Literature of broadcasting: Books in review

BEST TELEVISION PLAYS. Ed. by Gore Vidal. New York: Ballantine Books, Inc., 1956. 250 pp. 35c.

TELEVISION PLAYS BY PADDY GHAYEFSKY. By Paddy Chayefsky. New York: Simon and Schuster. 1955. 268 pp. $1.50 (paperback).

TOP TV SHOWS OF THE YEAR, 1954–55. Ed. by Irving Settel New York: Hastings House, 1955. 269 pp. $5.50.

TELEVISION SCRIPTS FOR STAGING AND STUDY. By Rudy Bretz and Edward Stasheff. New York: Hill and Wang, Inc., 1953. 332 pp. $4.95.

TELEVISION'S IMPACT ON AMERICAN CULTURE. By William Y. Elliott. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press 1956. 382 pp. $4.95.

MASS COMMUNICATIONS. By Erik Barnouw. New York: Rine‐hart and Company, Inc., 1957. pp. 280. $4.00.

CONSUMER RESEARCH WITH PROJECTIVE TECHNIQUES. By Dietz Leonhard. Shenandoah, Iowa: World Publishing Co., 1955. 151 pp.

ON HUMAN COMMUNICATIONS: A Review, a Survey and a Criticism. By Colin Cherry. New York: The Technology Press of Massachusetts Institute of Technology and John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1957. 333 pp.

TELEVISION TECHNIQUES, revised edition, by Hoyland Bettinger, revised by Sol Cornberg. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1955. 236 pp. $3.75.

TV MEASUREMENT FOR THE SPONSOR. By American Research Bureau, Inc., 1956. 53 pp. (Free.)

FOUR THEORIES OF THE PRESS. By Fred S. Siebert, Theodore Peterson, and Wilbur Schramm. Urbana, Illinois: University of Illinois Press, 1956. 153 pp. $3.50.     

The celler committee report*

TELEVISION NEWS REPORTING. By the Staff of CBS News. New York, Toronto, London: McGraw‐Hill Book Company, Inc., 1958. 182 pp. $5.75.

THE ANNOUNCER'S HANDBOOK. By Ben Graf Henneke and Edward S. Dumit. New York: Rinehart &; Company, 1959. 293 pp. $4.00.

ADVERTISING: MASS COMMUNICATION IN MARKETING. By C. A. Kirkpatrick. Boston: The Houghton Mifflin Co., The Riverside Press, Cambridge; 1959. 639 pp.

AN INTRODUCTION TO RESEARCH IN SPEECH. By J. Jeffery Auer. New York: Harper &; Brothers, 1959. 244 pp. $5.00.

ZOOMAR. By Ernie Kovacs. New York: Doubleday &; Co., 1957. 348 pp. $3.95. Paperback edition: New York: Bantam Books, 1959. 344 pp. 50 cents.     

Books in review

DOCUMENTS IN AMERICAN BROADCASTING. Edited by Frank J. Kahn. New York: Appleton‐Century‐Crofts, 1968. 598 pp. $4.95 (paper).

RADIO, TELEVISION AND AMERICAN POLITICS. By Edward W. Chester. New York: Sheed and Ward, 1969. 342 pp. $7.50/3.45.

THE REPORT OF THE COMMISSION ON OBSCENITY AND PORNOGRAPHY. New York: Bantam Books, 1970. 700 pp. $1.65 (paper).

HOW TO TALK BACK TO YOUR TELEVISION SET. By Nicholas Johnson. Boston: Little‐Brown, 1970. ix+228 pp. $5.75. [re‐issued with added bibliographies and an index by Bantam Books, 1970. 245 pp. 95¢.]

MEDIA SOCIOLOGY: A READER. Edited by Jeremy Tunstall. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1970. x+574 pp. $12.50.

TELEVISION: SELECTIONS FROM “TV GUIDE” MAGAZINE. Edited by Barry G. Cole. New York: Free Press, 1970. 605 pp. $12.50/5.95.

INTRODUCTION TO MASS COMMUNICATIONS. By Edwin Emery, Phillip H. Ault, and Warren K. Agee. New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1970 (third edition). 444 pp. $8.95.

THE MASS MEDIA AND MODERN SOCIETY. By William L. Rivers, Theodore Peterson, and Jay W. Jensen. San Francisco: Rinehart Press, 1971 (second edition). 342 pp. $8.95.

THE COMMUNICATIVE ARTS: AN INTRODUCTION TO MASS MEDIA. By Charles S. Steinberg. New York: Hastings House, 1970. 371 pp. $10.00/6.00.

