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)     

3. HISTORY

MEGAMEDIA: HOW GIANT CORPORATIONS DOMINATE MASS MEDIA, DISTORT COMPETITION AND ENDANGER DEMOCRACY by Dean Alger (Lanham, MD: Rowman &; Littlefield, 1998—$27.95, ISBN 0–8476–8389–3, 277 pp., cartoons, notes, index)

UNDER THE RADAR: TALKING TO TODAY'S CYNICAL CONSUMER by Jonathan Bond and Richard Kirshenbaum (New York: Wiley “Adweek Books,”; 1998—$27.95, ISBN 0–471–17469–6, 226 pp., photos, credits, index)

MEDIA IN AMERICA: THE WILSON QUARTERLY READER edited by Douglas Gomery (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998 [rev. ed.]—$40.00/17.95, ISBN 0–943875–86–2 hard, 0–943875–87–0 paper, 303 pp., index)

THE ADVERTISING AGENCY BUSINESS: THE COMPLETE MANUAL FOR MANAGEMENT &; OPERATION by Eugene J. Hameroff (Lincolnwood, IL: NTC Business Books, 1998 [3rd ed.]—$39.95, ISBN 0–8442–3169‐x, 275 pp., index)

MEDIA MANAGEMENT: A CASEBOOK APPROACH by Ardyth Broadrick Sohn, et al. (Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates “LEA's Communication Series,”; 1998 [2nd ed.]—$39.95, paper, ISBN 0–8058–3026‐X, 383 pp., tables, notes, references, index)

GLOBAL PRODUCTIONS: LABOR IN THE MAKING OF THE “INFORMATION SOCIETY”; edited by Gerald Sussman and John Lent (Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press “Communication Series,”; 1998—$65.00, ISBN 1–57273–171–0, 317 pp., map, charts, tables, references, index)

ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY ECONOMICS: A GUIDE FOR FINANCIAL ANALYSIS by Harold L. Vogel (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998 [4th ed.]—$39.95, ISBN 0–521–59438–3, 490 pp., charts, tables, chapter readings, references, glossary, appendices, index)

MEDIA MERGERS edited by Nancy J. Woodhull and Robert W. Snyder (New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Books “Media Studies Series,”; 1998—price not given, paper, ISBN 0–7658–0409–3, 184 pp., charts, further reading, index)     

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)     

Telecommunications policy

TECHNOLOGY AND PRIVACY: THE NEW LANDSCAPE edited by Philip E. Agre and Marc Rotenberg (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1997—$30.00/15.00, ISBN 0–262–01162‐x hard, 0–262–51101–0 paper, 325 pp., diagrams, notes, index)

PRIVACY IN THE INFORMATION AGE by Fred H. Cate (Washington, DC: Brookings Institution, 1997—prices not given, ISBN 0–8157–1316–9 hard, 0–8157–1315–0 paper, 248 pp., appendices, notes, bibliography, index)

PRIVACY ON THE LINE: THE POLITICS OF WIRETAPPING AND ENCRYPTION by Whitfield Diffie and Susan Landau (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1998—$30.00/15.00, ISBN 0–262–04167–7 hard, 0–262–54100–9 paper, 360 pp., notes, glossary, bibliography, index)

COMPETITION AND COOPERATION: FROM BIOLOGY TO BUSINESS REGULATION by P. H. Longstaff (October 1998—price not given, paper, ISBN 1–879716–51–8, Paper P‐98–4, 58 pp., charts, notes, glossary, bibliography)

UNDERSTANDING THE USE OF ELECTRONIC MONEY: THE MISSING FACTOR IN POLICY by Supriya Singh (November 1998—price not given, paper, ISBN 0–86444–758–2, 25 pp., charts, tables, notes, acronyms)

KNOWLEDGE AS A STRATEGIC BUSINESS RESOURCE by William H. Read (January 1999—price not given, ISBN 1–879716–53–4, 27 pp., tables, notes)

