Advertising
'Advertising pays off for Olympic sponsors Coke and McDonald's',
National Business Review, July 12 1996. One of many articles on the
Olympics and commerce--this one arguing that 'The more you spend,
the higher your recognition'.
Ambler, Tim (1998), Myths about the mind: time to end some popular
beliefs about how advertising works', International Journal Of Advertising,
17:4. Argues that the classic model of advertising effectiveness IAIDA)
ignores both experience and the way human brains work
Ambler, Tim, (2000), 'Persuasion, pride and prejudice: how ads work',
International Journal of Advertising 19. Argues the 'the difficulty
of measuring affect [of advertising] is not a good reason for ignoring
it'.
Archer, Belinda (1998), 'Now we're grown up--we can talk Tampax with
tea', The Guardian June 29. How British television advertising is
becoming more literal and less obtuse.
Bennett, Paul (1996), 'Go to work on an egg', The Socialist Standard
Sept. A savage attack on 'the lies, hypocrisy and waste' of advertising.
Binns, James (1996), 'Consumer surrealism', Adbusters Winter. Introduces
a 'Culture jamming: 24 page media activist section' in this issue
of this provocative magazine.
Brinsdon, Jill (1996), 'Hello boys! Need some new lines?', AdMedia
June. Brinsdon, the creative director of Bates Advertising, challenges
some of the practices of the male-dominated advertising industry.
Broadbent, Simon (2000), 'What do advertisements really do for brands?',
International Journal of Advertising 19. 'Branding' is the buzzword
in advertising these days, as advertising clutter intensifies. But
isn't that what they do to cattle?>
Cook, Richard (1996), 'The rebirth of cinema', Campaign May 31. Advertising
strategies associated with contemporary film-going.
Currie, Dawn H. (1997), 'Decoding feminity: advertisements and their
teenage readers', Gender & Society 11:4, August. How young girls
negotiate 'what it means to be a woman' in the glossy advertisements
of fashion magazines.
Ehrenberg, Andrew & N. Barnard (1997), 'Advertising and product
demand', Admap May. If advertising cannot persuade people to buy (as
the authors argue), then what is its purpose?
Furnham, Adrian, S. Abramsky & B. Gunter (1997), ' A cross-cultural
content analysis of children's television advertisements', Sex Roles
37:1/2. Comparisons of advertising associated with weekend children's
television in London and New York. Nothing startling in the results,
other than girls outnumbered boys in the American TVCs and boys outnumbered
girls in the British ones.
Gottschalk, Simon (1999), 'Speed culture: fast strategies in televised
commercial ads', Qualitative Sociology 22, 4. Investigates how television
advertising promotes speed (haste, acceleration)--often cited as a
symptom of postmodernity--as a normal and desirable quality of everyday
life.
Garst, Jennifer & G.V. Bodenhausen (1997), 'Advertising effects
on men's gender role attitudes', Sex Roles 36:9/10. How males read
magazine advertising images of masculinity.
Gautier, Adele (2000), 'Web wimps: Why New Zealand advertisers are
fighting shy of the Internet', Marketing Magazine June. Attempts to
explain why NZ advertising is avoiding the Internet. But, given recent
and numerous failures in e-commerce, surely caution is warranted?
Gordon, Richard (1997), 'Award-winning TV ads steal hearts and minds',
National Business Review Sept 5. Suggests that award-wqinning TVCs
are also the moist effective.
Heaven, Ross (1999), `Post-global advertising: the archetypal approach',
Admap May. Finding `anchorage in a confused and uncertain world' through
Jungian archetypes employed in advertising.
Heckman, James (1999), `Don't shoot the messenger', Marketing News
May 24. Complaints about regulatory constraints on marketing.
Hillgrove, Rich (1995), 'Is this the death of advertising?', AdMedia
September. How advertising interests in NZ are adapting to change..
Innes, David (1995), 'Rumours of my death are greatly exaggerated',
AdMedia November. The executive director of the Advertising Agencies
Association casts doubts on talk of the death of mainstream advertising,
betting $1000 of his own money that things won't change that much.
Worth keeping on file!
Jacobs, A.J. & K. Tucker (1997), 'The pauses that refreshed',
Entertainment Weekly #872, March 28. EW celebrates the '50 best [American]
commercials of all time'
Jonas, Kerry (1996), 'Does clutter matter?', Admap March. Investigates
television content that is 'anything that is not television programming',
and its impact on European viewers.
Lawson, Mark (1996), 'Nice one, Cyril: or how the television ad is
being pitched to the public as a new British art form', New Statesman
Nov 22 . About Ad Fab, a 72-minute compilation of British television
ads.
Law, Robin (1997), 'Masculinity, place, and beer advertising in New
Zealand: the Southern Man campaign', New Zealand Geographer 53 (2).
Another example of geography venturing into cultural studies territory,
with this interesting analysis of the Speight's beer campaign on New
Zealand television
Leonard, Mark (1998), 'Sinister secrets of the admen', New Statesman
14 August. An insider's view of the self-grading world of marketing.
Macdonald, Gavin (1999), 'Is the way we understand advertising changing?',
Admap November. Doubts about the effectiveness of 'cool' advertising
targeted at teens.
Mangleburg, Tamara F. & T. Bristol (1998), `Socialization and adolescents'
skepticism toward advertising', Journal of Advertising XXVII:3. Explains
the sources of scepticism about television advertising.
MacKay, Natalie J. & C. Covell (1997), 'The impact of women in
advertisements on attitudes toward women', Sex Roles 36:9/10. Nothing
new but it tends to support other research on a correlation betwen
sex image advertisements in magazines and negative attitudes to feminism.
Mckenzie, Andrew (1999), 'From ad to worse', The Australian Nov 4.
The threat of big changes hanging over Australian ad agencies.
McDonough, John (1996), '25 Years of Self-regulation', Advertising
Age Dec 2. How the American advertising industry protects its interests.
McFall, Liz (2000), 'A Mediating Institution?: Using an Historical
Study of Advertising Practice to Rethink Culture and Economy', Cultural
Values 4:3, July. Reviews the role accorded to advertising in recent
critical work
McKenzie, Stuart (1996), 'Television turns on', Midwest Nine. Argues
for advertisingas art, particularly in its exploration of sexuality.
Mclennan, Peter (1995/96), 'Under the Milky Way', Pavement 14, Dec/Jan.
Using American popular culture to market milk in cartons to New Zealand
youth.
McVey, Kathy (1995), 'The sound of advertising', AdMedia August.
Where those voices on TV and radio adverts come from.
Moriarty, S.E. & S-L. Everett (1994), 'Commercial breaks: a viewing
behaviour study', Journalism Quarterly 71:2, Summer. Watching viewers
watching television suggests that 90 percent used the remote to avoid
commercial breaks. The kind of research there should be more of!
O'Donohoe, Stephanie & Caroline Tynan (1998), 'Beyond sophistication:
dimensions of advertising literacy', International Journal of Advertising
17:4. Argues that academic work on language and literacy theory can
usefully inform advertising practice.
O'Guinn, Thomas C. & L.J. Schrum (1997), 'The role of television
in the construction of consumer reality', Journal of Consumer Research
v. 23, March. A rather convoluted research project which concludes
that television is an important agent in creating desires for what
other people have.
Ogilvy, David (1996), '15 bees in my bonnet', Admap Dec. A renowned
adman gives his views on advertising (one suggestion: 'Abolish singing
commercials').
Parker-Pope, Tara (1995), 'Who takes ads lying down?', National Business
Review Aug 25. Reports on US research which concludes that '73% of
consumers believe advertisers regularly mislead or exaggerate a product's
benefits'.
Pappas, Charles (2000), 'Ad nauseum', Advertising Age July 10. The
relentless 'ad creep' in public and private spaces.
Ritson, Mark & Richard Elliott (1999), 'The social uses of advertising:
an ethnographic study of adolescent advertising audiences', Journal
of Consumer Research 26. Shifts the focus of research from individual
adolescents, to the role advertising plays in the social contexts
of group interactions amongst English high school students.
Romei, Stephen (2000), 'Reality in wings as nerd money swamps Super
Bowl', The Australian Jan 31. Describes the millions of dollars lavished
on Super Bowl advertising in January.
Rose, Gregory M., V.D. Bush & L. Kahle (1998), `The influence of
family communication patterns on parental reactions toward advertising:
a cross-national examination', Journal of Advertising XXVII:4. International
comparisons (the US and Japan) of attitudes to children's advertising.
Sengupta, Subir (1995), 'the influence of culture on portrayals of
women in television commercials: a comparison between the United States
and Japan', International Journal of Advertising 14 . Concludes with
the not very startling assertion that 'advertisements are to a large
extent a reflection of society'.
Sutherland, Max (1995), 'How our minds process advertising', AdMedia
September. Explains 'how we can be tricked into thinking we already
know something'.
Tapscott, Don (1996), 'The rise of the Net-Generation', Advertising
Age Oct 14. In the same marketing-speak which pushed 'Generation X',
this article announces the arrival of the 'N-Gen'. The recommendation
to marketer's is 'Give them options to buy their loyalty'.