TELECOMMUNICATIONS: THE BOOMING TECHNOLOGY. By Ronald Brown. New York: Doubleday, 1970. 191 pp. $5.95.

THE EMMY AWARDS: A PICTORIAL HISTORY. By Paul Michael and James Robert Parish. New York: Crown, 1970. 384 pp. $9.95.     

Books received

THE FREEDOM OF THE PRESS VS. PUBLIC ACCESS. By Benno C. Schmidt, Jr. New York: Praeger, 1976. 296 pp. $17.50 &; $6.95.

THE GOOD GUYS, THE BAD GUYS AND THE FIRST AMENDMENT: FREE SPEECH VS. FAIRNESS IN BROADCASTING. By Fred W. Friendly. New York: Random House, 1976. 268 pp. $10.00.

TUBE OF PLENTY: THE EVOLUTION OF AMERICAN TELEVISION. By Erik Barnouw. New York: Oxford University Press, 1975. 518 pp. $14.95.

CLIVE: INSIDE THE RECORD BUSINESS. By Clive Davis with James Willwerth. New York: Ballantine Books, 1976. 346 pp. $1.95 (paper).

CONTROL OF THE DIRECT BROADCAST SATELLITE: VALUES IN CONFLICT. By The Aspen Institute. Palo Alto, CA.: Aspen Institute, 1974. 156 pp. $3.00 (paper).

GLOBAL COMMUNICATIONS SATELLITE POLICY: INTELSAT, POLITICS AND FUNCTIONALISM. By Joseph N. Pelton. Mt. Airy, MD.: Lomond Books, 1974. 183 pp. $14.50.

REGULATION AND CONTROL OF DIRECT BROADCASTING FROM SATELLITES: THE UN INVOLVEMENT. By Benno Signitzer. New York: Praeger, 1976. 112 pp. $12.50.

INTERNATIONAL COMMERCIAL SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS: ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL ISSUES OF THE FIRST DECADE OF INTELSAT. By Marcellus S. Snow. New York: Praeger, 1976. 170 pp. $16.50.     

Literature of broadcasting: Books in review

Two books have recently crossed this desk which are deserving of comment. The first of these is My First 10,000,000 Sponsors,by Frank Edwards (New York: Ballantine Books, Inc. 1956. 185 pp. 35c). Edited by Bernard Rosenberg and David Manning White

One book, for which it is possible to predict an important future is Mass Culture, subtitle The Popular Arts in America. (Glencoe, Illinois: The Free Press, 1957. 561 pp. $6.50.)

Three from Hastings

HOW TO ANNOUNCE FOR RADIO AND TELEVISION. Edited by William I. Kaufman. New York. Hastings House, 1956. 95 pp. $2.50.

AN AD MAN AD‐LIBS ON TV. By Bob Foreman. New York. Hastings House, 1957. 173 pp. $4.50.

HOW TO USE A TAPE RECORDER. By Dick Hodgson and H. Jay Bullen. New York. Hastings House, 1957. 216 pp. $4.95.

THE FUNNY MEN. By Steve Allen. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1956. 280 pp. $3.95.     

An annotated bibliography of articles on broadcasting law and regulation in law periodicals, 1920–1955

USING THE MASS MEDIA: COMMUNICATION PROBLEMS IN AMERICAN SOCIETY. By Steven H. Chaffee and Michael J. Petrick. New York: McGraw‐Hill, 1975. 264 pp. $6.95 (paper).

THE GREAT AMERICAN BLOW‐UP: PUFFERY IN ADVERTISING AND SELLING. By Ivan L. Preston. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1975. 368 pp. $11.95.

TELEVISION AS A SOCIAL FORCE: NEW APPROACHES TO TV CRITICISM. Edited by Richard Adler. New York: Praeger Publishers, 1975. 171 pages. $15.00/$3.95.

RADIO BROADCASTING: AN INTRODUCTION TO THE SOUND MEDIUM. Edited by Robert L. Hilliard. New York: Hastings House 1974 (2nd ed.). 312 pp. $10.95/$6.95.

COURSE HANDBOOKS of the Practicing Law Institute. Titles as follows. New York: PLI, 1973–75. $20.00 each, with student price available (paper).

COMMUNICATIONS LAW: 1975. (Handbook 67) 835 pp.

CURRENT DEVELOPMENTS IN CATV: 1974. (Handbook 56) 551 PP.

CURRENT DEVELOPMENTS IN COPYRIGHT LAW: 1975. (Handbook 64–65, two volumes) 476 and 356 pp.

