A Selected Bibliography for COMM 2302
This bibliography lists books and journal articles addressing various theories, often
in the context of media analysis. The book titles should be available through Quest,
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NETWORK TELEVISION AND AMERICAN SOCIETY: Introduction to a Critical
Theory of Television. By: Kellner, Douglas. Theory & Society, Jan81, Vol. 10 Issue 1,
p31
JSTOR
Channels of discourse, reassembled : television and contemporary criticism / edited by
Robert C. Allen. PN1992.8.C7 C48 1992
Critical approaches to television / Leah R. Vande Berg, Lawrence A. Wenner, Bruce E.
Gronbeck. PN1992.8.C7 V36 1998
Cultural Studies: Theory and Practice / Chris Barker
Literacy in the new media age / Gunther Kress.
Media analysis techniques / Arthur Asa Berger.
Media and cultural studies : keyworks / edited by Meenakshi Gigi Durham and Douglas
M. Kellner. P94.6 .M424 2001
Media and society : a critical perspective / Arthur Asa Berger.
The sitcom reader : America viewed and skewed / edited by Mary M. Dalton and Laura
R. Linder. NEW BOOK
Televisuality : style, crisis, and authority in American television / John Thornton
Caldwell.
PN1992.6 .C22 1995
Studying the media : an introduction / Tim O'Sullivan, Brian Dutton, Philip Rayner.
P90 .O84 2003
Television : the critical view / edited by Horace Newcomb. 6th Ed. ORDER
Theory Trading Cards / David Gauntlett ON ORDER
Media semiotics : an introduction / Jonathan Bignell. P91 .B54 1997
Web Studies / Edited by David Gauntlett and Ross Horsley
Postmodern Theory:
Postmodern education : politics, culture, and social criticism / Stanley Aronowitz and
Henry A. Giroux. LA209.2 .A78 1991
Postmodern theory : critical interrogations / Steven Best, Douglas Kellner. PN98.P67 B1
The portable postmodernist / Arthur Asa Berger B831.2 .B465 2003
“Postmodernism and television,” by Jim Collins, in
Channels of discourse, reassembled : television and contemporary criticism / edited by
Robert C. Allen. PN1992.8.C7 C48 1992
The saturated self : dilemmas of identity in contemporary life / Kenneth J. Gergen.
The sitcom reader : America viewed and skewed / edited by Mary M. Dalton and Laura
R. Linder. NEW BOOK
BF697 .G39 1991
Postmodernism, or, The cultural logic of late capitalism / Fredric Jameson. PN98.P67 J3
1991
Media culture : cultural studies, identity, and politics between the modern and the
postmodern / Douglas Kellner. P92.U5 K38 1995
Prime-time families : television culture in postwar America / Ella Taylor.
Studies in entertainment : critical approaches to mass culture / edited by Tania Modleski.
P96.C76 S78 1986
Feminism/postmodernism / edited and with an introduction by Linda J. Nicholson.
HQ1206 .F453 1990
Living room wars: rethinking media audiences for a postmodern world / Ien Ang.
P96.A83 A54 1996
We gotta get out of this place : popular conservatism and postmodern culture / Lawrence
Grossberg. E169.04 .G757 1992
Television, audiences, and cultural studies / David Morley. PN1992.55 .M65 1992
Home territories : media, mobility and identity / David Morley. HM1206 .M67 2000
Television families : is something wrong in suburbia? / William Douglas. HQ520 .D68
2003
Children, teens, families, and mass media : the millennial generation / Rose M. Kundanis.
Narrative/Genre Theory
“Genre Study and Television” by Jane Feuer, in
Channels of discourse : television and contemporary criticism / edited by Robert C.
Allen. PN1992.8.C7 C48 1987
Feuer, Jane. "Narrative Form in American Network Television." in
High theory/low culture : analysing popular television and film / Colin MacCabe, editor.
Kozloff, Sarah. "Narrative Theory and Television." in
Channels of discourse, reassembled : television and contemporary criticism / edited by
Robert C. Allen. PN1992.8.C7 C48 1992
Jaglom, Leona M & Howard Gardner (1981a): ‘Decoding the worlds of television’,
Studies in Visual Communication 7(1): 33-47
ILL
Story and discourse : narrative structure in fiction and film / by Seymour Chatman.
NX650.N37 C45
Television culture : popular pleasures and politics / John Fiske. PN1992.6 .F57 1987
The sitcom reader : America viewed and skewed / edited by Mary M. Dalton and Laura
R. Linder. NEW BOOK
Reading television / [by] John Fiske and John Hartley. PN1992.55 .F5
Porter, Michael J. "The Structure of Television Narratives." in
Critical approaches to television / Leah R. Vande Berg, Lawrence A. Wenner, Bruce E.
