Award Winning Books: Mass Media and Communications

All Talk

The Talkshow in Media Culture

Wayne Munson

The postmodern phenomenon of the talkshow and its place in American culture

288 pages | 6 x 9

Campaign Advertising and American Democracy

Michael M Franz, Paul Freedman, Ken Goldstein, and Travis N Ridout

Surprising findings about the positive effects of political advertising

256 pages | 6 x 9 | 30 tables 29 figures 7 halftones

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Consuming Catastrophe

Mass Culture in America's Decade of Disaster

Timothy Recuber

Examines the media’s coverage of four American disasters, arguing that media attention directs our concern for the suffering of others toward efforts to soothe our own emotional turmoil

228 pages | 5.5 x 8.25 | 5 tables

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Dark Days in the Newsroom

McCarthyism Aimed at the Press

Edward Alwood

Shines a new light on a dark era in American journalism

216 pages | 5.5 x 8.25

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The Eternal Present of Sport

Rethinking Sport and Religion

Daniel A. Grano

Rethinking the changes surrounding religion and elite sport cultures

282 pages | 6 x 9 | 1 halftone

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Feedback

The Video Data Bank Catalog of Video Art and Artist Interviews

Edited by Kate Horsfield and Lucas Hilderbrand

Historic documentation of the development of art-based, activist, and alternative media in the U.S.

360 pages | 8.5 x 11 | 325 halftones

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Growing Up with Television

Everyday Learning Among Young Adolescents

JoEllen Fisherkeller

A powerful interdisciplinary book on how young adults watch—and learn from—television

224 pages | 6 x 9 | 1 tables

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On the Stump

Campaign Oratory and Democracy in the United States, Britain, and Australia

Sean Scalmer

The story of how the “stump speech” was created, diffused, and helped to shape the modern democracies of the Anglo-American world

232 pages | 6 x 9 | 8 halftones

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Painting Publics

Transnational Legal Graffiti Scenes as Spaces for Encounter

Caitlin Frances Bruce

Argues that public art generates spaces for encounter as well as places and moments that can reenergize the felt sense of possibility in urban spaces

276 pages | 6 x 9 | 54 color photos

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Race Appeal

How Candidates Invoke Race in U.S. Political Campaigns

Charlton D McIlwain and Stephen M. Caliendo

Why, when, and how often candidates use race appeals, and how the electorate responds

272 pages | 6 x 9 | 38 tables, 23 halftones

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Rebuilding the News

Metropolitan Journalism in the Digital Age

C.W. Anderson

An inside account of dramatic changes in journalism at a large metropolitan newspaper.

236 pages | 6 x 9 | 1 table, 2 figures,16 halftones

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Religion and Political Tolerance in America

Advances in the State of the Art

Edited by Paul A. Djupe

Cutting-edge scholarship that sets the agenda for research on religion and political tolerance

276 pages | 6 x 9 | 24 tables, 18 figures

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Reverse Engineering Social Media

Software, Culture, and Political Economy in New Media Capitalism

Robert Gehl

Revealing the underside of our technology-laden world

236 pages | 5.5 x 8.25

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Rubble Films

German Cinema in the Shadow of the Third Reich

Robert R Shandley

An insightful analysis of German film in the immediate postwar era

240 pages | 6 x 9 | 19 halftones

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Sportsex

Toby Miller

How people perform their sexual identities as athletes and spectators

192 pages | 6 x 9

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Voice Over

The Making of Black Radio

William Barlow

The whole story of the making of Black radio

334 pages | 6 x 9 | 21 halftones

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The White Savior Film

Content, Critics, and Consumption

Matthew Hughey

Surveying the prevalence and popularity of films in which heroic white characters uplift racial others

230 pages | 6 x 9 | 12 tables, 2 figs.

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