Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article:
Cultural Imperialism: A Critical Introduction By John Tomlinson.
A Social History of British Broadcasting: Volume 1. 1922–1939, Serving the Nation By Paddy Scannell & David Cardiff.
Technology Policy for Small Developing Countries By David J. C. Forsyth.
Voices of China: The Interplay of Politics and Journalism By Chin-Chuan Lee (Ed.).
The Invisible Weapon Telecommunications and International Politics 1851–1945 By Daniel K. Headrick.
Postmodern Jurisprudence: The Law of Texts in the Texts of Law By Costas Douzinas & Ronnie Warrington with Shaun McVeigh.
Contested Culture: The Image, the Voice and the Law By Jane M. Gaines.     

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Out of Order By Thomas E. Patterson.
Fables of Abundance: A Cultural History of Advertising in America By T. J. Jackson Lears.
Through Jaundiced Eyes: How the Media View Organized Labor By William J. Puette.
The New Labor Press: Journalism for a Changing Union Movement By Sam Pizzigati and Fred J. Solowey (Eds.)
Adult Comics: An Introduction By Roger Sabin.
Cartoonometer: Taking the Puke of the World's Cartoonists By Joe Szabo and John A. Lent.
Africa on Film: Beyond Black and White By Kenneth M. Cameron.
The Alphabet Abecedarium: Some Notes on Letters . By Richard A. Firmage.
The New Typography . By Jan Tschichold. (Ruari McLean, Trans.).
Sampling the Book: Renaissance Prologues and the French Conteurs . By Deborah N. Losse.
The Burnt Book: Reading the Talmud . By Marc-Alain Ouaknin.
Scholarly Publishing: The Electronic Frontier . By Robin P. Peek & Gregory B. Newby (Eds.)     

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Television and the Crisis of Democracy By Douglas Kellner.
The World Television Industry: An Economic Analysis By Peter J. S. Dunnett.
The Age Of Behetmths: The Globalization of Mas Media Firms By Anthony Smith/reviewed By Douglas M. McLeod
Inside Family Viewing: Ethnographic Research on Television's Audiences By James Lull.
Games and Sets: The Changing Face of Sport on Television By Steven Barnett.
Border Dialogues: Journeys in Postmodernity By Ian Chambers.
Enacting Political Culture: Rhetorical Transformations of Liberty Weekend 1986 By David E. Procter.
From The Avengers to Miami Vice : Form and Ideology in Television Series By David Buxton.
The Many Lives of the Batman Edited By Roberta E. Pearson and William Uricchio.
Pray TV: Televangelism in America By Steve Bruce.
Berlin Calling: American Broadcasters in Service to the Third Reich By John Carver Edwards.
FDR and the News Media By Betty Houchin Winfield.
Canadian Dreams and American Control: The Political Economy of the Canadian Film Industry By Manjunath Pendakur.
Profiles of Deception How the News Media Are Deceiving the American People By Reed Irvine and Cliff Kincaid.
Unreliable Sources: A Guide to Detecting Bias in News Media By Martin A. Lee and Norman Solomon.
The Press, Presidents, and Crises By Brigitte Lebens Nacos.
The Media and Foreign Policy Edited By Simon Serfaty.
Social Conflict and Television News By Akiba A. Cohen, Hanna Adoni, and Charles R. Bantz.
Mass Media and the Caribbean Edited By Stuart H. Surlin and Walter C. Soderlund.
Mass Communications in the Caribbean By John A. Lent.
Caribbean Popular Culture Edited By John A. Lent.     

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The Kosovo News and Propaganda War Edited by Peter Goff.
The Good Citizen: A History of American Civic Life By Michael Schudson
Negotiating Identity: Communicating Across Cultures By Stella Ting-Toomey.
Leapfrogging Development: The Political Economy of Telecommunications Restructuring By J. P. Singh.
Telecommunications in Africa Edited by Eli M. Noam.
On Line and on Paper: Visual Representations, Visual Culture, and Computer Graphics in Design Engineering By Kathryn Henderson.
Women Who Made the News: Female Journalists in Canada, 1880–1945 By Marjory Lang.
A Woman of the Times: Journalism, Feminism, and the Career of Charlotte Curtis By Marilyn S. Greenwald.
Speaking of Abortion: Television and Authority in the Lives of Women By Andrea L. Press and Elizabeth R. Cole.
Communicating Uncertainty: Media Coverage of New and Controversial Science Edited by Sharon M. Friedman, Sharon Dunwoody, and Carol L. Rogers.
What Are Journalists For By Jay Rosen.
Impersonal Influence: How Perceptions of Mass Collectives Affect Political Attitudes By Diana C. Mutz.     

