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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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This page last updated June 06, 2006.