LEGAL AND BUSINESS PROBLEMS OF THE ADVERTISING INDUSTRY: 1975. (Handbook 63) 345 pp.

LEGAL AND BUSINESS PROBLEMS OF THE MOTION PICTURE INDUSTRY. (Handbook 37) 606 pp.

LEGAL AND BUSINESS PROBLEMS OF THE RECORD INDUSTRY: 1975. (Handbook 61) 603 pp.

PACKAGING FOR TELEVISION AND MOTION PICTURES. (Handbook 43) 312 pp.     

Books in review

TRAINING THE VOICE FOR SPEECH, By C. Raymond Van Dusen: Professor of Speech and Chairman of the Department of Speech, University of Miami … Director of Speech Clinic at the University. New second edition. 276 pages, 6 × 9, 27 illus., $4.00 .... McGraw‐Hill Book Company, Inc.

MASON'S MANUAL OF LEGISLATIVE PROCEDURE, by Paul Mason: Member of the California Bar, formerly Assistant Legislative Counsel in California … now parliamentarian of the California State Senate and the American Legion Department of California. 640 pages, 5 × 7½, $6.50 … McGraw‐Hill Book Company, Inc.

BEGINNING TELEVISION PRODUCTION, by Melvin Robert White: Brooklyn College. Ill pages, 8½ by 11, photo offset, spiral bound, $2.50 … Burgess Publishing Company.     

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.)     

An Examination of Privacy Rules for Academic Advisors and College Student-Athletes: A Communication Privacy Management Perspective

HOW TO MAKE BETTER SPEECHES. By William G. Hoffman. New York: Funk and Wagnalls Co., 1948; pp. 266. $3.00.

YOU AND YOUR SPEECHES. By E. C. Buehler. (Revised edition) . Lawrence, Kansas: Allen Press, 1949; pp. 266. $3.00.

ESSENTIALS OF COMMUNICATIVE SPEECH. By Robert T. Oliver, Dallas C. Dickey, and Harold P. Zelko. New York: The Dryden Press, 1949.

FUNDAMENTALS OF SPEECH. A Text‐Handbook of Principles and Methods. By Roy C. McCall. New York: The Macmillan Co., 1949; pp. 240. $12.50.

PRACTICAL DEBATING. By Luther W. Courtney and Glenn R. Capp. New York: J. B. Lippincott Co., 1949; pp. xii: 308.

THE ART OF ACTING. By John Dolman, Jr. New York: Harper &; Brothers, 1949; pp. xx + 313. $3.50.

LIVING LITERATURE FOR ORAL INTERPRETATION. By Moiree Compere. New York: Appleton‐Century‐Crofts, Inc., 1949; pp. xii + 451. $3.00.

HANDBOOK OF RADIO PRODUCTION. By Erik Barnouw. Boston: D. C. Heath and Co., 1949; pp. xii + 324. $3.25.

VOICE AND DICTION. By Victor A. Fields and James F. Bender. New York: The Macmillan Co., 1949; pp. ix + 368. $4.00.

SPEECH METHODS IN THE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. By Carrie Rasmussen. New York: The Ronald Press, 1949; pp. 340. $3.50.

SPEECH IN THE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. By Lorna Shogren Werner. Evanston, Illinois: Row, Peterson and Co., 1947; pp. 222. $2.00.     

Literature of broadcasting: Books in review

TELEVISION AND RADIO ANNOUNCING. By Stuart W. Hyde. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1959. 451 pp. $6.00.

TELEVISION ADVERTISING. By Clark Aknew and Neil O'Brien. New York: McGraw‐Hill Book Company, 1958. 330 pp. $9.50.

INTRODUCTION TO MASS COMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH. Edited by Ralph O. Nafziger and David Manning White. Baton Rouge, Louisiana: Louisiana State University Press, 1958. 244 pp. $5.00.

THE MERGER. By Sterling Quinlan. New York: Doubleday & Co., Inc., 1958. 331 pp.

SCREEN WRITING AND PRODUCTION TECHNIQUES. By Charles W. Curran, New York. Hastings House, 1958. 240 pp., illus. $4.95.     

