Popular culture—Part 1 ‐ Gary Edgerton

RHETORIC IN POPULAR CULTURE by Barry Brummett (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1994‐$18.66, paper, ISBN 0–312–06539–6, 243 pp.)

GAMES IN THE GLOBAL VILLAGE: A 50‐NATION STUDY OF ENTERTAINMENT TELEVISION by Anne Cooper‐Chen (Bowling Green, OH: BGSU Popular Press, 1994‐$36.95/ 15.95, ISBN 0–87972–598–2 hard, 0–87972–599–0 soft, 319 pp.)

APOCALYPSE POSTPONED by Umberto Eco and edited by Robert Lumley (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1994‐$29.95, ISBN 0–253–31851–3, 227 pp.)

I READ THE NEWS TODAY: THE SOCIAL DRAMA OF JOHN LENNON'S DEATH by Fred Fogo (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 1994‐$52.50/ 16.95, ISBN 0–8476–7916–0 hard, 0–8226–3034–6 soft, 185 pp.)

AMERICA'S FAVORITE RADIO STATION: WKRP IN CINCINNATI by Michael B. Kassel (Bowling Green, OH: BGSU Popular Press, 1993‐$40.95/15.95, ISBN 0–87972–584–2 hard, 0–87972–585–0 soft, 206 pp.)

TAKE TWO: ADAPTING THE CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN NOVEL TO FILM by Barbara Tepa Lupack (Bowling Green, OH: BGSU Popular Press, 1994‐$45.95/18.95, ISBN 0–87972–641–5 hard, 0–87972–642–3 soft, 198 pp.)

UNDERSTANDING COMICS: THE INVISIBLE ART by Scott McCloud (New York: Harper Perennial, 1994‐$20.00, paper, ISBN 0–06–097625‐X, 216 pp.)

VIOLENCE AGAINST THE PRESS: POLICING THE PUBLIC SPHERE IN U.S. HISTORY by John Nerone (New York: Oxford, 1994‐$60.00/ 16.95, ISBN 0–19–507166–2 hard, 0–19–508698–8 soft, 320 pp.)

READING FOOTBALL: HOW THE POPULAR PRESS CREATED AN AMERICAN SPECTACLE by Michael Oriard (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1993 ‐ $29.95, ISBN 0–8078–2083–0, 320 pp.)

LAND OF IDOLS: POLITICAL MYTHOLOGY IN AMERICA by Michael Parenti (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1994—$22.95/ 18.66, ISBN 0–312–09497–3 hard, 0–312–09841–3 soft, 208 pp.)

AN INTRODUCTORY GUIDE TO CULTURAL THEORY AND POPULAR CULTURE by John Storey (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1993‐$30.00/ 14.95, ISBN 0–8203–1590–7 hard, 0–8203–1592–5 soft, 238 pp.)     

Popular culture

SEX, ART, AND AMERICAN CULTURES by Camille Paglia (New York: Vintage, 1992—price not given, paper, ISBN 0–679–74101 ‐1,335 pp.)

SHELF LIFE: MODERN PACKAGE DESIGN, 1920–1945 by Jerry Jankowski (San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1992— $14.95 paper, ISBN 0–8118–0075‐X, 119 pp.)

STAR WARS: FROM CONCEPT TO SCREEN TO COLLECTIBLE by Stephen J. Sansweet (San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1992—$29.95/19.95, ISBN 0–8118–0101–2 hard, 0–8118–0092–2 soft, 131 pp.)

LAURIE ANDERSON by John Howell (New York: Thunder's Mouth Press, 1992—$11.95, paper, ISBN 1–56025–029–1,160 pp.)

JANE & MICHAEL STERN'S ENCYCLOPEDIA OF POP CULTURE (New York: HarperCollins, 1992—$35.00, ISBN 0–06–096972–5, 593 pp.)

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT FADS by Frank Hoffman and Bill Bailey (Binghamton, NY: Haworth Press, 1992—$19.95 paper, ISBN 0‐ 918393–72–8, 377 pp.)

HARD AT PLAY: LEISURE IN AMERICA, 1840–1940 edited by Kathryn Grover (Amherst: Univ. of Massachusetts Press, 1992— $50.00/16.95, ISBN, 0–87023–792–6 hard, 0–87023–793–4, soft, 262 pp.)

CULTURE WARS: THE STRUGGLE TO DEFINE AMERICA by James Davison Hunter (New York: Basic Books, 1992— $13.00, paper, ISBN 0–465‐ 01534–4, 416 pp.)

FREE SPEECH FOR ME—BUT NOT FOR THEE: HOW THE AMERICAN LEFT AND RIGHT RELENTLESSLY CENSOR EACH OTHER by NatHentoff (New York: HarperCollins, 1992— $25.00, ISBN 0–06–019006‐X, 405 pp.),

HOLLYWOOD VS. AMERICA: POPULAR CULTURE AND THE WAR ON TRADITIONAL VALUES by Michael Medved (New York: Harper Collins, 1992—$20.00, ISBN 0–06–016882‐X, 386 pp.)

CARNIVAL CULTURE: THE TRASHING OF TASTE IN AMERICA by James B. Twitched (New York: Columbia University Press, 1992—$24.95, ISBN 0–231–07830–7, 305 pp.)

