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14 French Film Guides

The Genius and the Goddess
Arthur Miller and Marilyn Monroe
Jeffrey Meyers
15 latin american/Asian Film
Meyers has crafted a richly nuanced dual biography
16 contemporary film directors based on his quarter-century friendship with Miller,
interviews with major players of stage and screen
during the postwar Hollywood era, and extensive
18 Journals/Women and gender archival research.
“This superbly written, thoughtful work will have
20 Women and film history wide appeal among general readers and academic au-
International diences and will reward readers with deeper insight
into two famous personalities and the world they
inhabited.”—Library Journal (starred review)
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or make requests on departmental the marriage when he realized she was destroying
letterhead by mail or fax. Provide the him. He’d spent three years working on a film for her
name of the course, estimated enrollment, (The Misfits), earning only her scorn, and her needs
were too complex and her problems too intractable.
and the semester/year taught. Include In the final chapter, Meyers thoughtfully mines
$7 to cover processing and shipping, Miller’s last plays for nuggets about Monroe.”
(payable to the University of Illinois Press —Kirkus
384 pp. 6 x 9. 31 Black & White Photographs. 2009.
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Citizen Spielberg
Lester D. Friedman
“A systematic analysis of the various genres in which
the director has worked . . . concludes that Spielberg’s
films present a sustained artistic vision combined with
a technical flair matched by few other filmmakers, and
makes a compelling case for Spielberg to be considered
as a major film artist.”—Screening the Past
376 pp. 6 x 9. 33 Black & White Photographs. 2006.
2 Paper 978-0-252-07358-8. $30.00
Women for President
Media Bias in Nine Campaigns
Erika Falk
Second Edition
Newly updated to examine Hillary Clinton’s formidable
2008 presidential campaign, Women for President
analyzes the gender bias the media has demonstrated in
covering women candidates since the first woman ran for
America’s highest office in 1872.
2010. 240 pp. 6 x 9. 8 Black & White Photographs.
3 Paper 978-0-252-07691-6. $25.00
When Frankie Went to Hollywood
Frank Sinatra and American Male Identity
Karen McNally
“McNally’s study . . . has an unexpected share of gos-
sip and biographical surprises. . . . An exploration of
Sinatra’s forthright ethnicity, his strident championing
of civil rights and his sexual objectification.”—Times
Literary Supplement
“[McNally] provides meaning and recognition to Sina-
tra’s films, a very important part of his career and his life.
Her book is well worth reading.”—Film International
248 pp. 6 x 9. 10 Black & White Photographs. 2008.
4 *Cloth 978-0-252-03334-6. $65.00.
5 Paper 978-0-252-07542-1. $24.95
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The Mouse Machine
Disney and Technology
J. P. Telotte
“The Mouse Machine is a copious history of Disney’s
innovations and preoccupations; it makes clear just how
consistently and significantly Uncle Walt used technol-
ogy to gain an edge on the competition.”—Jon Lewis,
editor of Cinema Journal
By exploring the technological context for Disney
creations throughout its history, Telotte illuminates
Disney’s extraordinary growth into one of the largest and
most influential media and entertainment companies in
the world.
232 pp. 6 x 9. 2008.
6 *Cloth 978-0-252-03327-8. $60.00.
7 Paper 978-0-252-07540-7. $20.00
Disappearing Tricks
Silent Film, Houdini, and the New Magic of the
Twentieth Century
Matthew Solomon
“A truly important and impressive book, the most
thoroughly researched and broadly conceived history
of the interaction between magicians and cinema that
anyone has offered or is likely to offer.”—Tom Gunning,
author of The Films of Fritz Lang: Allegories of Vision
and Modernity
200 pp. 6 x 9. 27 Black & White Photographs. 2010.
8 *Cloth 978-0-252-03510-4. $65.00.
9 Paper 978-0-252-07697-8. $22.00
The Powers That Be
David Halberstam
“Halberstam deploys a stunning novelistic skill in showing
how his scores of characters feel about one another. . . .
Every page carries a graphic revelation of some piece of
subtle delineation, flashes of insight struck off by the ad-
jacencies of power. So understanding is the reporting that
the skeletons, once hauled from their closets, don’t rattle
much.”—Anthony Smith, The Nation
792 pp. 6 x 9.25. 2000.
10 Paper 978-0-252-06941-3. $24.95
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Art and Freedom of Speech
Randall P. Bezanson
“Reaches beyond legal theory to explore the role of art
as a human product, its production, consumption, and
meaning. Art and Freedom of Speech represents a bril-
liant mind at work—in a lovely, intellectually playful
tone.”—Linda R. Hirshman, author of Get to Work: . . .
And Get a Life, Before It’s Too Late
“A comprehensive, in-depth examination of First
Amendment principles as they pertain to the arts.
Bezanson’s detailed and lively analyses of Supreme
Court arguments help clarify the conceptual bases of
each case.”—Joan DelFattore, author of The Fourth R:
Conflicts Over Religion in America’s Public Schools
328 pp. 6 x 9. 17 Black & White Photographs. 2009.
11 Cloth 978-0-252-03443-5. $35.00
How Free Can the Press Be?
Randall P. Bezanson
Best of the Best from University Presses
“Bezanson raises some unexpected questions and
provides some provocative insights. Bezanson’s analyses
of the arguments are . . . clear, well-reasoned and
thorough.”—American Journalism
“An intelligent discussion of real constitutional issues
affecting the press and journalism in the United States.”
—Library Journal
2007. 272 pp. 6 x 9.
12 Paper 978-0-252-07520-9. $24.95
The History of Communication
How Free Can Religion Be?
Randall P. Bezanson
A provocative discussion of eight Supreme Court
decisions on church/state separation, from claims for
religiously sanctioned polygamy to the teaching of
evolution and creationism in public schools.
296 pp. 6 x 9. 2006.
13 Cloth 978-0-252-03112-0. $29.95.
2010. 14 Paper 978-0-252-07699-2. $20.00
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History by Hollywood
The Use and Abuse of the American Past
Robert Brent Toplin
Second Edition
“Succinct and accessible. Toplin has raised a number of
significant questions for historians and others concerned
with the ethical and intellectual aspects of historical
filmmaking.”—Reviews in American History
“A ‘must read’ for those who study, research, and write
about the history of the motion picture.”—Journal of
Popular Film and Television
280 pp. 6 x 9. 9 Black & White Photographs. 2010.
15 Paper 978-0-252-07689-3. $25.00
Journalism in the Movies
Matthew C. Ehrlich
“Ehrlich wisely avoids cataloguing every journalism
movie ever made and manages to proceed both chrono-
logically and thematically, demonstrating how genre
begat genre and how archetypal figures have shape-
shifted with the currents and tides of culture and
history.”—American Journalism
208 pp. 6 x 9. 20 Black & White Photographs. 2006.
16 Paper 978-0-252-07432-5. $20.00
The History of Communication
The Struggle for Control of Global
Communication
The Formative Century
Jill Hills
“For the first time, the jockeying for position between
British and U.S. authorities is brought forward as the
organizing principle in international telecommunications
system development during the first century of transna-
tional network building. The treatment is nuanced, as
Hills does not impute any single overriding interest or
logic to either state actor. Rather, she integrates the often
discordant needs and demands of private corporations
into her sweeping analysis.”—Dan Schiller, author of
Digital Capitalism: Networking the Global Market
System and How to Think about Information