Communications Law

CABLE TELEVISION AND OTHER NONBROADCAST VIDEO: LAW AND POLICY by Daniel L. Brenner and Monroe E. Price (Clark Boardman Co., 435 Hudson St., New York 10014, 1986—$85.00)

THE JOURNALIST'S HANDBOOK ON LIBEL AND PRIVACY by Barbara Dill (New York: Free Press, 1986—$19.95)

THE PRESS AND THE STATE: SOCIOHISTORICAL AND CONTEMPORARY INTERPRETATIONS by Walter M. Brasch and Dana R. Ulloth (Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1986—$47.50/24.95)

THE TOLERANT SOCIETY: FREEDOM OF SPEECH AND EXTREMIST SPEECH IN AMERICA by Lee C. Bollinger (New York: Oxford University Press, 1986—$19.95)

CURRENT DEVELOPMENTS IN COPYRIGHT LAU 1986 (922 pp.)

COUNSELING CLIENTS IN THE ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY (793 pp.)     

New books

LANGUAGE ‐ MAN ‐ SOCIETY: READINGS IN COMMUNICATION. Ed. Harold E. Briggs. New York: Rinehart and Co., 1949; pp. xv + 707. $3.50.

THE ART OF FORCEFUL SPEAKING. By Richard C. Reager. New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1949; pp. xvi + 302. $1.49.

HOW TO PUT YOUR IDEAS ACROSS. By Richard W. Wetherill. New York: D. Van Nostrand Company, 1949; pp. x + 435. $2.75.

PUBLIC SPEAKING WITHOUT FEAR AND TREMBLING. By Mark Hanna. New York: The Macmillan Co., 1949; pp. 166. $2.75.

BASIC PUBLIC SPEAKING. By Paul L. Soper. New York: Oxford University Press, 1949; pp. xxi + 394. $2.50.

HANDBOOK OF PUBLIC SPEAKING. Revised Edition. By A. R. Thompr son. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1949; pp. xix + 177. $1.50.

BASIC TRAINING IN SPEECH. Brief Edition. By Lester Thonssen and Howard Gilkinson. Boston: D. C. Heath and Co., 1949; pp. 249. $2.25

HOW TO TALK MORE EFFECTIVELY. By Jean Bordeaux and T. W. Tanaka. Chicago: American Technical Society, 1949; pp. x + 218. $2.75.

DEMOCRACY THROUGH DISCUSSION. By Bruno Lasker. New York: The W. H. Wilson Co., 1949; pp. xvii + 376. $3.50.

THE HUMAN NATURE OF PLAYWRITING. By Samson Raphaelson. New York: The Macmillan Co., 1949; pp. viii + 267. $4.00.

PLAY PRODUCTION AND DIRECTION. By C. Lowell Lees. New York: Prentice‐Hall, 1948; pp. xiii + 311. $5.00.

HOW TO SPEAK THE WRITTEN WORD. By Nedra Newkirk Lamar. New York: Fleming H. Revell Co., 1949; pp. 175. $2.50.

THE ART OF GOOD SPEECH. By Dwight Bolinger and Ralph Weiman. 4 v. Philadelphia: Russell Press, 1948; pp. 159. $9.50.

GENERAL SPEECH: AN INTRODUCTION. By A. Craig Baird and Franklin H. Knower. New York: McGraw‐Hill Book Co., 1949; pp. ix + 500. $3.50.

PUBLIC SPEAKING FOR BUSINESS. By William G. Hoffman. Third Edition, Revised and Enlarged. New York: McGraw‐Hill Book Co., 1949; pp. xiii + 412. $3.50.

THE LANGUAGE OF WISDOM AND FOLLY: BACKGROUND HEADINGS IN SEMANTICS. Ed. Irving J. Lee. New York; Harper and Brothers, 1949; pp. xxii + 361. $3.00.     

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)     

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)     

New books

PUBLIC SPEAKING: PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE. By Giles Wilkeson Gray and Waldo W. Braden. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1951; pp. xiv + 581. $4.00.

THE FUNDAMENTALS OF SPEAKING. By Wilbur E. Gilman, Bower Aly, and Loren D. Reid. New York: The Macmillan Co., 1951; pp. vx + 608. $4.00.

BASIC EXPERIENCES IN SPEECH. By Seth A. Fessenden and Wayne N. Thompson. New York: Prentice‐Hall, Inc., 1951; pp. xii + 427. $3.75.

ARGUMENTATION AND DEBATE: TECHNIQUES OF A FREE SOCIETY. By James H. McBurney, James M. O'Neill, and Glen E. Mills. New York: The MacMillan Company, 1951; pp. vii + 336. $3.50.

GROUP LEADERSHIP AND DEMOCRATIC ACTION. By Franklyn S. Haiman. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1951; pp. vii + 309. $2.50.

DISCUSSION AND DEBATE. By Henry Lee Ewbank and J. Jeffry Auer. Second Edition. New York: Appleton‐Century‐Crofts, 1951; pp. x + 492. $3.50.