THE PRODUCTION OF CULTURE: MEDIA AND THE URBAN ARTS by Diana Crane (Newbury Park, CA: Sage, 1992— $14.95, paper, ISBN 0–8039–3693–1, 198 pp.),

THE CREATION OF JAZZ: MUSIC, RACE, AND CULTURE IN URBAN AMERICA by Burton W. Peretti (Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 1992—$29.95, ISBN 0–252–01708–0, 277 pp.)     

Australian/British/ Canadian media

COMMUNICATION AND THE TRANSFORMATION OF ECONOMICS by Robert E. Babe (Boulder, CO: Westview, 1995—$45.00/16.00, ISBN 0–8133–2672–9 hard, 0–8133–2671–0 paper, 270 pp.)

A DIFFERENT ROAD TAKEN: PROFILES IN CRITICAL COMMUNICATION edited by John A. Lent (Boulder, CO: Westview, 1995—$49.95/18.95, ISBN 0–8133–1635–9 hard, 0–8133–1636–7 paper, 319 pp.)

AMERICAN POPULAR CULTURE: A GUIDE TO THE REFERENCE LITERATURE by Frank W. Hoffman (Englewood, CO: Libraries Unlimited, 1994— $37.50; $45.00 outside of North America, ISBN 1–56308–142–3, 286 pp.)

THEORY &; RESEARCH IN MASS COMMUNICATION: CONTEXTS AND CONSEQUENCES by David K. Perry (Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum, 1996—$39.95/19.95, ISBN 0–8058–1923–1 hard, 0–8058–1924‐X paper, 230 pp.)

MANAGING THE PUBLISHING PROCESS: AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY by Bruce W. Speck (Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1995—$69.50, ISBN 0–313–27956‐X, 360 pp.)

UNDERSTANDING THE MEDIA: A SOCIOLOGY OF MASS COMMUNICATIONS by Joel Smith (Creskill, NJ: Hampton Press, 1995—$28.50, paper, ISBN 1–57273–005–6, 392 pp.)

MEDIA MADNESS: PUBLIC IMAGES OF MENTAL ILLNESS by Otto F. Wahl (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1995—$25.95, ISBN 0–8135–2212–9, 260 pp.)

Burleson, Brant R., ed. COMMUNICATION YEARBOOK 19 (Newbury Park, CA: Sage, 1996—$49.95, ISBN 0–8039–0165–5, 458 pp.)

CULTURAL STUDIES AND COMMUNICATIONS edited by James Curran, et al. (London: Arnold/New York: St. Martin's Press, 1996—$59.95/16.95, ISBN 0–340–65268–3 hard, 0–340–61417‐X, 371 pp.)

SOCIAL APPROACHES TO COMMUNICATION edited by Wendy Leeds‐Hurwitz (New York: Guilford Publications, 1995—$42.50/19.95, ISBN 0–89862–867–9 hard, 0–89862–873–3 paper, 260 pp.)

THE IOWA GUIDE: SCHOLARLY JOURNALS IN MASS COMMUNICATION AND RELATED FIELDS by Carolyn Stewart Dyer and Shannon Heim (Iowa Center for Communication Study, School of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Iowa, Iowa City 52242—$15.00, paper, no ISBN given)

RESEARCH STRATEGIES IN TECHNICAL COMMUNICATION by Lynnette R. Porter and William Coggin (New York: Wiley, 1995—$34.95, paper, ISBN 0–471–11994–6, 374 pp.)     

Popular and critical studies

FACING DIFFERENCE: RACE, GENDER, AND MASS MEDIA edited by Shirley Biagi and Marilyn Kern‐Foxworth (Thousand Oaks, CA: Pine Forge Press, 1997—$27.95, ISBN 0–8039–9094–4 soft, 285 pp., tables, charts, illustrations, notes, references, index)

THE CIVIL WAR IN POPULAR CULTURE: A REUSABLE PAST by Jim Cullen (Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1997—$13.95, paper, ISBN 1–56098–687–7, 254 pp., illustrations, notes, index)

AMERICAN POPULAR CULTURE AT HOME & ABROAD edited by Lewis H. Carlson and Kevin B. Vichcales (Kalamazoo, MI: New Issues Press, 1996—$40.00/20.00, ISBN 0–932826–42–3 hard, 0–932826–43–1 soft, 388 pp., footnotes)

DANGEROUS KNOWLEDGE: THE JFK ASSASSINATION IN ART AND FILM by Art Simon (Philadelphia: Temple University Press “Culture and the Moving Image,”; 1996—$49.95/18.95, ISBN 1–56639–378–7 hard, 1–56639–379–5 soft, 265 pp., illustrations, notes, index)

IN THE ZONE: THE TWILIGHT WORLD OF ROD SERLING by Peter Wolfe (Bowling Green, OH: Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 1997— $39.95/19.95, ISBN 0–87972–729–2 hard, 0–87972–730–6 soft, 217 pp., works cited, index)     

Electronic Media

THE REMOTE CONTROL IN THE NEW AGE OF TELEVISION edited by James R. Walkerand Robert V. Bellamy, Jr. (Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1993—$55.00, ISBN 0–275–94396–8 288 pp.)

ENLIGHTENED RACISM: THE COSBY SHOW. AUDIENCES, AND THE MYTH OF THE AMERICAN DREAM by Sut Jhally and Justin Lewis (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1993—$15.95, paper, ISBN 0–8133–1419–4,152 pp.)