344 pp. 6 x 9. 2002.
17 Cloth 978-0-252-02757-4. $39.95
The History of Communication
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Embargoed Science
Vincent Kiernan
“[A] compelling critique of the self-aggrandizing
embargo system that currently rules scientist-editor-
reporter relations . . . Kiernan wins the argument about
embargoes cleanly and comprehensively.” —Science
Divulging the realities behind the collusive practice of
embargoing scientific news, Kiernan investigates the
embargo’s impact on public and academic understand-
ing of science and medical issues, and highlights abuses
such as stock trading based on early receipt of embargoed
information. He also proposes alternatives to the embargo
process.
192 pp. 6 x 9. 1 Line Drawing, 1 Table. 2006.
18 Cloth 978-0-252-03097-0. $30.00
Human Organizations and Social
Theory
Pragmatism, Pluralism, and Adaptation
Murray J. Leaf
“This stimulating work offers a new, promising, integrated
theory of social behavior. A timely and welcome attempt
to move social theory beyond the debate between positiv-
ism and postmodernism.”—Martin Ottenheimer, author of
The Anthropology of Kinship: An Introductory Text
The theory in this book fills in the missing analysis of
organizations and specifies the pragmatic analysis of
communication with an adaptation of information theory
to ordinary unmediated communications.
264 pp. 6.125 x 9.25. 5 Black & White Photographs, 15 Maps,
6 Tables. 2009.
19 Cloth 978-0-252-03424-4. $50.00
Normative Theories of the Media
Journalism in Democratic Societies
Clifford G. Christians, Theodore L.
Glasser, Denis McQuail, Kaarle
Nordenstreng, and Robert A. White
“[The authors] see four roles for the press: a moni-
tor of events in the world, a facilitator of democratic
decision making, a radical communicator free of any
restraint, and a collaborator with those in power. Each
of these four is explained in detail, with many excellent
examples. . . . Highly recommended.”—Choice
“This long-awaited book by a group of the most distin-
guished scholars of journalism and the media will define
the terms of discussion of normative theory for the next
generation.”—John C. Nerone, coauthor of The Form of
News: A History
296 pp. 6 x 9. 3 Line Drawings, 2 Tables. 2009.
20 *Cloth 978-0-252-03423-7. $75.00.
21 Paper 978-0-252-07618-3. $30.00
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Key Concepts in Critical Cultural
Studies
Edited by Linda Steiner and Clifford
Christians
“An unusually full and rich—and sometimes passionate—
conversation on communication and culture, this volume
offers a selection of illuminating and provocative re-
sponses to the life’s work of James W. Carey.”
—Carolyn Kitch, author of Pages from the Past: History
and Memory in American Magazines
288 pp. 6.125 x 9.25. 2010.
22 *Cloth 978-0-252-03506-7. $75.00.
23 Paper 978-0-252-07695-4. $30.00
How to Think about Information
Dan Schiller
Examines the history and growth of information as a
commodity, and the different dimensions that make up
this commodity, including the creation of new technolo-
gies; the culture industries; and the role of China.
“Dan Schiller is today probably the most lucid and
critical scholar writing on the structure and history of
communication and information systems—not just in
the U.S., by the way—and this book demonstrates that in
spades.” —Richard Maxwell, professor of media studies,
Queens College, City University of New York
288 pp. 6 x 9. 1 Table. 2007.
24 Cloth 978-0-252-03132-8. $35.00.
25 Paper 978-0-252-07755-5. $25.00
From Papyrus to Hypertext
Toward the Universal Digital Library
Christian Vandendorpe
Translated from the French by Phyllis Aronoff and Howard
Scott
“A well-written, pedagogical reflection on the historical,
theoretical, and practical position of hypertexts as a
new medium of communication. The advanced reader
will enjoy the limpid presentation of what we now
understand about hypertext; the reader new to the field
will have a very readable introduction to what makes it
exciting.”—William Winder, coeditor of Computing in
the Humanities Working Papers
208 pp. 6 x 9. 10 Black & White Photographs, 1 Line Drawing,
1 Table. 2009.
26 *Cloth 978-0-252-03435-0. $65.00.
27 Paper 978-0-252-07625-1. $25.00
Topics in the Digital Humanities
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Let Something Good Be Said
Speeches and Writings of Frances E. Willard
Edited by Carolyn DeSwarte Gifford and
Amy R. Slagell
“Gifford and Slagell apply their combined expertise
in history, gender studies, and rhetoric to select, edit,
annotate, and contextualize 22 excerpts from Frances
Willard’s speeches and publication, 1874-97. . . . Highly
recommended.”—Choice
312 pp. 6 x 9. 2007.
28 Cloth 978-0-252-03207-3. $45.00
The Crimes of Womanhood
Defining Femininity in a Court of Law
A. Cheree Carlson
“Written in a lively style and full of insightful analysis,
The Crimes of Womanhood offers an important contribu-
tion to rhetorical scholarship. The book will make an
excellent addition to courses exploring the intersections
of rhetoric, gender, and/or the law in the United States I
look forward to using it.”—Sara Hayden, professor of
communication studies, University of Montana
200 pp. 6 x 9. 2009.
29 Cloth 978-0-252-03401-5. $40.00
Never Seen the Moon
The Trials of Edith Maxwell
Sharon Hatfield
Winner of the Thomas and Lillie D. Chaffin Celebration
of Appalachian Writing Award and the W. D. Weather-
ford Award for Non-fiction in Appalachian Studies
“Hatfield uses the page-turning story of the murder and
trials to open up the larger cultural and historical dis-
courses around them.”—Journal of Appalachian Studies
“How refreshing to read a page-turner of a true crime
chronicle that refuses to pander to the morbid curiosity
of the commercial market. . . . An important book about
a crime committed in the 1930s that remains a mystery,
and a disturbing morality tale, for our times.”
—Bloomsbury Review
320 pp. 6 x 9.25. 19 Black & White Photographs, 1 Line Drawing.
2009.
30 Paper 978-0-252-07633-6. $14.95
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Feminist Literacies, 1968-75
Kathryn Thoms Flannery
“Innovative and well-researched. Flannery’s fresh look
at second-wave feminism within the context of literacy
practices will interest a wide range of readers who
want to know more about the ‘initial generative tangle’
of these volatile years of the women’s movement.”
—Women and Language
280 pp. 6 x 9. 16 Line Drawings. 2010.
31 Paper 978-0-252-07728-9. $25.00
Science on the Home Front
American Women Scientists in World War II
Jordynn Jack
“Jack has worked insightfully through a wide variety of
documents that have been less studied, and she intro-
duces important women psychologists, anthropologists,
physicists, and nutritionists whose stories have been
neglected. A stimulating and compelling work about
gender and genre in science.”—Ann B. Shteir, coeditor
of Figuring It Out: Science, Gender, and Visual Culture
176 pp. 6 x 9. 2 Black & White Photographs, 1 Table. 2009.
32 *Cloth 978-0-252-03470-1. $60.00.
33 Paper 978-0-252-07659-6. $20.00
On the Picket Line
Strategies of Working-Class Women during the
Depression
Mary E. Triece
Recipient of the Bonnie Ritter Book Award from the
National Communication Association’s Feminist and
Women Studies Division
“Important in its linking of the study of communication
to social science history in pursuit of this complexity; the
interdisciplinary nature of this book should be appealing
to students of women’s and labor history across a variety
of disciplines, from communication to political science
to history to women’s studies.”—Journal of Women’s
Politics and Policy
192 pp. 6 x 9. 9 Black & White Photographs. 2007.
34 *Cloth 978-0-252-03151-9. $60.00.
35 Paper 978-0-252-07391-5. $25.00
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Josephine Baker in Art and Life The Edge of Change