Tellis, Gerard J. & Doyle L. Weiss (1995), 'Does TV advertising
really affect sales? The role of measures, models, and data aggregation',
Journal of Advertising XXIV:3, Fall. Further suggestions that the
estimated effects of TV advertising on households' brand choices are
weak and rarely significant'.
Thompson, Gordon Jon (1997), 'Anchor ads controversial to the end',
Waikato Times June 3. Waikato farmers cast doubts on the ability of
the continuing story of the Anchor family to sell any more milk.
'Vatican stress need for moral advertising', Advertising Age March
10, 1997. Describes the recently-released Vatican handbook Ethics
in Advertising.
Welland, Paul (1996), 'Soft options, hard sell', The Guardian Dec
21. An award-winning ad director argues that British advertising 'has
lost its way'.
Wong, Gilbert (1997), 'They've got you taped', New Zealand Herald
Jan 24. How social science research is being employed to put us into
rigid categories, for the purposes of marketing i.e. are you a 'Go-Getter'
or a 'Passive'?
Zufryden, Fred S. (1996), 'Linking advertising to box office performance
of new film releases--a marketing planning model', Journal of Advertising
Research, July/Aug. Maximising profits for new film releases.
Audience Research
Cook, Richard (1998), 'Tackling the problem of increased TV ad zapping',
Campaign 25 Sept. A foolow-up to the Green article below, speculating
on ways of reaching absent TV ad viewers.
Cooper, Roger (1996), 'The status and future of audience duplication
research:an assessment of ratings-based theories of audience behavior',
Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media 40. Examines prevailing
theories on viewer choice of programmes, arguing that 'both the impact
of structure on individual choice and the impact of individual choice
on structure' must be central to any investigations.
Dickerson, Paul (1996), 'Let me tell us who I am: the discursive
construction of viewer identity', European Journal of Communication
11 (1). Argues that 'Just as viewing television can be best understood
as a contextually located activity, so talking about viewing behaviour
can be fruitfully explored with reference to the context in which
it occurs'.
Edmondson, Brad (1997), 'TV execs to Nielsen: get SMART', American
Demographics October. Describes the new Systems for Measuring and
Reporting Television (SMART), an attempt to overcome the inadequacies
of current audience measurement--which is described as 'like trying
to shovel smoke'.
Fairchild, Charles (1996), 'What you want when you want it: altering
consumption and consuming alternatives', Media, Culture & Societyv.18.
How, through marketing, so-called 'alternative' music has become just
another genre--or more specifically--'a category of inventory disguised
as a musical genre, emtirely invented and engineered as a marketing
tool'.
Foss, Karen A. & A.F. Alexander (1996), 'Exploring the margins
of television viewing', Communication Reports 9:1, Winter. Examines
viewers at the 'margins', that is, self-defined heavy viewers and
nonviewers who neither own nor watch television. Both groups to freely
and uncritically resort to 'addiction'metaphors.
Fost, Dan (1998), 'Growing older, but not up', American Demographics
Sept. Boys and their toys.
Gosschalk, Brian (1997), 'Research on research: attitudes to the
industry', Admap 1997. How market research is regarded in Britain.
Green, Harriet (1998), 'Half of UK viewers shun TV ad breaks', Campaign
18 Sept. British research confirms what we already suspect.
Gwilliam, Jane (1997), 'Baby Boomers--the same the world over?, Admap
October. The 'rules' for communication with an entire generation,
who 'need to be treated as adults' (I thought they already were!).
Kreitzman, Leon (1997), 'Older people and the media', Journal of
Communication Management 2,1. Information on the media use of the
'older' (ie over 50) segment of the British population.
Lealand, Geoff (1997), Ratings and More Damn Ratings: Measuring Television
Viewing in New Zealand. Paper to the Screen Producers & Directors
Association conference, Wellington, November 6-8. A 19pp paper I wrote
for my participation in 'The Ratings Game' panel at the SPADA conference.
It details my analysis and criticism of the structure and use of Peoplemeter
ratings, the primary currency of contemporary television
Livingstone, Sonia (1998), 'Audience research at the crossroads:
thev 'implied audience' in media and cultural theory', European Journal
of Cultural Studies 1(2). Argues for new directions for audience research,
moving beyond the canon of reception research through challenges to
theories of the 'implied audience'.
Livingstone, Sonia (1995), 'On the difficulties of measuring everyday
experience', Semiotica 104. A critique of Kubey and Csikszentminhalyi's
Television and the Quality of Life.
Lunt, Peter & S. Livingstone (1996), 'Rethinking the focus group
in media and communications research', Journal of Communication 46(2),
Spring. A very useful analysis of a very useful research method.
Macleod, Sandra (1988), 'The power of the media and how to measure
it', Journal of Communication Management 2:4. The standard PR approach
to media.
Moon, Nick (1997), 'How not to misinterpret opinion polls', Admap
April. How to sort out the useful from the superficial in opinion
polling.
Nelson, Robin (1996), 'From Twin Peaks, USA, to lesser peaks, UK:
Building the postmodern TV audience', Media, Culture & Society,
v. 18. How market research was instrumental in the development of
the UK series Heartbeat.
Perse, Elizabeth M. (1996), 'Sensation seeking and the use of television
for arousal', Communication Reports 9:1, Winter. Research which supports
the not-very-revolutionary contention that 'arousal and uses and gratifications'
offer ways of understanding 'the appeal in certain types of media
content for different people'.
Rae, Bernadette (1997), 'Fill in the Blanks Generation', New Zealand
Herald Aug 9. Details research done by Bates Advertising , on the
New Zealand 'youth market'. But it really only posites another set
of generalisations, against the much-quoted generalisations about
'Generation X'.
Riggs, Karen E. (1996), 'Television use in a retirement community',
Journal of Communication 46 (1), Winter. A study of television use
in a retirement community of well-educated, upper middle-class Americans
shows that they actively seek out 'quality' and news-oriented programming,
as a means of participating in their own and the wider community.
Silman, Richard & J. Samuels (1997), 'Who are the TV Rejectors',
Admap April. It seems that even those people who don't watch TV advertisers
get shoved into a demographic!
Stipp, Horst (1997), 'Confessions of a Nielsen Household', American
Demographics March. Interesting insights into how TV ratings are constructed
in the US. I wonder, thought, how an employee of NBC managed to get
on the Nielson panel. But he does make the very pertinent comment,
' Remember, it's just an estimate.'
Syfret, Toby (1995), 'Measuring television audiences beyond 2001',
Admap November. Whether or not peoplemeters will be adequate in the
future.
'What we watched in 1995: The Top 50 Programmes', National Business
Review , Jan 19 1996. A two-page spread which also appeared in major
daily newspapers in early January. Who put it in is not clear but
it could be useful for interrogating who the 'we' is and what is meant
by 'watched'--or compare the results with what your students watch.
Censorship
Barber, Lynden (1997), 'Bans comeback', The Weekend Australian June
28-29. How censorship forces are re-emerging in Australia.
Copyright Issues
Carter, Jeff (1995), 'The copyright question', Cable in the Classroom
October. A guide to off-air recording rights and obligations in the
USA.
Whiteley, Sheila (1997), 'The Sound of Silence': Academic freedom
and copyright', Popular Music 16:2. The problems of gaining access
to original texts--in this case, for the study of poular music lyrics.
Cultural Studies
Ang, Ien & Jon Stratton (1997), 'The Singapore way of multiculturalism:
Western concepts/Asian cultures', New Formations 31, Spring/Summer
1997. The contradictions of living in Singapore; at once thoroughly
Western but also resolutely Asian.
Conway, Matt (1996), 'Homer Simpson and the Kiwi cultural revolution',
Sunday Star-Times Jan 21. An interesting feature on American popular
culture in New Zealand.
Dahlgren, Peter (1998), 'Meaning and/vs. information in Media Studies',
Society and Leisure 21:1. Introducing the field of Media Studies to
those who work with other theoretical frameworks.
de Carvalho, Mario Viera (1995), 'From opera to 'soap opera': on
civilizing processes, the dialectic of enlightenment and postmodernity',
Theory, Culture & Society 12. Argues that 'Adorno's, Eisler's
and Brecht's critiques of mass culture are no longer relevant in that
'media culture' has become globalized'.
Frow, John (1998), 'Is Elvis a god? Cult, culture, questions of method',
International Journal of Cultural Studies 1(2). Questions of the sacred,
the secular and dead cult figures.
Garnett, Tony (1998), 'Notes for the Raymond Williams Memorial Lecture',
Critical Quarterly 40:3. A highlyn regarded British TV producer reflects
on the future of British television.
Gitlin, Todd (1998), 'Pop goes the culture', US News & World
Report June 1. Gitllin speculates on what the 21st century might look
like, dominated by 'Popular culture...the oxygen of our collective
life'.
Hewison, Robert (1997), 'At last, a government that isn't shy of
talking about culture.', New Statesman 1 August. Describes Labour's
plans to rename the Department of National Heritage as the Department
of Culture, Media and Sport--a 'turning point' in perceptions of public
culture.