TELEVISION NETWORK WEEKEND PROGRAMMING 1959–1990 by Mitchell E. Shapiro (Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 1992— $42.50, ISBN 0–89950–682–8, 464 pp.)

BROADCASTING IN AMERICA: A SURVEY OF ELECTRONIC MEDIA by Sydney W. Head, Christopher H. Sterling, and Lemuel B. Schofield (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1994—price not given, ISBN 0–395–63682–5,675 pp.)

COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY UPDATE: 1993–1994 edited by August Grant and Kenton Wilkinson (Technology Futures Inc., 500 N. Capital of Texas Highway, Suite 2–100, Austin, TX 78746—price not given, paper, ISBN not given, 352 pp.)

AMERICAN RADIO—SPRING 1993 by James Duncan (Duncan's American Radio, PO Box 90284—$84, paper, ca 275 pp.)     

Mass communication

MEDIA EDUCATION AND THE (RE)PRODUCTION OF CULTURE by David Sholle and Stan Denski (Westport, CT: Bergin & Garvey/Greenwood, 1994— $55.00, ISBN 0–89789–254–2, 200 pp.)

CULTURES AND THE AD: EXPLORING OTHERNESS IN THE WORLD OF ADVERTISING by William M. O'Barr (Boulder, CO: Westview, 1994— $59.99/17.95, ISBN 0–8133–2196–4 hard, 0–8133–2197–2 paper, 212 pp.)

MASS COMMUNICATION RESEARCH: CONTEMPORARY METHODS AND APPLICATIONS by Michael Singletary (New York: Longman, 1994—price not given, ISBN 0–8013–0882–8, 473 pp.)

MASS COMMUNICATION RESEARCH: ON PROBLEMS AND POLICIES—THE ART OF ASKING THE RIGHT QUESTIONS edited by Cees Hamelink and Olga Linne (Norwood, NJ: Ablex, 1994—price not given, ISBN 0–89391–738–9, 417 pp.)

GENDERED LIVES: COMMUNICATION, GENDER, AND CULTURE by Julia T. Wood (Belmont, CA.: Wadsworth, 1994—no price given, paper, ISBN 0–534–20316–7, 359 pp.)

FATAL WORDS: COMMUNICATION CLASHES AND AIRCRAFT CRASHES by Steven Cushing (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994—$23.50, ISBN 0–226–13200–5, 162 pp.)

THE DISABLED, THE MEDIA, AND THE INFORMATION AGE edited by Jack A. Nelson (Westport, CT: Praeger, 1994— $55.00, ISBN 0–313–28472–5, 264 pp.)

COMMUNICATION ETHICS: METHODS OF ANALYSIS by James A. Jaska and Michael S. Pritchard (Belmont, CA: Wads‐worth, 1994—price not given, paper, ISBN 0–534–19896–1,244 pp.)

THE ROLE OF PRINT ON PAPER IN THE PUBLISHING HOUSE OF THE FUTURE by Joost Kist (Cambridge, MA: Harvard Program on Information Resources Policy, 1993—price not given, paper, ISBN 0–879716–05–4, 23 pp.)

MEDIA IMPACT: AN INTRODUCTION TO MASS MEDIA by Shirley Biagi (Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, 1994—price not given, paper, ISBN 0–534–20184–9, 564 pp.)

RACE—AMERICA'S RAWEST NERVE, Media Studies Journal 8:3 (Summer 1994, 180 pp.)

RESETTING THE COMPASS: NEWS COVERAGE OF CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE AFTER THE COLD WAR is an 11‐page report on a November 1993 meeting held in Zurich by the same Freedom Forum. This report ties to the Fall 1993 Media Studies Journal topic.     

U.S. GOVERNMENT DOCUMENTS: OUR 21st ANNUAL REVIEW

TELEVISION AND THE PUBLIC INTEREST: VULNERABLE VALUES IN WEST EUROPEAN BROADCASTING edited by Jay G. Blumler (London: Sage, 1992—$19.95, paper, ISBN 0–8039–8650–5, 242 pp.)

DYNAMICS OF MEDIA POLITICS: BROADCAST AND ELECTRONIC MEDIA IN WESTERN EUROPE edited by Karen Siune and Wolfgang Truetzschler (London: John Libbey, 1992—price not given, paper, ISBN 0–8039–8574–6, 306 pp.)

RADIO 2000: THE OPPORTUNITIES FOR PUBLIC AND PRIVATE RADIO SERVICES IN EUROPE by George Wedell and Philip Crookes (London: John Libbey, 1991— , paper, ISBN 0–948195–28–2, 274 pp.)

THE FUTURE FOR HDTV IN EUROPE by Michael Niblock (Manchester, England: European Institute forthe Media/London: John Libbey, 1991— , paper, ISBN 0–948195–32–0, 162 pp.)

SMALL NATIONS, BIG NEIGHBOR: DENMARK AND QUEBEC, CANADA COMPARE NOTES ON AMERICAN POPULAR CULTURE edited by Roger de la Garde, William Gilsdorf, and Ilja Wechselmann (London: John Libbey, 1993—$36.00, ISBN 0–86196–343–1, ISSN 0956–9057, 335 pp.)

AID FOR CINEMATOGRAPHIC AND AUDIO‐VISUAL PRODUCTION IN EUROPE by Jean‐Noel Dibie (London: John Libbey, 1993—$60,000, ISBN 0–86196–397–0, 214 pp.)