The Icon and the Image Women in the Twenty-First-Century Press
Bennetta Jules-Rosette Edited by June O. Nicholson, Pamela J.
Creedon, Wanda S. Lloyd, and Pamela J.
“Well-researched and original. . . . [Jules-Rosette] clev-
Johnson
erly exposes Baker’s manipulation of race, class and sex
Foreword by Ellen Goodman
(that’s gender and sexuality). . . . Abandoning the quest
for transcendent truths, she focuses instead on decoding “A much-needed update of existing books on women in
the wide array of Baker’s performances—both on and off the press. The richness of this work lies in its use of ac-
stage.”—New York Times Book Review complished women’s own voices to tell of their achieve-
392 pp. 6 x 9. 54 Black & White Photographs, 1 Table. 2007.
ments and their struggles, even into the twenty-first
36 Paper 978-0-252-07412-7. $25.00 century. Anyone interested in women’s history will enjoy
this fine book.”—Kay Mills, author of Changing Chan-
Cancer Activism nels: The Civil Rights Case That Transformed Television
Gender, Media, and Public Policy 360 pp. 6 x 9. 14 Black & White Photographs. 2009.
41 *Cloth 978-0-252-03448-0. $75.00.
Karen M. Kedrowski and Marilyn Stine 42 Paper 978-0-252-07649-7. $25.00
Sarow
“Cancer Activism is a well-written and engrossing ac- Women in American Journalism
count of how a determined group of grassroots leaders— A New History
many of them feminists— changed the face of medical Jan Whitt
research.”—New Scientist
“A readable and comprehensive book on a subject that
320 pp. 6 x 9. 3 Line Drawings, 49 Tables. 2010.
38 Paper 978-0-252-07777-7. $25.00 does need updating . . . . Will be well read and appreciated
by those interested in journalism history, women’s stud-
Available Fall 2010 ies, and journalism in general.”—Marilyn S. Greenwald,
author of A Woman of the Times: Journalism, Feminism,
Dirty Words and the Career of Charlotte Curtis
The Rhetoric of Public Sex Education, 1870-1924 216 pp. 6 x 9. 2008.
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Robin E. Jensen considers the history of public sexual

education in the United States and investigates the For Women and Gender in Film Studies, see pages 18-19
communicative and rhetorical practices surrounding
the emergence of public sex ed, showing how women in
particular struggled for a platform to create and circulate
arguments concerning this controversial issue. Jensen
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Talking with Television Global TV

