July-Sept 2012 Media Journal

July

Ted (Seth McFarlane, 2012)

Newman, Michael Z. Indie:  An American Film Culture.  New York:  Columbia University Press, 2011.

Thumbsucker (Mike Mills, 2005)

Louie (Season 3)

Newsroom (Season 1)

Weeds (Season 8)

Horrible Bosses (Seth Gordon, 2011)

Waitress! (Michael Herz and Lloyd Kaufman, 1981)

Anger Management (Season 1)

McDonald, Christopher J. Rush, Rock Music, and the Middle Class:  Dreaming in Middletown. Bloomington:  University of Indiana Press, 2009.

Episodes (Season 2)

Savages (Oliver Stone, 2012).

Hung (Season 3)

Take This Waltz (Sarah Polley, 2011).

The Hold Steady at Royale Boston (Boston, MA)

The Wire (Season 4)

Hayes, Christopher.  Twilight of the Elites:  America After Meritocracy.  New York:  Crown Publishers, 2012.

Newman, Michael Z. and Elana Levine. Legitimating Television:  Media Convergence and Cultural Status. New York: Routledge, 2012.

August

Safety Not Guaranteed (Colin Trevarrow, 2012)

The Campaign (Jay Roach, 2012)

Project X (Nima Nourizadeh, 2012)

Jeff, Who Lives at Home (Jay Duplass and Mark Duplass, 2012)

Dawes – North Hills (Ato, 2009)

Dead Milkmen – The King in Yellow (Quid Ergo, 2011)

The Gaslight Anthem – Handwritten (Mercury, 2012)

The Gaslight Anthem – The ’59 Sound (Side One Dummy, 2008)

The Gaslight Anthem – American Slang (Side One Dummy, 2010)

The Hunger Games (Gary Ross, 2012)

Fiona Apple – The Idler Wheel… (Epic, 2012)

The Rum Diary (Bruce Robinson, 2011)

The Gaslight Anthem (XOXO Records, 2007)

Dawes – Nothing is Wrong (Ato, 2011)

Casa de mi Padre (Matt Piedmont, 2012)

Wanderlust (David Wain, 2012)

Bishop, Bill. The Big Sort: Why the Clustering of Like-Minded America is Tearing Us Apart. Boston, Mariner Books, 2008

The Flaming Lips and Heady Fwends (Warner Brothers, 2012)

The Sitter (David Gordon Green, 2011)

Martha Marcy May Marlene (Sean Durkin, 2011)

Kimmel, Michael. Guyland: The Perilous World Where Boys Become Men. New York:  Harper Collins, 2008

The Ides of March (George Clooney, 2011)

Hick (Derick Martini, 2011)

The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, pt. 1 (Bill Condon, 2011)

Shell, Ellen Ruppel. Cheap: The High Cost of Discount Culture. New York: Penguin, 2009.

21 Jump Street (Phil Lord & Christopher Miller, 2012)

Tim and Eric’s Billion Dollar Movie (Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim, 2012)

The Perfect Family (Anne Renton, 2011)

Everything Must Go (Dan Rush, 2010)

Alabama Shakes – Boys & Girls (Ato, 2012)

Moneyball (Bennett Miller, 2011)

The Change-Up (David Dobkin, 2011)

Willie Nelson – Building Heartaches (Delta, 1999)

September

Little River Band – One Night in Mississippi (Abstract Sounds, 2008)

The Day He Arrives (Sang-soo Hong, 2011)

Go On (Season 1)

The New Normal (Season 1)

Revolution (Season 1)

Bachelorette (Leslye Headland, 2012)

Patterson Hood – Heat Lightning Rumbles in the Distance (Ato, 2012)

The Killers – Battle Born (Island, 2012)

The Master (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2012)

Ben Folds Five – The Sound of the Life of the Mind (Self Released, 2012)

The Supersuckers at Local 662 (St. Petersburg, FL)

The Office (Season 9)

Parks and Recreation (Season 5)

Cateforis, Theo. Are We Not New Wave?: Modern Pop at the Turn of the 1980s. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2011.

Animal Practice (Season 1)

Khan, Abraham Iqbal. Curt Flood in the Media: Baseball, Race, and the Demise of the Activist-Athlete. Oxford: University of Mississippi Press, 2012.

The Mindy Project (Season 1)

Miss Representation (Jennifer Siebel Newsom, 2011)

Joe Jack Talcum—Live in the Studio (CD Baby, 2010)

Gray, Jonathan and Amanda D. Lotz. Television Studies. Malden MA: Polity Press, 2012.

Homeland (Season 2)