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THE WORLD ACCORDING TO TELEVISION

COURSE BIBLIOGRAPHY

Adoni, Hanna, and Sherrill Mane. “Media and the Construction of Reality: Toward an Integration of Theory and Research.” Communication Research 11 (July 1984): 323-340.

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.

Arlen, Michael. The Camera Age. Farrar Straus Giroux, 1981.

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.

Berger, Arthur Asa. Seeing Is Believing: An Introduction to Visual Communication, 2nd ed. Mayfield, 1998.

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

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

Ericson, Richard, Patricia Baranek, and Janet Chan. “Visualizing the News.” Communication Studies: An Introductory Reader, 4th ed. Ed. John Corner and Jeremy Hawthorn. Routledge, Chapman and Hall, 1994.

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

Fiske, John, and John Hartley. Reading Television. Routledge, 1978.

Fox, Roy F., ed. Images in Language, Media, and Mind. National Council of Teachers of English, 1994.

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.

Grady, Barbara Kretzinger. “What Is TV’s ‘Reality’ Doing to Students’ Perception of the Real World?” Et cetera 39 (Summer 1982): 151-158.

Hagen, Charles. “The Photo Op: Making Icons or Playing Politics?” The New York Times, 9 February 1992, Section 2: 1, 28.

--------. “The Power of a Video Image Depends on the Caption.” The New York Times, 10 May 1992, Section 2: 32.

Hartley, John. Uses of Television. Routledge, 1999.

Huston, Aletha C., Edward Donnerstein, Halford Fairchild, Norma D. Feshbach, Phyllis A. Katz, John P. Murray, Eli A. Rubenstein, Brian IL. Wilcox, Diana Zuckerman, eds. Big World Small Screen: The Role of Television in American Society. University of Nebraska Press, 1992.

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.

McChesney, Robert W. Rich Media, Poor Democracy. U of Illinois Press, 1999.

Messaris, Paul. Visual Literacy: Image, Mind, & Reality. Westview, 1994.

Newcomb, Horace, ed. Television The Critical View, 6th ed. Oxford U Press, 2000.

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.

Rock, Irvin. Perception. Scientific American Library, 1995.

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.

Tomlinson, Don E. Computer Manipulation and Creation of Images and Sound: Assessing the Impact. The Annenberg Washington Program, 1993.

Winston, Brian. Media Technology and Society A History: From the Telegraph to the Internet. Routledge, 1998.