The World of Popular Music

Tony Palmer's All You Need is Love: The Story of Popular Music (New York: Viking Press, 1976---$15.00)

Ron Schaumburg's Growing Up with the Beatles (New York: Pyramid Books, 1976---$5.95, paper)

Paul Gambaccini's Paul McCartney in His Own Words (New York: Flash Books/Quick Fox Inc., 1976---$3.95, paper)

Ritchie Yorke's The History of Rock 'n Roll (New York: Methuen/Two Continents, 1976---$5.95, paper)

Sharon Lawrence's So You Want to Be a Rock & Roll Star (New York: Dell, 1976---$1.75, paper)

Geoffrey Stokes' Star-Making Machinery: The Odyssey of an Album (Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Co., 1976---$8.95)

Dave Dexter, Jr.'s Playback: A Newsman/Record Producer's Hits and Misses from the Thirties to the Seventies (New York: Billboard Publications, Inc., 1976---$9.95)

Ralph J. Gleason's Celebrating the Duke, and Louis, Bessie, Billie, Bird, Carmen, Miles, Dizzy, and Other Heroes (New York: Delta Books, 1976---$3.95, paper)

Alec Wilder's American Popular Song: The Great Innovators, 1900-1950 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1975---$6.95, paper)     

Film Biography

Kenneth L. Geist's Pictures will Talk: The Life and Films of Joseph L. Mankiewicz (New York: Scribner's, 1978---$12.95)

Two new books, one a revision, deal with another important director, Alfred Hitchcock

Donald Spoto's Stanley Kramer: Filmmaker (New York: Putnam, 1978---$12.95)

James Robert Parish, et al., Hollywood Character Actors (New Rochelle, N.Y.: Arlington House, 1978--- $30.00)

Jesse L. Lasky Jr. with Pat Silver, Love Scene: The Story of Lawrence Olivier and Vivien Leigh (New York: Crowell, 1978---$10.95)

Hollywood actress and actor biographies, a round up of recent titles

Danny Peary, ed. Close-Ups: The Movie Star Book--Intimate Profiles of Movie Stars by their Co-Stars, Directors, Screenwriters and Friends (New York: Workman Press, 1978---$8.95 in paper with a hardback also available)     

Directors and Writers

Eric Sherman's Directing the Film: Film Directors on Their Art (Boston: Little, Brown, 1976---$15.00)

Donald Spoto's The Art of Alfred Hitchcock: Fifty Years of His Motion Pictures (New York: Hopkinson and Blake, 1976---$13.00/8.95)

Kemp R. Niver's D.W. Griffith: His Biograph Films in Perspective (Historical Films, P.O. Box 46505, Los Angeles, Calif. 90046---$12.00)

Stephen Pendo's Raymond Chandler on Screen: His Novels into Film (Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1976---$10.00)

Ronald Lloyd's American Film Directors: The World as They See It (New York: New Viewpoints/Franklin Watts, 1976---price not given, paper)

Maureen Lambray's The American Film Directors (New York: Whirlwind/Pathe Press, 1976---$22.50)

Bob Thomas' Walt Disney: An American Original (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1976---$9.95)

Richard Koszarski's Hollywood Directors, 1914-1940 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1976---$13.95/3.95)

Philip Cecchettini and Don Whittemore's Passport to Hollywood: Film Immigramts (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1976---413.50)

Beatriz Reyes Nevares' The Mexican Cinema: Interviews with Thirteen Directors (Albuquerque, N.M.: University of New Mexico Press, 1976---$9.95/4.50)

Francisco Aranda's Luis Bunuel: A Critical Biography (New York: Da Capo Press, 1976---44.95, paper)

Glenn B. Infield's Leni Riefenstahl: The Fallen Film Goddess (New York: Crowell, 1976---$9.95)

Stuart Rosenthal's The Cinema of Federico Fellini (Cranbury, N.J.: A.S. Barnes, 1976---$9.95)

Edward Murray's Fellini the Artist (New York: Ungar, 1976---$10.00)     

Telecommunications

Robert Lee Chartrand and James W. Norentz, Jr., eds. Information Technology Serving, Society (Oxford and New York: Pergamon Press, 1979—E12.50/$25.00)

Rosario Joseph Tosiello, The Birth and Early Years of the Bell Telephone System: 1376-1880 (New York: Aicno Press, 1979—$32.00)

James E. Brittain, ed. Turning Points in American Electrical History (New York: Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers Press [dist. by John Wiley], 1977– $20.00, paper)

Harry L. Van Trees, ed. Satellite Communications (New York: IEEE/John Wiley, 1979—$27.00, paper with a hardback edition available)