Women, Talk Shows, and Modern Self-Reflexivity
Helen Wood
“A rare product: a theoretically informed empirical
study, using data in sophisticated ways to produce
far-reaching insights into the practice of television
viewing and the construction of gendered subjectivity. A
significant contribution to sociology, media and cultural
studies, and gender studies.”—Ann Gray, author of
Research Practice for Cultural Studies: Ethnographic
Methods and Lived Cultures
256 pp. 6 x 9. 1 Table. 2009.
44 Cloth 978-0-252-03391-9. $65.00.
45 Paper 978-0-252-07602-2. $25.00
Feminist Studies and Media Culture
Redesigning Women
Television after the Network Era
Amanda D. Lotz
“This is an interesting and in-depth assessment of
television’s changing portrayal of female characters
in comedy and drama.”—Communication Booknotes
Quarterly
“Focusing on the way in which competition for a similar
audience demographic can result in ‘innovative’ rather
than ‘derivative’ programming, Lotz’s study can be
viewed as an important starting point from which to
develop work that offers more detailed assessments of
series within a particular institutional and historical
context.”—Screen
240 pp. 6 x 9. 10 Tables. 2006.
46 *Cloth 978-0-252-03067-3. $50.00.
47 Paper 978-0-252-07310-6. $25.00
Feminist Studies and Media Culture
New Media and the Cold War, 1946-69
James Schwoch
“A portrait that brings forth many treasures, some comic,
some poignant, from the Cold War era, and also provides
some serious food for thought in considering current
U.S. policy about international media and goodwill
building.”—John Durham Peters, author of Courting the
Abyss: Free Speech and the Liberal Tradition
256 pp. 6 x 9. 28 Black & White Photographs. 2009.
48 *Cloth 978-0-252-03374-2. $70.00.
49 Paper 978-0-252-07569-8. $25.00
The Prime-Time Presidency
The West Wing and U.S. Nationalism
Trevor Parry-Giles and
Shawn J. Parry-Giles
“All in all, the Parry-Giles team recognizes for us the
powerful role television plays in fostering cultural
beliefs. The book is well worth reading, provocative as
it is, for it analyzes TWW (The West Wing) as a site of
meaningful discourse about presidential leadership and
national identity.”—Television Quarterly
“In Prime-Time Presidency, the authors make a
substantial contribution to television studies as well
as the broader scholarship of representation in media.
The study provides an excellent, detailed reading of the
content of the first four seasons of The West Wing (1999-
2006). Little is lacking in their thorough examination
of the portrayals of gender, race, and militarism on the
show. . . . This is an excellent book with superb analysis
and reasoning.”—Journal of Mass Media Ethics
248 pp. 6 x 9. 2006.
50 *Cloth 978-0-252-03065-9. $50.00.
51 Paper 978-0-252-07312-0. $28.00

