Media
Culture Bibliography
February 29, 2000
General: Media and/or Cultural Theory
Boorstin, Daniel J. The Image, or What Happened to the
American Dream. New York: Atheneum, 1962.
Bougnoux, Daniel. Sciences de l’Information et de la Communication. Paris: Larousse, 1993.
---. La Communicaiton contre l’Information. Paris: Hachette, 1995.
Boudieu, Pierre. Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgment of Taste. Cambridge: Harvard.
Curren, James. ed. Cultural Studies and Communication. London: Arnold, 1996.
*Czitrom, Daniel. Media and the American Mind. Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P, 1982.
Eagleton, Terry. The Function of Criticism.
Garber, Marge. Media Spectacles.
Guillory, John. Cultural Capital: the Problem of Canon Formation. Chicago: U of Chicago
Harvey, David. The Condition of Postmodernity.
Jenks, Chris. ed. Visual Culture.
Lazere, Donald. American Media and Mass Culture. Berkeley: U of California P, 1987.
*McLuhan, Marshall.Understanding Media
*The Media is the Massage.
Modleski, Tanya. Studies in Entertainment. Indiana UP,
Mukerji, ed. Rethinking Popular Culture.
Rogers, Everett M. A History of Communication Study: A Biographical Approach. New York: the Free Press, 1994.
Tichi, Cecelia. Shifting Gears: Technology, Literature and Culture in Modern America. Chapel Hill
Twitchell Adcult USA.
Warner, William. "The Resistance to Popular Culture." American Literary History 2:4 (1990): 726-742.
*Benjamin, Walter. The Origin of German Tragic Drama. London: Verso, 1977.
---. Illuminations.
---. Reflections.
*Horkeheimer, Max and Adorno, Theodor W. The Dialectic of Enlightenment. New York: Continuum, 1982.
Jay, Martin. Ed. Frankfurt School
*Debord, Guy. Society of the Spectacle.
Miller, Mark Crispin. Boxed In: Chicago: Northwestern UP,
Weber, Sam. Mass Mediaurus: Form Technics Media. Stanford: Stanford UP, 1996.
Inglis, Fred. Media Theory: an Introduction. Basil Blackwell: Oxford, 1990.
Hebdige, Dick. Subculture.
McCabe, Colin. ed. High Theory/ Low Culture. St. Martin’s Press
*Morley, David. and Chen, Kuan-Hsing. Ed. Stuart Hall. London: Routledge, 1996.
Ross, Andrew. No Respect: Intellectuals and Popular Culture. New York: Routledge, 1989.
Eisenstein, Elizabeth. The Printing Revolution in Early Modern Europe.
Kernan, Alvin. Samuel Johnson & the Impact of Print. Princeton: Princeton U P., 1987. McLuhan, Marshall. The Gutenberg Galaxy: the Making of Typographic Man. Toronto: U of Toronto P., 1962.
Radway, Jancie A. Reading the Romance: Women, Patriaarchy, and Popular Literature. Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P, 1984.
Rose, Mark. Authors and Owners: the Invention of Copyright. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1993.
Warner, Michael. Letters of the Republic: Publication and the Public Sphere in Eighteenth Century America. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1990.
Warner, William. Licensing Entertainment: the Elevation of Novel Reading in Britain 1684-1750. Berkeley: U of California Pr., 1998.
Johns, Adrian. The Nature of the Book.
Film
Charney, Leo. and Schwartz, Vanessa R. Cinema and the Invention of Modern Life. Berkeley: U of California P, 1995.
*Gunning, Tom. D.W. Griffith and the Origins of American Narrative Film. Chicago: Chicago UP, 1994.
Hansen, Miriam. Babel and Babylon: Spectatorship in American Silent Film. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1991.
Heath, Stephen. Questions of Cinema.
Mast, Gerald. and Kawin, Bruce F. A Short History of the Movies. Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 1996. 6th Edition.
Warner, William. “Spectacular Action: Rambo and the Popular Pleasures of Pain.” In Cultural Studies. Ed. Lawrence Grossberg, Cary Nelson, Paula A. Treichler. New York: Routledge, 1992.
McCabe, Colin. Godard: Images, Sound, Politics. Indiana UP
Television
Allen, Channels of Discourse
*Miller, Mark. Boxed In: the Culture of TV. Chicago: Northwestern UP, 1988.
Tanam Transmission: Theory and Practice for a New Television Aesthetics.
Williams, Raymond. Television: Technology and Cultural Form.
Free Speech and
Censorship
Arendt, Hannah. On Revolution.
Bailyn, Bernard. The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution.
Barbrook, Richard. Media Freedom.
Burt, The Administration of Aesthetics.
---. Licensed by Authority.
Fish, Stanley. There is no such thing as free speech and it’s a good thing too.
Graber Transforming Free Speech.
Hentoff, Nat. Free Speech for Me—But Not for Thee.
MacKinnon, Catharine Anne. Only Words.
Tribe, Laurence H. A Reading of the Constitution. Harvard.
Tully, James. An Approach to Political Philsophy: Locke in Contexts.
Vance, Pleasure and Danger
Internet/ WWW (see Alan Liu’s syllabus)
Murray, Janet. Hamlet and the Holideck.
Johnson, Stephen. Interface Culture.