Reserve Room Readings -- COMM 418

Unless specifically noted, the following books are on reserve in Morris Library.

GENERAL RESOURCES

Brooks, T., & Marsh, E. (1995). The complete directory to prime time network TV shows: 1946-present. New York: Ballantine. (Current volume in Reference Room)

Castelman, H., & Podrazik, W. J. (1982). Watching TV: Four decades of American television. New York: McGraw-Hill.

McNeil, A. (1996). Total television: The comprehensive guide to programming from 1948 to the present (4^th ed.). New York: Penguin.

INTRODUCTORY MATERIAL

McCrohan, D. (1990). Prime time, our time: America's life and times through the prism of television. Rocklin, CA: Prima Publishing & Communications, pp. 1-21.

COMEDY

Andrews, B. (1985). I Love Lucy book. Garden City, NY: Doubleday.

McCrohan, D. (1986). The Honeymooners lost episodes. New York: Workman Pub.

McCrohan, D. (1990). Prime time, our time: America's life and times through the prism of television. Rocklin, CA: Prima Publishing & Communications.

Honeymooners: pp. 67-76

I Love Lucy: pp. 50-62

Red Skelton: pp. 157-161

Jones, G. (1992). Honey, I'm home! Sitcoms: Selling the American dream. New York: Grove Weidenfield.

Honeymooners: pp. 108-114

I Love Lucy: pp. 62-75

Kaminsky, S. M., & Mahan, J. H. (1985). Chapter 10. Erikson's life cycles as related to comedy. In American television genres (pp. 135-143). Chicago: Nelson-Hall.

Putterman, B. (1995). Chapter 2. Jack Benny and the surrealism of the ordinary. In On television and comedy: Essays on style, theme, performer and writer (pp. 22-31). Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company.

Toll, R. C. (1982). Chapter 8. Leave 'em laughin': Comedy and the media. In The entertainment machine: American show business in the twentieth century (pp. 211-243). New York: Oxford.

KIDS SHOWS

Davis, J. (1995). Children's television, 1947-1990. Jefferson, NC: McFarland. (In Reference Room)

CRIME/DRAMA

Bounds, J. D. (1996). Perry Mason: The authorship and reproduction of a popular hero. Westport, CN: Greenwood.

Charland, M. (1978). The private eye: From print to television. Journal of Popular Culture, 12, 210-216.

Kaminsky, S. M., & Mahan, J. H. (1985). Chapter 6. The history and conventions of the police tale. In American television genres (pp. 53-66). Chicago: Nelson-Hall.

Kaminsky, S. M., & Mahan, J. H. (1985). Chapter 7. A structural analysis of the police story. In American television genres (pp. 67-84). Chicago: Nelson-Hall.

McCrohan, D. (1990). Prime time, our time: America's life and times through the prism of television. Rocklin, CA: Prima Publishing & Communications.

Dragnet: pp. 62-67

Toll, R. C. (1982). Chapter 6. The other side: Crime and the media. In The entertainment machine: American show business in the twentieth century (pp. 157-1871). New York: Oxford.

VARIETY

Andrews, D., & Dunning, B. (1980). The worst TV shows ever: Those TV turkeys we will never forget . . . (No matter how hard we try). New York: E. P. Dutton.

Liberace Show: pp. 77-83.

McCrohan, D. (1990). Prime time, our time: America's life and times through the prism of television. Rocklin, CA: Prima Publishing & Communications.

Ed Sullivan: pp. 85-93

Texaco Star Theatre: pp. 22-33

Toll, R. C. (1982). Chapter 4. Everybody's doin' it: Popular music and the media. In The entertainment machine: American show business in the twentieth century (pp. 100-127). New York: Oxford.

Wertheim, A. F. (1983). The rise and fall of Milton Berle. In J. E. O'Connor (Ed.), American history American television (pp. 55-78). New York: Frederick Ungar.

WESTERNS

MacDonald, J. F. (1987). Who shot the sheriff? New York: Praeger.

McCrohan, D. (1990). Prime time, our time: America's life and times through the prism of television. Rocklin, CA: Prima Publishing & Communications, pp. 98-116.

Rushing, J. H. (1983). The rhetoric of the American western myth. Communication Monographs, 50, 14-32.

Toll, R. C. (1982). Chapter 3. A helluva lot more American: Westerns and the media. In The entertainment machine: American show business in the twentieth century (pp. 75-99). New York: Oxford.

West, R. (1987). Television westerns: Major and minor series, 1946-1978. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company.