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Air Castle of the South
WSM and the Making of Music City
Craig Havighurst
“A fascinating case study in the rise of commercial
broadcasting. . . . Mr. Havighurst has done a service
in preserving the colorful and instructive history of
WSM—and in reminding us that giants once lived on the
radio dial.”—Wall Street Journal
Sparked by public outcry following a proposal to pull
country music and the Opry from WSM-AM in 2002,
Havighurst researched and wrote this history of the sta-
tion that shows the essential role it played in the rise of
Nashville and country music.
320 pp. 6 x 9. 23 Black & White Photographs. 2007.
52 Cloth 978-0-252-03257-8. $29.95
Music in American Life
The Lincoln Image
Abraham Lincoln and the Popular Print
Harold Holzer, Gabor S. Boritt, and Mark
E . Neely Jr.
“Written in a clear, straightforward style. . . The Lincoln
Image remains a model of how to study the interactions
of art and society—not by using pictures to illustrate
ideas but by deriving information and enlightenment
from the pictures themselves.”—American Studies
264 pp. 8.5 x 11. 106 Black & White Photographs. 2005.
53 Paper 978-0-252-06984-0. $19.95
Devil’s Game
The Civil War Intrigues of Charles A. Dunham
Carman Cumming
“The reader’s mind finally boggles at the brazenness
of Dunham’s trickery and the extent to which his many
gulls swallowed it whole.”—Civil War Book Review
328 pp. 6 x 9.25. 27 Black & White Photographs. 2008.
54 Paper 978-0-252-07519-3. $19.95
Le Jazz
Jazz and French Cultural Identity
Matthew F. Jordan
Jordan draws on sources including ephemeral critical
writing in the press and twentieth-century French lit-
erature to trace the country’s reception of jazz, from the
Cakewalk dance craze and the music’s significance as a
harbinger of cultural recovery after World War II to its
place within French ethnography and cultural hybridity.
320 pp. 6 x 9. 23 Black & White Photographs. 2010.
55 *Cloth 978-0-252-03516-6. $75.00.
56 Paper 978-0-252-07706-7. $30.00
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Pen and Sword
American War Correspondents, 1898-1975
Mary S. Mander
“A thoughtful consideration of the history and culture
of war correspondence in the United States. Written in
an engaging muscular voice and filled with flashes of
insight, Pen and Sword makes novel arguments based
on significant archival research.”—John C. Nerone,
coauthor of The Form of News: A History
208 pp. 6 x 9. 2010.
57 Cloth 978-0-252-03556-2. $45.00
Shadow of the Racketeer
Scandal in Organized Labor
David Witwer
“David Witwer is a remarkably energetic and insightful
historian, and his study of Westbrook Pegler and the role
he played in the construction of a New Deal era dis-
course of corruption and racketeering within the house
of labor is an extremely provocative and path-breaking
book.”—Nelson Lichtenstein, author of State of the
Union: A Century of American Labor
336 pp. 6 x 9. 5 Black & White Photographs, 6 Line Drawings,
4 Tables. 2009.
58*Cloth 978-0-252-03417-6. $80.00.
2009. 59 Paper 978-0-252-07666-4. $30.00
The Working Class in American History
Available Fall 2010
Becoming the Second City
Chicago’s Mass News Media, 1833-1898
Richard Junger
Using a model of media and the social world developed
by sociologists David Crouteau and William Hoynes,
Becoming the Second City explores the infinitely com-
plex relationship that has existed historically between
Chicago and its news media. Richard Junger argues
that not only did the news media make and remake the
popular image of early Chicago, but the media itself was
an invaluable tool in the creation and development of
America’s “Second City.”
232 pp. 6 x 9. 10 Black & White Photographs. 2010.
60 *Cloth 978-0-252-03589-0. $70.00.
61 Paper 978-0-252-07785-2. $25.00
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New and recent titles in the History of Communication series, edited by Robert W. McChesney and
John C. Nerone
This series invites original and well-researched books on the history of media—radio, TV, newspapers, magazines, the
Internet—and on their many functions as reporters, advertisers, opinion leaders, public relations for government and cor-
porate interests, and businesses that compete with each other. Histories of major media, biographies of important figures,
and studies of key events in communications are welcome.
Normative Theories of the Media
Journalism in Democratic Societies
Clifford G. Christians, Theodore L.
Glasser, Denis McQuail, Kaarle
Nordenstreng, and Robert A. White
“[The authors] see four roles for the press: a moni-
tor of events in the world, a facilitator of democratic
decision making, a radical communicator free of any
restraint, and a collaborator with those in power. Each
of these four is explained in detail, with many excellent
examples. . . . Highly recommended.”—Choice
“This long-awaited book by a group of the most distin-
guished scholars of journalism and the media will define
the terms of discussion of normative theory for the next
generation.”—John C. Nerone, coauthor of The Form of
News: A History
296 pp. 6 x 9. 3 Line Drawings, 2 Tables. 2009.
20 *Cloth 978-0-252-03423-7. $75.00.
21 Paper 978-0-252-07618-3. $30.00
Key Concepts in Critical Cultural
Studies
Edited by Linda Steiner and Clifford
Christians
“An unusually full and rich—and sometimes passion-
ate—conversation on communication and culture, this
volume offers a selection of illuminating and provocative
responses to the life’s work of James W. Carey.”
—Carolyn Kitch, author of Pages from the Past: History
and Memory in American Magazines
Contributors are Stuart Allan, Jack Zeljko Bratich,
Clifford Christians, Norman Denzin, Mark Fackler,
Robert Fortner, Lawrence Grossberg, Joli Jensen, Steve
Jones, John Nerone, Lana Rakow, Quentin J. Schultze,
Linda Steiner, Angharad N. Valdivia, Catherine Warren,
Frederick Wasser, and Barbie Zelizer.
288 pp. 6.125 x 9.25. 2010.
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Muting Israeli Democracy
How Media and Cultural Policy Undermine Free
Expression
Amit M. Schejter
“A fascinating and highly readable contribution to our
understanding of the fragile state of Israeli democracy.
Schejter shows how painfully complex the very distinc-
tion between a democracy and a non-democracy really
is.”—Daniel Dor, author of The Suppression of Guilt:
The Israeli Media and the Reoccupation of the West
Bank
“Reassesses some of the tenets of traditional Zionist
discourse and points critically to the roles that statism,
cultural policies, and political economy have played
in rendering the prevalent power imbalance in Israeli
society.”—Yaron Shemer, assistant professor of Israeli
culture and modern Hebrew, University of North
Carolina
216 pp. 6 x 9. 3 Line Drawings, 7 Tables. 2009.
62 *Cloth 978-0-252-03458-9. $60.00.
63 Paper 978-0-252-07693-0. $20.00
Refiguring Mass Communication
A History
Peter Simonson
“This book is particularly powerful because, like rhetoric
itself, it is not limited to any one discipline. Simonson
uses cultural studies and rhetoric as energizing points of
departure for rehabilitating and reinforcing the idea and
social form of mass communication.”—Rosa A. Eberly,
author of Citizen Critics: Literary Public Spheres
Organized around narrative accounts of individuals and
their communicative worlds, Refiguring Mass Commu-
nication illuminates significant but overlooked rhetorical
episodes in history to enable modern-day readers to
rehabilitate and reinvigorate their own engagements
with mass communication. Peter Simonson compares
his own vision of mass communication with distinct
views articulated throughout history by Paul of Tarsus,
Walt Whitman, Charles Horton Cooley, David Sarnoff,
and Robert K. Merton, utilizing a collection of texts and
tenets from a variety of time periods and perspectives.
280 pp. 6 x 9. 2010.
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65 Paper 978-0-252-07705-0. $25.00
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Speech Rights in America Everything Was Better in America

The First Amendment, Democracy, and the Media
Laura Stein
“The greatest strength of Speech Rights in America is
Stein’s ability to look through the lens of the individual.
Legal histories have been told for much too long from
the omnipotent, often disconnected perspective of legal
experts who tell us which case decisions are important
and why. . . . The best way to get students engaged in any
Print Culture in the Great Depression
David Welky
“A launching pad for students’ own exploration of values
projected by mass media both today and in the past.”
—Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly
280 pp. 6 x 9. 19 Black & White Photographs. 2008.
70 *Cloth 978-0-252-03299-8. $65.00.
71 Paper 978-0-252-07504-9. $25.00

course material is to tell them the information is relevant

to their lives. Stein does just that. She makes legal his- The Scripps Newspapers Go to War,
tory relevant.”—Journalism & Mass Communication 1914-18
Educator Dale E. Zacher
184 pp. 6 x 9. 1 Table. 2007. “There are few more combustible combinations than a
66 Paper 978-0-252-07536-0. $20.00
father, a son, and a newspaper chain. . . . The story is told
effectively . . . and is an excellent addition to the flourish-
Prologue to a Farce ing Illinois ‘History of Communication’ series.”
Communication and Democracy in America —Columbia Journalism Review
Mark Lloyd 304 pp. 6 x 9. 2008.
72 Cloth 978-0-252-03158-8. $45.00
“Mark Lloyd offers a wide-ranging chronicle of Ameri-
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full access to important public information.” seminal journalistic debates: the role of objectivity and the
—American Journalism search for a viable business model to accommodate the
352 pp. 6 x 9. 2006. industry’s civic responsibility.”—American Journalism
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Democracy, Inc.
The Press and Law in the Corporate
Rationalization of the Public Sphere
David S. Allen
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Outside the Box Investigated Reporting

