At 11:57 AM 9/12/97 -0600, you wrote: >Next spring I'll be teaching an undergraduate, introductory, course in >Documentary and U.S. Television >for the first time. I'd really appreciate any suggestions regarding books, >articles and other resources. *Representing Reality* by Bill Nichols is really useful in surveying many of the representational strategies in nonfiction film. His other books (with the exception of the *Movies and Methods* anthologies) also give ample coverage to documentary. *Ideology and the Image*, for example, has a chapter that discusses the ideological implications of representation in *The CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite*. Erik Barnouw gives some attention to news in his broadcast history, *Tube of Plenty*, and also in his book *The Sponsor*, the latter examining the economic determinations of televisual representation. His book on documentary film (titled something like *Documentary Film*) is a historical survey of documentary both in theaters and on television. It may make a good complement to Nichols' book, though their reliance on different formal taxonomies will need to be carefully explained to students. I know nothing about the book *Confronting Reality*. Allan Campbell ---- Screen-L is sponsored by the Telecommunication & Film Dept., the University of Alabama.