Gronbeck. PN1992.8.C7 V36 1998
Porter, Michael J.; Larson, Deborah L.; Harthcock, Allison ; Nellis, Kelly Berg
“Re(de)fining Narrative Events: Examining Television Narrative Structure.” Journal of
Popular Film & Television; Spring2002, Vol. 30 Issue
1, p23, 8p
Communication and Mass Media Complete
Green, M. C.; Brock, T. C.; Kaufman, G. F. “Understanding media enjoyment: The role
of transportation into narrative worlds” Communication Theory, vol. 14, no. 4, pp. 311327, 2004
Publisher, through TDNet
Children talking television : the making of television literacy / by David Buckingham.
HQ784.T4 B83 1993
Corner, John (1991): 'Meaning, genre and context: the problematics of "public
knowledge" in the new audience studies'. in
Mass media and society / edited by James Curran and Michael Gurevitch. HM258
.M26578 1996
Watching America / S. Robert Lichter, Linda S. Lichter, Stanley Rothman ; with the
assistance of Daniel Amundson. PN1992.3.U5 L5 1991
Making sense of television : the psychology of audience interpretation / Sonia M.
Livingstone. PN1992.6 .L56 1990
Neale, Stephen ([1990] 1995): 'Questions of genre' in
Approaches to media : a reader / edited by Oliver Boyd-Barrett and Chris Newbold.
Key concepts in communication and cultural studies / Tim O'Sullivan ... [et al.].
P90 .K457 1994
Visible fictions : cinema, television, video / John Ellis. PN1995 .E57 1992
Narrative and genre : key concepts in media studies / Nick Lacey. P302.7 .L335 2000
Feminist television criticism : a reader / edited by Charlotte Brunsdon, Julie D'Acci and
Lynn Spigel. PN1992.8.C7 F444 1997
Chapter 1: 'Marxism and Mass Communication Research' in
Understanding media cultures : social theory and mass communication / Nick Stevenson.
HM1206 .S7415 2002
“Gendered Telvision: Feminitity,” by John Fiske, in
Gender, race, and class in media : a text-reader / Gail Dines, Jean M. Humez, editors.
P94.65.U6 G46 2003
Living color : race and television in the United States / edited by Sasha Torres.
PN1992.8.M54 L58 1998
Television Drama: Theories and Identities / Sue Thornham ON ORDER
Chapters 1 & 2 of
Culture industry / Heinz Steinert ; translated by Sally-Ann Spencer. HM1206 .S7413 20
Suppression of story character goals during reading Linderholm, T. Discourse Processes,
vol. 37, no. 1, pp. 67-78, 2004
Academic Search Premier
Gender/Feminist Theory
Cracks in the pedestal : ideology and gender in Hollywood / Philip Green. PN1995.9.W6
Women and American television : an encyclopedia / Denise Lowe. PN1992.8.W65 L69 1
Gender, race, and class in media : a text-reader / Gail Dines, Jean M. Humez, editors.
P94.65.U6 G46 2003
Athena's Daughters: Television's New Women Warriors
Feminist television criticism : a reader / edited by Charlotte Brunsdon, Julie D'Acci and
Lynn Spigel. PN1992.8.C7 F444 1997
Feminism/postmodernism / edited and with an introduction by Linda J. Nicholson.
HQ1206 .F453 1990
Media, Gender, and Identity / David Gauntlett
Passionate Detachments: An Introduction to Feminist Film Theory / Thornham, Sue ON
ORDER
The sitcom reader : America viewed and skewed / edited by Mary M. Dalton and Laura
R. Linder. NEW BOOK
Women and American television : an encyclopedia / Denise Lowe. PN1992.8.W65 L69
1999
Steeves, H. L.; Smith, M. C. “Class and gender in prime time television entertainment:
observations from a socialist feminist perspective”
Journal of Communication Inquiry, vol. 11, no. 1, pp. 43-63, Winter 1987
ILL
Television, History, and American Culture: Feminist Critical Essays / Mary Beth
Haralovich ON ORDER
“Gender in Television” in
TV living : television, culture, and everyday life / David Gauntlett and Annette Hill.
PN1992.55 .G38 1999
Valaskivi, K. Being a part of the family? Genre, gender and production in a Japanese
TV drama Media, Culture & Society, vol. 22, no. 3, pp. 309-325, May 2000
HM258 .M3718
Ideology/Marxist Theory:
"Culture, the Media, and the 'Ideological Effect'." Mass
Communication and Society. Ed. James Curran, Michael Gurevich, and Janet
Woollacott. Beverly Hills: Sage, 1979. 315-48. HM258 .M2657 1979
White, Mimi (1992): 'Ideological Analysis and Television'. In
Channels of discourse, reassembled : television and contemporary criticism / edited by
Robert C. Allen. PN1992.8.C7 C48 1992
Gray, Jennifer B. (2005) “Althusser, Ideology, and Theoretical Foundations: Theory and
Communication” Journal of New Media & Culture Winter 2005 Vol. 3 Number 1 online
at: http://www.ibiblio.org/nmediac/winter2004/gray.html
Ideology / David McLellan JA83 .M35 1995
“The Ideology of the Visual” in Exploring the Visual / edited by Matthew Rampley
“Ideology” in
Visual culture / Richard Howells LB1068 .H69 2003
Chapters 1 &2 in
Media and cultural studies : keyworks / edited by Meenakshi Gigi Durham and Douglas
M. Kellner P94.6 .M424 2001
Chapter 1: 'Marxism and Mass Communication Research' in
Understanding media cultures : social theory and mass communication / Nick Stevenson.