THE BBC: 70 YEARS OF BROADCASTING by John Cain (BBC Publications, Broadcasting House, London W1A 1AA—about $16.00, ISBN 0‐ 563–36750–4, 160 pp.)

RESEAUX: THE FRENCH JOURNAL OF COMMUNICATION (English ed.) (John Libbey, 13 Smiths Yard, Summerley St., London SW18 4HR, England—$90 institutions/$45 individuals, twice a year, ISSN 0969–9864)

MASS MEDIA IN GREECE byThimiosZaharopoulos and Manny E. Paraschos (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1993—$45,00, ISBN 0–275–94106‐X, 240 pp.)

OFFICE OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS 1992 ANNUAL REPORT (London: HMSO, 1993—L16.80, paper, ISBN 0–10–271893–8, 148 pp.)     

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.)     

Developing communication systems

SOAP OPERAS FOR SOCIAL CHANGE: TOWARD A METHODOLOGY FOR ENTERTAINMENT‐EDUCATION TELEVISION by Heidi Noel Nariman (New York: Praeger, 1993—$47.95, ISBN 0–275–94389–5, 184 pp.)

POWER AND TELEVISION IN LATIN AMERICA: THE DOMINICAN CASE by Antonio V. Menendez Alarcon (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1992—$47.95, ISBN 0–275–94275–9, 208 pp.)

BROADCASTING IN THE ARAB WORLD: A SURVEY OF THE ELECTRONIC MEDIA IN THE MIDDLE EAST edited by Douglas A. Boyd (Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1993— $37.95, ISBN 0–8138–0468‐X, 390 pp.)

CREATIVE COMPROMISE: THE MacBRIDE COMMISSION: A FIRSTHAND REPORT AND REFLECTION ON THE WORKINGS OF UNESCO'S INTERNATIONAL COMMISSION FOR THE STUDY OF COMMUNICATION PROBLEMS by William G. Harley (Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1993—$39.50, ISBN 0–8191–8906–5,359 pp.)

COMMUNICATIONS AND THE “THIRD WORLD” by Geoffrey Reeves (New York: Routledge, 1993—$17.95, paper, ISBN 0–415–04762–5, 277 pp.)

TELEVISION, POLITICS, AND THE TRANSITION TO DEMOCRACY IN LATIN AMERICA edited by Thomas E. Skidmore (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993—$25.00, ISBN 0–943875–44–7, 188 pp.)

NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE PRIVATIZATION STUDY: EXPERIENCE OF JAPAN AND LESSONS FOR DEVELOPING COUNTRIES‐‐World Bank Discussion Papers No. 179 by Yoshiro Takano (World Bank, 1818 H. St NW, Washington, DC 20433—$9.95, paper, ISBN 0–8213–2224–9, 130 pp.)     

3. HISTORY

TIJUANA BIBLES: ART AND WIT IN AMERICA'S FORBIDDEN FUNNIES, 1930s‐1950s edited by Bob Adelman (New York: Simon &; Schuster, 1997—124.00, ISBN 0–684–83461–8, 160 pp.)

HOGARTH AND HIS TIMES: SERIOUS COMEDY by David Bindman (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997—$45.00/29.95, ISBN 0–520–21299–1 hard, 0–520–21300–9 paper, 208 pp., photos)

FOR THE LOVE OF PRAGUE by Gene Deitch (Prague: Peter Lemkin, 1997— $20.00, ISBN 80–7205–467–8)

ART IN MOTION: ANIMATION AESTHETICS by Maureen Furniss (Sydney: John Libbey, 1998—$24.95, ISBN 1–86462–038–2)

GEORGE GROSZ: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY by George Grosz, translated by Nora Hodges (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998—$17.95, paper, ISBN 0–520–21327–0)

CARTOONING AND COMIC ART IN SOUTHEAST ASIA edited by John Lent (Singapore: Times Academic Press, Southeast Asian Journal of Social Science, 25:1, special issue [1997]—$26.50, ISSN 0303–8246, ISBN 981–210–111‐X, 166 pp., illustrations, references)

COMIC ART IN ASIA: HISTORICAL, LITERARY, AND POLITICAL ROOTS edited by John Lent (Clevedon, England: Multilingual Matters, Asian Pacific Communication, 7:1–2, special issue [1996]—$16.00, ISSN 0957–6851, 86 pp., illustrations, references)

SEAL OF APPROVAL: THE HISTORY OF THE COMICS CODE by Amy Kiste Nyberg (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi “Studies in Popular Culture,”; 1998—$45.00/18.00, ISBN 0–87805–974–1 hard, 0–87805–975‐X paper, 208 pp.)

CELEBRITY CARICATURE IN AMERICA by Wendy Wick Reaves (Washington and New Haven: National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, in association with Yale University Press, 1998—$45.00, ISBN 0–300–07463–8, 306 pp.)

READING THE RABBIT: EXPLORATIONS IN WARNER BROS. ANIMATION edited by Kevin S. Sandier (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1998—$49.00/19.00, ISBN 0–8135–2537–3 hard, 0–8135–2538–1 paper, 271 pp.)

EDITORIAL CARTOONING AND CARICATURE: A REFERENCE GUIDE by Paul P. Somers, Jr. (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1998— $69.50, ISBN 0–313–22150–2, 205 pp.)     