Corporate Media, Globalization, and the UPS Muckrakers, Regulators, and the Struggle over
Strike Television Documentary
Deepa Kumar Chad Raphael
“Not only a significant contribution to the field but also Recipient of the Frank Luther Mott–Kappa Tau Alpha
a practical guide to how organized labor can intervene Research Award for the Association for Education
and enact social change in a still severely compromised in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC);
public arena.”—Journal of Communication Recipient of the History Division Book Award of the
2008. 264 pp. 6 x 9. 5 Black & White Photographs, 7 Tables. AEJMC; and winner of the Donald McGannon Award
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Telecommunications and Empire “A very useful and insightful study of a period too easily
Jill Hills forgotten three decades and more later. And the value
“The best single source for tracing much of the global of the study is more than historical, for the methods
communication developments of the last 170 years.” of analysis and many of the conclusions apply readily
—Communication Research Trends to media today.”—CBQ (Communication Booknotes
312 pp. 6 x 9. 2007. Quarterly)
75 Cloth 978-0-252-03258-5. $45.00 320 pp. 6 x 9. 12 Black & White Photographs, 1 Line Drawing,
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Advertising on Trial 78 Cloth 978-0-252-03010-9. $45.00

Consumer Activism and Corporate Public

Relations in the 1930s Women Making News
Gender and Journalism in Modern Britain
Inger L. Stole
Michelle Elizabeth Tusan
“Advertising on Trial is filled with vivid visuals from
advertising’s past and is one of the most complete “Offers a richly researched analysis that advances wom-
scholarly treatments of the 1930s consumer movement. en’s journalism history beyond fragmentary accounts of
. . . Stole’s work here returns a missing part of history to individual experience to place the women’s advocacy
the fore so that scholars and general audiences alike can press at center of the cultural and political emergence of
benefit from knowing that advertising was not always the British woman citizen.”—JHistory
considered a natural part of American life.”—American 320 pp. 6 x 9. 29 Black & White Photographs. 2005.
79 Cloth 978-0-252-03015-4. $45.00
Journalism
312 pp. 6 x 9. 10 Black & White Photographs. 2006.
76 *Cloth 978-0-252-03059-8. $50.00. Communities of Journalism
77 Paper 978-0-252-07299-4. $25.00 A History of American Newspapers and Their
Readers
David Paul Nord
“Nord, . . . a skilled and incisive practitioner of journal-
ism history, has collected in this volume his essays of the
last twenty years, centered on the theme of newspapers
and their communities. In the most entertaining, he
Examination Copies traces the sources of today’s tabloid news to the bizarre
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Radio’s Hidden Voice
The Origins of Public Broadcasting in the United
States
Hugh Richard Slotten
“Impressively researched and clearly written, Radio’s
Hidden Voice recovers a lost and important chapter in
American broadcasting history.”—James L. Baughman,
author of Same Time, Same Station: Creating American
Television, 1948-1961
344 pp. 6 x 9. 32 Black & White Photographs. 2009.
81 Cloth 978-0-252-03447-3. $50.00
Waves of Opposition
Labor and the Struggle for Democratic Radio
Elizabeth Fones-Wolf
“Elizabeth Fones-Wolf has written a definitive history
of how, from the 1930s to the 1950s, unions struggled
with corporations for radio outlets, airtime, and audience
attention, in both national and local arenas. . . . This de-
tailed study places labor radio at the center of everyday
political and cultural life in this period.”—Journal of
American History
320 pp. 6 x 9. 20 Black & White Photographs. 2006.
82 *Cloth 978-0-252-03119-9. $60.00.
83 Paper 978-0-252-07364-9. $25.00
From Yahweh to Yahoo!
The Religious Roots of the Secular Press
Doug Underwood
Co-winner of the Society for the Scientific Study of
Religion Book Award
“One of the finest books written on journalism in the
United States. . . . Underwood has delved deeply and
fairly into the range of myths that have driven the jour-
nalistic enterprise in America.”—Mass Communication
Quarterly
2008. 368 pp. 6 x 9.25 . 21 Tables.
84 Paper 978-0-252-07571-1. $25.00
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Reorienting Global Communication
Indian and Chinese Media Beyond Borders
Edited by Michael Curtin and Hemant Shah
“Meets an urgent need in the fields of media globaliza-
tion and international cultural studies by providing an
in-depth examination of the Indian and Chinese media
industries and the changing concepts of ‘nation’ and
‘home’ in an increasingly globalized world.”—Shujen
Wang, author of Framing Piracy: Globalization and
Film Distribution in Greater China
328 pp. 6 x 9. 9 Black & White Photographs, 7 Tables. 2010.
85 *Cloth 978-0-252-03501-2. $75.00.
86 Paper 978-0-252-07690-9. $30.00
Popular Culture and Politics in Asia Pacific
Gandhi Meets Primetime
Globalization and Nationalism in Indian Television
Shanti Kumar
“This book breaks some new ground in its approach to
Indian television and national identity. By including a
consideration of how original visions of the nation by
Gandhi and Nehru played out in public policy regarding
television’s role in national development, Kumar has
illuminated the complex and sometimes contradictory
views by Indian politicians and intellectuals. . . . This
work deserves attention by readers of media globaliza-
tion literature.”—Communication Research Trends
256 pp. 6 x 9. 12 Black & White Photographs. 2006.
87 *Cloth 978-0-252-03001-7. $45.00.
88 Paper 978-0-252-07244-4. $25.00
Popular Culture and Politics in Asia Pacific
Chinese American Transnational
Politics
Him Mark Lai
Edited and with an Introduction by Madeline Y. Hsu
“A remarkable collection that shows the dedication,
diligence, and accomplishments of Him Mark Lai, an
amateur historian who devoted himself to research-
ing and writing the history of Chinese American
communities.”—Renqiu Yu, author of To Save China, To
Save Ourselves: The Chinese Hand Laundry Alliance of
New York
296 pp. 6.125 x 9.25. 1 Black & White Photograph. 2010.
89 *Cloth 978-0-252-03525-8. $75.00.
90 Paper 978-0-252-07714-2. $30.00
The Asian American Experience
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Lowering the Boom

