Selected Publications


Media:

Is TV Acting a Distinctive Art Form?  New York Times, 14 Aug 1977.

Television Melodrama 

Television without Guilt

Television as an Aesthetic Medium  Critical Studies in Mass Communication.
Vol. 4, No. 2 (June 1987).

Interpretation and Judgment: A Reading of Lonesome Dove  Critical Studies in Mass Communication. Vol. 10, No. 2 (June 1993).

Detective Programs  Museum of Broadcast Communications Encyclopedia of Television. Horace Newcomb, ed. Fitzroy Dearborn, 1997

The Name of the Game  Museum of Broadcast Communications Encyclopedia of Television.

Literary Essays:

Fiction and Imagination in Don Quixote  Partisan Review.  Vol. 3 (1975).

Reading Fiction: First Principles  from Initiation: Stories and Short Novels on Three Themes. 2nd Edition.  Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1971.

Conrad and Modern English Fiction from Conrad’s Romanticism.  Yale University Press, 1974.

Mailer the Performer

A Dissent on Pynchon

Updike: Alive in a Place and Time  

Fugitive Pieces:

Web of Paradox The American Prospect vol. 9 no. 40 (Sept 1998)

"This market, this bazaar of life": Markets Imagined and Remembered.  Speech from Communications Forum Symposium titled Internet Markets at MIT,  December 2, 1998.

The Digital Revolution, the Informed Citizen, and the Culture of Democracy  from Democracy and New Media.  Henry Jenkins and David Thorburn, eds.  Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2003.

Introduction from Rethinking Media Change: The Aesthetics of Transition. Henry Jenkins and David Thorburn, eds. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2003.

Teaching Literature at MIT

The Rosenberg Letters 

Introducing British Cultural Studies

 

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