Readings

SUPPLEMENTAL READING LIST

The supplemental reading files can be found in the Assignment folder on our course Blackboard site once it goes live.

Collins, S. (2008). Making the most out of 15 minutes. Television & New Media 9(2), 87-110.

Gray, H. (2000). The politics of representation in network television. In H. Newcomb (Ed.). Television: The critical view (6th ed.) (pp. 282-305). New York: Oxford University Press.

Danesi, M. (2008). Popular culture: Introductory perspectives. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.

Ellcessor, L. (2009, May). People I want to know: Twitter, celebrity and social connection. FlowTV, 9(14) Retrieved May 4, 2010 from Flow TV website: http://flowtv.org/?p=3954

Martin, F. (2003). Theorizing the everyday. In F. Martin (Ed.). Interpreting everyday culture (pp. 11-14). London: Hodder Education.

O’Shaugnessy, M., & Stadler, J. (2008). Stars and celebrities. In M. O’Shaugnessy & J. Stadler (Eds.). Media & Society (4th ed.) (pp. 422-441). South Melbourne: Oxford.

ARTICLE REVIEW LIST
1. Carroll, H. (2008). Men’s soaps: Automotive television programming and contemporary working-class masculinities. Television & New Media 9(4), 263-283.
2. Mayer, V. (2005). Soft-core in TV time: The political economy of a “cultural trend.” Critical Studies in Media Communication 22(4), 302-320.
3. Stern, D. (2009). Consuming the fractured female: Lessons from MTV’s The Real World. Communication Review 12, 50-77.
4.  Nama, A. (2009). R Is for Race, Not Rocket: Black Representation in American Science Fiction Cinema. Quarterly Review of Film & Video, 26(2), 155-166.
5. Sconce, J. (2007). A vacancy at the Paris Hilton. In J. Gray, C. Sandvoss, & C. L. Harrington (Eds.). Fandom: Identities and communities in a mediated world (pp. 328-343). New York: New York University Press.

The assigned essays for the article reviews will be available  on Blackboard.