History of the Film: Coffee-Table Books

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Book of the Month: Film

Roger Manvell and Lewis Jacobs (eds.) The International Encyclopedia of Film (New York: Crown, 1972—$17.95)

Halliwell's The Filmgoer's Companion (3rd edition, 1970)

Rotha-Griffith The Film Till Now (last revision issued in 1967)

Michael's The American Movies Reference Book: The Sound Era (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1969—$29.95)     

Books of the Month: The BBC's 50th Anniversary

Edward Pawley's BBC Engineering: 1922-1972 (London: BBC, 1972—L 7.00, or about $18.00)

Peter Black's The Biggest Aspidistra in the World (London: BBC, 1972—L2.00, or about $5.00)

BBC Handbook 1973 (London: BBC, 1972—75p, or about $1.75, paper)

British Broadcasting: 1922-1972—A Select Bibliography (London: BBC, 1972—75p. or about $1.75, paper)

Broadcasting Technology—Past, Present and Future (London: Institution of Electrical Engineers, P. O. Box 8, Southgate House, Stevenage, Herts. SG1 1HQ, England, 197 2—L5.O0 or about or about $12.50, paper)

Andrew Boyle's Only the Wind Will Listen: Reith of the BBC (London:Hutchinson, 1972—L4.50, or about $11.25)

John Snagge and Michael Barsley's Those Vintage Years of Radio (London: Pitman, 1972—L3.00, or about $7.50)

Violence on Television: Programme Content and Viewer Perception (1972, 220 pp., L2.00, or about $5.00)

Charles Curran, "The BBC in the Eighties" (1972, 22 pp., gratis)

Taste and Standards in BBC Progammes: A Study by the BBC for its General Advisory Council January 1973, 11 pp., gratis

BBC Record (bi-monthly, gratis on request)

Annual Report and Accounts of the British Broadcasting Corporation (annual, cost varies but now approximates $4.00 per year)

George Hills, Broadcasting Beyond One's Frontiers (1971, 59 pp., gratis from BBC, P.O. Box 76 Bush House Strand, London WC2B 4PH)

Brian Groombridge's Television and the People: A Program for Democratic Participation (Baltimore: Penguin Educational Specials, 1972—$1.95)     

Books of the Month: A Smith Trio

The Geopolitics of Information: How Western Culture Dominates the World (New York: Oxford, 1980---$13.95)

Goodbye Gutenberg: The Newspaper Revolution of the 1980s (New York: Oxford, 1980---$16.95)

Newspapers and Democracy: International Essays on a Changing Medium (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1980---$25.00)     

Books of the Month: The Future

Wilson P. Didara, Jr. THE COMING INFORMATION AGE: AN OVERVIEW OF TECHNOLOGY, ECONOMICS AND POLITICS (New York: Longman, 1982— 324.95).

Robert W Haigh, George Gerbner, and Richard Byrne, ads. COMMUNICATIONS IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY (Yew York: Wiley- Iaterscience, 081—S19.95).

Frederick Williams. THE COMMUNICATIONS REVOLUTION (Beverly Hills, Ca.: Sage Publications, 1982-325.00/ 12.30).     

Calling-in the family: Dialogic performances of family conflict

ABSTRACT

Courses: Introduction to Communication, Introduction to Interpersonal Communication, Family Communication, Small Group Communication, Communication and Listening

Objectives: By this end of this activity, students will be able to identify and practice supportive and defensive communication; understand a dialogic approach to conflict; and reflexively imagine and perform dialogic interpersonal conflict communication as constitutive and transformative.     

The Politics of Memory in Thailand and Australia: National identity,the media and the military

History and Annotated Bibliography of American Religious Periodicals and Newspapers Established from 1730 through 1830 Gaylord P. Albaugh, 1994 Worcester, American Antiquarian Society pp. lxxxix, 1456; 2 vols

The End of News Roger Bird, 1997 Concord, Ontario, Irwin Publishing pp. 167

Commercium litterarium, 1600–1750. La communication dans la République des Lettres [Forms of communication in the Republic of Letters] Studies of the Pierre Bayle Institute, Nijmegan 25 Hans Bots &; Françcoise Waquet, eds, 1994 Maarssen, Academic Publishers Associated pp. xii, 333

Press Censorship in Elizabethan England Cyndia Susan Clegg, 1997 Cambridge, Cambridge University Press pp. xv, 296

Benjamin Collins and the Provincial Newspaper Trade in the Eighteenth Century C.Y. Ferdinand, 1997 Oxford, Clarendon Press pp. xiv, 258

Women Editing Modernism. ‘Little’ Magazines and Literary History Jayne E. Marek, 1995 Lexington, University Press of Kentucky pp. xii, 252

The Popular Magazine in Britain and the United States 1880–1960 David Reed, 1997 London, British Library pp. 287

The Bloody Circus: the ‘Daily Herald’ and the left Huw Richards, 1997 London, Pluto Press pp. x, 256

The Dent Uniform Edition of Dickens’ Journalism Vol. 2. ‘The Amusements of the People’ and Other Papers: reports, essays and reviews 1834–51 Michael Slater, ed., 1996 London, Dent pp. xxxviii, 438

Periodicals of Queen Victoria's Empire: an exploration J. Don Vann &; Rosemary T. Vanarsdel, eds, 1996 Toronto, University of Toronto Press pp. 371     

Public television and the crisis of democracy: A review essay

Public Service Broadcasting in a Multichannel Environment: The History and Survival of an Ideal. Robert K. Avery. White Plains, NY: Longman, 1993.