DISCUSSION METHODS: By J. V. Garland. Third Edition Revised. New York: H. W. Wilson Co., 1951; pp. 376. $3.00.

CREATIVE BROADCASTING With Twelve Scripts for Broadcast. By H. J. Skornia, Robert H. Lee, and Fred Brewer. New York: Prentice‐Hall, Inc., 1950; pp.x + 407. $4.50.

TEACHING SPEECH IN THE SECONDARY SCHOOL. By Karl F. Robinson. New York: Longmans, Green and Co., 1951; pp. vii + 438. $4.00.

GERRIT J. DIEKEMA, ORATOR. By William Schrier. Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1950; pp. xix + 269. $3.50.

A TREASURY OF THE THEATRE: From Agamemnon to A Month in the County. Edited by John Gassner. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1951; pp. xvii + 718. $4.50.     

From Cronkite to Colbert: The Evolution of Broadcast News

BROADCASTING: AN INTRODUCTION. By John R. Bittner. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice‐Hall, Inc., 1980. 454 pages plus index, glossary, and appendix.

THE POWERS THAT BE. By David Halberstam. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1979. 771 pp.

AS IT HAPPENED: A MEMOIR. By William S. Paley. Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1979. 418 pp.

INSIDE ABC: AMERICAN BROADCASTING COMPANY'S RISE TO POWER. By Sterling Quinlan. New York: Hastings House, 1979. 290 pp.

FUNDAMENTALS OF RADIO BROADCASTING. By John Hasling, New York: McGraw‐Hill, 1980.

SOUND AND VISION, THE HISTORY OF BROADCASTING IN THE UNITED KINGDOM, VOLUME IV. By Asa Briggs. Oxford, New York, Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1979. xiv 1082 pp. $65.00.

WORKBOOK FOR RADIO AND TV NEWS EDITING AND WRITING. By Arthur Wimer/Dale Brix. Dubuque, Iowa: Wm. C. Brown Company Publishing, 1980 (Fifth Ed.). 302 pp.

ALL IN THE FAMILY: A CRITICAL APPRAISAL. Edited by Richard P. Adler. New York: Praeger Publishers, 1979. 322 pp.     

F. Memoirs and Biography

ON TELEVISION by Pierre Bourdieu, translated from the 1996 French original by Priscilla Ferguson (New York: The New Press, 1998—$18.95, paper, ISBN 1–56584–407–6, 104 pp., appendix, translator's note, bibliography, notes, index)

BUYER'S GUIDE TO FIFTY YEARS OF TV ON VIDEO by Sam Frank (Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 1999—$22.95, paper, ISBN 1–57392–226–9, 1,498 pp., index)

THE TELEVISION STUDIES BOOK edited by Christine Geraghty and David Lusted (London: Arnold / New York: St. Martin's Press, 1998—$59.95/18.95, ISBN 0–340–66232 hard, 0–340–66231‐X paper, 337 pp., index)

WHY WE WATCH: THE ATTRACTIONS OF VIOLENT ENTERTAINMENT edited by Jeffrey H. Goldstein (New York: Oxford University Press, 1998—$49.95/17.95, ISBN 0–19–511820–0 hard, 0–19–511821–9 paper, 270 pp., illustrations, references, subject and name indexes)

BROADCASTING IN AMERICA: A SURVEY OF ELECTRONIC MEDIA by S. W. Head, C. H. Sterling, L. B. Schofield, T. Spann, and M. A. McGregor (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1998 [8th ed.]—$52.00, paper, ISBN 0–395–87371–1, 337 pp., 280 photos &; graphics, bibliography, index, instructor's manual)

PRIME TIME LAW: FICTIONAL TELEVISION AS LEGAL NARRATIVE edited by Robert M. Jarvis and Paul R. Joseph (Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press, 1998—price not given, ISBN 0–89089–805–7 hard, 0–89089–808–1 paper, 323 pp., notes, index)

MASTERPIECE THEATRE AND THE POLITICS OF QUALITY by Lawrence A. Jarvik (Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 1999—$60.00, ISBN 0–8108–3204–6, 261 pp., notes, bibliography, index)

TELEVISION VIOLENCE: A GUIDE TO THE LITERATURE edited by P.T. Kelly (Nova Science Publishers, 6080 Jericho Turnpike, Suite 207, Commack, NY 11725—price not given, ISBN 1–56072–299–1, 193 pp., index)

