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Davis, Blair, “Small Screen, Smaller Pictures: Television Broadcasting and B-Movies in the Early 1950s,” Historical Journal of Film, Radio, and Television (Abingdon), 28 (June 2008), 219–38.

Fickers, Andreas, “Presenting the ‘Window on the World’ to the World: Competing Narratives of the Presentation of Television at the World’s Fairs in Paris (1937) and New York (1939),” Historical Journal of Film, Radio, and Television (Abingdon), 28 (Aug. 2008), 291–310.

Hutchison, Phillip J., and Richard V. Birley, “Marshal J and Cap’n Ken: The Lost History of Live Local Television in Fifties America,” Historical Journal of Film, Radio, and Television (Abingdon), 28 (Aug. 2008), 371–90.

Kackman, Michael, “Nothing On but Hoppy Badges: Hopalong Cassidy, William Boyd Enterprises, and Emergent Media Globalization,” Cinema Journal, 47 (Summer 2008), 76–101.

MacLennan, Anne F., “Women, Radio Broadcasting, and the Depression: A ‘Captive’ Audience from Household Hints to Story Time and Serials,” Women’s Studies, 37 (Sept. 2008), 616–33.

Perlman, Allison Joyce, “Reforming the Wasteland: Television, Reform, and Social Movements, 1950–2004” (University of Texas, Austin, 2007). Order No. DA3277618.

Tahmahkera, Dustin, “Custer’s Last Sitcom: Decolonized Viewing of the Sitcom’s ‘Indian,’” American Indian Quarterly, 32 (Summer 2008), 324–51.

 

Jenkins, Tricia Anne, “The Female Agen(t)cy: Gender and Nationalism in American Primetime Espionage Series (1950–2006)” (Michigan State University, 2007). Order No. DA3282130.

Trammell, James Young, “The Power of Religious Media Criticism: An Analysis of the Christian Film and Television Commission, 1985–2005” (University of Iowa, 2007). Order No. DA3281414.

 

Berry, Chad, ed., The Hayloft Gang: The Story of the National Barn Dance. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2008. xii, 215 pp. Cloth, $65.00, isbn 978-0-252-03353-7. Paper, $24.95, isbn 978-0-252-07557-5.)

Feldges, Benedikt, American Icons: The Genesis of a National Visual Language. (New York: Routledge, 2008. viii, 288 pp. $95.00, isbn 978-0-415-95635-2.)

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