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Feminism & Film . Edited by E. Ann Kaplan.
My Sense of Silence: Memoirs of a Childhood With Deafness By Lennard J. Davis.
Science and an African Logic By Helen Verran.
Understanding Disney: The Manufacture of Fantasy By Janet Wasko.
American Pragmatism and Communication Research Edited by David K. Perry.
Republic.com By Cass Sunstein.
Public Intellectuals: A Study of Decline By Richard A. Posner.
Color of Rape: Gender and Race in Television's Public Sphere By Sujata Moorti.     

Book Reviews

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When the Nazis Came to Skokie: Freedom for Speech We Hate By Philippa Strum.
Digital Capitalism: Networking the Global Market System By Dan Schiller.
Communications Policy and the Public Interest: The Telecommunications Act of 1996 By Patricia Aufderheide.
City Reading: Written Words and Public Spaces in Antebellum New York By David M. Henkin.
The Internationalization of Television in China: The Evolution of Ideology, Society, and Media Since the Reform By Junhao Hong.
Latin American Television: A Global View By John Sinclair.
Constructing the Quebec Referendum: French and English Media Voices By Gertrude J. Robinson.
Tough Girls: Women, Warriors and Wonder Women in Popular Culture By Sherrie A.
Themes and Issues in Asian Cartooning: Cute, Cheap, Mad and Sexy Edited by John A. Lent.     

BOOK REVIEWS

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T heory and R esearch in the C ommunicative A rts . By Ernest G. Bormann of the University of Minnesota.
M anagement C ommunication on C ontroversial I ssues . By C. J. Dover.
A ttitude and A ttitude C hange : T he S ocial J udgment -I nvolvement A pproach . By Carolyn W. Sherif, Muzafer Sherif, and Roger E. Nebergall.
T he O pinionmakers . By William L. Rivers.
C lassical R hetoric for the M odern S tudent . By Edward P. J. Corbett.
L inguistics and E nglish G rammar . By H. A. Gleason, Jr.
Books In Breif
A merican and R ussians : R eadings with E xercises in C omposition . By Doris R. Sharpe
T he T heory of M orals . By M. Timur
T he W riting R equirements for G raduate D egrees . By Paul E. Koefod of the University of Florida.
R hetroric : A T ext -R eader on L anguage and I ts U ses By Jim W. Corder of Texas Christian University.
H ow to I mprove Y our S peaking V oice . By Georgiana Peacher     

Book Reviews

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Reporting the Arab-Israeli Conflict: How Hegemony Works By Tamar Liebes.
Hitler's Airwaves: The Inside Story of Nazi Radio Broadcasting and Propaganda Swing By Horst J. P. Bergmeier and Rainer E. Lotz.
Free Speech in Its Forgotten Years By David M. Rabban.
Spactular Nature: Corporate Culture and the Sea World Experience By Susan G. Davis.
Creating Country Music: Fabricating Authenticity By Richard A. Peterson.
White By Richard Dyer.
Time for Life: The Surprising Ways Americans Use Their Time By John P. Robinson and Geoffrey Godbey.     

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power of words . By Stuart Chase.
understanding grammar . By Paul Roberts.
essays on thinxing and writing . By W. Paul Jones.
current trends in information theory . By Brockway McMillan and others.
communciation and persuasion: psychological studies of opinion change . By Carl I. Hovland, Irving L. Janis, and Harold H. Kelley.
annual review of psychology . Edited by Calvin P. Stone and Quinn McNemar.
the living brain . By W. Grey Walter.     

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Book reviewed in this article:
Framing the Past: The Historiography of German Cinema and Television By Bruce A. Murray & Christopher J. Wickham (Eds.).
As Seen on TV: The Visual Culture of Everyday Life in the 1950s By Karal Ann Marling.
Creativity and Popular Culture By David Holbrook.     

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Gender, Race, and Class in Media: A Text-Reader (2nd ed.) Edited by Gail Dines amp; Jean M. Humez.
Cyberactivism: Online Activism in Theory and Practice Edited by Martha McCaughey & Michael D. Ayers.
Contesting Identities: Sports in American Film By Aaron Baker.
The Persuasion Handbook: Developments in Theory and Practice Edited by James Price Dillard & Michael Pfau.
Collective Behavior and Public Opinion: Rapid Shifts in Opinion and Communication By Jaap van Ginneken.     