Critical Studies in Film Sound Distributed for Power Publications
at the University of Sydney
Edited by Jay Beck and Tony Grajeda
“[Lowering the Boom reclaims] cinema as an ‘audiovi- The Filmmaker and the Prostitute
sual’ object, demonstrating conclusively that whatever Dennis O’Rourke’s The Good Woman of
the relative importance of the ‘audio’ and ‘visual’ parts, Bangkok
neither can be ignored . . . . I hope Lowering the Boom is Chris Berry, Annette Hamilton, Laleen
widely read.”—Jump Cut Jayamanne
360 pp. 6.125 x 9.25. 2 Black & White Photographs. 2008.
91 *Cloth 978-0-252-03323-0. $60.00. Bringing newspaper and journal reviews together
92 Paper 978-0-252-07532-2. $25.00 with theoretical essays, this collection offers com-
prehensive coverage of the debates surrounding the
Pop Modernism controversial film The Good Woman of Bangkok. This
Noise and the Reinvention of the Everyday film refracts currents of contemporary thinking—on
Juan A. Suárez alterity, feminism, postcoloniality, and globalization.
232 pp. 8.25 x 9.75. 5 Black & White Photographs. 1997.
“A book of encyclopedic proportions, Pop Modern- 97 Paper 978-0-909952-28-0. $25.00
ism is brilliant, and will set a new path for Modernist
Studies.”—Paula Rabinowitz, author of Black & White & The Illusion of Life 2
Noir: America’s Pulp Modernism More Essays on Animation
336 pp. 6 x 9. 14 Black & White Photographs. 2007.
Edited by Alan Cholodenko
93 *Cloth 978-0-252-03150-2. $60.00.
94 Paper 978-0-252-07392-2. $25.00 The Illusion of Life 2 continues the first volume’s
pioneering work in the theory of animation. Covering
Feeling Modern a range of key topics, the sixteen essays and introduc-
The Eccentricities of Public Life tion provide an abundance of new understandings,
Justus Nieland approaches, correctives, and challenges to scholars of
animation as well as film.
“In Feeling Modern, Justus Nieland demonstrates the
576 pp. 6 x 8.5. 12 Black & White Photographs, 1 Table. 2007.
capacities of modernist writers to evoke states of sym-
98 Paper 978-0-909952-34-1. $47.00
pathetic, trans-individual experience and, through the
intricacies of fictional and cinematic texts, to commu-
Falling for You
nicate them to audiences and reading publics.”—Tyrus
Essays on Cinema and Performance
Miller, University of California at Santa Cruz
Edited by Lesley Stern and George
336 pp. 6 x 9. 24 Black & White Photographs. 2008.
95 *Cloth 978-0-252-03337-7. $60.00. Kouvaros
96 Paper 978-0-252-07546-9. $25.00 Focusing on the work of the actor, but not simply
about acting, this study offers a range of theoretical
approaches for illuminating the affective force of
cinema.
321 pp. 5.5 x 8.25. 1999.
99 Paper 978-1-86487-025-1. $25.00

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Film Adaptation in the Hollywood German Film after Germany

Studio Era
Guerric DeBona
“Guerric DeBona’s new book makes a powerful case
that film adaptations are shaped as much by contextual
forces as by their literary forbears. Once it is as widely
read as it deserves to be, adaptation studies will never be
the same.”—Thomas Leitch, author of Film Adaptation
and Its Discontents: From Gone with the Wind to The
Passion of the Christ
224 pp. 6 x 9. 2010.
100 *Cloth 978-0-252-03541-8. $70.00.
101 Paper 978-0-252-07737-1. $25.00
Contesting Identities
Sports in American Film
Aaron Baker
“[A] welcome addition to our understanding of sports,
movies, and politics. These provocative essays draw at-
tention to a compelling subject and an abundant amount
of films that have suffered neglect even as sports films
became an increasingly important part of our entertain-
ment culture.”—Cineaste
176 pp. 6 x 9. 8 Black & White Photographs. 2003.
102 Cloth 978-0-252-02816-8. $34.00.
2006. 103 Paper 978-0-252-07354-0. $20.00
African Americans in Cinema
The First Half Century
Project director: Phyllis R. Klotman
“One can only feel grateful for the work done by Phyllis
R. Klotman, whose editorial hand is firmly felt through-
out the publication. The general quality of the essays
is excellent, both informative for undergraduate and
stimulating for scholars.”—Image & Narrative
2003. 104. CD/CD ROM. 978-0-252-02892-2. $26.00
Toward a Transnational Aesthetic
Randall Halle
“Through his breadth, originality, and ‘nose’ for ongoing
transitions in culture and cinema, Halle provides a much-
needed overview of the complex funding ensembles
existing in and beyond Germany today.”—Linda
Schulte-Sasse, author of Entertaining the Third Reich:
Illusions of Wholeness in Nazi Cinema
256 pp. 6 x 9. 2008.
105 *Cloth 978-0-252-03329-2. $60.00.
106 Paper 978-0-252-07538-4. $25.00
The Devil You Dance With
Film Culture in the New South Africa
Edited and with an Introduction by
Audrey Thomas McCluskey
“An extremely important work, The Devil You Dance
With is the first comprehensive study of South African
filmmaking in the critical post-apartheid period. This
book gives vital insight into how globalization actually
impacts a non-Western society that has few defenses be-
yond the awareness and canniness of the artists involved.
Strongly recommended to anyone interested in film.”
—Peter Davis, director of award-winning documentary
film Winnie Mandela
“Filled with rich insights. . . . It is a gold mine for African
film scholars.”—Cineaste
248 pp. 6 x 9. 21 Black & White Photographs. 2009.
107 *Cloth 978-0-252-03386-5. $65.00.
108 Paper 978-0-252-07574-2. $25.00

