Sunday, December 1, 2013

November Media Journal



Blues Traveler. Blues Traveler. A&M Records, 1990.
Cowboy Junkies. The Trinity Session. RCA Records, 1988.
Gano, Gordon. Hitting the Ground. Instinct Records, 2002.
The Perks of Being a Wallflower. Dir. Stephen Chbosky. Summit Entertainment, 2012.
Anna Karenina. Dir. Joe Wright. Universal Pictures, 2012.
Keen, Sam. Fire in the Belly: On Being a Man. New York: Bantam Books, 1992.
[Various Artists]. No Depression: What it Sounds Like (Vol 1). Dualtown Music Group, 2004.
Goodlad, Lauren M. E., Lilya Kaganovsky, and Robert A. Rushing, eds. Mad Men, Mad World: Sex, Politics, Style & the 1960s. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2013.
Nashville Pussy. Let Them Eat Pussy. Mercury, 1998.
[Various Artists]. Wild at Heart: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack. Polydor, 1990.
Guided by Voices. Isolation Drills. TVT Records, 2001.
Was (Not Was). What Up, Dog? Chrysalis Records, 1988.
Gordon Gano & The Ryans. Under the Sun. Yep Roc Records, 2009.
On the Road. Dir. Walter Salles. MK2 Productions, 2012.
Simply Red. Picture Book. East/West Records, 1985.
Lucero. Texas & Tennessee [EP]. ATO Records, 2013.
Meat Puppets. Too High to Die. Fontana London, 1994.
Promised Land. Dir. Gus Van Sant. Focus Features, 2012.
Hot Hot Heat. Happiness LTD. Sire/Reprise, 2007.
Eherenreich, Barbara. The Hearts of Men: American Dreams and the Flight from Commitment. New York: Anchor Books, 1983.

Friday, November 1, 2013

October Media Journal



South Park [Season 17]. Creators Trey Parker & Matt Stone. Comedy Central Productions, 2013.
Family Guy [Season 12]. Creator Seth MacFarlane. 20th Century Fox Television, 2013.
Adams, Ryan. Love is Hell. Lost Highway, 2004.
The Goldbergs [Season 1]. Creator Adam F. Goldberg. Adam F. Goldberg Productions, 2013.
Parks and Recreation [Season 6]. Creators Greg Daniels & Michael Schur. Deedle-Dee Productions, 2013.
LaVette, Betty. Scene of the Crime. Anti-, 2007.
Harris, Anita. Future Girl: Young Women in the Twenty-First Century. New York: Routledge, 2004.
Until the End of the World: Music from the Motion Picture Soundtrack. Warner Bros., 1991.
Banyan. Banyan. Cyber Octave, 1997.
Modern Family [Season 5]. Creators Steven Levitan & Christopher Lloyd. Levitan/Lloyd, 2013.
The Simpsons [Season 25]. Creator Matt Groening. Gracie Films, 2013.
Bob’s Burgers [Season 4]. Creator Lauren Bouchard. Twentieth Century Fox Television, 2013.
The Pervert’s Guide to Ideology. Dir. Sophie Fiennes. BFI, 2012.
Sebadoh. Bakesale. Sub Pop, 1994.
Silverstone, Roger. Media and Morality: On the Rise of the Mediapolis. Malden, MA: Polity Press, 2007.
Blue Öyster Cult. Tyranny and Mutation. Columbia Records 2001/1973.
Pearl Jam Twenty. Dir. Cameron Crowe. Tremolo Productions, 2011.
Lotz, Amanda D. The Television will be Revolutionized. New York: New York University Press, 2007.
It’s a Disaster. Dir. Todd Berger. Vacationeer Productions, 2012.
Homeland [Season 3]. Creators Howard Gordon & Alex Gansa. Teakwood Lane Productions, 2013.
The Decemberists. 5 Songs [EP]. Hush Records, 2003.
Collins, Bootsy. Back in the Day: The Best of Bootsy. Warner Bros., 1994.
Beck, Jeff. Blow by Blow. Epic Records, 1975.
Zylinska, Joanna. The Ethics of Cultural Studies. New York: Continuum, 2005.
The Secret to a Happy Ending: A Documentary About the Drive-By Truckers. Dir. Barr Weissman. ATO Records, 2009.
Costello, Elvis & The Roots. Wise up Ghost: And Other Songs. Blue Note Records, 2013.
Pearl Jam. Lightning Bolt. Monkeywrench Records, 2013.
Boardwalk Empire [Season 4]. Creator Terence Winter. Home Box Office, 2013.
Belle & Sebastian. Boy With the Arab Strap. Matador Records, 1998.