Book Reviews

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Telecommunications, Mass Media, and Democracy: The Battle for the Control of U.S. Broadcasting, 1928–1935 By Robert W. McChesney.
The Making of Exile Cultures: Iranian Television in Los Angeles By Hamid Nancy.
The Ambivalent Welcome: Print Media, Public Opinion, and Immigration By Rita J. Simon and Susan Alexander.
Media Systems in Society: Understanding Industries, Strategies, and Power By Joseph Turow.
Enterprising Women: Television Fandom and the Creation of Popular Myth By Camille Bacon-Smith.
Film Hieroglyphs: Ruptures in Classical Cinema By Tom Conley.
Information & Frontiers: Roman Foreign Relations in Late Antiquity . By A. D. Lee.
Language and Economy . By Florian Coulmas.
Communication and Citizenship: Journalism and the Public Sphere in the New Media Age . By Peter Dahlgren & Colin Sparks (Eds.).
The Global City: New York, London, Tokyo . By Saskia Sassen.
Perilous States: Conversations on Culture, Politics, and Nation . By George E. Marcus (Ed.).     

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M ethods of R esearch in C ommunication . Edited by Philip Emmert and William D. Brooks.
E ssays in H onor of C. M. W ise . Edited by Arthur J. Bronstein, Claude L. Shaver, and Cj Stevens.
S ocial I nteraction . By Michael Argyle
S peech in the C lassroom : 2nd Edition. By Donald E. Ecroyd
T elevision and D elinquency : Television Research Committee Working Paper No. 3. By J. D. Halloran, R. L. Brown, and D. C. Chaney
T he C ommunicative A rts : A n I ntroducxion to M ass M edia . By Charles S. Steinberg
P lease T ouch : A G uided T our of the H uman P otential M ovement . By Jane Howard.
S trategic I nteracxion . By Erving Goffman     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article:
C ognitive A nthropology : R eadings . Edited by Stephen A. Tyler
P ersonality and I ntekpersonal B ehavior . By Robert Freed Bales
S peech -C ommunication : T heory and M odels . By Raymond G. Smith
P ublic R elations and S urvey R esearch . By Edward J. Robinson
P ersuasion : S peech and B ehavioral C hange . By Gary Cronkhite
M ass C ommunications . 2nd Edition. Edited by Wilbur Schramni
C onceptual F rontiers in S peech -C ommunication , Report of the New Orleans Conference on Research and Instructional Development . Edited by Robert J. Kibler and Larry L. Barker
A R iietoric of M otives . By Kenneth Burke
T he L anguage of the T ransference . By David W. Shave.
R hetoric of our T imes . By J. Jeffery Auer
P roblems and C ontroversies in T elevision and R adio , B asic R eadings . Edited by Harry J. Skornia and Jack William Kitson     

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Book reviewed in this article:
Books: A Review of Selected Basic Speech Books Dealing with Speech-Communication: 1965–1969. J ames V. F ee
I nterpersonal C oumumcation in the m odern O rganization . By Ernest G. Bormann, William S. Howell, Ralph G. Nichols, and George L. Shapiro
T he G olden W eb . By Erik Barnouw
R eport W riting for B usiness . By Raymond V. Lesikar
S peech : S cience -A rt . By Elwood Murray, Gerald M. Phillips, and J. David Truby
D iffusion of A bstracting and I ndexing S ervices for G overnment -S ponsored R esearch . By Irving M. Klempner
V erbal L earning . By John Jung
T elevision and the N ews : A C ritical A ppraisal . By Harry J. Skornia
H ow C hildren L earn to S peak . By Maurice Sklar
A n A nnotated B ibliography of S tatistical S tylistics . Compiled and edited by Richard W. Bailey and Lubomir Dolezel.
A D ictionary of T erms and C oncepts in R eading , 2nd edition. Delwyn G. Schubert
G uide to G athering I nformation in F ace to F ace I nterviews . By Morris Balsky.     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article:
Hollywood's Overseas Campaign: The North Atlantic Movie Trade, 1920–1950 By Ian Jarvie.
Place/Culture/Representation By James Duncan & David Ley (Eds.).
Cyberia: Life in the Trenches of Hyperspace . By Douglas Rushkoff.
Bad Aboriginal Art: Tradition, Media and Technological Horizons . By Eric Michaels.
Apocalypse and/or Metamorphosis . By Norman O. Brown.
Science on the Run: Information Management and Industrial Geophysics at Schlumberger, 1920–1940 . By Geoffrey C. Bowker.
Six Walks in the Fictional Woods . By Umberto Eco.
Frame Reflection: Toward the Resolution of Intractable Policy Controversies . By Donald A. Schon & Martin Rein.     