Wright, W. (1975). Six guns and society: A structural study of the western. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Yoggy, G. A. (1995). Riding the video range: The rise and fall of the western on television. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company.

STEREOTYPES

Berry, G. L. (1980). Television and Afro-Americans: Past legacy and present portrayals. In S. B. Withey & R. P. Abeles (Eds.), Television and social behavior: Beyond violence and children (pp. 231-248). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.

Cripps, T. (1983). Amos 'n' Andy and the debate over American racial integration. In J. E. O'Connor (Ed.), American history American television (pp. 33-54). New York: Frederick Ungar.

MacDonald, J. F. (1983). Blacks and white TV: Afro-Americans in television since 1948. Chicago: Nelson-Hall.

Wilson, C. C., II, & Gutiérrez, F. (1985). Minorities and media: Diversity and the end of mass communication. Beverly Hills: Sage.

Jones, G. (1992). Honey, I'm home! Sitcoms: Selling the American dream. New York: Grove Weidenfield.

Amos & Andy: pp. 51-61

COMMERCIALS

Barnouw, E. (1978). The sponsor: Notes on a modern potentate. New York: Oxford.

Esslin, M. (1987). Aristotle and the advertiser: The television commercial considered as a form of drama. In H. Newcomb (Ed.), Television: The critical view (4th ed.), 304-317. New York: Oxford.

Wheen, F. (1985). Advertising: Washing even whiter. In Television: A history (pp. 183-201). London: Century Publishing.

GAME SHOWS

Anderson, K. (1978). The history and implications of the quiz show scandal. Westport, CN: Greenwood. (For material on 64,000 Question.)

Andrews, D., & Dunning, B. (1980). The worst TV shows ever: Those TV turkeys we will never forget . . . (No matter how hard we try). New York: E. P. Dutton.

Queen for a Day: pp. 139-145

DeLong, T. A. (1991). Quiz craze: America's infatuation with game shows. Westport, CN: Praeger.

Graham, J. (1988). Come on down!!! The game show book. New York: Abbeville Press.

Chapter 1: The beginnings (pp. 9-22)

Chapter 2: The Scandals (pp. 23-34)

Kaminsky, S. M., & Mahan, J. H. (1985). Chapter 5. An application of Northrop and Fry's analytical methods to quiz and game shows. In American television genres (pp. 43-52). Chicago: Nelson-Hall.

McCrohan, D. (1990). Prime time, our time: America's life and times through the prism of television. Rocklin, CA: Prima Publishing & Communications.

64,000 Question: pp. 76-85

Real, M. R. (1996). Chapter 7. Historical/ethical interpretation: Reconstructing the quiz show scandal. In Exploring media culture: A guide (pp. 208- 236). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Welch, P. E. (1958). The quiz program: A network television staple. Journal of Broadcasting, 2, 311-318.

MILITARY

MacDonald, J. F. (1985). Television and the red menace: The video road to Vietnam. New York: Praeger.

FAMILY COMEDIES

Coontz, S. (1992). Chapter 2. "Leave it to Beaver" and "Ozzie and Harriet": American families in the 1950s. In The way we never were: American families and the nostalgia trap (pp. 23-41). New York: Basic Books.

Haralovich, M. B (1992). Sit-coms and suburbs: Positioning the 1950s homemaker. In L. Spigel & D, Mann (Eds.), Private screening: Television and the female consumer (pp. 111-141). Minneapolis: University of Minnesota.

Jones, G. (1992). Honey, I'm home! Sitcoms: Selling the American dream. New York: Grove Weidenfield.

Father Knows Best: pp. 97-102

Leave it to Beaver: pp. 123-128, 157-159

Frazer, J. M., & Frazer, T. C. (1993). "Father Knows Best" and "The Cosby Show": Nostalgia and the sitcom tradition. Journal of Popular Culture, 27, 163-172.

Hamamoto, D. Y. (1989). Chapter 2. A strained consensus. In Nervous laughter: Television situation comedy and liberal demographic ideology (pp. 15-48). New York: Praeger.

Leibman, N. C. (1995). Living room lectures: The fifties family in film & television. Austin: University of Texas.

Marc, D. (1989). Chapter 2. Waking up to television: A garden in the machine. In Comic visions: Television comedy and American culture (pp. 49-83). London: Unwin Hyman.

Putterman, B. (1995). Chapter 1. Defining our television heritage I: Tradition television values. In On television and comedy: Essays on style, theme, performer and writer (pp. 7-21). Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company.