These titles are not law related, but I think they would provide a well-rounded introduction to TV. -chad Butler, Jeremy. Television: Critical Methods and Applications. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Publishers, 2002. Casey, Bernadette, et al. Television Studies: The Key Concepts. London: Routledge, 2002. Corner, John. Critical Ideas in Television Studies. Oxford Television Studies. Eds. Charlotte Brundson and John Caughie. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1999. Ellis, John. Visible Fictions. Revised ed. London: Routledge, 1992. Fiske, John. Television Culture. London: Routledge, 1987. Thompson, Kristin. Storytelling in Film and Television. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2003. Williams, Raymond. Television: Technology and Cultural Form. New York: Shocken Books, 1974. On Friday, July 2, 2004, at 10:36 AM, Marlyn Robinson wrote: > This is a mundane question, and as a librarian, one I should easily be > able > to answer myself, but I need additional expert advice. I have some > extra > money to spend on books before close of the fiscal year, and both for > my > own selfish interests and to support our various courses on media, > entertainment and broadcasting law, I'd like to put together a small > core > collection of the best historical reference-type resources on film, > television and radio. > We already have the AFI catalogs, History of the American Cinema, John > Dunning's On the Air, Albert Abramson's History of Television, > Bordwell's > Film Art, Film History, History of Film Style and Film Viewer's Guide, > and > books by our local heroes Tom Schatz and Janet Staiger. We have many > subject-specific titles, mainly dealing with legal aspects of these > media, > e.g. censorship, corporate histories, broadcast regulation, etc. We're > clearly short on tv and radio titles and I've not had a lot of luck in > finding books that will seem to be useful in the long term. Please > let me > know what you think are the most useful and authoritative general > resources. > Thanks in advance for your help. > > Marlyn Robinson > University of Texas School of Law > [log in to unmask] > > ---- > For past messages, visit the Screen-L Archives: > http://bama.ua.edu/archives/screen-l.html > > ---- For past messages, visit the Screen-L Archives: http://bama.ua.edu/archives/screen-l.html