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Semester 2 2000-2001 A/P Ian Gordon AS7/02-29 Ph. 874 4694 |
Lecture 5
Radio: From Invention to Commercialization
and
How the Media Shapes Events,
Case Study Two: The War of the Worlds
Reading:
Joseph Turow, Media Today: An Introduction to Mass Communication
(Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1999), Chapters Eight, Nine, and Ten. RBR
Holdings
Simon Callow, Orson Welles: the Road to Xanadu (London: Jonathan
Cape, 1995), Chapter Sixteen. NUS
Library Holdings
Additional:
Radio:
Richard Davis, The Press and American Politics: the New Mediator
(Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Prentice Hall, 1996), Chapter Four.
Susan J. Douglas, Inventing American Broadcasting, 1899-1922
(Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press , 1987). NUS
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Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio. Video. NUS
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Susan Smulyan, Selling Radio: The Commercialization of American
Broadcasting, 1920-1934 (Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press,
1994). NUS
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William S. Solomon and Robert W. McChesney, editors, Ruthless Criticism:
New Perspectives in U.S. Communication History (Minneapolis : University
of Minnesota Press, 1993). Chapter 10. McChesney, R., Conflict not
consensus. RBR
Holdings; NUS
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Orson Welles:
Frank Brady, Citizen Welles: a Biography of Orson Welles (New
York : Scribner, 1989). NUS
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Charles Higham, Orson Welles: The Rise and Fall of an American Genius
(Sevenoaks,
Kent: New English Library, 1986). NUS
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David Thomson, Rosebud: The Story of Orson Welles (New York:
Alfred A. Knopf, 1996). NUS
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Links will be added to the following after
lectures:
Lecture Outline
Study Guide