Kaplan, Caren (1995), 'A world without boundaries: The Body Shop's
trans/national geography', Social Text 43, Fall. The duplicity of
global business--in this case The Body Shop, which is accused of 'protesting
so vigorously against what it performs so well' , ie 'feel-good capitalism'.
An excellent article.
McRobbie, Angela & Sarah L. Thornton (1995), 'Rethinking 'moral
panic' for multi-mediated social worlds', British Journal of Sociology
46:4, Dec. Argues that the concept of 'moral panic' should be revised,
to take account of how campaigns against 'deviance' are now more openly
contested.
Morley, David (1998), 'So-called cultural studies: dead ends and
reinvented wheels', Cultural Studies 12.4, Oct. Argues with popular
and academic attacks on cultural studies, suggesting that the 'contributions
of cultural studies over the last twenty years have now so transformed
our field of study that the critic' proposed return to 'The Good Old
Ways' may simply no longer be possible (even if it were desirable)'.
Morris, Meaghan (1998), 'Publishing perils, and how to survive them:
a guide for graduate students', Cultural Studies 12(4), Oct. A basic
(and cleared-headed) introduction to the practicalities of getting
published in academic journals.
Mumby, Dennis K. (1997), 'Modernism, Postmodernism, and Communication
Studies: a rereading of an ongoing debate', Communication Theory 7:1.
Ranges across difficult copncepts, attempting to find connections
rather than differences.
O'Shea, Alan (1998), 'A special relationship? Cultural studies, academia
and pedagogy', Cultural Studies 12(4), Oct. Confronts a vexing question
for academics: how to deal with new kinds of students who do not necessrily
take 'either traditional cultural capital or literacy for granted'.
'Saluting Coca-Cola contours', ProDesign Feb/March 1996. Coverage
of the winning entry for a New Zealand version of the Coke bottle.
Read this in conjunction with Jenny Collett's article 'The Coca Cola
bottle: a tribute to indigenous art or the corporate face of coonisation?
in the New Zealand Journal of Media Studies 2:2
Taylor, Millie & Ruth Towse (1998), 'The value of performers'
rights: an economic approach', Media, Culture & Society 20. Argues
that changes in copyright laws have more to do with market returns
than the intellectual rights of cultural producers.
Wark, McKenzie (1997), 'Cultural war zone', The Australian Oct 1.
An excerpt from Wark's new book The Virtual Republic: Australia's
Culture Wars of the 1990s.
Willis, Paul (1998), 'Notes on common ground: towards a grounded
aesthetic', European Journal of Cultural Studies 1(2). Argues for
a theory of 'symbolic work' and 'symbolic creativity' ,resulting in
'symbolic extension', in contemporary youth culture.
Film-Australia
Barber, Lynden, (1998), 'Dire projections', Weekend Australian Oct
12-13. How 'corporate cinema expansion is threatening Australia's
dwindling band of independent screens'.
Collie, Ian & David Williams (1997), 'A question of moral rights',
Sydney Morning Herald Nov 17. Argument and counter-argument about
intellectual ownership of films.
Dale, David (1997), 'From Ned to Croc', The Sydney Morning Herald
Dec 2. How the SMH has covered film over 50,000 issues of the newspaper.,p.
Barber, Lynden (1997), 'Disquiet on the set', The Australian Feb 19.
The 1997 Gonski Report on funding film-making in Australia.
Barber, Lynden (1997), 'Stop it, quirky features', The Weekend Australian
Jan 18-19. Argues for abolition of the over-used term 'quirky' in
respect of Australian film.
Berryman, Ken (1996), '100 key Australian films', Cinema Papers February.
An interesting ranking of important Australian films. I have real
problems with Picnic At Hanging Rock in the No. 1 slot!
Jackson, Sally (1997), 'Film's harsh focus on the bottom line', The
Weekend Australian May 10-11. The current fragile state of film funding
in Australia.
Martin, Lauren (1997), 'Coming of age - again', Sydney Morning Herald
Nov 17. The resurgance of Australian cinema.,p. Nicklin, Lenore (1997),
'Hard celluloid', The Bulletin Mar 25. Shine and the funding of Australian
films.
Urban, Andrew L. (1997), 'All the right movies', The Weekend Australian
July 5-6. New initiatives in indigenous film-making in Australia.
Urban, Andrew L. (1997), 'Movie-goers look for some direction', The
Australian Sept 10. Worries about too many films being released on
the Australian market (300 in 1997, 28 new titles in November).
Film-Britain
Christie, Ian (1997), 'Will Lottery money assure the British film
industry?', New Statesman June 20. Arguments for funding British film-making.
Goodridge, Mike (1995), 'A dead cert?', Marketing Business November.
A report on how 'a market-led approach can help breathe life back
into the dying UK film industry'.
Film-General
Adams, Phillip (1998), 'The flicks are losing their lead', Weekend
Australian Jan 10-11. Adams argues that film-going is losing its unique
edge to television. But the remarkable incease in film admissions
in Australia and New Zealand tends to contradict this.
Agresti, Alan & Larry Winner (1997), 'Evaluationg agreement and
disagreement among movie reviewers', Chance 10:2. A curious piece
of research, examining how often movie reviewers agree with each other.
Altman, Rick (1995), 'The sound of sound: a brief history of the
reproduction of sound in movie theaters', Cineaste 21:1-2. One of
an interesting special section on 'Sound and Music in the Movies'.
Appleyard, Bryan (1997), 'Stanley Kubrick's split image', The Weekend
Australian Aug 16-17. One of the most peculiar figures in contemporary
film-making.
Ascher-Walsh, Rebecca (1997), 'Tales from the script', Entertainment
Weekly Aug 8. Three American scriptwriters talk about their profession.
Barber, Lynden (1998), 'Death of the serial killer', The Australian
August 13. A prediction that the serial murder movie is in decline.
Barber, Lynden (1998), 'Great expectations", The Weekend Australian
Jan 3-4. The difficult task of adapting literature for the film screen
and satisfying a range of expectations.
Barber, Lynden (1997), 'A great movie, wasn't it?', The Weekend Australian
June 7-8. Describes the revival of classic films(eg The Big Sleep,
Casablanca) in new prints .
Barber, Lynden (1998), 'Original sins', Weekend Australian Oct 22.
The 'flourishing culture of plagiarism' in current Hollywood films.
Bazzini, Doris G. et al (1997), 'The ageing woman in popular film:
underrepresented, unattractive, unfriendly, and unintelligent', Sex
Roles 36:7/8. Examines 100 top-grossing films of the 1940s-1980s,
to conclude that such films promote a double standard in relation
to gender and age.
Benton, Michael, M. Dolan & R. Zisch (1997), 'Teen films: an
annotated bibliography', Journal of Popular Film & Television
25:2, Summer. A useful resource.
Broadbent, S & J. Grahame (1996), 'Shooting the canon: big films
of big books', The English & Media Magazine 35, Autumn. Highly
instructive interviews with producer Duncan Kenworthy and screenwriter
Simon Moore, who were responsible for the innovative television adaptation
ofGulliver's Travels.
Cerexhe, Peter (1995), 'Home sweet box office', The Independent Monthly
Nov. Likely costs involved in new ways of watching films at home.
Conn, Andrew Lewis (1997), 'Star Wars: always' [and] Robert Horton
'Star Wars: enough a'ready' , Film Comment May-June. Two conflicting
views on the return of Star Wars.
Corliss, Richard (1996), 'The invasion has begun', Time July 8. The
return of sci-fi film and television.
Cremen, Christine (1998), 'Out of the box', Weekend Australian Nov
7-8. Recycling old television programmes into feature films.
Danan, Martine(1996), 'Marketing the Hollywood Blockbuster in France',
Journal of Popular Film & Television. Strategies for maintaining
a 'delicate balance between the local and the global', with the French
film-going public giving 'mixed signals' about the former.
Dowell, Pat (1995), 'The mythology of the Western: Hollywood perspectives
on race and gender in the Nineties', Cineaste 21:1-2. Reflections
on the reappearance of the Western genre.
Edwards, Denis (1997), 'Truly, madly, cheaply', Quote Unquote March.
A New Zealand scriptwriter provides advice on writing for film. (Note:
it is a shame that this magazine has gone under)
Ehrenstein, David (1996), 'Film in the age of video', Film Quarterly.
What is good and bad about watching films in video format.
'The 50 Most Important Independent Films', Filmmaker: The Magazine
of Independent Film, 5:1, Fall 1996. To celebrate five years of Filmmaker,
the editors asked a range of critics to nominate the best American
'indie' films, with most choices being films of the 1980s and 1990s.
Forshey, Gerald E. (1997), The English Patient: from novel to screenplay,
Creative Screenwriting Summer. The judgements and selections in turning
book into film.
Gabler, Neal (1997), 'The end of the middle', The New York Times
Magazine Nov 16. Anopening article in a fascinating special issue
of this magazine, devoted to 'The Two Hollywoods' and the relationship
between mainstream film, and the independent sector. Other articles
cover actors, directors, screnwriters, prodcers and funding--and an
interview with Tarantino.
Gabler, Neal (1998), 'Molding our lives in the image of movies',
New York Times Oct 25. An extract from Gabler's book Life the Movie:
How Entertainment Conquered Reality. Interesting but rather over-stated!