Dave Ingram's Oscar: The Ham Radio Satellites (Blue Ridge Summit, Pa: Tab Books, 1979—$8.95/4.95)

Clayton Hallmark's How to Repair Old-Time Radios (Blue Ridge Summit, Pa.: Tab Books, 1979—$12.95/7.95)

Telecommunications Law Reform (American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, 1150 17th St. NW, Washington, D.C. 20036 —price not given, paper)     

Motion Picture History

Paul Smith (ed.) The Historian and Film (Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1976---$13.95)

Tino Balio (ed.) The American Film Industry (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1976---$15.00/6.95)

Dale McConathy with Diane Vreeland's Hollywood Costume (New York: Abrams, 1976---$35.00)

David Chierichetti's Hollywood Costume Design (New York: Harmony Books/Crown, 1976---$15.00)

Anthony Slide's The Big V: A History of the Vitagraph Company (Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1976---$9.00)

Michael G. Fitzgerald's Universal Pictures: A Panoramic History in Words, Pictures and Filmographies (New Rochelle, N.Y.: Arlington House, 1976---$25.00)

James R. Silke's Here's Looking at You, Kid: Fifty Years of Fighting, Working and Dreaming at Warner Brothers (Boston: Little, Brown, 1976---$24.95)

P. Adams Sitney (editorial director), The Essential Cinema: Essays on the Rims in the Collection of Anthology Film Archives (New York: New York University Press, 1976-420.00/ 8.95)

Leo Braudy's The World in a Frame: What We See in Films (New York: Anchor/Doubleday, 1976---$8.95)     

Print Media

Elizabeth L. Eisenstein, The Printing Press as an Agent of Change (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1979---$49.50 for the two volume set)

Roy Harley Lewis' Antiquarian Books: An Inisder's Account (New York: Arco, 1979---$10.00)

Jack Lindsay's William Morris: His Life and Work (New York: Taplinger, 1979---$14.95)

Thomas Weyr's Reaching for Paradise: The Playboy Vision of America (New York: Times Books, 1979---$12.50)

Book Publishing Worldwide, A Publisher's Weekly Extra (New York: R.R. Bowker, 1979---S6.95, paper)

Scholarly Communication: The Report of the National Enquiry (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1979---$3.95, paper)

Charles B. Osburn's Academic Research and Library Resources: Changing Patterns in America (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1979---$18.95)

Robert Egan's The Bookstore Book: A Guide to Manhattan Booksellers (New York: Avon Books, 1979---$5.95, paper)     

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)     

Media Production

Peter Utz' Video User's Handbook (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1980--- $12.95 in paper with a hardback available as well).

Martin Maloney and Paul Max Rubenstein's Writing for the Media (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1980---$14.95).

Betsy P. Graham's Magazine Article Writing: Substance and Style (New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1980---$10.95, paper)

Michael L. Kleper's How to Build a Basic Typesetting System (1979---$10.00, paper)

Martin L. Gibson's Editing in the Electronic Era (Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1980---$15.50).     

General Film Overviews

Andrew Tudor's Image and Influence: Studies in the Sociology of Film (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1975---$17.95)

Paul Weiss' Cinematics (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1975---$8.95)

James F. Scott's Film: The Medium and the Maker (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1975---$7.95 1 paper)

Douglas Brode's Crossroads to the Cinema (Boston: Holbrook Press, 1975---price not given, paper)

William Kuhns' The Moving Picture Book (Dayton, Ohio: Pflaum, 1975---price not given, paper)

Richard M. Blumenberg's Critical Focus: An Introduction to Film (Belmont, Calif.: Wadsworth, 1975---price not given, paper)

Axel Madsen's The New Hollywood: American Movies in the 70s (New York: Crowell, 1975---$7.95)

George Rehrauer's The Film User's Handbook: A Basic Manual for Managing Library Film Services (New York: Bowker, 1975---$14.95)     

Print Media and PR

Sidney L. Jackson's Libraries and Librarianship in the West: A Brief History (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1974---price not given, hardback)

Barbara Nykoruk (ed.) Authors in the News (Detroit, Mich.: Gale Research Co., 1976---$24.00)

Doug Newsom and Alan Scott's This is PRI The Realities of Public Relations (Belmont, Calif.: Wadsworth, 1976---$12.95 1 with an instructor's manual available as well)

Richard Weiner's Professional's Guide to Publicity (Richard Weinter, Inc., 888 Seventh Ave., New York 10019---$6.95, paper)

Richard Weiner's Syndicated Columnists (hardbound, 154 pages, $20.00)     

Other Foreign/International

Michael Balfour's Propaganda in War 1939-1945: Organizations, Policies and Publics in Britain and Germany (London and Boston: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1979---$37.50)