HM1206 .S7415 2002
“Hegemony,” by James Lull, in
Gender, race, and class in media : a text-reader / Gail Dines, Jean M. Humez, editors.
P94.65.U6 G46 2003
Corcoran, F. “Television as ideological apparatus: the power and the pleasure”
Critical Studies in Mass Communication, vol. 1, no. 2, pp. 131-145, June 1984
Communication and Mass Media Complete
Gans, Herbert J. Hollywood Entertainment: Commerce or Ideology? Social Science
Quarterly (University of Texas Press), Mar93, Vol. 74 Issue 1, p150
CMMC
(On consumerism as pop culture ideology) Stromberg, Peter. Elvis Alive?: The ideology
of American Consumerism. Journal of Popular Culture, Winter90, Vol. 24 Issue 3, p11
CMMC
Nervous laughter : television situation comedy and liberal democratic ideology / Darrell
Y. Hamamoto. PN1992.8.C66 H3 1989
Psychoanalytic Theory
Chapter 3 “Psychoanalytic Criticism” in
Media analysis techniques / Arthur Asa Berger.
Chapter 2 “Psychoanalytic Theories: Texts, Readers, and Subjects” in
Television, audiences, and cultural studies / David Morley.
Chapter 6 “Psychoanalysis, Film and Television” in
Channels of discourse, reassembled : television and contemporary criticism / edited by
Robert C. Allen. PN1992.8.C7 C48 1992
Chapter 5 “Psychoanalysis in
Literary theory : an introduction/Terry Eagleton
New Media & Web pages
Chapter 3 “Visuals” in Multimedia / Anne Cranny-Francis
(On ideologies influencing personal webpage design) Killoran, John B. “Under
Constriction: Colonization and Synthetic Institutionalization of Web Space.”
Computers and Composition 19.1 (April 2002): 19-37.
ILL
Visual Methodologies: An Introduction to the Interpretation of Visual
Materials / Rose, Gillian ON ORDER
(On the role of words, images, and notation in visual media) Chapter 6:
“Problems of Classification” in The Domain of Images / Elkins, James
“The Ideology of the Visual” in Exploring the Visual / edited by Matthew Rampley
Web Studies / Edited by David Gauntlett and Ross Horsley
Journal Articles (These titles are also listed in the categories above):
Linderholm, T. “Suppression of story character goals during reading” Discourse
Processes, vol. 37, no. 1, pp. 67-78, 2004
Academic Search Premier
Valaskivi, K “Being a part of the family? Genre, gender and production in a Japanese
TV drama”. Media, Culture & Society, vol. 22, no. 3, pp. 309-325, May 2000
HM258 .M3718
Steeves, H. L.; Smith, M. C. “Class and gender in prime time television entertainment:
observations from a socialist feminist perspective”
Journal of Communication Inquiry, vol. 11, no. 1, pp. 43-63, Winter 1987
ILL
Corcoran, F. “Television as ideological apparatus: the power and the pleasure”
Critical Studies in Mass Communication, vol. 1, no. 2, pp. 131-145, June 1984
Communication and Mass Media Complete
Porter, Michael J.; Larson, Deborah L.; Harthcock, Allison ; Nellis, Kelly Berg
Re(de)fining Narrative Events: Examining Television Narrative Structure. Journal of
Popular Film & Television; Spring2002, Vol. 30 Issue
1, p23, 8p
Communication and Mass Media Complete
Jaglom, Leona M & Howard Gardner (1981a): ‘Decoding the worlds of television’,
Studies in Visual Communication 7(1): 33-47
ILL
Green, M. C.; Brock, T. C.; Kaufman, G. F. “Understanding media enjoyment: The role
of transportation into narrative worlds” Communication Theory, vol. 14, no. 4, pp. 311327, 2004
Publisher, through TDNet
Gans, Herbert J.. Hollywood Entertainment: Commerce or Ideology? Social Science
Quarterly (University of Texas Press), Mar93, Vol. 74 Issue 1, p150
CMMC
Stromberg, Peter. (On consumerism as pop culture ideology) Elvis Alive?: The ideology
of American Consumerism. Journal of Popular Culture, Winter90, Vol. 24 Issue 3, p11
CMMC
Kellner, Douglas. NETWORK TELEVISION AND AMERICAN SOCIETY:
Introduction to a Critical Theory of Television. Theory & Society, Jan81, Vol. 10 Issue 1,
p31
JSTOR