Grant, Barry K. (1996), 'Rich and strange: the yuppie horror film',
Journal of Film & Video 48:1-2, Spring/Summer. A new slant on
film genre.
Gross, Larry (1995), 'Big and loud', Sight and Sound August. A noted
screenwriter writes on the appeal of big budget action movies.
Grove, Lloyd (1997), '25 films added to registry', Washington Post
Nov 19. The 25 films added to the Library of Congress National Film
Registry. They include The Bridge on the River Kwai, Mean Streets
and The Big Sleep.
Hampton, Howard (1997), 'Scorpio descending: in search of rock cinema',
Film Comment Mar/Apr. A critical perspective on the connections between
popular music and film.
Herd, Juliet (1996), 'Crash: art or erotic trash?', The Weekend Australian
Nov 30-Dec 1. The controversy over Cronenberg's 1996 film.
Hollingworth, David & S. Ridley (1996), 'Cybermovie mania', internet.au
June. Movies about computer culture.
Jacobs, A.J. & C. Nashawaty (1997), 'The price ain't right',
Entertainment Weekly May 23. The rising price of movie tickets and
other entertainment in the USA.
Jones, Kent (1996), 'The summer of our malcontent', Film Comment
Sept/Oct. A defence of contemporary mainstream cinema, along the lines
of 'I hated every second of Independence Day, but I can't fault the
people who enjoyed it, or consider them 'dupes' of 'the system''.
Kilday, Gregg (1996), 'Box office report', Entertainment Weekly Sept
6. The winners and loser in the Summer 1996 American film season.
Kilday, Gregg & A. Thompson (1996), 'To infinity and below',
Entertainment Weekly Feb 2. Interesting facts, successes and failures
of the 1995 box office for American films.
Kitson, Michael (1995), 'The rise of the boutique or the New Nickleodeon',
Cinema Papers Dec. Shifts in film exhibition in Australia.
Klady, Leonard (1997), 'Same old song and dance', Film Comment Mar/Apr.
The American box office in 1996.
Klinger, Barbara (1998), 'The new media aristocrats: home theater
and the domestic film experience', The Velvet Light Trap 42, Fall.
Argues that, in these days of technological change, assumptions about
what constitutes 'true' cinema and its experience should be reconsidered.
Kunio, Nishimura (1997), The rediscovered world of Japanese cinema',
Look Japan October. As in other countries, local films (the animated
feature The Princess Nononoke) are out-grossing The Lost World: Jurassic
Park.
Martin, Adrian (1995), 'The gloves come off', Cinema Papers Dec.
An Australian critic champions the film criticism of American critic
Jonathan Rosenbaum.
McMahon, Liz (1996), 'Cinema and video audience research', Admap
Oct. How movie audiences are measured in the UK.
Menand, Louis (1996), 'Hollywood's trap', The New York Review of
Books, Sept 19. Possibly a good example of what Jones is arguing against,
in its claims that films such as The Nutty Professor and The Rock
'want..to say nothing'.
'Moments out of time', Film Comment Jan/Feb 1997. The high moment
of film in 1996.
Murphy, Kathleen (1996), Frames clicks on multimedia', Film Comment
March/April. Reviews film resources available on CD-Rom.
Naremore, James (1995), 'American Flm Noir: the history of an idea',
Film Quarterly 49:2, Winter. Discusses the origins, and persistence,
of film noir as a film style.
Norman, Jean (1997), 'The difference between boys and girls', Sunday
Star-Times May 25. A diatribe about film for women.
Obst, Lynda (1996), 'How to make amovie', Entertainment Weekly Sept
6. Extracts from a veteran film producer's new book Hello, He Lied--and
Other Truths from the Hollywood Trenches.
Olson, Scott R. (1996), 'College course file: studiesin genre--horror',
Journal of Film & Video 48:1-2, Spring/Summer. Interesting ideas
for teaching horror film.
O'Neill, John (1995), 'So you want to write for the movies...' ,
The Independent Monthly Nov. The trials of screenwriting in Australia.
O'Neill, Helen (1996), 'Guerillas of film', The Australian Sept 4
Roger Corman and Australian film-makers discuss the future of low
budget film-making.
Prince, Stephen (1996), 'True Lires: perceptual realism, digital
images, and film theory', Film Quarterly. How film theory needs to
catch up with contemporary film techniques.
Rubey, Dan (1978/1997), 'Not so long ago, not so far away', Jump
Cut 41. A reprint of a pioneering essay, to acknowledge the re-release
of the Star Wars trilogy.
Schickel, Richard (1998), 'Mind slips: remembering and disremembering
movies', Film Comment 34:5, Sept/Oct. The renowned film critic muses
on the AFI's '100 greatest American movies' list.
Schiff, Laura (1998), 'The changing face of the horror film--ten
rules for today's market', Creative Screenwriting Sept/Oct. The 'ten
cardinal rules for writing saleable horror films in today's changing
markeplace'.
Sconce, Jeffrey ''Trashing' the academy: taste, excess, and an emerging
politics of cinematic style', Screen 36:4, Winter. Argues for the
aesthetics of 'trash' in cinema, extending Bourdieu's concept of 'taste'
as distaste for the preferences of others.
Sharky, Timothy (1997), 'The teen film and its methods of study',
Journal of Popular Film & Television 25:1, Spring. A spirited
defence of teen movies.,p. 'Siskel & Ebert On Line', Yahoo! Internet
Life, Sept 1996. The two wise-guys of US film reviewing discuss the
best film sites on the Internet.
Snider, Burr (1995), 'The Toy Story story', Wired Dec. The technology
behind one of the best films of 1995.
'Star Wars', The Economist March 22 1997. The business problems of
contemporary Hollywood. Includes useful tables eg the average costs
of film-making in Hollywood, 1982-1996.
Svetkey, Benjamin (1996), 'Who killed the Hollywood screenplay?',
Entertainment Weekly Oct 4. Bewails the state of contemporary screenwriting.
Tashiro, Charles (1997), 'The contradictions of video collecting',
Film Quarterly 50:2, Winter. A reflective piece on the strange pursuit
of collecting films on video.
Thompson, Anne (1996), 'Is bigger better?', Film Comment March/April.
Another examination of the 1995 American film box office.
Thompson, Anne (1995), 'Toy wonder', Entertainment Weekly December
8. The making of the 1995 hit movie Toy Story.
Thompson, Gary (1998), 'Lost the plot', The Weekend Australian Aug
15-16. Argues that 'audiences jaded by computer-generated images want
stories, not just spectacles'.
Tonkin, Boyd (1996), '100 films that changed the world', New Statesman
& Society Feb 16. The 100 films (arranged chronologically) which
had some significant impact - for good or ill - on the shape of twentieth
century society.
'The Top 10 Film Lines', Weekend Australian Oct 17-18 1998. The Guiness
Book of Film's version of most memorable film dialogue.
Tu, Janet I-Chin (1996), 'Film casts a net', Seattle Post-Intelligencer,
January 21. A feature article on film sites on the Internet.
Tudor, Andrew (1997), 'Why horror? The peculiar pleasures of a popular
genre', Cultural Studies 11(3). Examines why we enjoy, and want to
enjoy, horror movies.
Summerfield, Gideon (1996), 'How Babe changed movie making', Internet
January. The 'vital role' the Internet played in the making of the
1996 hit movie Babe.
Wasser, Frederick (1995), 'Is Hollywood America? The trans-nationalization
of the American film industry', Critical Studies in Mass Communication
12. An interesting article which argues that, from the 1970s, Hollywood
shifted its emphasis from the American film-goer to international
markets.
Widdicombe, Rupert (1997), 'Suddenly, everybody's a Spielberg--sort
of', The Weekend Australian Aug 9-10. How new technology make make
all of us film-makers.
Williams, Sue (1996), 'Cinema smorgasbord', The Weekend Australian
Aug 3/Sept 1. Food as a 'central player' in contemporary film.
Williams, Linda Ruth (1996), 'Nothing to find', Sight and Sound January.
A critique of Verhoeven's Showgirls, the dud of 1995.
Film-New Zealand
Broatch, Mark (1995), 'Moviegoing', Quote Unquote December. Speculations
on why New Zealanders go to the movies. Mark's 'Pop Vox' column is
a great addition to this magazine.
Bruzi, Stella (1995), 'Tempestuous petticoats: costume and desire
in The Piano', Screen 36:3, Autumn. One of three articles in 'The
Piano Debate' in this issue of Screen. The other two are Lynda Dyson
'The return of the repressed? Whiteness, feminity and colonialism
in The Piano' and Sue Gillett 'Lips and fingers: Jane Campion's The
Piano'.
Calder, Peter (1998), 'Lord' leads biz', Variety Oct 19-25. Variety's
annual spotlight on the New Zealand film and television industry,
with contributions ftrom Calder and Paul Smith.
Edwards, Denis (1996), 'Get it in writing', Quote Unquote April.
Advice on avoiding ownership quarrels over film scripts.