SEMINAR ON INTELLIGENCE, COMMAND, AND CONTROL: GUEST PRESENTATIONS, FALL 1997 (January 1999—price not given, paper, ISBN 1–879716–54–2, 186 pp., diagrams, tables, notes)

THE WORLD WIDE WEB: A MASS COMMUNICATION PERSPECTIVE by Barbara K. Kaye and Norman J. Medoff (Mountain View, CA: Mayfield Publishing, 1999—$24.95, paper, ISBN 0–7674–0030–5, 404 pp., chapter links, references, charts, tables, appendix, glossary, index)

STATE UNIVERSAL FUNDING AND POLICY: AN OVERVIEW AND SURVEY by Edwin A. Rosenberg and John D. Wilhelm (September 1998— price not given, paper, NRRI 98–20, 84 pp., tables, notes, appendix)

QUALITY‐OF‐SERVICE AND MARKET IMPLICATIONS OF ASYMMETRIC STANDARDS IN TELECOMMUNICATIONS by Michael Clements (October 1998—price not given, paper, NRRI 98–24, 32 pp., tables, figure, notes)

A TIME SERIES AND CROSS‐SECTIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF STATE REGULATORY POLICY ADOPTED FOR LOCAL EXCHANGE CARRIERS; DIVESTITURE TO PRESENT (1984–1998) by Jaison R. Abel and Michael E. Clements (December 1998—price not given, paper, NRRI 98–25, 107 pp., tables, references)

A COMPILATION OF “BEST PRACTICES”; TO IMPLEMENT THE TELECOMMUNICATIONS ACT OF 1996 by Bob Rowe and Vivian Witkind Davis (April 1999—price not given, paper, NRRI 99–07, 100 pp.)

DIGITAL CAPITALISM: NETWORKING THE GLOBAL MARKET SYSTEM by Dan Schiller (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1999—$29.95, ISBN 0–262–19417–1, 294 pp., notes, index)     

Foreign communications

JAPANESE CULTURE AND COMMUNICATION: CRITICAL CULTURAL ANALYSIS by Ray T. Donahue (Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1998—$59.00/39.50, ISBN 0–7618–1248–2 hard, 0–7618–1249–0 paper, 377 pp., notes, references, index)

STATISTICAL YEARBOOK: FILM, TELEVISION, VIDEO AND NEW MEDIA IN EUROPE: 1999 EDITION by the European Audiovisual Observatory (Strasbourg, France: European Audiovisual Observatory, 1999— 900ff or about $160, paper, ISBN 92–871–3885–0, 415 pp., tables, charts, notes, bibliography)

MODERN HISTORY OF INDIAN PRESS by Sunit Ghosh (New Delhi: Cosmo Publications, 1998—no price available, ISBN 81–7020–697–9, 394 pp., index)

ASIAN COMMUNICATION HANDBOOK edited by Anura Goonasekera and Duncan Holaday (Singapore: Asian Media Information and Communication Centre and School of Communication Studies, Nanyang Technological University, 1998—$65.00, ISBN 9971–905–65–5, 446 pp.)

PUBLIC PURPOSES IN BROADCASTING: FUNDING THE BBC edited by Andrew Graham (Luton: University of Luton Press, 1999—£10.95, paper, ISBN 1–86020–561–5, 168 pp., tables, index)

TELECOMMUNICATIONS IN AFRICA edited by Eli M. Noam (New York: Oxford University Press “Global Communications,”; 1999—$75.00, ISBN 0–19–510201–0, 306 pp., tables, chapter bibliographies, index)

LIBERALIZING THE EUROPEAN MEDIA: POLITICS REGULATION AND THE PUBLIC SPHERE by Shalini Venturelli (Oxford and New York: Clarendon Press, 1998—£50.00, ISBN 0–19–823379–5, 316 pp., index, bibliography)