Popular Culture and Advertising

WHATEVER HAPPENED TO MADISON AVENUE? ADVERTISING IN THE '90s by Martin Mayer (Boston: Little, Brown, 1991—$22.95, ISBN 0-316- 55154-6, 269 pp.)

THE CODES OF ADVERTISING: FETISHISM AND THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF MEANING IN THE CONSUMER SOCIETY by Sut Jhally (New York: Routledge, 1990—price not given, paper, ISBN 0-415-90353-X, 225 pp.)

ROCK AROUND THE BLOCK: A HISTORY OF ROCK MUSIC IN EASTERN EUROPE AND THE SOVIET UNION by Timothy W. Ryback (New York: Oxford University Press, 1990—$21.95, ISBN 0-19-505633-7, 272 pp.)

MUSIC AT THE MARGINS: POPULAR MUSIC AND GLOBAL CULTURAL DIVERSITY by Deanna Campbell Robinson, Elizabeth B. Buck, and Marlene Cuthbert (Newbury Park, CA: Sage, 1991—$39.95/19.95, ISBN 0-8039- 3192-1 hard, 0-8039-3193-X paper, 312 pp.)

THE MANY LIVES OF THE BATMAN: CRITICAL APPROACHES TO A SUPERHERO AND HIS MEDIA edited by Roberta E. Pearson and William Uricchio (New York: Routledge, 1991—$39.95/13.95, ISBN 0-415-90346-7 hard, 0-415-90347-5 paper, 213 pp.)

BROADCAST ADVERTISING: A COMPREHENSIVE WORKING TEXTBOOK by Sherilyn K. Zeigler and Herbert H. Howard (Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1991—$34.95, ISBN 0-8138-0072-2, 358 pp.)

FUNDAMENTALS OF ADVERTISING RESEARCH by Alan Fletcher and Thomas Bowers (Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, 1991—price not given, ISBN 0-534-14778-X, 364 pp.)

THIS BUSINESS OF MUSIC by Sidney Shemel and M. William Krasilovsky (New York: Billboard/Watson-Guptill, 1991—$27.50, ISBN 0-8230-7706-3, 688 pp.)     

British communication

EXTENDING CHOICE: THE BBC'S ROLE IN THE NEW BROADCASTING AGE (BBC Corporate Affairs, Broadcasting House, London W1A 1AA—about $5.00, paper, ISBN 0–563–36903–5, 88 pp.)

BBC BROADCASTING RESEARCH ANNUAL REVIEW NUMBER XVIII 1992 (London: John Libbey, 1993‐$35,00, paper, ISBN 0–86196–368–7, 91 pp.

BFI FILM AND TELEVISION HANDBOOK 1993 (London: BFI/ Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1992‐$28.95, paper, ISBN 0–85170–344–5, 328 pp.)

TELEVISION‐THE PUBLIC'S VIEW 1992 by Barrie Gunter and Paul Winstone (London: John Libbey, 1993‐$32.00, ISBN 0–86196–399–7, 104 pp.)

PARALLEL LINES: MEDIA REPRESENTATIONS OF DANCE edited by Stephanie Jordan and Dave Allen (London: John Libbey, 1993‐$29.00, ISBN 0–86196–371–7, 241 pp.)

IT'S LIVE BUT IS IT REAL? PROCEEDINGS OF THE 23rd UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER BROADCASTING SYMPOSIUM edited by Nod Miller and Rod Allen (London: John Libbey, 1993‐$28.00, ISBN 0–86196–370–9, 120 pp.)     

Communication History

NEW AND IMPROVED: THE STORY OF MASS MARKETING IN AMERICA by Richard S. Tedlow (New York: Basic Books, 1990—$24.95, ISBN 0-465-05023-9,481 pp.)

EDISON AND THE BUSINESS OF INNOVATION by Andre Millard (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1990—$38.50, ISBN 0-8018-3306-X, 387 pp.)

COMPUTING BEFORE COMPUTERS edited by William Aspray (Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1990—$27.95, ISBN 0-8138-0047-1, 276 pp.)

AMERICAN MASS-MARKET MAGAZINES edited by Alan Nourie and Barbara Nourie (Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1990—$79.95, ISBN 0-313-25254-8, 624 pp.)

JOURNALISTIC STANDARDS IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY AMERICA by Hazel Dicken-Garcia (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1989—$42.50/14.50, ISBN 0-299-12170-4 hard, 0-299-12174-7 soft, 342 pp.)

THE WATCHDOG CONCEPT: THE PRESS AND THE COURTS IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY AMERICA by Timothy W. Gleason (Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1990—$21.95, ISBN 0-8138-0152-4, 160 pp.)

MUCKRAKING AND OBJECTIVITY: JOURNALISM'S COLLIDING TRADITIONS by Robert Miraldi (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1990—$39.95, ISBN 0-313-27298-0, 184 pp.)     

Popular culture—Part two

READING FOOTBALL: HOW THE POPULAR PRESS CREATED AN AMERICAN SPECTACLE by Michael Oriard (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1994—$29.95, ISBN 0–8078–2083–0, 319 pp.)

BASEBALL ARCHAEOLOGY: ARTIFACTS FROM THE GREAT AMERICAN PASTIME by Gwen Aldridge (San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1993—$29.95/ 18.95, ISBN 0–8118–0365–1 hard, ISBN 0–8118–0290–6, soft, 112 pp.)