UNDERSTANDING SOCIETY, CULTURE, AND TELEVISION by Paul Monaco (Westport, CT: Praeger, 1998—$55.00, ISBN 0–275–96057–9, 152 pp., bibliography, index)

ENCYCLOPEDIA OF TELEVISION NEWS edited by Michael D. Murray (Phoenix: Oryx Press, 1999—price not given, ISBN 1–57356–108–8, 315 pp., photos, further reading, index)

STUDENT TELEVISION IN AMERICA: CHANNELS OF CHANGE by Tony Silvia and Nancy F. Kaplan (Ames, IA: Iowa State University Press, 1998— $29.95, paper, ISBN 0–8138–2160–6, 243 pp., illustrations, selected bibliography, appendixes, index)

LIVING COLOR: RACE AND TELEVISION IN THE UNITED STATES edited by Sasha Torres (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1998—$49.95/17.95, ISBN 0–8223–2178–5 hard, 0–8223–2195–5 paper, illustrations, selected bibliography, index)     

7. German and Scandinavian Media Studies

CRITICAL IDEAS IN TELEVISION STUDIES by John Corner (New York: Oxford University Press “Oxford Television Studies,”; 1999—$52.00/19.95, ISBN 0–19–874221–5 hard, ISBN 0–19–874220–7 paper, 139 pp., references, index)

USES OF TELEVISION by John Hartley (London: Routledge, 1999—$75.00/22.99, ISBN 0–415–08508‐X hard, 0–415–08509–8 paper, 246 pp., figures and pictures, appendixes, references, index)

WAVES OF RANCOR: TUNING IN THE RADICAL RIGHT by Robert L Hilliard and Michael C. Keith (Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe “Media, Communication, and Culture in America,”; 1999—$32.95, ISBN 0–7656–0131–1, 288 pp., appendices, notes, index)

THE HIDDEN SCREEN: LOW‐POWER TELEVISION IN AMERICA by Robert C. Hilliard and Michael C. Keith (Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 1999—prices not given, ISBN 0–7656–0419–1 hard, 0–7656–0420–5, 212 pp., photos, notes, further reading, index)

ACTIVE RADIO: PACIFICA'S BRASH EXPERIMENT by Jeff Land (St. Paul: University of Minnesota Press “Commerce and Mass Culture,”; 1999—$42.95/16.95, ISBN 0–8166–3156–5 hard, 0–8166–3157–3 paper, 179 pp., photos, notes, bibliography, program index, text index)

MAKING SENSE OF TELEVISION: THE PSYCHOLOGY OF AUDIENCE INTERPRETATION by Sonia Livingstone (London: Routledge “International Series in Social Psychology,”; 1998 [2nd ed.]—$85.00/25.99, ISBN 0–415–18623–4 hard, 0–415–18536‐X paper, 212 pp., tables, bibliography, author and subject indexes)

TELEVISION: A MEDIA STUDENT'S GUIDE by David McQueen (London: Arnold, 1998—$55.00/18.95, ISBN 0–340–719764 hard, 0–340–70604‐X paper, 275 pp., illustrations, suggested readings, index)

HANDBOOK ON RADIO AND TELEVISION AUDIENCE RESEARCH by Graham Mytton (New York: UNICEF House, 1999 [Rev. and expanded ed.]—$20.95, paper, ISBN 92–806–3393–7, 191 pp., appendices, bibliography, glossary, references)

A BROADCAST ENGINEERING TUTORIAL FOR NON ENGINEERS (Washington, DC: NAB, 1999 [2nd ed.]—$49.95/29.97, paper, ISBN 0–89324–275–6, 209 pp., diagrams, index)

DIGITAL TELEVISION IN A DIGITAL ECONOMY: OPPORTUNITIES FOR BROADCASTERS by A. T. Kearney (Washington, DC: NAB, 1998— $164.99/98.99, paper, ISBN 0–89324–316–7, about 100 pp., charts, tables, notes, glossary)

NAB ENGINEERING HANDBOOK edited by Jerry Whitaker, et al (Washington, DC: NAB, 1999 [9th ed.]—$379.95/228.00, ISBN 0–089324–258–6, 1,572 pp., charts, diagrams, tables, chapter references and bibliography, CD‐ROM disc, index)

STATION CONSOLIDATION: A TECHNICAL PLANNING GUIDE FOR RADIO STATIONS by the NAB Science &; Technology Department (Washington, DC: NAB, 1997—$89.95/53.97, paper, ISBN 0–89324–311–6, 80 pp., diagrams, maps, appendices)