Goldson, Annie (1995), 'Getting the picture', Women's Studies Journal
11: 1-2, Aug. Academic and film/video maker Annie Goldson writes about
her film Wake
Goldson, Annie (1997), 'Piano recital', Screen 38:3, Autumn. Describes
the reception of Janer Campion's The Piano in New Zealand.,p. Heal,
Andrew (1997), Horror story', Metro Dec. Bitching about the New Zealand
Film Commission, echoing complaints which have already been aired
in Onfilm.
Herrick, Linda (1996), 'The Kiwi 'kid' in Hollywood', Sunday Star-Times
Jan 21. Lee Tamahori and his first American feature film.
Hight, Craig & Jane Roscoe (1997), 'Forgotten Silver: An exercise
in deconstructing documentaries', Metro 112. Provides a good way to
study documentary, using the New Zealand 'mockdoc' Forgotten Silver
(1995).
McLauchlan (1995), 'Over the mune', North & South October. An
interesting profile of film-maker Ian Mune.
Murphy, Kathleen (1997), 'Totems and taboos: civilization and its
discoents according to Lee Tamahori', Film Comment Sept/Oct. New Zealand
film-makers hit the big time. This cover article reviews the work
of New Zealand film-maker Lee Tamahori, from Once Were Warriors to
his latest, The Edge.
Norgrove, Aaron (1998), 'But is it music? The crisis of identity
in The Piano', Race & Class 40, 1. Jane Champion's 1993 film continues
to generate academic criticism.
'Outlook at the Movies', The Dominion March 26 1996. A useful classroom
resource on the earliest days of New Zealand film.
Puttnam, David (1996). 'Film industry will need helping hand', New
Zealand Herald Nov 27. In his address to the Screen Producers and
DirectorsAssn forum, Sir Dave argues for more government involvement
in New Zealand film-making.
Reid, Graham (1997), 'The advice: drop your shorts', New Zealand
Herald Nov 26. American film producer Peter Broderick (a visitor to
the Nov SPADA conference) gives his views on the wisdom of funding
short films.
Roberts, Hugh (1995), 'Standing upright here', New Zealand Books
5:4 (issue 20), Oct. A very literary analysis of recent New Zealand
film successes.
Sheeran, Garry (1996), 'Cinema industry brings home bacon', Sunday
Star-Times Jan 21. A feature in the 'Money' section on the healthy
state of film-going in New Zealand.
Simmons, Laurence (1996), 'A little clunky and manic...', Midwest
10. A interview with New Zealand film-maker Peter Jackson. This issue
also includes Costa Botes on Bad Taste, Gwynneth Porter on Meet the
Feebles, Alan Jones on Braindead, Barbara Creed on Heavenly Creatures
and Thierry Jutel on Forgotten Silver.
Sklar, Robert (1995), 'Social realism with style: an interview with
Lee Tamahori', Cineaste XXI:3. Our 'Kiwi kid' makes a big impression
on a renowned American film critic.
Media and Children/Youth
Adams, Phillip (1997), 'Lambs to consumer slaughter', The Weekend
Australian Mar 8-9. Strong views from Adams on children and television,
and an extended plug for the Australian Children's Television Foundation.
Adams, Phillip (1997), 'Toontime draws to the quick', The Weekend
Australian July 5-6. Phillip really like The Simpsons!
Alexander, Alison & M.A. Morrison (1995), 'Electric toyland and
the structures of power: an analysis of critical studies on children
as consumers', Critical Studies in Mass Communication 12:3, Sept.
An examination of Kline, Seiter and Kinder as three major writers
who provide different critical/cultural theoretical perspectives on
children's culture.
Austin, Eric Weintraub, C. Knaus & A. Meneguelli (1998), 'Who
talks how to their kids about TV: a clarification of demographic correlates
about parental mediation patterns', Communication Research Reports
14(4). American research, based on telephone surveys, suggests that
'demographics hold little value for explaining why and how parents
hold particular attitudes or engage in particulat behaviors relevant
to television and parenting'.
Bell, Richard (1997), 'Time for Telebye-bye', Cult TV October. One
example of the development of Teletubbies as an adult cult object.,p.
Bulmer, Alice (1998), 'Battles of the box', Little Treasures Oct/Nov.
New Zealand perspectives on television and its youngest viewers.
Brabazon, Tara (1996), 'Post-youth culture & the politics of
memory', Youth Studies Australia June. Style and forgetfulness in
the youth culture of the 1990s.
Buckingham, David & M. Allerton (1996), Fear, fright and distress.
A review of research on children's 'negative' emotional responses
to television. Broadcasting Standards Council [UK] Research Working
Paper, 12. A considered review of research, which properly regards
the relationship between children and television as complex rather
than simple.
Bin Zhao & G. Murdock (1996), 'Young pioneers: children and the
maling of Chinese consumerism', Cultural Studies 10(2). A wonderfully
insightful and original piece of academic writing, focusing on a case
study of the craze for Transformer toys among Chinese children in
1989. The best article I have read this year--and I have read a few!
Carvell, Tim & Joe McGowan (1996), 'Showdown in Toontown', Fortune
Oct 28. The battle for the children's television market in the US.
Includes a sketch of the attitude of 'America's youth' to television.
Chan-Olmsted, Sylvia M. (1996), 'From Sesame Street to Wall Street:
an analysis of market competition in commercial children's television',
Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media 40. Competition and
its consequences in US children's television, with recommendations
for policymakers.
Christenson, Peter (1994), 'Childhood patterns of music uses and
preferences', Communication Reports 7:2, Summer. Suggests that 'the
gravitation toward pop or rock music usually associated with early
adolescence, in fact, begins much earlier'.
Collingwood, Harris (1997), 'The Spot', WorkingWoman May. The characteristics
of the post-1965 generation (so-called 'GenerationX').
Cottrell, Sonia (1996), 'The video playing fields', AdMedia February.
Marketing video games to New Zealand teenagers.
Davis, Mark (1998), 'Sick wicked culture; the global politics of
regional youth', AQ Sept-Oct. Davis, the author of Gangland: Cultural
Elites and the New Generationalism (1997), defends comtemporary youth
against the 'demonisation' of the media.
Denby, David (1996), 'Buried Alive', The New Yorker July 15. A churlish,
bad-tempered diatribe against 'the avalanche of crud' in contemporary
children's culture. Despite the tendency of Denbyto mythologise his
own childhood, there is much to agree with here.
Di Stasio, Michael (1995), 'Lights, camera...reaction. Television
and videoclip technology-who controls the dial?'. Paper to the NZ
Association for Research in Education conference, Massey University.
Interesting research on young Australian adolescents' viewing of music
videos.
Doi, David J. (1998), 'The myth of teen violence', State Government
News, April. Argues that media reports of violent crime distort the
role of teens as perpetrators.
Eastman, Wayne (1995), 'Crisis, what crisis? Making television work
for young children', Canadian Children 20:2, Fall. Advice of mixed
value regarding television and young children
Farhi, Paul (1998), 'Teens starting to rule network's programming',
Washington Post Oct 21. Teen programming on US television.
Funk, J.B. & D.D. Buchman (1996), 'Playing violent video and
computer games and adolescent self-concept', Journal of Communication
46(2), Spring. Suggests that a preference for violent video games
is not significantly related to self-concept.
Frankiss, Wendy (1997), 'Stocking up for Christmas', CA Magazine
December. Citing the merchandising blitz associated with Teletubbies
in the UK, this is a surprisingly critical view of marketing to children
(for an accountants journal!).
Freeman, Matt (1997), 'Electronic media and how kids (don't) think',
The Education Digest November. Calls on Jane Healy and Neil Postman
to doubt the efficacy of electronic learning.
Frenette, Micheline & Andre H. Caron (1995), 'Children and interactive
television: research and design issues', Convergence 1:1. Discusses
the relationship between children and television, and the possibilities
of age-appropriate interactive television content. From a new interesting
journal Convergence: The Journal of Research into New Media Technologies.
Gladwell, Malcolm (1998), 'Do parents matter?, The New Yorker Aug
17 1998. This presents a 'radical new theory' about how children are
socialised but it isn't all that radical when you realise that its
central argument--that peer groups have more influence on children
than parents--is a belief-system marketing has been using for a long
time. A bloody interesting article, even though it provides more questions
than answers.
Goonasekera, Anura (1998), 'Children's voice in the media: a study
of children's television programmes in Asia', Media Asia 25 (3). Examines
what offered on TV to children aged between six and 15 in Asian countries.
Grindlay, Mark (1995), 'Generation X: tales from a marketing textbook',
New Zealand Political Review Nov/Dec. Scepticism on youth marketing
ploys.
Guilliatt, Richard (1997), 'Hey you...boy', Good Weekend (Sydney
Morning Herald), Nov 22. A rare defence of teenage boys and 'hanging
out'.
Harari, Fiona (1997), ' Buy, buy baby', The Australian Nov 26. Children
and branding.
Hardman, Jeremy (1998), 'Advertising to children', Admap May. Argues
that 'children are far from vulnerable when it comes to advertising'.
Faire enough but it should not be an excuse for laissez faire attitudes!