Rocktober 2013



Led Zeppelin – “Over the Hills and Far Away”/ “The Song Remains the Same”
Blue Öyster Cult – “The Red and the Black”
Bruce Springsteen – “Blinded by the Light”
Rolling Stones – “Angie”
Tom Waits – “Ol’ 55”
Hall & Oates – “She’s Gone”
The Sweet – “The Ballroom Blitz”
Pink Floyd – “Brain Damage/Eclipse”
John Lennon – “Mind Games”
George Harrison – “Give Me Love (Give Me Peace on Earth)”
Stevie Wonder – “Higher Ground”
Three Dog Night – “Shambala”
Billy Joel – “Captain Jack”
Gladys Knight & the Pips – “Midnight Train to Georgia”
Paul McCartney & Wings – “Band on the Run”/ “Jet”
Aerosmith – “Mama Kin”
Joe Walsh – “Rocky Mountain Way”
Elton John – “Goodbye Yellow Brick Road”
Alice Cooper – “Billion Dollar Babies”
Black Sabbath – “Sabbath Bloody Sabbath”
Paul Simon – “American Tune”
The Who – “5:15”/“The Real Me”
Jethro Tull – “A Passion Play (Pt. 2)”
Marshall Tucker Band – “Can’t You See”
Steely Dan – “Bodhisattva”
Styx – “Lady”
REO Speedwagon – “Ridin’ The Storm Out”
Chicago – “Feeling Stronger Every Day”
Lynyrd Skynyrd – “Simple Man”/“Free Bird”
Grand Funk Railroad – “We’re an American Band”
The Faces – “Ooh La La”

Tuesday, October 1, 2013

Critical Studies in Radio/TV Fall 2013 (Readings & Viewings)

Michael Mario Albrecht
Critical Studies in Radio/TV
Fall 2013, Eckerd College
List of Readings and Viewings

Acham, Christine. “‘I’m Rich, Bitch!!!’: The Comedy of Chapelle’s Show.” Cable Visions: Television Beyond Broadcasting. Eds. Sarah Banet-Weiser, Cynthia Chris, and Anthony Freitas.” New York: New York University Press, 2007.

Andersson, Linus. “There is no Alternative: The Critical Potential of Alternative Media for Challenging Neoliberal Discourse. Triple C: Cognition, Communication, Co-operation 10.2 (2012): 752-64.

Barlow, William. “Community Radio in the US: The Struggle for a Democratic Medium.” Media, Culture & Society 10 (1988): 81-105.

Barlowe, Jamie. “‘You Must Never be a Misrepresented People’: Spike Lee’s Bamboozled.” Canadian Review of American Studies 33.1 (2003): 1-15.

Battles, Kathleen, Joy Elizabeth Hayes, and Wendy Hilton-Morrow. “Introduction.” War of the Worlds to Social Media: Mediated Communication in Times of Crisis. Eds. Joy Elizabeth Hayes, Kathleen Battles, and Wendy Hilton-Morrow. New York: Peter Lang, 2013.

Boddy, William. “Alternative Television in the United States.” Screen 31 (1990): 91-101.

Chappelle’s Show. [Season 1]. Creators Neal Brennan & Dave Chappelle. Marobru, Inc., 2003.

Christian, Aymar J. “Beyond Big Video: The Instability of Independent Networks in a New Media Market.” Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies 26.1 (2012): 73-87.

Conti, Cynthia. “‘Is Anybody Listening?’: Questioning the Local Bond Between LPFM Programmers and Their Audience.” Journal of Communication Inquiry 35.1 (2011): 20-36.

Darder, Antonia. “Radio and the Art of Resistance: A Public Pedagogy of the Airwaves.” Policy Futures in Education 9.6 (2011): 696-705.

Douglas, Susan.  Listening In: Radio and the American Imagination. Times Books: New York, 1999.

Havens, Timothy. “‘The Biggest Show in the World’: Race and the Global Popularity of The Cosby Show.” Media, Culture & Society 22 (2000): 371-91.

Hayes, Joy Elizabeth and Kathleen Battles. “Exchange and Interconnection in US Network Radio: A Reinterpretation of the 1938 War of the Worlds Broadcast.” War of the Worlds to Social Media: Mediated Communication in Times of Crisis. Eds. Joy Elizabeth Hayes, Kathleen Battles, and Wendy Hilton-Morrow. New York: Peter Lang, 2013.

Lacey, Kate. “Assassination, Insurrection and Alien Invasion: Interwar Wireless Scares in Cross-National Comparison.” War of the Worlds to Social Media: Mediated Communication in Times of Crisis. Eds. Joy Elizabeth Hayes, Kathleen Battles, and Wendy Hilton-Morrow. New York: Peter Lang, 2013.

Lott, Eric. “‘The Seeming Counterfeit.’: Racial Politics and Early Blackface Minstrelsy.” American Quarterly 43.2 (1991): 223-54.

Miller, Toby. Television Studies: The Basics. New York: Routlege, 2010.

Mitchell, W. J. T. “Living Color: Race, Stereotype, and Animation in Spike Lee’s Bamboozled.”  What do Pictures Want?: The Lives and Loves of Images. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2005.

