Media Studies Books


Audition: A Memoir Best Price: $14.99 I finally finished "Audition". It took me a long time not because it's difficult to...	The Dumbest Generation: How the Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans and Jeopardizes Our Future (Or, Don't Trust Anyone Under 30) Best Price: $13.00 I used to read a lot of books. I always had a book in my coat pocket. My collection is the envy...	The Age of American Unreason Best Price: $15.47 I've not read a book where I agreed with the thesis as much, and then disagreed completely with...	The Associated Press Stylebook and Briefing on Media Law Best Price: $8.97 I have used the AP Stylebook for over 5 years. The entries are easy to find and easy to...	The Lolita Effect: The Media Sexualization of Young Girls and What We Can Do About It Best Price: $15.33 To those who may find the cover art hypocritical. Might it be the cover is to grab the...



Ogilvy on Advertising Best Price: $11.99 Some of his designs may seem old fashioned looking (hey! these are from the 60s thru the 80s)......	Beautiful Evidence Best Price: $34.98 If you are looking for guidance on metrics presentation or insight, pass right by this book. The...	Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide Best Price: $17.75 I come late to this book, published in 2006. I do not regret it. It is a bit too focused on...	Visual Explanations: Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative Best Price: $22.73 In this third book by Tufte on graphics, he provides great examples through history where good...	unSpun: Finding Facts in a World of Disinformation Best Price: $6.90 This book purports to help the reader sift the wheat from the chaff in all aspects of public...



Personal History Best Price: $1.25 Absolutely perfect biography. Graham's book is frank in ways few would care to be. Her...	The Associated Press Guide to Punctuation Best Price: $4.70 Any writer should have this at their desk at all times. This book made me more comfortable with...	Propaganda Best Price: $7.95 "The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the...	Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media Best Price: $10.62 Hey folks, If you're out there considering buying this book, please know that it might prove...	Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business Best Price: $5.74 "In watching American television, one is reminded of George Bernard Shaw's remark on his...

Myths, Lies and Downright Stupidity: Get Out the Shovel - Why Everything You Know is Wrong Best Price: $4.39 I don't know anything about Stossel. The book looked intriguing. But I got so angry reading...	Bias: A CBS Insider Exposes How the Media Distort the News Best Price: $1.99 Most of the book contains Goldberg's outrage for how he was ostracized at CBS news, according to...	So Wrong for So Long: How the Press, the Pundits--and the President--Failed on Iraq Best Price: $8.97 I have read Greg Mitchell's work for years on E&P. Ever since Bush won re-election Mitchell...	The Halo Effect: ... and the Eight Other Business Delusions That Deceive Managers Best Price: $2.50 Rosenzweig's information is interesting in a 'myth busting' sort of way, but for my taste I...	The Elements of Journalism: What Newspeople Should Know and the Public Should Expect, Completely Updated and Revised Best Price: $7.39 I stumbled across this book and I am glad that I did. True journalism is an important part of...

The Elements of Journalism: What Newspeople Should Know and the Public Should Expect, Completely Updated and Revised Best Price: $7.39 I stumbled across this book and I am glad that I did. True journalism is an important part of...	Media Control, Second Edition: The Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda (Open Media Series) Best Price: $4.67 This short book is a good introduction to the notion of media control and the manufacturing of...	He's a Stud, She's a Slut, and 49 Other Double Standards Every Woman Should Know Best Price: $8.54 Sexists will cringe at this clear, powerful book of not-all-together obvious double standards....	Resource Wars: The New Landscape of Global Conflict With a New Introduction by the Author Best Price: $7.98 The author is unconvincing because he is wrong. He imagines an unidimensional, zero-sum world,...	The Medium is the Massage Best Price: $7.99 This book is filled with un-artful pictures because it has nothing to say. A 3-year-old could...

Time: 85 Years of Great Writing (Time) Best Price: $14.00 For 85 years, TIME magazine has set the standard in American journalism. Now, to celebrate the...	Can't Buy My Love: How Advertising Changes the Way We Think and Feel Best Price: $4.35 My title says it all. It's very informative and allows the reader to understand why she/he...	Practices of Looking: An Introduction to Visual Culture Best Price: $38.84 "Marita Sturken is Associate Professor at the Annenberg School for Communication at the...	Scared to Death: From BSE to Global Warming: Why Scares are Costing Us the Earth Best Price: $18.76 Relevant in that all governments are incompetant and inefficient, but the book is England based....	You Are Being Lied To: The Disinformation Guide to Media Distortion, Historical Whitewashes and Cultural Myths Best Price: $11.90 When you pick the book up you notice that it is a collection of essays on conspiracy theory....