Public Television for Sale: Media, the Market, and the Public Sphere. William Hoynes. Boulder and San Francisco: Westview Press, 1994.

Public Television: Panacea, Pork Barrel, or Public Trust? Marilyn Lashley. New York: Greenwood Press, 1992.     

Books of the Month: Kidvid

TELEVISION AND BEHAVIOR: TEN YEARS OF SCIENTIFIC PROGRESS AND IMPLICATIONS FOR THE EIGHTIES (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1982—price not given, paper, two vols)

John P. Murray, TELEVISION & YOUTH: 25 YEARS OF RESEARCH & CONTROVERSY (Bowys Town Center for the Study of Youth Development, Research Use and Public Service Division, Boys Town, Neb. 68010—$10.00, paper)

TELEVISION'S IMPACT ON CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS: A SPECIAL INTEREST RESOURCE GUIDE IN EDUCATION (Oryx Press, 2214 N. Central at Encanto, Phoenix, Az. 85004—price not given, paper)     

Books of the Month: A Bunch on Broadcasting

Michael J. Nyhan (ed.) The Future of Public Broadcasting (New York: Praeger Special Studies, 1976—$19.95/6.95)

Elizabeth J. Heighton and Don R. Cunningham's Advertisin in the Broadcast Media (Belmont, Calif.: Wadsworth, 1976-412.95)

Ruth Thomas' Broadcasting and Democracy in France (London: Crosby Lockwood Staples, 1976—E6.00, or about $12.00) Arthur Williams' Broadcasting and Democracy in West Germany (London: Crosby Lockwood Staples, 1976—E6.00, or about $12.00)     

Re-Learning American History: Understanding the Assumptions Underlying Intercultural Communication

Course: Intercultural Communication

Objectives: Students will challenge their assumptions about other cultures and question ethnocentric understandings of other cultures     

2. CBQ REVIEW ESSAY: Reporting Wars and the Military (Part 1)

Leslie Halliwell's The Filmgoer's Companion (New York: Hill and Wang, 1974—$25.00)

Ray Armes' Film and Reality: An Historical Survey (Baltimore: Penguin Books, 1974—$1.95, paper)

Peter Harcourt 's Six European Directors: Essays on the Meaning of Film Style (Baltimore: Penguin Books, 1974—$2.50, paper)

James Robert Parish' The RKO Gals (New Rochelle, N.Y.: Arlington House, 1974—$14.95)

Lee R. Bowker's Elements of Film (New York: Harcourt Brace Javanovich, 1974—$5.95, paper)

Jump Cut: A Review of Contemporary Cinema (3138 West Schubert, Chicago, Ill. 60647—$3.00 for 6 issues a year, or 50c each)

William Kuhns' Themes Two (Dayton, Ohio: Pflaum/Standard, 1974—$4.95, paper)

Raoul Walsh's Each Man in His Time: The Life Story of a Director (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1974– $10.00)     

Teaching Citizenship: Student-led Documentary Film Projects in the Communication Classroom

Courses: Communication and civic participation course; rhetorical theory, political communication, leadership

Objective: Students will explore citizenship through role models and story-telling     

Personal Narrative Performance in the Classroom: A Teaching Tool

Objectives: To have students identify and explain concepts of communication, self-disclosure and empowerment, and promote engagement of self and others through performing narratives of real-life experiences.

Courses: Interpersonal Communication, Advanced Interpersonal Communication, Cross Cultural Communication, Communication and Performance     

Flipping the classroom to teach systematic reviews: the development of a continuing education course for librarians

Objective:The researchers used the flipped classroom model to develop and conduct a systematic review course for librarians.Setting:The research took place at an academic health sciences library.Method:A team of informationists developed and conducted a pilot course. Assessment informed changes to both course components; a second course addressed gaps in the pilot.Conclusion:The flipped classroom model can be successful in developing and implementing a course that is well rated by students.     

P-value Club: Teaching Significance Level on the Dance Floor

Courses: Beginning research methods and statistics courses, as well as advanced communication courses that require reading research articles and completing research projects involving statistics

Objective: Students will understand the difference between significant and nonsignificant statistical results based on p-value     

Books of the Month: TV History

BRITISH TELEVISION: THE FORMATIVE YEARS by R. W. Burns (PPL Deot., IEEE Service Center, 445 Hoes Lane. Piscataway. NJ 08854—$80.00)

THE HISTORY OF TELEVISION, 1880-1941 by Albert Abramson (McFariand & Co.. Box 611. Jefferson, NC 28640—$29.95)     

1. CBQ REVIEW ESSAY: Cyborg Discourse: Technology's Transformation of Communication

Ralph Lee Smith's The Wired Nation: The Electronic Communications Highway (New York: Harper Colophone Books, 1972---$1.95, paper)

Jerrold Oppenheim's Soapbox Television: Introduction to Model Code of Regulations Cable Television-Broad, and Communications (Chicago: ACLU, South Clark, First Revision of November 1971-- 2.00, paper)

Robert K. Yin, Cable on the Public's Mind

Rolla Edward Park, Computer Code for a Cable Television System Financial Model

Rolla Edward Park, The exclusivity Provisions of the Federal Communications Commission's Cable Television Regulations

S.M. Genensky, et. al. Advances in Closed Circuit TV Systems for the Partially Sighted

Broadband Communications Report (Broadband Information Services Inc. 274 Madison Ave., New York 10016)

The Videocassette &; CATV Newsletter (Martin Roberts &; Associates, Inc., Box 5128N, Beverly Hills, Calif. 90210)