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S cholar's G uide to J ournals of E ducation and E ducational P sychology . By L. Joseph Lins and Robert A. Rees
I nterpersonal C ommunication : S urvey and S tudies . By Dean C. Barnlund.
C ommunicatton and C ommunication S ystems . By Lee Thayer
C ommunication and O rganizational B ehavior : T ext and C ases . By William V. Haney
C ommunication for the C hurch . By Raymond W. McLaughlin
R eadings in A rgumentation . Edited by Jerry M. Anderson and Paul J. Dovre
B asic T echnical W riting . 2nd ed. By Herman M. Weisman
P ractical M ethods in S peech . By Harold Barrett
S tammefung : I ts C orrection T hrough the R e -E ducation of the S peech F unction . By Ronald Muriden.
M ilton and the M iltonic D ryden . By Anne Davidson Ferry
T he T ransparent S elf . By Sidney M. Jourard
I ndividualized R eading : A n A nnotated B ibliography . By Sam Duker
T he S chools H ave F ailed U s . By William A. Burgett
R eading D iagnosis and R emediation . By Ruth Strang
T rends and P racxices in S econdary R eading . By Sterl Artley     

REVIEWS

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DEVELOPING PERFORMANCE STANDARDS FOR SUPERVISORS. By Thomas O. Gilson. New York: American Management Association, 1955; pp. 104. Paper bound.
PREFACE TO EMPATHY. By David A. Stewart.
PRACTICAL PROSE STUDIES. By Robert O. Bowen.
THE GROWTH AND STRUCTURE OF MOTIVES. By James Olds.
A merican E nglish in its C ultural S etting . By Donald J. Lloyd and Harry R. Warfel.
the S taff R ole in M anagement . By Robert C. Sampson.
E xperimental P sychology . Edited by B. A. Farrell.
AMERICAN PHILOSOPHY. Edited by Ralph B. Winn.
A merican P ublic A ddresses : 1740–1952. Edited by A. Craig Baird.
DICTIONARY OF LINGUISTICS. By Mario A. Pei and Frank Gaynor.
DICTIONARY OF NEW WORDS. By Mary Reifer.
BEING AND NOTHINGNESS; AN ESSAY ON PHENOMENOLOGICAL ONTOLOGY. By Jean-Paul Sartre.     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article:
Organizational Communication by Gerald M. Goldhaber.
Readings in Interpersonal and Organizational Communication by Richard C. Huseman, Cal M. Logue, and Dwight L. Freshley.
Popular Culture and High Culture: An Analysis and Evaluation of Taste by Herbert J. Gans.
The Pulitzer Prizes by John Hohenberg.
On Message Structure by Ragnar Rommetveit.
Congress and the News Media , edited with notes and commentaries by Robert O. Blanchard.
Mass Communication Research: Major Issues and Future Directions , edited by W. Phillips Davison and Frederick T. C. Yu.
Change: Principles of Problem Formation and Problem Resolution by Paul Watzlawick, John Weakland, and Richard Fisch.
Nonverbal Communication by Ellen Steele McCardle.
Public Opinion: Micro and Macro by James J. Best.
About Documentary: Anthropology on Film. A Philosophy of People and Art by Robert Edmonds.
Handbook for Proxemic Research by Edward T. Hall.
Mass Media: An Introduction to Modern Communication by Ray Eldon Hiebert, Donald F. Ungurait, and Thomas W. Bohn.     

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Book reviewed in this article:
It's Not Only Rock and Roll: Popular Music in the Lives of Adolescents By Peter G. Christenson and Donald F. Roberts.
Talk Is Cheap: Sarcasm, Alienation, and the Evolution of Language By John Haiman.
Remembering to Forget: Holocaust Memory Through the Camera's Eye By Barbie Zelizer.
Masked Men: Masculinity and the Movies in the Fifties By Steven Cohan.
The Decline and Fall of Public Service Broadcasting By Michael Tracey.
Advertising Progress: American Business and the Rise of Consumer Marketing By Pamela Walker Laird.
Creating the Corporate Soul: The Rise of Public Relations and Corporate Imagery in American Big Business By Roland Marchand.
High Technology and Low-Income Communities: Prospects for the Positive Use of Advanced Information Technology Edited by Donald Schön, Bish Sanyal, & William J. Mitchell.