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MASS COM - BOOK LIST Effects of mass media/culture Carnival Culture: The Thrashing of Taste in America by James B. Twitcvhell Defending Pornography: Free Speech, Sex, and the Fight for Women’s Rights by Nadine Strossen Media Sex: What Are the Issues? by Barrie Gunter The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women by Naomi Wolf Public Opinion by Walter Lippmann Images That Injure: Pictorial Stereotypes in the Media by Paul Martin Lester and Susan Dente Ross Feeding Frenzy: How Attack Journalism Has Transformed American Politics by Larry Sabato Life the Movie: How Entertainment Conquered Reality by Neal Gabler
Radio/recording industry To Be Loved: the Music, the Magic, the Memories of Motown by Berry Gordy Rocking America: An Insider’s Story: How the All-Hit Radio Stations Took Over by Rick Sklar Motown: Music, Money, Sex, and Power by Gerald Posner Music Man: Ahmet Ertegun, Atlantic Records, and the Triumph of Rock'N'Roll by Dorothy Wade, Justine Picardie Hit Men: Power Brokers & Fast Money Inside the Music Business. by Fredric Dannen Life and Def: Sex, Drugs, Money, + God by Russell Simmons Exploding : The Highs, Hits, Hype, Heroes, and Hustlers of the Warner Music Group by Stan Cornyn, Paul Scanlon Spinning Blues into Gold : The Chess Brothers and the Legendary Chess Records by Nadine Cohodas Young, Gifted, and Black: The Story of Trojan Records by Michael De Koningh, Laurence Cane-Honeysett R&B (Rhythm and Business): The Political Economy of Black Music by Norman Kelley What'd I Say: The Atlantic Story by Ahmet Ertegun This Business of Music by Shemel and Krasilovsky Tarnished Gold: The Record Industry Revisited by R. Serge Denisoff Future of the Music Industry: Will the Major Music Labels Survive the Digital Age? by Alan Greenblatt Controversies of the Music Industry by Richard D. Barnet and Larry L. Burriss Structure of the Popular Music Industry by Paul Hirsch FM: The Rise and Fall of Rock Radio by Richard Neer The Late Great Johnny Ace and the Transition from R&B to Rock ‘N’ Roll by James M. Salem Golden Voices of Football by Ted Patterson David Sarnoff: A Biography by E. Lyons
Television Nightline by Ted Koppel and Kyle Gibson Ladies of the Evening: Women Characters of Prime-Time Television by Waiting for Prime Time: The Women of Television News by Marlene Sanders and Marcia Rock Blacks and White TV: Afro-Americans in Television Since 1948 by J. Fred MacDonald David Sarnoff: A Biography by E. Lyons Walter Cronkite: His Life and Times by Doug James Due to Circumstances Beyond Our Control by Fred Friendly Prime Time: The Life of Edward R. Murrow by Alexander Kendrick Political Television: Minority and Media by Bernard Rubin The Camera Never Blinks by Dan Rather Special: Fred Friendly and the Television Documentary by David Yellin Skywriting: A Life Out of the Blue by Jane Pauley Live From New York: An Uncensored History of Saturday Night Live, as Told By Its Stars, Writers and Guests by James A. Miller, Tom Shales Crazy Like a Fox: The Inside Story of How Fox News Beat CNN by Scott Collins The Control Room: How Television Calls the Shots in Presidential Elections by Martin Plissner News Flash: Journalism, Infotainment and the Bottom-Line Business of Broadcast News by Bonnie Anderson Roone: A Memoir by Roone Arledge ESPN: The Uncensored History by Michael Freeman Primetime Blues: African Americans on Network Television by Donald Bogle How Television Sees Its Audience: A Look at the Looking Glass by Ronald Berman Soap Opera Paradigm: Television Programming and Programming Priorities by James H. Wittebols Cameras in the Courtroom: Television and the Pursuit of Justice by Marjorie Cohn and David Dow Mediaspeak: How Television Makes Up Your Mind by Donna Woolfolk Cross Golden Voices of Football by Ted Patterson
Film Down and Dirty Pictures : Miramax, Sundance, and the Rise of Independent Film by Peter Biskind Movie-Made America: A Cultural History of American Movies by Robert Sklar How to Read a Film: The World of Movies, Media, and Multimedia: Language, History, Theory by James Monaco Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex-Drugs-and-Rock 'N' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood by Peter Biskind Toms, Coons, Mulattoes, Mammies & Bucks: An Interpretive History of Blacks in American Films by Donald Bogle Framing Blackness: The African American Image in Film (Culture and the Moving Image) by Ed Guerrero Reel Bad Arabs: How Hollywood Vilifies a People by Jack G. Shaheen Movie Ratings: Is Hollywood’s Rating System Too Lenient? by Brian Hansen Breaking Through, Selling Out, Dropping Dead by William Bayer