Hendry. Leo B., M.Kloep & S. Olsson (1998), 'Youth, lifestyles
and society: a class issue?', Childhood 5(2). Argues that lifestyle
socialisation for adolescents is still strongly grounded in social
class.
Hengst, Heinz (1997), 'Reconquering urban spots and spaces? Children's
public(ness) and the scripts of media industries', Childhood 4:4.
How the media shapes and assists concepts of where children play and
belong.
Hendry. Leo B., M.Kloep & S. Olsson (1998), 'Youth, lifestyles
and society: a class issue?', Childhood 5(2). Argues that lifestyle
socialisation for adolescents is still strongly grounded in social
class.
Hopkins, Susan (1995), 'Generation pulp', Youth Studies Australia
Spring. An examination of the the generation 'that defines itself
by entertainment discourse
Jeffres, Leo W. & David J. Atkin (1995), 'The impact of new and
traditional media on college student leisure preferences', World Communication
24:2 . Mixed results on what media young American students prefer.
Josephson, Wendy L. (1995), Television Violence: A Review of the
Effects on Children of Different Ages. [report for] Canadian Heritage.
A useful report and innovative in that it refuses to regard children
as a homogenous age group. More wide-ranging than some other reviews
of the literature but it is still not the full story.
Kennedy, Erin (1996), 'Chips censor kids' TV', The Dominion March
19. Backgrounds the v-chip, the US-initiated technological 'fix' for
a perceived problem.
Kirsh, Steven J. (1998), 'Seeing the world through Mortal Kombat-coloured
glasses: violent video games and the development of a short-term hostile
attribution bias', Childhood 5:2. Argues for a connnection between
playing violent video games and 'the development of a hostile attribution
bias'.
Kline, Stephen (1995), 'The play of the market: on the internationalization
of children's culture', Theory, Culture & Society 12. A very good
article on the spread of global marketing of toys.
LaFrance, J.P. (1997), 'Games and players in the electronic age',
Reseaux: The French Journal of Communication 4:2. ways of analysing
the use of video games by adults and children.
Losyk, Bob (1997), 'Generation X: what they think and what they plan
to do', The Futurist March-April. More on Gen-X.
Leonhardt, David (1997), 'Hey kid, buy this!', Business Week June
30. An interesting and surprisingly critical overview of marketing
to children.
Lynch, Andrew P. (1998), 'Youth control: young people and the politics
of hip hop graffiti in Aotearoa/New Zealand', New Zealand SOCIOLOGY
13(1). The clash between New Zealand subcultures and officialdom.
Lyons, Donald (1998), 'The long goodbye: fathers and sons and American
cinema', Film Comment July-Aug. Focuses on East of Eden and other
examples.
Mahy, Penny (1995), 'Short-changing the children', Listener Oct 21.
Criticism of current children's programming on NZ television.
McGee, Tom (1997), 'Getting inside kids' heads', American Demographics
Jan. Advice on marketing to children but little acknowledgement of
ethical issues.
McKie, David (1996), 'The engine of envy', The Guardian Dec 23. Children
and Christmas advertising in the UK.
Murray, Taima Anne (1997), 'Is our romantic view of childhood still
proper?, New Zealand Herald June 20. How children can learn from soaps
like Shortland Street. The only perspective of media in the lives
of children, in the Herald's otherwise excellent week-long special
on children.
O'Donovan, Cheryl (1997), 'The GX styles', Communication World Oct/Nov.
I am getting a bit sick of articles like this, repeating the same
old half-truths about the so-called 'Generation X'.
Oswell, David (1998), 'The place of 'childhood' in Internet content
regulation: A case study of policy in the YK', International Journal
of Cultural Studies 1(2). How policy decisions are made 'not in relation
to 'real'; children, but in relation to their representation and the
authority of those who claim to represent them'. A very good article!
Pasquier, Dominique (1996), 'Teens series' reception: television,
adolescence and culture of feelings', Childhood 3. The exploration
of values and relationships in television for French teens,.
Pecora, Norma (1995), 'Children and television advertising from a
social science perspective', Critical Studies in Mass Communication
12:3, Sept. Argues that much of the literature on children and TV
advertising lacks an acknowledgment of 'an increasingly sophisticated
perspective of the child'.
Potter, W. James & Ron Warren (1996), 'Considering policies to
protect children from TV violence', Journal of Communication 46(4),
Autumn. Describe three efforts in the US (the V-chip, programme ratings,
scheduling), arguing that 'the thinking behind each of these proposals
is fundamentally flawed'.
Press, Eyal (1996), 'Barbie's betrayal: the toy industry's broken
workers', The Nation Dec 30. How Mattel (the world's largest toy maker
with its recent acquisition of Tyco) treats its workers . In a word:
dreadfully!
Pryor, Cathy (1998), 'Discovery Generation', The Weekend Australian
Feb 28-March 1. How 'technology is transforming children's lives,
while parents struggle to keep up'.
Raney, Mardell (1997), 'Captain Kangaroo on children's TV', The Education
Digest May. An interview with a hero of US children's television.
Reese, Shelly (1997), 'Kids as ... Big Busine$$', The Education Digest
March. How advertisers target the $17 billion kids spend annually,
and the $170 billion adults fork out on their behalf.
Roger, Fred (1997), 'Mister Rogers on kids and technology', The Education
Digest April. Another hero of US children's television.
Ross, Chuck (1996), 'Children turning out TV in alarming numbers',
Advertising Age Oct 7. Alarm at the dramatic drop in children's viewing
of the US networks, with onlyNickelodeon on cvable TV bucking this
trend. One answer is provided in 'Kidvid puzzle' (Advertising Age
Oct 14), in 'an evident dearth of quality children's programming'.
Rushkoff, Douglas (1997), 'Screenagers: children of the remote control',
The Weekend Australian April 19-20. An extract from his Children of
Chaos: Surviving the End of the World as We Know It.
Stepp, Carl Sessions (1996), 'The X factor', American Journalism
Review Nov. This article asserts 'If newspapers hope to woo [Generation
Xers] they'll have to provide the content young readers are seeking,
stop sneering at youth culture and deliver the goods in a hip and
accessible way'.
Snyder, Beth (1998), 'Rivals attracted to Nickelodeon's sweet success',
Advertising Age Nov 9. Competitors attempting to copy the success
of the US children's cable channel.
Tait, Gordon, G.Kendall & B. Carpenter (1995), 'Youth, government
and violence in the media', Youth Studies Australia Spring. Examine
Australian government policy on media and youth.
Thompson, Teresa L. & E. Zerbinos (1995), 'Gender roles in animated
cartoons: has the picture changed in 20 years?', Sex Roles 32:9-10.
Compares gender representation in children's cartoons of the 1970s
with cartoons of the 1990s, finding that although there is some consistency
(eg male characters dominate) there is less stereotypical portrayal
of characters--particularly female characters.
Upitis, Rena (1998), 'From hackers to luddites, game players to game
creators: profiles of adolescent students using technology', Journal
of Curriculum Studies 30, 3. An interesting study of how young students
(in Ontario) use computers.
Valkenburg, Patti M. & J.W.J. Beentjes (1997), 'Children's creative
imagination in response to radio and television stories', Journal
of Communication 47)2), Spring. What children remember from radio
stories and television stories.
Wellwood, Elinore (1997), 'TV with X-Appeal', Waikato Times June
24. The sunden discovery of a 'youth market' on New Zealand television.
Williams, Sue (1997), 'Why bananas wear pyjamas', The Australian
March 10. How parental pressure is forcing children's programme-makers
to self-censor their output.
Wright, John C. et al (1995), 'Occupational portrayals on television:
children's role schemata, career aspirations, and percedptions of
reality', Child Development 66. Do young children get ideas about
what they want to be when they grow up from TV? They do and they don't.
Zanker, Ruth (1997), 'Children miss out in scramble for broadcasting
resources', New Zealand Herald June 6. The neglect of funding for
a range of programming for NZ children.
Zhao Bin (1996), 'The little emperors' small screeb: parental controland
children's television viewing in China', Media, Culture & Society,
v. 18 A companion piece to 'Young pioneers', co-authored with Graham
Murdock (Script 38). This article is just as good, examining the place
of television within the context of one-child Chinese family life.
Media and Ethnicity
Ascher-Walsh, Rebecca (1996), 'Equal opportunities?', Entertainment
Weekly Aug 16. The place of African-American actors in contemporary
film.
Bhandare, Namita (1997), 'The little big stars', India Today June
16. Television actors as stars in India.
Cottle, Simon (1998), 'Making ethnic minority programmes inside the
BBC: professionmal pragmatics and cultural containment', Media, Culture
& Society 20. An interesting study of programme making.
De Genova, Nick (1995), 'Gangster rap and nihilism in Black America',
Social Text 43, Fall. The 'immensely contradictory terrain' of contemporary
Black music.
Flores, Lisa A. & M.L. McPhail (1997), 'From black and white
to Living Color: a dialogic exposition into the social (re)construction
of race, gender, and crime', Critical Studies in Mass Communication,
March. Rethinking 'difference' in representations of race in the media.
Cottle, Simon (1998), 'Making ethnic minority programmes inside the
BBC: professionmal pragmatics and cultural containment', Media, Culture
& Society 20. An interesting study of programme making.
