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.