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• Harris, Daniel. Cute, Quaint, hungry and Romantic, 2000
• McCarthy, Anna. Ambient Television, Duke University Press, 2001
• Foucault, Michele. Discipline and Punish; The Birth of the Prison,1995
• Foucault, Michele. Fearless Speech, 2001
• Goldman, Robert. Reading Ads Socially, 1992
• Ewen, Stuart. All Consuming Images, 1999
• Ewen, Stuart. Captains of Consciousness, 1977
• Mander, Jerry. Four Arguments on the Elimination of TV
• Bennett, Mark. TV Sets: Fantasy Blueprints of Classic TV Homes
• Crimp, Douglas. Pictures, 1977
• Berger, Paul. Seattle Subtext
• Dent, Gina. Black Popular Culture (Discussions in Contemporary Culture)
• Tropiano, Stephen. The Prime Time Closet: History of Gays and Lesbians on TV
• Schiller, Herbert. Culture, Inc.: The Corporate Takeover of Public Expression
• Auslander, Philip. 1999. Liveness: Performance in a Mediatized Culture. New York: Routledge.
• The Imperial Imaginary,’ Ella Shohat and Robert Stam, In Unthinking Eurocentrism: Multiculturalism and the Media, 100-136. London, England: Routledge, 1994
• Boorstin, Daniel. 1987. The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-events in America. New York: Athenaeum. First published in 1961.
• Carey, James. 1988. Communication As Culture: Essays on Media and Society.
• Couldry, Nick. 2003. “Rethinking Media Events,” in Media Rituals: A Critical Approach. New York: Routledge.
• Curran, James. 1982. "Communications, Power and Social Order." In Gurevitch, M., Bennet, T., et al (eds.).
• Czitrom, Daniel. 1990. Media and the American Mind: From Morse to McLuhan. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press.
• Dayan, Daniel and Katz, Elihu. 1992. Media Events: The Live Broadcasting of History. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
• Brantlinger, Patrick. 1983. Bread and Circuses: Theories of Mass Culture as Social Decay.
• Caldwell, John Thornton. 1995. Televisuality: Style, Crisis and Authority in American Television. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press.
• Ewen, Stuart. 1988. All Consuming Images: The Politics of Style in Contemporary Culture.
• The New York Times Magazine. "Heroine Worship: Inventing an Identity in the Age of Female Icons. “A Special Issue." November 24, 1996. An interesting look at contemporary female imagery.
• Eagleton, Terry. The Idea of Culture. 2000. London: Blackwell Publishers.
• Faludi, Susan. "The Masculine Mystique." Esquire. 126:6, December, 1996.
• Fiske, John. 1996. Media Matters: Politics: Everyday Culture and Political Change. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
• Hall, Ann C. and Mardia J. Bishop, eds. 2007. Pop-Porn: Pornography in American Culture. Praeger, Westport CT.
• Hall, Stuart. 1998. Ed. Representation: Cultural Representations and Cultural Practices. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications [In Association with The Open University].
• Kellner, Douglas. 1995. Media Culture: Cultural Studies, Identity and Politics Between the Modern and the Postmodern. London: Routledge.
• Levine, Lawrence W. 1984. “William Shakespeare and the American People: A Study in Cultural Transformation” in Rethinking Popular Culture: Contemporary Perspectives in Cultural Studies. Eds. Chandra Mukerji and Michael Schudson. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1991.
• Highbrow, Lowbrow: The Emergence of Cultural Hierarchy in America. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. 1998
• Marc, David. 1997. Comic Visions: Television Comedy and American Culture. 2nd edition. Malden MA: Blackwell Publishers.
• Marcus, Greil. 1997. Invisible Republic: Bob Dylan's Basement Tapes. A subterranean history of an important aspect of modern music. New York: Henry Holt.
• Miller, Mark Crispin. 1992. (Ed.). Seeing Through Movies. New York: Pantheon Books.
• McLuhan, M. Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man. Cambridge MA : The MIT Press, 1964.
• Mukerji, Chandra and Michael Schudson, Eds.1991. Rethinking Popular Culture: Contemporary Perspectives in Cultural Studies. Berkeley: University of California Press.
• Murray, Susan and Laurie Ouellette. 2004. Reality TV: Remaking Television Culture. New York: New York University Press.
• Real, Michael R. 1996. “Historical/Ethical Interpretation: Reconstructing the Quiz Show Scandal,” in Exploring Media Culture: A Guide. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
• Rothenberg, Randall. "The Age of Spin." Esquire. 126:6, December, 1996. This is a reworking of Ewen’s ideas in PR, along with a “story interview” with Stuart Ewen.
• Schudson, Michael. Discovering the News: A Social History of American News. New York: Basic Books, 1978.
• Simon, Richard. 1999. Trash Culture: Popular Culture and the Great Tradition. Berkeley, CA, University of California Press.
• Storey, John. 1998. An Introduction to Cultural Theory and Popular Culture. 3nd edition. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press.
• Snyder, Robert W. 1994. "The Vaudeville Circuit: A Prehistory of the Mass Audience." in James S. Ettema and D. Charles Whitney (Eds.) 1994.
• Audiencemaking: How the Media Create the Audience. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
• Stephens, Mitchell. A History of News: From the Drum to the Satellite. New York: Penguin Books, 1988.
• Twitchell, James B. 1992. Carnival Culture: The Trashing of Taste in America. New York: Columbia University Press.