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Books for Book Review

 

Alterman, Eric. What Liberal Media? The Truth About Bias and the News. Basic Books, 2003.

Anderson, Walter Truett. Reality Isn’t What It Used to Be. Harper & Row, 1990.

Bagdikian, Ben H. The Media Monopoly, 6th ed., Beacon Press, 2000.

Baker, William, and George Dessart. Down the Tube: An Inside Account of the Failure of
American Television. Basic Books, 1998.

Bennett, W. Lance. News: The Politics of Illusion, 5th ed. Longman, 2003.

Bianculli, David. Teleliteracy: Taking Television Seriously. Continuum, 1992.

Boorstin, Daniel J. The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America. Vintage, 1961.

Fallows, James. Breaking the News: How the Media Undermine American Democracy. Pantheon,
1996.

Gabler, Neal. Life the Movie: How Entertainment Conquered Reality. Knopf, 1998.

Gitlin, Todd. Media Unlimited: How the Torrent of Images and Sounds Overwhelms Our Lives.
Metropolitan Books, 2001.

Jamieson, Kathleen Hall, and Paul Waldman. The Press Effect: Politicians, Journalists, and the
Stories That Shape the Political World. Oxford, 2003.

Kilbourne, Jean. Can’t Buy My Love: How Advertising Changes the Way We think and Feel.
Touchstone, 1999.

Lacey, Nick. Image and Representation. St. Martin’s Press, 1998.

Neuman, Johanna. Lights, Camera, War: Is Media Technology Driving International Politics?
St. Martin’s, 1996.

Paulos, John. A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper. Basic Books, 1995.

Postman, Neil. Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology. Knopf, 1992.

Schechter, Danny. The More You Watch the Less You Know. Seven Stories Press, 1997.

Scheuer, Jeffrey. The Sound Bite Society: Television and the American Mind. Four Walls Eight
Windows, 1999.

Streitmatter, Rodger. Mightier Than the Sword: How the News Media Have Shaped American
History. Westview, 1997.