I am constructing a course on Community Media, which will consider community-based production in a variety of media (zines, public television, public access cable television, the internet, pirate radio, and film cooperatives). At the same time, the course will raise fundamental questions about the term "community" itself. I am looking for suggestions as to books that will cover this broad terrain. I know of limited forays into some of these arenas (The Paper Tiger book "Roar!", Deirdre Boyle's book on guerrilla tv, Tony Dowmunt's anthology on global television), but am having difficulty finding a more overarching media text. I will probably use Jean-Luc Nancy's Inoperative Community as one critical starting point (though perhaps too advanced for undergrads without going back to basics and covering the theorists employed in his book), but would welcome other suggestions in the theory terrain and/or the production/media terrain. Eric Freedman, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Department of Communication Florida Atlantic University 777 Glades Road Boca Raton, Florida 33431-0991 (561) 297-2534 Fax: (561) 297-2615 E-mail: [log in to unmask] ---- Online resources for film/TV studies may be found at ScreenSite http://www.tcf.ua.edu/ScreenSite