourt, Brace Jovanovich, 1978—price not given, paper)

Rolf Myller's Symbols and their Meaning (New York: Atheneum, 1978—$9.95)

William E. Francois, Mass Media Law and Regulation (Columbus, Ohio: Grid, Inc., 1978—price not given)

James Leigh and Claude R. Martin, Jr., Current Issues and Research in Advertising (Ann Arbor, Mich.: Graduate School of Business Administration, University of Michigan, 1978—$4.75, paper)

Philip Ward Burton's Advertising Copywriting (Columbus, Ohio: Grid, 1978—$12.95)

Postal and Allied Arenas–Research Task Specifications, Phase I: Arena Survey by John F. McLaughlin (October 1977, 39 pp., $10.90, paper, Working Paper W-77-9)

The Communications Act Policy Toward Competition: A Failure to Communicate by G. Hamilton Loeb (October 1977, 95 pp., $23.40, paper, Publication P-77-3)

Roland E. Wolseley's Careers in Religious Communications (Herald Press, Scottdale, Pa. 15683—$4.95, paper)

Roland Barthes' Image-Music- Text (New York: Hill & Wang, 1977—$8.95)

Jacques Barzun and Henry F. Graff's The Modern Researcher (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1977—$6.95 in paper, and also available in hardback)