TOWER SITE REGULATION HANDBOOK by the NAB Science &;. Technology Department (Washington, DC: NAB, 1998—$99.95/59.95, paper, ISBN 0–89324–312–4, 533 pp., tables, diagrams, appendices)

UNITED STATES RBDS STANDARD: SPECIFICATION OF THE RADIO BROADCAST DATA SYSTEM (RBDS) by the National Radio Systems Committee of the Electronic Industries Association and the National Association of Broadcasters (Washington, DC: NAB, 1998—$49.95/29.97, paper, no ISBN provided, 202 pp., diagrams, tables, glossary, annexes)

RACE IN SPACE: THE REPRESENTATION OF ETHNICITY IN STAR TREK AND STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION by Micheal C. Pounds (Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 1999—$32.50, ISBN 0–8108–3322–0, 252 pp., figures, tables, notes, references, index)

PLAYERS ALL: PERFORMANCE IN CONTEMPORARY SPORT by Robert E. Rinehart (Bloomington: Indiana University Press “Drama and Performance Studies,”; 1998—$35.00 /15.95, ISBN 0–253–33426–8 hard, 0–253–21223–5 paper, 188 pp., notes, index)

DIRECTING FOR TELEVISION: CONVERSATIONS WITH AMERICAN TV DIRECTORS by Brian G. Rose (Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 1999—$32.50, ISBN 0–8108–3591–6, 227 pp., index)

BROADCASTING FREEDOM: RADIO, WAR, AND THE POLITICS OF RACE, 1938–1948 by Barbara Dianne Savage (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press “John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture,”; 1999—$45.00/18.95, ISBN 0–8078–2477–1 hard, 0–8078–4804–2 paper, 391 pp., illustrations, photos, notes, bibliography, and index)

TELEVISION AND NEW MEDIA AUDIENCES by Ellen Seiter (New York: Oxford University Press “Oxford Television Studies,”; 1999—$65.00/19.95, ISBN 0–19–871152–5 hard, 0–19–871141–7 paper, 154 pp., photos, bibliography, index)

UNTOUCHABLES by Tise Vahimagi (London: British Film Institute, 1998 [available from Indiana University Press]—$19.95, paper, ISBN 0–85170–563–4, 112 pp., photographs, index)     

Television

PLAYING DOCTOR: TELEVISION, STORYTELLING, AND MEDICAL POWER by Joseph Turow (New York: Oxford University Press, 1989—$24.95, ISBN 0-19-504490-8)

COMIC VISIONS: TELEVISION COMEDY AND AMERICAN CULTURE by David Marc (Winchester, MA: Unwin Hyman [formerly Allen & Unwin], 1989—$10.95, paper, ISBN 0-04-445285-3)

NERVOUS LAUGHTER: TELEVISION SITUATION COMEDY AND LIBERAL DEMOCRATIC IDEOLOGY by Darrell Y. Hamamoto (New York: Praeger, 1989—$39.95, ISBN 0-275-92861-6)

INSIDE GILUGANS ISLAND: FROM CREATION TO SYNDICATION by Sherwood Schwartz (Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co., 1988—$29.95, ISBN 0-89950-339-X)

THE CRITICS' CHOICE-THE BEST OF TV SITCOMS by John Javna (New York: Harmony Books, 1988—$8.95, paper, ISBN 0-517-56922-1)

TELEVISION STUDIES: TEXTUAL ANALYSIS edited by Gary Bums and Robert Thompson (New York: Praeger, 1989—$39.95, ISBN 0-275-92745-8)

THE USE AND ABUSE OF TELEVISION: A SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF THE CHANGING SCREEN by J. Mallory Wober (Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1988—$34.50, ISBN 0-89859-662-9)

AMERICA'S WATCHING: 30TH ANNIVERSARY 1959-1989 actually issued by the now-defunct Television Information Office, but distributed through NAB)

TELEVISION IN TRANSITION: THE VALUE OF BROADCAST TELEVISION IN A CHANGING MARKETPLACE by Philip Jursek and Norman Hecht (1989—price not given, paper, ISBN 0-89-324-067-2)

NAB GUIDE TO ADVANCED TELEVISION SYSTEMS

TELEVISION STATION OPERATIONS AND MANAGEMENT edited by Robert Hilliard (Stoneham, MA: Focal Press, 1989—$24.95, paper, ISBN 0-240-80027-3)

THE BEST OF SCIENCE FICTION TV by John Javna (New York: Harmony Books, 1989—$8.95, paper, ISBN 0-517-56650-8)

CATALYST IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST is the name of the 1988 CPB annual report (Corporation for Public Broadcasting, 1111 Sixteenth St. NW, Washington DC 20036—free on request, paper)