Mullen, Megan. “The Moms ‘n’ Pops of CATV.” .” Cable Visions: Television Beyond Broadcasting. Eds. Sarah Banet-Weiser, Cynthia Chris, and Anthony Freitas.” New York: New York University Press, 2007.

Murder by Television. Dir. Clifford Sanforth. Cameo Pictures, 1935.

Nowatzki, Robert. “‘Blackin’ up is us Doin’ White Folks Doin’ Us’: Blackface Minstrelsy and Racial Performance in Contemporary American Fiction and Film.” Lit: Literature Interpretation Theory 18.2 (2007): 115-36.

O’Connell, Andrew. “From Clayton Bigsby to Stuart Hall: Conceptions of Blackness and Authenticity in Chapelle’s Show.” Senior Thesis, Fordham University, 2012.

Pooley, Jefferson and Michael J. Socolow. “War of the Word: The Invasion from Mars and its Legacy for Communication Scholarship.” War of the Worlds to Social Media: Mediated Communication in Times of Crisis. Eds. Joy Elizabeth Hayes, Kathleen Battles, and Wendy Hilton-Morrow. New York: Peter Lang, 2013.

Pump Up the Volume. Dir. Allan Moyle. New Line Cinema: 1990.

 Rubin, Nick.  “US College Radio, the ‘New British Invasion’ and Media Alterity.”  The Radio Journal—International Studies in Broadcast and Audio Media 9.2 (2011):  127-43.

Stiegler, Zack and Brandon Szuminsky. “Mediating Misinformation: Hoaxes and the Digital Turn.” War of the Worlds to Social Media: Mediated Communication in Times of Crisis. Eds. Joy Elizabeth Hayes, Kathleen Battles, and Wendy Hilton-Morrow. New York: Peter Lang, 2013.

Waits, Jennifer C.  “Does ‘Indie’ Mean Independence?:  Freedom and Restraint in a Late 1990s US College Radio Community.  The Radio Journal—International Studies in Broadcast and Audio Media 5.2-3 (2007):  83-96.

Wall, Tim.  “Finding an Alternative:  Music Programming in US College Radio.”   The Radio Journal—International Studies in Broadcast and Audio Media 5.1 (2007):  35-54.

September Media Journal



Built to Spill. The Normal Years. K Records, 1996.
Zevon, Warren. The Envoy. Rhino Records 2010/1982.
Loggins, Kenny. High Adventure. CBS Records, 1982.
The Five-Year Engagement. Dir. Nicholas Stoller. Universal Pictures, 2012.
‘Til Tuesday. Voices Carry. Epic Rcords, 1985.
Croce, A.J. That’s Me in the Bar. Private Music, 1995.
Shary, Timothy, Ed. Millennial Masculinity: Men in Contemporary American Cinema. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2013.
The History of the Eagles. Dir. Alison Ellwood. Jigsaw Productions, 2013.
Ryan Adams & The Cardinals. Jacksonville City Nights. Lost Highway Records, 2005.
Jefferson Starship. Red Octopus. RCA Records, 1975.
Sly and the Family Stone. Greatest Hits. Epic Records, 1970.
Blue Öyster Cult. On Your Feet, On Your Knees. Sony. 2012/1975.
Jet. Get Born. Elektra Records, 2003.
Martin, Brett. Difficult Men: Behind the Scenes of a Creative Revolution—From The Sopranos and The Wire to Mad Men and Breaking Bad. New York: Penguin Press, 2013.
Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes. Best of Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes. Epic, 1992.
Boardwalk Empire [Season 3]. Creator Terence Winter. Home Box Office, 2012.
Arctic Monkeys. AM. Domino Records, 2013.
Harvey, P.J. To Bring You My Love. Island Records, 1995.
Blue Öyster Cult. Blue Öyster Cult. Columbia Records, 2008/1972.
Brooklyn Nine-Nine [Season 1]. Creators Daniel Goor & Michael Schur. Fremulon Productions, 2013.
The Mindy Project [Season 2]. Creator Mindy Kaling. Kaling International, 2013.
Dylan, Bob. Another Self Portrait, Bootleg Series, Vol. 10. Columbia Records, 2013.
Hell House. Dir. George Ratliff. Cantina Pictures, 2001.
Blue Öyster Cult. Secret Treaties. Columbia Records 2001/1973.
Couldry, Nick. Listening Beyond the Echoes: Media, Ethics, and Agency in an Uncertain World. Boulder, CO: Paradigm Publishers, 2006.
Boym, Svetlana. The Future of Nostalgia. New York: Basic Books, 2001.
The Decemberists. The Tain [EP]. Kill Rock Stars, 2005.
T. Booker. Potato Hole. Anti-, 2009.
Klosterman, Chuck. I Wear the Black Hat: Grappling with Villains (Real and Imagined). New York: Scribner, 2013.