MAN AS ART by Malcolm Kirk (photographs) and Andrew Strathern (essay) (San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1993—$22.95, paper, ISBN 0–8118–0478‐X, 144 pp.)

NEW YORK HOT: EAST COAST JAZZ OF THE 50S & 60S, THE ALBUM COVER ART by Graham Marsh and Glynn Cunningham (San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1993—$24.95, paper, ISBN0–8118–0416‐X, 111 pp.)

ITALIAN ART DECO: GRAPHIC DESIGN BETWEEN THE WARS by Steven Heller and Louise Hill (San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1993—$16.95, paper, ISBN 0–8118–0287–6,132 pp.)

HEROES WITHOUT LEGACY: AMERICAN AIRWOMEN, 1912–1944 by Dean Jaros (Niwot, CO: University Press of Colorado, 1993— $24.95, ISBN 0–87081–312–9, 282 pp.)

COWGIRLS OF THE RODEO: PIONEER PROFESSIONAL ATHLETES by Mary Lou Compte (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1993—$22.50, ISBN 0–252–02029–4, 252 pp.)

UNBEARABLE WEIGHT: FEMINISM, WESTERN CULTURE, AND THE BODY by Susan Bordo (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993—$25.00, ISBN 0–520–07979–5, hard, 361 pp.)

SANDOW THE MAGNIFICENT: EUGENESANDOW AND THE BEGINNINGS OF BODYBUILDING by David L. Chapman (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1994—$26.95, ISBN 0–252–02033–2, 229 pp.)

THE CHANGING FICTIONS OF MASCULINITY by David Rosen (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1993—$29.95/14.95, ISBN 0‐ 252–02004–9, hard, 0–252–06309–0, paper, 234 pp.)

LAND OF IDOLS: POLITICAL MYTHOLOGY IN AMERICA by Michael Parenti (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1994—price not given—ISBN 0–312–09497–3, hard, 0–312–09841–3 paper, 208 pp.)

THE TRAGEDY OF ABUNDANCE: MYTH RESTORATION IN AMERICAN CULTURE by Jerome O. Steffen (Niwot, CO: University Press of Colorado, 1993—16.95, ISBN 0–87081–272–6, 129 pp.)

COMIC BOOKS AND COMIC STRIPS IN THE UNITED STATES: AN INTERNATIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHY ($85.00, ISBN 0–313–28211–0, 624 pp.)

COMIC ART OF EUROPE: AN INTENTIONAL, COMPREHENSIVE BIBLIOGRAPHY ($95.00, ISBN 0–313–28212–9, 688 pp.)     

French Books on Media

INFORMATION HIGHWAYS &; BYWAYS FROM THE TELEGRAPH TO THE 21st CENTURY by Irwin Lebow (IEEE Press, 445 Hoes lane, PO Box 1331, Piscataway, NJ 08855–1331, 1995—$29.95, paper, ISBN 0–7803–1073‐X, 307 pp.)

AMERICAN COMMUNICATION RESEARCH: THE REMEMBERED HISTORY edited by Everette E. Dennis and Ellen Wartella (Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 1996—$39.95/19.95, ISBN 0–8058–1743–3 hard, 0–8058–1744–1, 210 pp.)

BRITISH TELEVISION: AN ILLUSTRATED GUIDE by Tise Vahimagi (New York: Oxford University Press, 1994—$25.00, paper, ISBN 0–19–818336–4, 364 pp.)

DYNAMICS OF MODERN COMMUNICATION: THE SHAPING AND IMPACT OF NEW COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES by Patrice Flichy (Newbury Park, CA: Sage, 1995—$69.95/22.95, ISBN 0–8039–7850–2 hard, 0–8039–7851–0 soft, 182 pp.)

POSTCARDS IN THE LIBRARY: INVALUABLE VISUAL RESOURCES edited by Norman D. Stevens (The Haworth Press, 10 Alice St., Binghampton, NY 13904–1580, 1995—$39.95, ISBN 1–56024–776–2, 233 pp.)

THE MEDIA IN AMERICA: A HISTORY edited by Wm. David Sloan and James D. Startt (Vision Press, PO Box 1106, Northport, AL. 35476—price not given, paper, ISBN 1–885219–03–2, 600 pp.)     

Popular culture

POPULAR CULTURE GENRES: THEORIES AND TEXTS by Arthur Asa Berger (Newbury Park, CA: Sage, 1992—$14.95 paper, ISBN 0–8039–4726–7, 171 pp.)

ROCK FORMATION: MUSIC, TECHNOLOGY, AND MASS COMMUNICATION by Steve Jones (Newbury Park, CA: Sage, 1992—$14.95 paper, ISBN 0–8039–4443–8, 223 pp.)

DANCING IN THE DISTRACTION FACTORY: MUSIC TELEVISION AND POPULAR CULTURE by Andrew Goodman (Minneapolis: U. of Minnesota Press, 1992—$16.95 paper, ISBN 0–8166–206306, 237 pp.)

MAKING THINGS PERFECTLY QUEER; INTERPRETING MASS CULTURE by Alexander Doty (Minneapolis: U. of Minnesota Press, 1993—$15.95 paper, ISBN 0–8166–2245–0, 146 pp.)

CHIC THRILLS: A FASHION READER by Juliet Ash and Elizabeth Wilson (Berkeley: U. of California Press, 1993—$15.00 paper, ISBN 0–520–08339–3, 257 pp.)

