The Index: Media Studies

Media Studies

~~A Reading List~~

[Click on the name to link to my review.]

Media and Cultural Studies

BOOKSTop of Form

XX Benjamin, Walter, “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction." From Benjamin and Hannah Arendt. Illuminations. New York: Schocken Books, 1986.

XX Ellis, John. Visible Fictions: Cinema, Television, Video. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1982.

XX Fiske, John. Understanding Popular Culture. Boston: Unwin Hyman, 1989.

XX Jenkins, Henry. Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide. New York: New York University Press, 2006.

XX McRobbie, Angela. Postmodernism and Popular Culture. London: Routledge, 1994.

XX Nye, Russel B. The Unembarrassed Muse: The Popular Arts in America. New York: Dial Press, 1970.

XX Rosenberg, Bernard, and David Manning White. Mass Culture: The Popular Arts in America. New York: Free Press, 1964.

XX Seldes, Gilbert. The Public Arts. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1956.

XX Storey, John. Cultural Studies and the Study of Popular Culture. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2010.

XX Warshow, Robert. The Immediate Experience; Movies, Comics, Theatre & Other Aspects of Popular Culture. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1962.

ESSAYS

XX Althusser, Louis. “Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses.” http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/althusser/1970/ideology.htm

XX Barthes, Roland. “(i) Operation Margarine; (ii) Myth Today.” From Durham, Meenakshi Gigi, and Douglas Kellner. Media and Cultural Studies: Keyworks. Malden, Mass: Blackwell Publishers, 2001, 99-106.

XX Habermas, Jurgen. “The Public Sphere: An Encyclopedia Article.” From Durham, Meenakshi Gigi, and Douglas Kellner. Media and Cultural Studies: Keyworks. Malden, Mass: Blackwell Publishers, 2001, 73-78.

XX Hall, Stuart. “Encoding/Decoding.” From Durham, Meenakshi Gigi, and Douglas Kellner. Media and Cultural Studies: Keyworks. Malden, Mass: Blackwell Publishers, 2001, 163-173.

XX McLuhan, Marshall. “The Medium is the Message.” From Durham, Meenakshi Gigi, and Douglas Kellner. Media and Cultural Studies: Keyworks. Malden, Mass: Blackwell Publishers, 2001, 107-117.

XX Poster, Mark. “Postmodern Virtualities.” From Durham, Meenakshi Gigi, and Douglas Kellner. Media and Cultural Studies: Keyworks. Malden, Mass: Blackwell Publishers, 2001, 533-548.

Film

BOOKS

XX Arnheim, Rudolf. Film As Art. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1966.

XX Braudy, Leo. The World in a Frame: What We See in Films. Garden City, N.Y.: Anchor Press, 1976.

XX hooks, bell. Reel to Real: Race, Class and Sex at the Movies. New York: Routledge, 2009.

XX Kracauer, Siegfried. Theory of Film; The Redemption of Physical Reality. New York: Oxford University Press, 1960.

XX Mast, Gerald. Film/Cinema/Movie: A Theory of Experience. New York: Harper & Row, 1977.

XX Mast, Gerald, and Bruce F. Kawin. A Short History of the Movies. Boston: Longman, 2011.

XX Schatz, Thomas. Hollywood Genres: Formulas, Filmmaking, and the Studio System. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1981.

ESSAYS

XX Dyer, Richard. “Stereotyping.” From Gays and Film. New York: Zoetrope, 1984.

XX Gunning, Tom. “Narrative Discourse and the Narrator System.” From Braudy, Leo, and Marshall Cohen. Film Theory and Criticism: Introductory Readings. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999, 470-481.

XX Mulvey, Laura. “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema.” From Braudy, Leo, and Marshall Cohen. Film Theory and Criticism: Introductory Readings. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999, 837-848.

XX Thompson, Kristin. “The Concept of Cinematic Excess.” From Braudy, Leo, and Marshall Cohen. Film Theory and Criticism: Introductory Readings. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999, 513-524.

XX Williams, Linda. “Film Bodies: Gender, Genre, and Excess.” From Braudy, Leo, and Marshall Cohen. Film Theory and Criticism: Introductory Readings. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999, 727-741.

Television

BOOKS

XX Allen, Robert Clyde. Channels of Discourse, Reassembled: Television and Contemporary Criticism. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1992.

XX Boddy, William. Fifties Television: The Industry and Its Critics. Illinois studies in communications. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990.

XX Burns, Gary, and Robert J. Thompson. Television Studies: Textual Analysis. New York: Praeger, 1989.

XX Castleman, Harry, and Walter J. Podrazik. Watching TV: Six Decades of American Television. Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, 2003.

XX Comstock, George A., and Erica Scharrer. Television: What's on, Who's Watching, and What It Means. San Diego: Academic Press, 1999.

XX Feuer, Jane. Seeing Through the Eighties: Television and Reaganism. Console-ing passions. Durham: Duke University Press, 1995.

XX Fiske, John, and John Hartley. Reading Television. London: Routledge, 2005.

XX Lotz, Amanda D. The Television Will Be Revolutionized. New York: New York University Press, 2007.

XX MacDonald, J. Fred. One Nation Under Television: The Rise and Decline of Network TV. New York: Pantheon Books, 1990. http://jfredmacdonald.com/onutv/index.htm

XX McCabe, Janet, and Kim Akass. Quality TV: Contemporary American Television and Beyond. London: I.B. Tauris, 2007.

XX Newcomb, Horace. TV: The Most Popular Art. Garden City, N.Y.: Anchor Press, 1974.

XX Thompson, Robert J. Television's Second Golden Age. New York: Continuum, 1996.

XX Watson, Mary Ann. Defining Visions: Television and the American Experience in the 20th Century. Malden, MA: Blackwell Pub, 2008.

ESSAYS

XX Mittell, Jason. 2001. "A Cultural Approach to Television Genre Theory". Cinema Journal. 40, no. 3: 3-24.