Books About Television
recommended by Frank Baker
 

Big World, Small Screen  The Role of Television in American Society   Huston, et al.  University of Nebraska Press,  ISBN 0-8032-7263-4

Boxed In, The Culture of TV   Mark Crispin Miller    Northwestern University Press,  ISBN# 0-8101-0792-9 (Paperback)

Changing Channels  Living (Sensibly) with Television  Peggy Charren/ Martin W.Sandler, Addison-Wesley, ISBN 0-201-07254-8

Creating Television: Conversations With the People Behind 50 Years of American TV  Robert Kubey, LEA, ISBN 0-8058-1077-3 

Critical Viewing of Television, A Book for Parents and Teachers    Ibrahim M. Hefzallah, University Press of America, 
ISBN# 0-8191-6107-1

How to Watch TV News   Neil Postman, Steve Powers  Penguin Books, ISBN 0-14-013231-7

Literacy in the Television Age, The Myth of the TV Effect (2nd Ed) Susan B. Neuman, Ablex Publishing, ISBN 1-56750-162-1

The Looking Glass World of Nonfiction TV   Elayne Rapping, South End Press, ISBN 0-89608-281-4

The Parent's Guide: Use TV to Your Child's Advantage Dorothy G. Singer, Ed.D., Jerome L. Singer, Ph. D., Diana M. Zuckerman, Ph.D.

Reading Television   John Fiske and John Hartley, Methuen & Co. Ltd., ISBN 0-416-85560-1

Remote Control, Television and the Manipulation of American Life   Frank Mankiewicz and Joel Swerdlow, Times Books,  ISBN 0-8129-0649-7

The Sweeps  Behind the Scenes in Network TV   Mark Christensen and Cameron Stauth  Bantham Books, 
ISBN 0-553-34223-1

Television  Critical Methods and Applications   Jeremy G. Butler   Wadsworth, ISBN 0-534-16686-5  http://web.archive.org/web/20060427011954/http://www.tvcrit.org/

Television "Critical Viewing Skills" Education   Major Media Literacy Projects in the United States and Selected Countries    James A. Brown   Erlbaum, ISBN 0-8058-0786-1

Television  A Media Student's Guide   David McQueen    Oxford Univ. Press, ISBN #0-340-70604-X

Television and the Quality of Life  How Viewing Shapes Everyday Experiences    Robert Kubey and Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, LEA, ISBN  0-8058-0708-X

Television and the American Child   George Comstock with Haejung Paik, Academic Press, ISBN 0-12-183575-8

Television and Child Development (2nd Ed)  Judith Van Evra, LEA, ISBN 0-8058-2801-X

Television and the Crisis of Democracy  Douglas Kellner  Westview Press,  ISBN# 0-8133-0549-7

Television and Social Behavior  Reports and Papers, Volume 1: Media Content and Control  George A Comstock and Eli A. Rubinstein editors        A Technical Report to the Surgeon General's Scientific Advisory Committee on Television and Social Behavior, Dept of Health,   Education and Welfare No. HSM 72-9057

Television in the Lives of Our Children   Wilbur Schramm, Jack Lyle and Edwin B. Parker, Stanford University Press, ISBN 0-8047-0064-8

Watching Television, A Pantheon Guide to Popular Culture   Todd Gitlin, Editor  Pantheon Books, ISBN 0-394-74651-1 (paperback)