Recent Scholarship
Mass Communications
Altheide, David L., “The Columbine Shootings and the Discourse of Fear,” American Behavioral Scientist, 52 (June 2009), 1354–70.
Arceneaux, Noah, “A Sales Floor in the Sky: Philadelphia Department Stores and the Radio Boom of the 1920s,” Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media, 53 (March 2009), 76–89.
Blue, Mary, and Vanessa Murphree, “‘Stoke the Joke’ and His ‘Self-Appointed White Critics’: A Clash of Values on Network Television News, 1966–70,” Media History (Abingdon), 15 (May 2009), 205–20.
Brinson, Susan L., “Politics and Defense: The fcc’s Radio Intelligence Division, 1940–1947,” Journal of Radio and Audio Media, 16 (Jan. 2009), 2–16.
Frymer, Benjamin, “The Media Spectacle of Columbine: Alienated Youth as an Object of Fear,” American Behavioral Scientist, 52 (June 2009), 1387–404.
Graham, Sarah Ellen, “American Propaganda, the Anglo-American Alliance, and the Delicate Question of Indian Self-Determination,” Diplomatic History, 33 (April 2009), 223–59.
Hayes, Danny, “Has Television Personalized Voting Behavior?,” Political Behavior, 31 (June 2009), 231–60.
Jenkins, Chadwick, “A Question of Containment: Duke Ellington and Early Radio,” American Music, 26 (Winter 2008), 415–41.
Kuryla, Peter, “Parties down at the Square amid Courtroom Melodramas: A Reconsideration of the Modern Civil Rights Movement Demonstration,” Patterns of Prejudice (London), 43 (Feb. 2009), 17–40.
Russo, Alexander, “An American Right to an ‘Unannoyed Journey’? Transit Radio as a Contested Site of Public Space and Private Attention, 1949–1952,” Historical Journal of Film, Radio, and Television (Abingdon), 29 (March 2009), 1–25.
Ryan, Patrick A., and Sevan G. Terzian, “Our Miss Brooks: Broadcasting Domestic Ideals for the Female Teacher in the Postwar United States,” National Women’s Studies Association Journal, 21 (Spring 2009), 76–100.
Spencer, J. William, “The Contested Meaning of the Crosses at Columbine,” American Behavioral Scientist, 52 (June 2009), 1371–86.
Stoneman, Timothy, “A Bold New Vision: The voa Radio Ring Plan and Global Broadcasting in the Early Cold War,” Technology and Culture, 50 (April 2009), 316–44.
Clifton, David J. G., “Weapons of Mass Destruction, Terrorism, and Regime Change: Political Linguistics and the 2003 Invasion of Iraq” (York University, Canada, 2008). Order No. DANR38997.
Eaton, Rebecca Marie Doran, “Unheard Minimalisms: The Functions of the Minimalist Technique in Film Scores” (University of Texas, Austin, 2008). Order No. DA3311447.
Foss, Katherine Ann, “The Heroic Doctor and the Foolish Patient: Constructions of Health Responsibility in Medical Dramas, 1994–2007” (University of Minnesota, 2008). Order No. DA3311425.
Franklin, Morris Emory, III, “Do Not Attempt to Adjust the Picture: The Cold War Crisis of Liberal Democracy and Science Fiction Television” (University of Utah, 2008). Order No. DA3318512.
Gamache, Raymond W., “Evolution of the Sportscast Highlight Form: From Peep Show to Pathé to Pastiche” (University of Maryland, College Park, 2008). Order No. DA3315425.
Hunter, Robert E., “Fingers on the Button: American Atomic Policy in Mainstream Film, Radio, and Television, 1945–1960” (University of Illinois, Chicago, 2008). Order No. DA3316734.
Jeffries, Fiona E., “Against the New Enclosures: Communicational Insurgencies as Practices of Anti-fear” (Simon Fraser University, Canada, 2007). Order No. DANR441011.
Kachgal, Tara Marie, “Gay Male and Lesbian Youth in the American (tv) Family: Understanding Their Representation on U.S. Television in the Early 2000s” (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 2008). Order No. DA3315646.
Schauer, Terrie, “Spectacles of Prison: Masculinities, Punishment, and Social Order in U.S. Screen Prison Drama, 1995–2005” (Simon Fraser University, Canada, 2007). Order No. DANR41025.
Schulte, Stephanie Ricker, “State Technology to State of Being: The Making of the Internet in Global Popular Culture (1980–2000)” (George Washington University, 2008). Order No. DA3311406.
Somani, Indira S., “Enculturation and Acculturation of Television Use among Asian Indians in the U.S.” (University of Maryland, College Park, 2008). Order No. DA3307807.
Gorman, Lyn, and David McLean, Media and Society into the 21st Century: A Historical Introduction. (Malden: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009. vi, 374 pp. Paper, $40.00, isbn 978-1-4051-4935-8.)
Jones, John Bush, All-Out for Victory! Magazine Advertising and the World War II Home Front. (Waltham: Brandeis University Press, 2009. xiv, 314 pp. $50.00, isbn 978-1-58465-768-2.)
Kelman, Ari Y., Station Identification: A Cultural History of Yiddish Radio in the United States. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009. xviii, 279 pp. $39.95, isbn 978-0-520-25573-9.)
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