Newspapers/print news Sportswriter: The Life and Times of Grantland Rice by Charles Fountain Deep Truth: The Lives of Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein by Adrian Havill Paper Tigers: The Latest, Greatest Newspaper Tycoons and How They Won by Nicholas Coleridge The Man Who Made News: A Biography of James Gordon Bennett by Oliver Carlson Freedom’s Champion – Elijah Lovejoy by Paul Simon Nitty Gritty: A White Editor in Black Journalism by Ben Burns If No News, Send Rumors: Anecdotes of American Journalism by Stephen Bates Down to the Wire: UPI’s Fight for Survival by Gregory Gordon Talking Their Place: A Documentary History of Women in Journalism by Maurine Beasley Livin’ the Blues: Memories of a Black Journalist and Poet by Frank M. Davis Citizen Hearst by WA Swanberg Censored: The News That Didn’t Make the News – and Why by Carl Jensen Joseph Pulitzer and His World by George Juergens The Life and Good Times of William Randolph Hearst by John Tebbel A Day in the Life of the New York Times by Ruth Adler The Black Press: USA by R. Wolseley Scooped!: Media Miss Real Story on Crime While Chasing Sex, Sleaze, & Celebrities by David J. Krajicek Slick Spins and Fractured Facts: How Cultural Myths Distort the News by Carl Rivers Yellow Journalism: Puncturing the Myths. Defining the Legacies by W. Joseph Campbell Muckraking! The Journalism that Changed America by Judith and William Serrin Race in the News by Ian Law My Life and the Times by Turner Catledge Risks Worth Taking: Odyssey of a Foreign Correspondent by Bernard S. Redmont Newhouse: All the Glitter, Power and Glory of America’s Richest Media Empire by Thomas Maier
Magazines For Enquiring Minds: A Cultural Study of Supermarket Tabloids by Elizabeth Bird Magazines that Make History: Their Origins, Development, and Influence by Norberto Angeletti Muckraking! The Journalism that Changed America by Judith and William Serrin American Women’s Magazines : an Annotated Historical Guide by Nancy K. Humphreys Succeeding Against the Odds by John H. Johnson and Lerone Bennett, Jr. Ladies’ Pages : African American Women’s Magazines and the Culture That Made Them by Noliwe M. Rooks
Advertising Confessions of an Advertising Man by David Ogilvy My First 65 Years in Advertsing by Maxwell Sackheim Blood, Brains & Beer: The Autobiography of David Ogilvy by David Ogilvy Aunt Jemima, Uncle Ben, and Rastus: Blacks in Advertising, Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow by Marilyn Kern-Foxworth Advertising Censorship by Lawrence Soley Fables, Fashions, and Facts about Advertising: A Study of 28 Enduring Myths by John Phillip Jones The Fight for Truth in Advertising by H.J. Kenner Controversies in Contemporary Advertising by Kim Bartel Sheehan Subliminal Seduction by WO Key Through Many Windows by Helen Woodward Effective Advertising : Understanding When, How, and Why Advertising Works by Gerard J. Tellis The Ultimate Secrets of Advertising by John Philip Jones
Internet/new media All the Rave: The Rise and Fall of Shawn Fanning's Napster by Joseph Menn I Sing the Body Electronic : A Year with Microsoft on the Multimedia Frontier by Fred Moody Internet Piracy ed. by James D. Torr New Media and Popular Imagination: Launching Radio, Television, and Digital Media in the United States by William Boddy Future of the Music Industry: Will the Major Music Labels Survive the Digital Age? by Alan Greenblatt
General media Invisible Crises : What Conglomerate Control of Media Means for America and the World edited by George Gerbner, Hamid Mowlana, and Herbert I. Schiller The Operator: David Geffen Builds, Buys, and Sells the New Hollywood by Tom King Losing My Virginity : How I've Survived, Had Fun, and Made a Fortune Doing Business My Way by Richard Branson When MBAs Rule the Newsroom: How the Marketers and Managers Are Reshaping Today’s Media by Doug Underwood Making It in the Media Professions: A Realistic Career Guide to Career by Leonard Mogel To the End of Time: The Seduction and Conquest of a Media Empire by Richard M. Clurman |
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