EXPLORING CAREERS IN VIDEO by Paul Allman (New York: Rosen, 1989—price not given, ISBN 0-8239-1018-0)     

European and international communication

THE MEDIA IN WESTERN EUROPE: THE EUROMEDIA HANDBOOK by the Euromedia Group (London: Sage Publications “Communications in Society,”; 1997 [2nd ed.]—price not provided, ISBN 0–7619–5405–8 hard, 0–7619–5406–6 paper, 274 pp., tables, references, index)

TELEVISION UNDER THE TORIES: BROADCASTING POLICY 1979–1997 by Peter Goodwin (London: British Film Institute; Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1998—$55.00/24.95, ISBN 0–85170–613–4 hard, 0–85170–614–2 paper, 248 pp., notes, bibliography, index)

THE INTERNATIONALIZATION OF TELEVISION IN CHINA: THE EVOLUTION OF IDEOLOGY, SOCIETY, AND MEDIA SINCE THE REFORM by Junhao Hong (Westport, CT: Praeger, 1998—price not given, ISBN 0–275–95998–8, 165 pp., tables, 1956–96 chronology, bibliography, index)

MEDIA IN EUROPE: THE YEARBOOK OF THE EUROPEAN INSTITUTE FOR THE MEDIA 1998 edited by Jo Langham‐Brown (The European Institute for the Media, Kaistrasse 13, D‐40221 Düsseldorf, Germany—price not given, paper, ISBN 3–929673–30–4, 338 pp., tables, maps, charts, notes)

TELEVISION AND CULTURE: POLICIES AND REGULATIONS IN EUROPE by Emmanuelle Machet and Serge Robillard (Düsseldorf, Germany: The European Institute for the Media, 1998—35 DM, paper, ISBN 3–929673–29–0, 182 pp., tables, notes, bibliography)

1998 GLOBAL TELECOMS TAX PROFILES: A RESOURCE FOR BUSINESS, TAX AND MARKET STRATEGIES edited by Dennis J. McCarthy, et al. (New York: John Wiley, 1998 [2nd ed.]—$150, paper, ISBN 0–471–31841–8, about 500 pp., tables, index)

CAPITALISM AND THE INFORMATION AGE: THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF THE GLOBAL COMMUNICATION REVOLUTION edited by Robert W. McChesney, et al. (New York: Monthly Review Press, 1998— $43.00/16.00, ISBN 0–85345–988–6 hard, 0–85345–989–4 paper, 254 pp., notes, index)

STRUCTURAL AND REGULATORY CHANGES AND GLOBALIZATION IN POSTAL AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS SERVICES: THE HUMAN RESOURCES DIMENSION (Geneva: International Labour Organization “Report for Discussion at the Tripartite Meeting...,”; 1998—17.50 Swiss francs, paper, ISBN 92–2‐110966–6, 90 pp., tables, charts, bibliography)

NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS: WORLD DATA FLOWS, ELECTRONIC COMMERCE, AND THE EUROPEAN PRIVACY DIRECTIVE by Peter P. Swire and Robert E. Litan (Washington: Brookings Institution, 1998—$39.95, ISBN 0–8157–8240–3, 269 pp., notes, table, index)

ELECTRONIC EMPIRES: GLOBAL MEDIA AND LOCAL RESISTANCE edited by Daya Kishan Thussu (London: Arnold/New York: Oxford University Press, 1998—$75.00/19.95, ISBN 0–340–71895–1 hard, 0–340–71896‐X paper, 310 pp., tables, charts, notes, references, index)

TRANSFORMING ECONOMIC RELATIONSHIPS IN INTERNATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS: THE CHANGING ROLE OF GOVERNMENT IN AN ERA OF TELECOM DEREGULATION by Michael Tyler (Geneva: ITU “Briefing Report, Regulatory Colloquium No. 7,”; 1998—60 Swiss francs, paper, ISBN 92–61–06751–4, 120 pp., tables, charts, notes, appendices, glossary, bibliography)

WORLD COMMUNICATION REPORT: THE MEDIA AND THE CHALLENGE OF THE NEW TECHNOLOGIES by Lotfi Maherzi (1998—about $50.00, paper, ISBN 92–3‐103428–6, 298 pp., photos, tables, charts, notes, bibliography, glossary)

WORLD INFORMATION REPORT 1997/98 edited by Yves Courrier and Andrew Large (1997—about $52.00, paper, ISBN 92–3‐103341–7, 390 pp., photos, tables, charts, index)