FASHION, CULTURE, AND IDENTITY by Fred Davis (Chicago: U. of Chicago Press, 1992—$24.95, ISBN 0–226–13808–9, 226 pp.)

PASTIME: TELLING TIME FROM 1879 TO 1969 by Philip Collins (San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1993—$16.95, ISBN 0–8118–278–7, 106 pp.)

EN ROUTE: LABEL ART FROM THE GOLDEN AGE OF AIR TRAVEL by Lynn Johnson & Michael O'Leary (San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1993—$14.95, paper, ISBN 0–8118–0045–8, 120 pp.)

MADE IN JAPAN: TRANSISTOR RADIOS OF THE 1950S AND 1960S by Roger Handy, Maureen Erbe, and Aileen Farnan Antonier (San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1993—$16.95, paper, ISBN 0–8118–0271‐X, 108 pp.)

PHONO‐GRAPHICS: THE VISUAL PARAPHERNALIA OF THE TALKING MACHINE by Arnold Schwartzman (San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1993—$16.95 paper, ISBN 0–8118–0302–3, 120 pp.)

DANGER IS MY BUSINESS: AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF THE FABULOUS PULP MAGAZINES; 1896–1953, by Lee Server (San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1993—$27.50/17.95, ISBN 0–8118–0355–4 cloth, 0–8118–0112–8 paper, 144 pp.)

AROUND THE WORLD IN 72 DAYS: THE RACE BETWEEN PULITZER'S NELLIE BLY AND COSMOPOLITAN'S ELIZABETH BISLAND by Jason Marks (New York: Gemittarius Press, 1993—$12.95 paper, ISBN 0–9633696–2‐8, 261 pp.)

MALE TROUBLE edited by Constance Penley and Sharon Wilis (Minneapolis: U. of Minnesota Press, 1993—$16.95 paper, ISBN 0‐ 8166–2172–1, 316 pp.)

ECSTASY UNLIMITED: ON SEX, CAPITAL, GENDER, AND AESTHETICS by Laura Kipnis (Minneapolis: U. of Minnesota Press, 1993—$18.95 paper, ISBN 0–8166–1997–2, 308 pp.)

BLUES AND EVIL by John Michael Spencer (Knoxville: U. of Tennessee Press, 1993—$18.95 paper, ISBN 0–87049–783–9, 177 pp.)

PERSONAL DISCIPLINE AND MATERIAL CULTURE: AN ARCHAEOLOGY OF ANNAPOLIS, MARYLAND, 1695–1870 by Paul A. Shackel (Knoxville: U. of Tennessee Press, 1993—$27.95, ISBN 0–87049–784–7,225 pp.)

ANTI‐ROCK: THE OPPOSITION TO ROCK ‘N'ROLL by Linda Martin and Kerry Seagrave (New York: Da Capo, 1993—$14.95, paper, ISBN 0–306–80502–2, 374 pp.)     

Australian Communication

PRAY TV: TELEVANGELISM IN AMERICA by Steven Bruce (New York: Routledge, Chapman &; Hall, 1990–$16.95, paper, ISBN 0-415-03098-6, 272 pp.)

RELIGIOUS TELEVISION: CONTROVERSIES AND CONCLUSIONS edited by Robert Abelman and Stewart M. Hoover (Norwood, NJ: Ablex, 1990—price not given, ISBN 0-89391-643-9, 366 pp.)

THE GAME BEHIND THE GAME: HIGH STAKES, HIGH PRESSURE IN TELEVISION SPORTS by Terry O'Neil (New York: Harper &; Row [now HarperCollins], 1989—$17.95, ISBN 0-06-016019-5, 291 pp.)

GAMES AND SETS: THE CHANGING FACE OF SPORT ON TELEVISION by Steven Barnett (London: British Film Institute/Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1990—$35.00/13.95, ISBN 0-85170-267-8 hard, 0-85170-268-6 paper, 214 pp.)

SPLIT IMAGE: AFRICAN AMERICANS IN THE MASS MEDIA edited by Jannette L. Dates and William Barlow (Howard University Press, 2900 Van Ness St. NW, Washington, DC 20008—$29.95/14.95, ISBN 0-88258-035-3 hard, 0-88258-063-9 paper, 492 pp.)

TELEVISION AND WOMEN'S CULTURE: THE POLITICS OF THE POPULAR edited by Mary Ellen Brown (Newbury Park, CA: Sage, 1990—$45.00/18.95, ISBN 0-8039-8228-3 hard, and 0-8039-8229-1 paper, 244 pp.)

SOCIAL AND CULTURAL ASPECTS OF VCR USE edited by Julia R. Dobrow (Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 1990—$29.95, ISBN 0-8058-0499-4, 219 pp.)

ADVENTURES ON PRIME TIME: THE TELEVISION PROGRAMS OF STEPHEN J. CANNELL by Robert J. Thompson (New York: Praeger, 1990—$37.95, ISBN 0-275-93330-X, 143 pp.)     

British and Australian media

CURRENT STATE OF RADIO AND TELEVISION PLANNING by the Australian Broadcasting Authority (Canberra: the authority, 1992—price not given, five volumes, ISBN 0–642–18559–1 for the set)

BROADCASTING IN AUSTRALIA: FOURTH EDITION (Sydney: Australian Broadcasting Tribunal, 1992—A$34.95, ISSN 1034–8689, 200 pp.)