Glen Fisher's American Communication in a Global Society (Norwood, N.J.: Ablex Publishing, 1979---$17.50)

Studies of Broadcasting (NHK Theoretical Research Centre, Radio & TV Culture Research Institute, Nippon Hoso Kyokai, 2-1-1, Atago, Minato-ku, Tokyo 105, Japan---apparently free on request, especially if you have some research of interest to exchange)

Eighteenth Report by the International Telecommunication Union on Telecommunication and the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (Geneva: ITU, 1979---5 swiss france, paper)

Robert N. Pierce's Keeping the Flame: Media and Government in Latin America (New York: Hastings House, 1979---$14.50/7.95)

Godwin C. Chu and Francis I.K. Hsu, eds. Moving a Mountain: 'Cultural Change in China (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1979--- $16.00)

Intergovernmental Conference on Communication Policies in Asia and Oceania (Paris: Unesco, 1979---limited distribution [whatever that means in practice] with no price given, paper)

Miriam Williford, Source Directory: Assistance to Third World Broaecasters (Ford Foundation, P.O. Box 559, Naugatuck, Conn. 06770---$5.95, loose-leaf binder)     

Popular Illustration

Posterbooks, a roundup of seven paperback titles

Images of an Era: The American Poster, 1945-75 (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1975---$12.50, paper)

Harry Harrison's Mechanismo (London: Pierrot Publishing Ltd./Morgans Run, Danbury, N.H.: Reed Books (Addison House)

John Lewis' Typography: Design and Practice (New York: Taplinger, 1978---$17.50 with a paperback also apparently available)

W.R. Miller et al's Graphic Arts (Bloomington, Ind.: McNight Publishing Co. (distributed by Taplinger in New York), 1978--- $3.96/2.64)

Bill Gray's More Studio Tips for Artists and Graphic Designers (New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1978---$4.95, paper)     

Books of the Month

Robert Sklar's Movie-Made America: A Social History of American Movies (New York: Random House, 1975---$12.95)

Thomas W. Bohn and Richard L. Stromgren's Light and Shadows: A History of Motion Pictures (Alfred Publishing Co., 75 Channel Drive, Port Washington, N.Y. 11050, 1975---$8.95, paper)     

Commonwealth Media

Television, Censorship and the Law, by Colin R. Munro (208 pp.---$22.00)

Characteristics of Local Media Audiences, by Ray Brown (130 pp.---$23.00)

Newspapers as Organizations, by Lars Engwall (288 pp.---$29.0O)

Broadcasting and Youth (London: Calouste Gulbenian Foundation, 98 Portland Place, London W1N 4ET, 1979---£1.70 or about $4.00, paper)

Carl Gardner, ed. Media, Politics & Culture: A Socialist View (London: Macmillan/Atlantic Highlands, N.J.: Humanties Press, 1979---$21.50/9.75)

Asa Briggs, Governing the BBC (London: British Broadcasting Corporation, 1979---£10.00 or about $22.00)

Graham Cleverley's The Kettering Standoff: A Study of a Strike (Southhamption: Aeropagus, 1978---price not given, but available in hardback and paper)

Paul Hoch's The Newspaper Game: The Political Sociology of the Press (London and New York: Marian Boyars Ltd., 1974, released US in 1979---$10.00)

Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC Information Services, Ottawa, Ontario K1A ON2, Canada---available free on request, paper)

Australia: Henry Mayer tells us of nine recent publications on page     

Journalism

IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST-III: A REPORT BY THE NATIONAL NEWS COUNCIL, 1979-4983 (National News Council, 805 Third Ave., New York, NY 10022---$10.00, paper)

VIDEOTEX JOURNALISM: TELETEXT, VIEWDATA, AND THE NEWS by David H. Weaver (Hillsdale, N.J.: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1984---$18.00)

THE NEW BUSINESS JOURNALISM: AN INSIDER'S LOOK AT THE WORKINGS OF AMERICA'S BUSINESS PRESS by Don Gussow (San Diego: Harcourt, Brace Jovanovich, 1984---$14.95)

STRAIGHT STUFF: THE REPORTERS, THE WHITE HOUSE AND THE TRUTH by James Deakin (New York: Morrow, 1984---$17.95)

COVERING CAMPAIGNS: JOURNALISM IN CONGRESSIONAL ELECTIONS by Peter Clarke and ' H. Evans (Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University 1983---$17.50)

TERRORISM: THE MEDIA AND THE LAW, edited by Abraham H. Miller (Dobbs Ferry, N.Y.: Transnational Publishers, 1982---$25.00, with paperback available)

