Required Texts:
Erik Barnouw, Tube of Plenty (Oxford)
Tim Brooks and Earle Marsh, The Complete Directory to Prime Time TV Shows (Ballantine)
MIT Communications Forum Web site: http://web.mit.edu/comm-forum/
Recommended texts (many of which will be placed on reserve in the Reserved Book Room, Bld. 14):
1. Reference works and collections of essays
Richard P. Adler, ed., Understanding Television
Robert Allen, ed., Channels of Discourse
Tino Balio, ed., Hollywood in the Age of Television
Les Brown, ed., The New York Times Encyclopedia of Television
Glen Creeber. The Television Genre Book
Jane Feuer, Paul Kerr, Tise Vahimagi, ed., MTM: “Quality Television”
Michael Gurevitch, Tony Bennett, et al. eds, Culture, Society and the Media
Michelle Hilmes, ed., NBC: America’s Network
_____________, ed., The Television History Book
E. Ann Kaplan, ed., Regarding Television
Donald Lazere, ed., American Media and Mass Culture: Left Perspectives
Alex McNeil, Total Television
Tania Modleski, ed., Studies in Entertainment
Horace Newcomb, ed., Television: The Critical View
_____________, ed., Encyclopedia of Television
John E. O’Connor, ed., American History/American Television
2. Critical and historical studies
Robert Allen, Speaking of Soap Operas
Christopher Anderson, Hollywood TV
Ien Ang, Watching Dallas
Ien Ang, Living Room Wars: Rethinking Media Audiences
Roland Barthes, Mythologies
William Boddy, Fifties Television: The Industry and Its Critics
Charlotte Brunsdon and David Morley, Everyday Television
Peter Burke, Popular Culture in Early Modern Europe
John Thornton Caldwell, Televisuality: Style, Crisis, and Authority in American Television
James Carey, Communication As Culture
John Cawelti, Adventure, Mystery and Romance
Derek Kompare. Rerun Nation
Daniel Dayan and Elihu Katz, Media Events: The Live Broadcasting of History
Melvin Patrick Ely, The Adventures of Amos ‘N Andy: A Social History
John Fisk and John Hartley, Reading Television
John Fiske, Television Culture
Clifford Geertz, The Interpretation of Cultures
Todd Gitlin, Inside Prime Time
Michele Hilmes, Hollywood and Broadcasting: From Radio to Cable
Henry Jenkins, Textual Poachers
J. Fred MacDonald, One Nation Under Television: The Rise and Fall of Network TV
______________, Blacks and White TV
David Marc, Demographic Vistas
David Marc, Comic Visions
Robert W. McChesney, Rich Media, Poor Democracy
Jason Mittell, Genre and Television: From Cop Shows to Cartoon in American Culture
Tania Modleski, Loving with a Vengeance
David Morley, Family Television
Laura Mulvey, Visual and Other Pleasures
Horace Newcomb, TV: The Most Popular Art
Horace Newcomb and Robert S. Alley, The Producer’s Medium
Patricia Palmer, The Lively Audience: A study of children around the TV set
Lynn Spigel, Make Room for TV: Television and the Family Ideal in Postwar America
Thomas Streeter, Selling the Air
Robert J. Thompson, Television's Second Golden Age: From Hill Street Blues to ER
John Tulloch and Henry Jenkins, Science Fiction Audiences
Raymond Williams, Television: Technology and Cultural Form
3. Required attendance at these events:
MIT Communications Forum
March 6: Prime Time in Transition
March 13: Global Televsion
Both 5-7 p.m., Bartos Theater, MIT Media Lab
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