AUSTRALIAN FINANCIAL YEARBOOK 1990–1 (Sydney: Australian Broadcasting Tribunal, 1992—A$80.00, ISSN 1033–9874, 346 pp.)

OZ CONTENT VOLUME 4: AN INQUIRY INTO AUSTRALIAN CONTENT ON COMMERCIAL TELEVISION (Sydney: Australian Broadcasting Tribunal, 1992—A$19.95 (or A$59.95 for the full set), ISBN 0–642–16127–5, 312 pp.)

GET THE PICTURE: ESSENTIAL DATA ON AUSTRALIAN FILM, TELEVISION AND VIDEO (Sydney: Australian Film Commission, 1992—price not given, ISBN 0–642–17475‐X, 219 pp.)

THE CHALLENGE OF MULTICULTURALISM: GLOBAL CHANGES AND AUSTRALIAN EXPERIENCES (University of Wollongong Office of Multicultural Affairs and Centre for Multicultural Studies, Working Papers on Multiculturalism No. 19,1992—A$20.00, paper, ISSN 1035–8129, 104 pp.)

AUSTRALIAN FILM INDEX: A GUIDE TO AUSTRALIAN FEATURE FILMS SINCE 1900 edited by Sandra Hall (Port Melbourne: Thorpe, 1992—A$45.00, ISBN 1–875589–12–0, 258 pp.)

A STATION ON TRACE: 3CCC—THE FIRST TEN YEARS by Phillip Edmonds (Goldfields Community Radio Cooperative, Station St., Harcourt, Victoria 3453—A$15.00, ISBN 0–646–08062–8, 105 pp)

PUBLIC POLICY ISSUES AND SERVICE INDUSTRIES OPPORTUNITIES FOR AUSTRALIA IN DIGITAL VIDEO COMMUNICATIONS by the Service Industries Research Program (Canberra: Australian Coalition of Service Industries and the Department of Industry, Technology & Commerce, 1992—no price or ISBN given, 112 pp.)

ART & CYBERCULTURE edited by Ross Harley (Media Information Australia No. 69, August 1993, ISSN 0312–9616, 85 pp.)

GETTING THE MESSAGE: NEWS, TRUTH AND POWER edited by Gohn Eldridge (New York: Routledge, 1993—$59.95/ 22.50, ISBN 0–415–07983–7 cloth, 0–415–07984–5, paper, 358 pp.)

TELEVISION PRODUCERS by Jeremy Tunstall (London and New York: Routledge, 1993—price not given, ISBN 0–415–09471–2 hard; 0–415–09472–0 paper, 235 pp.)

SOUND & VISION: THE MUSIC VIDEO READER edited by Simon Frith, Andrew Goodwin and Lawrence Grossberg ((New York: Routledge, 1993—$49.95/16.95, ISBN 0–415–09430–5 cloth, 0–415–09431–3 paper, 215 pp.)

CITIZEN TELEVISION: A LOCAL DIMENSION TO PUBLIC SERVICE BROADCASTING edited by David Rushton (London: John Libbey, 1993—$50.00, ISBN 0–86196–433–0, ISSN 0969–9872 as part of “ILT Research Monograph” series, 256 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.)     

Electronic media

ELECTRONIC MEDIA LAW AND REGULATION by Kenneth C. Creech (Stoneham, MA; Focal Press, 1993—$34.95, paper, ISBN 0–240–80130‐X, 404 pp.)

MEDIA, SEX AND THE ADOLESCENT edited by Bradley S. Greenberg, Jane D. Brown, and Nancy L. Buerkel‐Rothfuss (Creskill, NJ: Hampton Press, 1993—$55.00/24.95, ISBN 1–881303–36–5 cloth, 1–881303–37–3 paper, 376 pp.)

CHILDREN & TELEVISION: IMAGES IN A CHANGING SOCIOCULTURAL WORLD edited by Gordon L. Berry and Joy Keiko Asamen (Newbury Park, CA: Sage, 1993—$23.95, paper, ISBN 0–8039–4700–3, 332 pp.)

“RADIO: THE FORGOTTEN MEDIUM.” Media Studies Journal 7:3, Summer 1993 (Freedom Forum Media Studies Center, Columbia University, 2950 Broadway, New York, NY 10027–7004—$5.00 per copy, ISSN 1057–7416, 204 pp.)

ALL TALK: THE TALKSHOW IN MEDIA CULTURE by Wayne Munson (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1993—price not given, ISBN 0–87722–995–3, 216 pp.)

THE GODS OF TELEVANGELISM: THE CRISIS OF MEANING AND THE APPEAL OF RELIGIOUS TELEVISION by Janice Peck (Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press, 1993—$45.00/19.95, ISBN 1–881303–65–9 cloth, 1–881303–66–7 paper, 296 pp.)

WORKING IN COMMERCIALS: A COMPLETE SOURCEBOOK FOR ADULT AND CHILD ACTORS by Elaine Keller Beardsley (Stoneham, MA: Focal Press, 1993—$19.95, paper, ISBN 0–240–80160–1,194 pp.)

THE FIRST AMENDMENT AND THE FIFTH ESTATE: REGULATION OF ELECTRONIC MASS MEDIA by T. Barton Carter, Marc A. Franklin, and Jay B. Wright (Westbury, NY: Foundation Press, 1993—price not given, ISBN 1–56662–039–2, 891 pp.)