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/ ---- Screen-L is sponsored by the Telecommunication & Film Dept., the University of Alabama: http://www.tcf.ua.edu