Hi everyone,
Maybe this thread has passed on, but I thought folks might like to see the
texts that I'm using in my Master's Level TV Criticism class for the Spring
(may also supplement these with a few other articles):
Spring 2000 COMM 5424 MEDIA CRITICISM
Title: Television : The Critical View
Author: Horace Newcomb (Editor)
Paperback - SIXTH Edition (1999 or 2000)
Oxford Univ Press; ISBN: 0195119274
(This new edition has not yet been published, but hopefully will be before
the semester starts (GULP)).
Title: Critical Ideas in Television Studies
Author: John Corner
Paperback -- First Edition (1999)
Oxford Univ. Press; ISBN: 0198742207
Title: Comic Visions: Television Comedy and American Culture
Author: David Marc
Paperback -- SECOND edition (1997)
Blackwell Pub; ISBN: 1577180038
Title: Freaks Talk Back: Tabloid Talk Shows and Sexual Nonconformity
Author: Joshua Gamson
Paperback -- First Edition (1998)
University of Chicago Press; ISBN: 0226280659
Take care!
Matt McAllister e-mail: [log in to unmask]
Department of Communication Studies, Virginia Tech
Blacksburg, VA 24061-0311 USA ph: 540-231-9830 fax: 540-231-9817
Department of Communication Studies at Virginia Tech Seminar Series:
http://www.comm.vt.edu/1999/department/seminar/fall99.html
Popular Communication Division of ICA:
http://www.comm.vt.edu/icapopcomm/
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