The Video Data Bank Catalog of Video Art and Artist Interviews
Edited by Kate Horsfield and Lucas Hilderbrand
Historic documentation of the development of art-based, activist, and alternative media in the U.S.
360 pages
| 8.5 x 11
| 325 halftones
DuMont and the Birth of American Television
David Weinstein
A history of one of the original television networks through its programs and personalities
240 pages
| 6 x 9
| 39 halftones
Voicing the Difference
Lisa A. Lewis
Challenging the idea that MTV presents only negative and sexist images of women
300 pages
| 145 tables, 9 duotones
Co-Producing Culture
Barbara Selznick
How the importation of global television in the United States affects the nature of programming
224 pages
| 5.5 x 8.25
| 8 halftones
Herbert Marcuse and Contemporary Social Movements
Edited by Andrew T. Lamas, Todd Wolfson, and Peter N. Funke
An in-depth examination of the relevance of Marcuse's writing for today's social movements
440 pages
| 6 x 9
Everyday Learning Among Young Adolescents
JoEllen Fisherkeller
A powerful interdisciplinary book on how young adults watch—and learn from—television
224 pages
| 6 x 9
| 1 tables
Marwan M. Kraidy
A guide to understanding hybridity-the interaction of cultures
240 pages
| 6 x 9
| 1 table
Television's Conquest of America in the Fifties
Eric Burns
How the baby boomers learned about the world in their most formative years
352 pages
| 6 x 9
| 18 halftones
Stories of Lives at the Margins
Alex Tizon
Now in Paperback—an anthology of richly reported and beautifully written stories about marginalized people
264 pages
| 5.25 x 8.5
| 1 halftone
Larry Kane
A first-hand look at Philadelphia's important events and people
280 pages
| 6 x 9
| 52 halftones
Governance, Technology, and Cultural Practice in Motion
Steven D. McDowell, Philip E. Steinberg, and Tami K. Tomasello
Comprehending the issues at stake in the networked world
248 pages
| 5.5 x 8.25
| 5 tables
Black and Irish Press and the Struggle for Citizenship, 1870-1914
Brian Shott
How black and Irish journalists in the Gilded Age used newspapers to shape and constrain the struggle for American belonging
250 pages
| 6 x 9
| 22 halftones
Mary Lou Nemanic
How daily metro newspapers can continue to survive in the age of digital journalism
208 pages
| 5.25 x 8.5
| 1 line drawing, 18 halftones
Cinemas and Popular Media in Transcultural East Asia
Edited by Jenny Kwok Wah Lau
A comprehensive book on the complex relationship between media and modernity in east Asia
264 pages
| 7 x 10
| 2 figs., 17 halftones
The Public Agenda in the Information Age
Jill A. Edy and Patrick C. Meirick
Evaluates how the lack of public consensus on issue priorities has affected the way public opinion is represented in U.S. democratic institutions
272 pages
| 6 x 9
| 15 tables, 21 figures, 3 line drawings