Frewen, Tom (1997), 'Conceived to fail - the ATN story', National
Business Review July 18. The sorry story of Aotearoa Television retold.
George, Diana & Susan Sanders (1995), 'Reconstructing Tonto:
cultural formations and American Indians in 1990s television fiction',
Cultural Studies 9(3). Argues that little has changed in respect of
representations of American Indian nations, even in programmes like
Twin Peaks and Northern Exposure.
Goodwin, Clayton (1997), 'Stars in our eyes', New African April.
The variety of roles 'African ladies' now have on British television.,p.
Giroux, Henry A. (1995), 'Racism and the aesthetic of hyper-real violence:
Pulp Fiction and other visual tragedies', Social Identities 1:2 .
Pulp Fiction, as a social text, seems to be increasingly used as an
exemplar of what is right or what is wrong about contemporary American
culture. This is one example-- another is Cook 'The dark side of camp'
in The Washington Monthly September 1995.
Gooding-Williams, Robert (1995), 'Disney in Africa and the inner
city: on race and space in The Lion King', Social Identities 1:2.
Challenges the objection that entertainment values and ideological
critiques in children's films must be kept apart, particularly in
portrayals of racial identity.
Halloran, James D. (1998), 'Ethnic minorities and television: a study
of use, reactions and preferences', Gazette 60(4). Explores the use
of and attitudes to television amongst 182 viewers, of Asian origin,
in Leicester (UK), suggesting that 'television was not seen as contributing
to the development of a multicultural society'.
Hinkson, Melinda (1996), 'The circus comes to Yuendumu, again', arena
magazine 25, Oct/Nov. A detailed story about the consequences of different
agendas, whenindigenous experiences and mainstream media collide--in
the case of Global TV (a subsidary of CNN) attempting to film the
use of video technology by the Warlpiri Media Association in Central
Australia.
Johnson, Melissa A. (1996), 'Latinas and television in the United
States: relationships among genre identification, acculturation, and
acculturation stress', The Howard Journal of Communication 7. Suggest
that English-language television in the US can play a positive role
in the adjustment of Hispanic women to mainstream society.
Matabane, Paula & Bishetta Merritt (1996), 'African Americans
on television: twenty-five years after Kerner', The Howard Journal
of Communication 7. How representation of African Americans have fared
on US television since the Kermer Commission recommendations of the
1960s.
McKee, Alan (1997), 'Marking the liminal for true blue Aussies: the
generic placement of Aboriginality in Australian soap opera', Australian
Journal of Communication 24 (1) . The representation of Aboriginal
characters in Australian soap drama.
Mogelonsky, Marcia (1998), 'Watching in tongues', American Demographics
April. The growing need for American television to serve ethnic diversity,
such as the 38 million US residents who don't speak English at home.
Ross, Karen (1997), 'Viewing (p)leasure, viewer pain: black audiences
and British television', Leisure Studies 16. Finds that black audiences
are 'both irritated and worried' by British television's representations
of ethnicity.
Sturma, Michael (1997), 'South Pacific', History Today 47(8). How
race and politics were portrayed in South Pacific (1958).
Wall, Melanie (1997), 'Stereotypical constructions of the Maori 'race'
in the media', New Zealand Geographer 53(2). The media and race relations
in New Zealand. It is interesting that geogrtaphy is movuing into
the cultural studies field but this article makes no mention of the
work by Sue Abel.
Media and Gender
Allan, Kenneth & Scott Coltrane (1996), 'Gender displaying television
commercials: a comparative study of television commercials in the
1950s and 1980s', Sex Roles 35:3/4. Suggests that there was 'changes
in the images of women but not men' in gender portrayals in American
TV commercials by the 1980s.
Alvarez, Maria (1998), 'Feminist icon in a catsuit', New Statesman
Aug 14. Celebrates the Emma Peels of television and real life.
Bachen, Christine M. & Eva Illouz (1996), 'Imagining romance:
young people's cultural models of romance and love', Critical Studies
in Mass Communication 13:4, Dec. How the romantic imagination of children
is shaped by what they see and hear, from an early age.
Bakewell, Joan (1996), 'Women on the edge', The Guardian Oct 14 .
The status of women working in the British TV industry.
Becker, Ron (1998), 'Prime-time television in the Gay Nineties: network
television, quality audiences, and gay politics', The Velvet Light
Trap 42, Fall. How the promise of a gay and lesbian market is driving
television programming.
Bell, Elizabeth (1996), 'Do you believe in fairies: Peter Pan, Walt
Disney and me', Women's Studies in Communication, 19:2 . A personal
story of Disney, Tinkerbell and one woman.
Campbell, Russell (1995), 'Dismembering the Kiwi Bloke: representations
of masculinity in Braindead, Desperate Remedies and The Piano', Illusions
24, Spring. A celebration of the death of the Kiwi Bloke in recent
NZ films.
Cremen, Christine (1998), 'Out they come, but it smakes of lip service',
The Australian Jan 12. Gay characters may be the fashion on television
but stereotypes persist. Daddario, Gina (1997), 'Gendered sports programming:
1992 Summer Olympic coverage and the feminine narrative form', Sociology
of Sport Journal 14. The parallels between soap opera narratives,
and the representation of Olympic sport.
Epstein, Debbie & D. L. Steinberg (1996), 'All het up! Rescuing
heterosexuality on the Oprah Winfrey Show', Feminist Review 54, Autumn.
How Oprah both 'problematizes' and 'normalizes' the boundaries of
heterosexuality.
Gamson, Joshua (1998), 'Publicity traps: television talk shows and
lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender visibility', Sexualities 1(1).
Argues thayt US talkshows 'encourahe viewers to separate 'bad' sexualities
from 'good' ones'.
Goodsell, Lang (1996), Barbie is a bitch', Refractory Girl 50, Autumn.
A former Barbie owner traces her route to enlightenment.
Goodsell, Lang (1996), 'How much is that girlie in the window?',
Refactory Girl 51, Spring. This issue of the Australian feministjournal
contains a special section'Women and Media: Ads, lies and stereotypes'.Other
contributions include: 'Women and the media: some current policy issues',
'Sex, ads and stereotypes', 'A sticky business: tampons in the media',
and 'Mother is not a dirty word'.
Handy, Bruce (1997), 'Roll over, Ward Cleaver', Time April 14. A
review of 'The changing nature of sex' on American television, accompanying
a cover story about the 'coming-out' of Ellen DeGeneres (the character
and the the actor).
Hellman, Heikki (1996), 'A toy for the boys only? Reconsidering the
gender effects of video technology', European Journal of Commmunication
11 (1). Although use of the VCR still is largely male-dominated, it
may be changing in some countries and some circumstances.
Herrett-Skjellum, Jennifer & M. Allen (1995), 'Television programming
and sex stereotyping: a meta-analysis', Communication Yearbook 19.
A useful review of North American research.
Jacobs, A. J. (1996), 'Out', Entertainment Weekly Oct 4. The will
she/won't she? story of the lead character in the US sitcom Ellen.
Larson, Mary Strom (1996), 'Sex roles and soap operas: what adolescents
learn about single motherhood', Sex Roles 35:1/2. Investigates thethe
contribution of US daytime television soap operas to the perception
of the rolesand lifestyle of the single mother.
Lumby, Catharine (1997), 'Girls and the New Media', Meanjin 1. An
optimistic view of girls and technology.
McRobbie, Angela (1997), 'Bridging the gap: feminism, fashion and
consumption', Feminist Review 55, Spring. Argues for integration of
critical perspectives on production and consumption, in order to fully
comprehend the role of fashion in womens' lives.
Minkowitz, Donna (1996), 'Xena: She's Big, Tall, Strong--and Popular',
Ms. July/Aug. Why TV's Xena: Warrior Princess (New Zealand's Lucy
Lawless) is such a big hit with American feminists.
Nathanson, Amy I., E.M. Perse & D.A. Ferguson (1997), 'Gender
differences in television use: an exploration of the Instrumental
Expressive Dichotomy', Communication Research Reports 14:2. Tends
to support the contention that males and females watch television
differently, and for different purposes.
Powell, Sian (1997). 'Double standard time', Weekend Australian Sept
13-14. How female news presenters fare on Australian television.
Ross, Karen & Annabelle Sreberny-Mohammadi (1997), 'Playing house--gender.
politics and the news media in Britain', Media, Culture & Society
19. Research on the relationship between female Labour MP's and the
British media.
Schwarzbaum, Lisa (1995), 'We're gonna make it after all', Working
Woman October. On the 25th anniversary of The Mary Tyler Moore Show,
this article argues that television is offering better roles for professional
women than the movies.
Sieghart, Mary Ann (1997), 'Woman's work' , The Guardian June 30.
The experiences of female journalists in the British newspaper industry.
'Swifter, higher, stronger, dearer', The Economist July 20, 1996.
Who wins in the partnership between television and sport?
Thompson, Teresa L. & Eugenia Zerbinos (1997), 'Television cartoons:
do children notice it's a boy's world?', Sex Roles 36:5/6. Children
do observe differences in the way male and female characters are portrayed
in television cartoons.
