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.

 

Frankfurt School

*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.

 

 

Birmingham Cultural Studies of Media

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.

 

Print

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.