Rapture Ready!: Adventures in the Parallel Universe of Christian Pop Culture Best Price: $12.29 Radosh is an outsider to this world of Christian pop culture, and his encounters are both...	Coming of Age in Second Life: An Anthropologist Explores the Virtually Human Best Price: $17.88 I felt obliged to respond after reading prior reviewers who gave this average ratings. Fair...	110 People Who Are Screwing Up America (and Al Franken Is #37) Best Price: $3.60 No one is going to have a list that is exactly 100% the same but what is interesting about this...	A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper Best Price: $6.95 "Don't believe everything you read in the papers" - more or less sums up what John...	Shock Jocks: Hate Speech and Talk Radio: America's Ten Worst Hate Talkers and the Progressive Alternatives Best Price: $6.00 I grew up in Ohio in a generally-conservative city where the people are not malicious, not...

Outright Barbarous: How the Violent Language of the Right Poisons American Democracy Best Price: $8.82 I just finished reading a review copy of "Outright Barbarous: How the Violent Language of...	The Place to Be: Washington, CBS, and the Glory Days of Television News Best Price: $15.35 Back when television news was about news and not entertainment, Roger Mudd was one of the very...	What Orwell Didn't Know: Propaganda and the New Face of American Politics Best Price: $7.95 What's left to be said, after that wonderful expose/review by Mr. Littrell. Nobody was better...	The Political Economy of Media: Enduring Issues, Emerging Dilemmas Best Price: $12.26 Robert W. McChesney (Professor in the Department of Communication, University of Illinois...	The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation (Vintage) Best Price: $8.99 At its heart, The Race Beat is a thoroughly researched, well-written explanation of how...

The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility, and Other Writings on Media Best Price: $10.45 Benjamin’s famous “Work of Art” essay sets out his boldest...	Complete Idiot's Guide to Publishing Magazine Articles Best Price: $7.50 The Candidate (Jill Lewis Mystery Trilogy #3)The Replacement (Jill Lewis Mystery Trilogy...	The Culture Industry (Routledge Classics) Best Price: $12.00 This collection of essays is very interesting. They all cover a critique of mass culture with...	Culture Jam: How to Reverse America's Suicidal Consumer Binge--And Why We Must Best Price: $4.78 I read this book after a good review on-line. The Canadian author has real issues (as do I) with...	School Newspaper Adviser's Survival Guide Best Price: $16.80 As project manager for a new magazine by the school of business, I find the book especially...

Against the Machine: Being Human in the Age of the Electronic Mob Best Price: $7.54 He sold me on the book doing some great interviews while promoting it. Good guy, definitely has...	The Oxford History of World Cinema Best Price: $24.35 This is recommendable guide for all those who assumed the commitment to know about the Cinema...	How to Start a Magazine Best Price: $16.86 you can skip to any chapter and read that topic without having to read the first chapters. Go to...	The Language of New Media (Leonardo Books) Best Price: $14.00 Manovich's treatment of computer-media expressive forms is intelligent and entirely worthy of...	Age of Propaganda: The Everyday Use and Abuse of Persuasion Best Price: $7.99 What I like about this book: - It is great to help people become aware of how the media...

The Hollywood Book of Scandals : The Shocking, Often Disgraceful Deeds and Affairs of Over 100 American Movie and TV Idols Best Price: $8.96 There's not much space, it seems, for in-betweens, but place me firmly in the "like"...	The Hidden Persuaders Best Price: $8.91 The content of this book is excellent, and still amazingly relevant 50 years after it was...	Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man : Critical Edition Best Price: $14.93 At 16 (1977) I discovered the original paperback Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man and...	Media Now: Understanding Media, Culture, and Technology, 2008 Update Best Price: $56.85 ...this book has discriminatory statements and opinions that degrade women and minorities. As an...	America on Film: Representing Race, Class, Gender,and Sexuality at the Movies Best Price: $28.53 America on Film: Representing Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality in the Movies is a lively...

Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man Best Price: $10.64 Today the words of Understanding Media seem in many ways to be merely the utterances of facts...	Writing for the Mass Media (6th Edition) Best Price: $40.00 This book has helped me tremendously in my class. I'm glad I bought it from Amazon b/c it was...	Media of Mass Communication, 2008 Update, The (8th Edition) (MyMassCommLab Series) Best Price: $35.00 The book is beautiful and I love how the content is presented. Now, if only I could check my...	Branded: The Buying And Selling Of Teenagers Best Price: $5.10 The book had interesting subject matter, but to be honest, I think the writing had some...

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