THE DISSIDENT PRESS: ALTERNATIVE JOURNALISM IN AMERICAN HISTORY by Lauren Kessler (Beverly Hills, Calif.: Sage, 1984---$8.95, paper)

AGENTS OF POWER: THE ROLE OF THE NEWS MEDIA IN HUMAN AFFAIRS by J. Herbert Altschull (New York: Longman, 1984---$29.95)

THE PROCESS OF ELECTRONIC NEWS GATHERING by Frederick Shook (1982, 180 pp.---no price given, paper)

THE BROADCAST NEWS PROCESS by Frederick Shook and Dan Lattimore (1982, 375 pp.---no price given, spiral bound, plus a short “Instructor's Manual”)     

Media Production

Thomas D. Burrows and Donald N. Wood's Television Production: Disciplines and Techniques (Dubuque, Iowa: Wm. C. Brown, 1978---$11.95, paper)

Robert Edmonds' Scriptwriting for the Audio-Visual Media (New York: Teachers College Press, Columbia University, 1978---$8.95, paper)

Charles Bensinger's The Home Video Handbook (Video-Info Publications, P.O. Box 1507, Santa Barbara, Calif. 93102---$8.95, paper)

Ben Brady's The Keys to Writing for Television and Film (Dubuque, Iowa: Kendall-Hunt, l978---price not given, paper)     

Media Regulation and Control

James Q. Wilson, ed. The Politics of Regulation (New York: Basic Books, 1980---$18.95)

Robert A. Goldwin, ed. Bureaucrats, Policy Analysts, Statesmen: Who Leads? (Washington: American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, 1150 17th St. NW, 1980---$5.25, paper with cloth edition also available)

Warren L. Patton's An Author's Guide to the Copyright Law (Lexington, Mass.: Lexington Books/D.C. Heath, 1980---$21.95)

Joseph J. Hemmer, Jr.'s Communication Under Law (Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1979 and 1980-- $15.00 and 20.1)0, two vols.)     

Production and Design Guides

Herbert Zettl's Television Production Handbook (Belmont, Calif. Wadsworth, 1976---$13.95)

Ira Schneider and BerytKorot (eds.) Video Art: An Anthology (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1976---$19.95/9.95)

Kenneth B. Knecht's Designing and Maintaining the CATV and Small TV Studio (Blue Ridge Summit, Pa.: TAB Books, 1976---$12.95)

Donald W. Miles' Broadcast News Handbook (Indianapolis: Howard W. Sams & Co., 1975---price not given, paper)

V. White's Designing for Magazines (New York: R.R. Bowker, 1976---$16.95)

John Borwick's Sound Recording Practice: A Handbook Compiled by the Association of Professional Recording Studios (London and New York: Oxford University Press, 1976---L16.00 or $32.25, depending which side of the Atlantic you are on)

John M. Woram's The Recording Studio Handbook (Sagamore Publishing Co., 1120 Old Country Road, Plainview, N.Y. 11803, 1976---$35.00)

James W. Brown, Richard B. Lewis, and Fred F. Marcieroad's A V Instruction: Technology, Media and Methods (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1977---$15.95)

Brown and Lewis' A V Instructional Technology Manual for Independent Study (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1977---$7.95, paper)

Patrick S. Finnegan's Broadcast Engineering and Maintenance Handbook (Blue Ridge Summit, Pa.: TAB Books, 1976---$19.95)     

General Film Histories

Michael Wood's America in the Movies, or "Santa Maria, It Had Slipped My Mind" (New York: Basic Books, 1975---$10.00)

Adam Garbicz and Jacek Klinowski's Cinema, The Magic Vehicle: A Guide to its Achievement (Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1975---$18.50)

Tino Balio's United Artists: The Company Built by the Stars (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1975-- $15.00)

Charles Higham's Warner Brothers (New Y( Scribner's, 1975---$9.95)

John Douglas Eames' The MGM Story: The Complete History of Fifty Roaring Years (New York: Crown, 1975---$25.00)

Rochelle Larkin's Hail, Columbia (New Rochelle, N.Y.: Arlington House, 1975---$17.95)

Datid E. Scherman (ed.) Life Goes to the Movies (New York: Time-Life Books, 1975-- $19.95)

Paul Trent's Those Fabulous Movie Years: The 30s (New York: Crown, 1975---$14.95)

Griffith and Mayer's The Movies (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1969)

Sidney Skolsky's Don't Get Me Wrong-- I Love Hollywood (New York: Putnam's, 1975---$8.95)

Leo Handel's Hollywood Looks at its Audience: A Report of Film Audience Research (originally issued by the University of Illinois Press in 1950)