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Alphaville Amélie
Chris Darke Le Fabuleux Destin d’Amélie Poulain
This definitive guide to the Jean-Luc Godard’s most Isabelle Vanderschelden
famous film, Alphaville, explores how this auteur direc- Provides analysis and social context for the film and the
tor’s experimental approach to filmmaking revolution- reasons behind its success.
ized film noir. 128 pp. 5.5 x 8.25. 2007.
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Les Diaboliques Le Corbeau

Susan Hayward Judith Mayne
In this informative and accessible guide to the film, Le Corbeau stands as the premier film about the German
Hayward presents a illuminating look at the production occupation of France. Judith Mayne’s book analyzes the
of Les Diaboliques, its reception by critics, its cast and film’s brilliant visual style and dark tone and provides a
its crew, and the many attempts to remake the film. guide to its many possible interpretations (in line with
128 pp. 2005. the period’s “cinema of paradox”).
111 Paper 978-0-252-07330-4. $15.00
128 pp. 5.5 x 8.25. 2007.
191 *Cloth 978-0-252-03218-9. $50.00.
La Reine Margot 192 Paper 978-0-252-07457-8. $20.00

Julianne Pidduck
Casque d’or
This critique probes the artistic, historical, and political
Sarah Leahy
influences that inspired Patrice Chéreau’s infamous epic
film of a monstrous, murderous family set against the This guide analyzes the film, offers detailed discussions
violent backdrop of sixteenth-century France. of its production and the public’s response to it, and
128 pp. 2005. places it within the context of cinema and social history.
112 Paper 978-0-252-07331-1. $15.00 128 pp. 5.5 x 8.25. 2007.
193 *Cloth 978-0-252-03219-6. $50.00.
La Haine 194 Paper 978-0-252-07472-1. $20.00

Ginette Vincendeau
Cléo de 5 á 7
This work analyzes the film’s place within the film Valerie Orpen
industry and French society; the film’s narrative tension,
stylistic sophistication, and ideological ambiguity; and Looks at the variety of influences and the unusual
answers why, out of so many films about disaffected feminist theme that make this French New Wave film a
youth, La Haine caught the audience’s imagination and classic.
became an instant classic. 128 pp. 5.5 x 8.25. 2007.
195 *Cloth 978-0-252-03217-2. $50.00.
128 pp. 2005.
196 Paper 978-0-252-07458-5. $20.00
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Screening Cuba
Film Criticism as Political Performance during the
Cold War
Hector Amaya
A sophisticated comparison of U.S. and Cuban reactions
to Cold War films
“Truly groundbreaking. Amaya’s provocative and illumi-
nating analysis uses a Cuba-U.S. framework to address
film criticism as a way of exercising political citizenship,
providing a glimpse into the cultural and political effects
of the Cold War.”—Ana López, coeditor of The Ethnic
Eye: Latino Media Arts
236 pp. 6 x 9. 1 Black & White Photograph. 2010.
197 *Cloth 978-0-252-03559-3. $80.00.
198 Paper 978-0-252-07748-7. $30.00
Latina/o Stars in U.S. Eyes
The Making and Meanings of Film and TV Stardom
Mary C. Beltrán
“Latina/o Stars in U.S. Eyes is well researched, highly
readable, and tremendously significant in terms of how
it expands our understanding of media, stardom, and
Latino and multiracial identities historically and in the
present day.”—Diane Negra, coeditor of Interrogat-
ing Postfeminism: Gender and the Politics of Popular
Culture
224 pp. 6 x 9. 18 Black & White Photographs. 2009.
114 *Cloth 978-0-252-03454-1. $65.00.
115 Paper 978-0-252-07651-0. $25.00
Latin American Melodrama
Passion, Pathos, and Entertainment
Edited and with an Introduction by
Darlene J. Sadlier
“A welcome addition to the literature, particularly given
melodrama’s centrality in cinematic and televisual
discourses in Brazil, Mexico, and Venezuela. A very
important volume.”—Randal Johnson, author of Manoel
de Oliveira
Contributors are Luisela Alvaray, Mariana Baltar, Catherine L.
Benamou, Marvin D’Lugo, Paula Félix-Didier, Andrés Levinson,
Gilberto Perez, Darlene J. Sadlier, Cid Vasconcelos, and Ismail
Xavier.
192 pp. 6 x 9. 24 Black & White Photographs. 2009.
116 *Cloth 978-0-252-03464-0. $60.00.
117 Paper 978-0-252-07655-8. $25.00
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China Forever
The Shaw Brothers and Diasporic Cinema
Edited by Poshek Fu
“An impressive, in-depth inquiry into the historical
mutations, cultural innovations, and political
implications of the rise and development of the Shaw
Brothers’ movie empire.”—David Der-wei Wang,
author of The Monster That Is History: History,
Violence, and Fictional Writing in Twentieth-Century
China
Contributors are Timothy P. Barnard, Cheng Pei-pei,
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