Wald, Gayle (1998), 'Just a Girl? Rock music, feminism, and the cultural
construction of female youth', Signs: Journal of Women in Culture
and Society 23, 3. Examines contemporary female rock musicians' representations
of girls, girlhood and 'girl culture'.
Williams, Sue (1996), 'Bias against women: the ugly side of television',
The Weekend Australian Nov 30-Dec 1. How women female presenters on
Australian TV get a raw deal, in contrast to US television. From a
forthcoming book Broad Casting: Women in Australian TV and Radio
Yeates, Helen (1996), 'Cracking the code: masculinities and desire'.
Paper presented atthe ATOM National Media Education Conference, Brisbane.
Investigates the celebration of the aging, over-weight malein contemporary
TV drama(Sipowiczin NYPD Blue and Fitz in Cracker). By some accounts,
this was one of the best papers at Brisbane.
Media and Politics
Andersen, Michael Bruun (1997), 'Television, political culture and
the identity of citizenship', Critical Arts 11, 1-2. The role of television
in Zimbabwe.
Barnett, Steven (1997), 'New media, old problems: new technology
and the political process', European Journal of Communication 12 (2).
Doubts about the ability of new media to seriously challenge existring
power structures.
Eksterowicz, Anthony J., R. Roberts & A. Clark (1998), 'Public
journalism and public knowledge', Press/Politics 3(2). Journalists
as champions of political and social reform.
McQuail, Denis (1997, 'Accountability of media to society: principles
and means', European Journal of Communication 12(4). Theoretical frameworks
for reconciling media freedoms with private and public interests.
Scott, Jane (1997), 'Communication campaigns and the neo-liberal
policy agenda', Media, Culture & Society 19. The often ambiguous
role of the media in recent political change in New Zealand.
Street, John (1997), 'Remote control? Politics, technology and 'Electronic
Democracy'', European Journal of Communication 12(1). Competing claims
about the political consequences of the Internet.
van Zoonen, Liesbet (1998), 'A day at the zoo: political communication,
pigs and popular culture', Media, Culture & Society 20. The tensions
between politics and popular culture.
Media and Sport
Andrews, D.L., Carrington, B., Jackson, S.J. & Z. Mazur (1996),
'Jordanscapes: a preliminary analysis of the global popular', Sociology
of Sport Journal 13. An excellent examination of the global and local,
using Michael Jordan as the 'vivid example'. Includes case studies
from New Zealand (Steven Jackson), Poland and Britain.
Araton, Harvey (1998), 'Bizball', The New York Times Magazine Oct
18. The business of US professional sport and television rights. Includes
a useful spread on the ownership networks of media conglomerates.
Barnett, Steven (1996), 'Who stole sport?', The Age [Melbourne] August
22. The role of television and Rupert Murdoch in shaping the economics
of sport.
Boyle, Raymond & Richard Haynes (1996), 'The grand old game':
football, media and identity in Scotland', Media, Culture & Society,
v. 18. This issue of Media, Culture & Society focuses on 'Sport,
Media and Globalisation' and features interesting articles such asthis
one on the conjunctions between national sport and globalisation.
Butler, Daniel (1996), 'Sky's limits', Accountancy-International
Edition April. Rupert Murdoch's BSkyB and its control of British sport.
Donnelly, Peter (1996), 'The local and the global: globalizationin
the sociology of sport', Journal of Sport & Social Issues 23,
Aug. A review of the central ideas of the local/global debate, with
an emphasis on the international spread of American-style sport.
Elliott, Stuart (1998), 'TV sports lose some of their power to reach
America's men', New York Times Oct 26. Televised sport does not seem
to be the sure bet it used to be with American males.
Heeringa, Vincent (1997), 'The commercialisation of sport', The Independent
July 11. The ties between New Zealand sport and marketing grow tighter.
Hope, Wayne (1996), 'Whaddarya? The political economy of professional
rugby', New Zealand Political Review July/August. The consequences
of rugby-for-sale.
Jackson, Steven J. (1998), 'Life in the (mediated) Faust lane: Ben
Johnson, national affect and the 1988 crisis of Canadian identity',
International Review for the Sociology of Sport 33/3. Writing from
New Zealand, Jackson examines issues of sport and national well-being.
Jennings, Andrew (1996), 'Ring toss: how Olympic insiders betray
the public trust', The Nation July 29/Aug 5. The author of The New
Lord of the Rings repeats his attacks on the IOC.
Keane, Shani (1995), 'Male groin strains get a guernsey as female
world champions are ignored', Refractory Girl 49, Spring. Women's
sports still being ignored by the Australian media.
Kellner, Douglas (1996), 'Sports, media culture, and race--some reflections
on Michael Jordan', Sociology of Sport Journal 13. More on MJ, from
a special issue devoted to the man.
Korporaal, Glenda (1997), 'The big bucks in TV sport aren't for loses',
Sydney Morning Herald Nov 17. Pay-TV and sporting rights in Britain.
McGregor, Adrian (1997), 'Televised sport is just soap opera for
blokes', The Weekend Australian March 22-23. Just as I have always
said! A report of a conference paper 'Rugby League battles as male
soap opera' by Australians David Rowe and Jim McKay.
Rowe, David (1996), 'The global love-match: sport and television',
Media, Culture & Society, v. 18. A familiar name in the growing
body of writing on media and sport. This article focuses on the symbiotic
(or parasitic?) relationship of sport and television, using the case
of Australian rugby league.
Sabo, Don et al (1996), 'Televising international sport: race, ethnicity,
and nationalistic bias', Journal of Sport & Social Issues21, February.
An interesting content analysis of 340 hours of 7 televised international
athletic events. Findings include little evidence of negative representations
of Black athletes but cultural stereotyping of Asian athletes.
'Swifter, higher, stronger, dearer', The Economist July 20, 1996.
Who wins in the partnership between television and sport?
Tomlinson, Alan (1996), 'Olympic spectacle: opening ceremonies and
some paradoxes of globalization', Media, Culture & Society v.
18. An interesting analysis of the Olympics as a social production,
ranging across opening spectacles from the 1984 Los Angeles Games,
to Lillehammer 1994.
Tran, Mark (1997), 'Sport gets the hard sell', The Guardian June
2. Marketing in contemporary sport.
Wilson, Helen (1996), 'What is an Olympic city? Visions of Sydney
2000', Media, Culture & Society v. 18. Backgroundsthe political
manoeuverings in preparation for the SydneyOlympics and where the
International Broadcasting Centre fits in.
Media and Sexuality
Healy, Murray (1995), 'Were we being served? Homosexual representation
in popular British comedy', Screen 36.3, Autumn. A reassessment of
camp sensibilities in Are You Being Served? and the Carry On series.
Media Education
Ahrens, Frank (1997), 'Parents get tuned in to kids' TV', Washington
Post March 18. A parent/school initiative in media education in Maryland.
Archer, Steve (1996), 'Pop, pleasure and pedagogy', The English &
Media Magazine 34, Summer. Teaching pop music for Media Studies GCSE.
Armitage, Catherine (1998), 'Pop makes the grade', Weekend Australian
Sept 12-13. The proposed NSW Higher School Certificate is likely to
include examination of contemporary media, and media events, taking
their place alongside Shakespeare.
Bazalgette, Cary (1996), 'Beyond the province of enthusiasts: re-establishing
media education', The English & Media Magazine 34, Summer. A keynote
address to a conference of English teachers identifies the problems
and possibilities of media education.
Bazalgette, Cary (1995), 'Not all the news is fit to print', TES
December 15. The 'dangerous delusion' of continuing to regard print
as the dominant medium for teaching.
Bowker, Julian (1995), 'Research into media literacy/education: the
second wave - now it's started what next? Paper to the National Media
Literacy Conference, Boone NC, Sept. Julian describes his on-going
research on initiatives in media learning in British schools. (Note:this
is only paper I brought back from Boone--actual papers were scarce)
Bragg, Sara (1995), 'It Makes You Feel Like A Man': teaching and
watching horror', The English & Media Magazine 32, Summer. A British
teacher argues for teaching hoprror film in the classroom, starting
from the social use of such films by her students.
Buckingham, David (1996), 'Critical pedagogy and media education:
a theory in search of a practice', Journal of Curriculum Studies 28:6.
Examines recent theoretical work on 'critical pedagogy' and its relationship
to media education and classroom practice.Probably the best person
to write on such matters!
Buckingham, David (1996), 'The last big thing?', Media Education
Journal 20, Summer. Continues the refrain of the article above, arguing
that 'it is vital that media educators continue to examine their own
practice', particularly since 'the distinctions between videos, computer
games, movies, TV shows, advertisements and prinred media have become
increasingly irrelevant'.
Buckingham, David (1998), 'Media education in the UK: moving beyond
protectionism', Journal of Communication Winter. The history of media
education in the vUK, in a special issue of JoC devoted to perspectives
on media education.
Burgess, Marya (1998), 'A Mickey Mouse degree?', The Times Higher
May 15. Examines the persistent prejudice in journalism against media
studies.
Cole, George (1995), 'Putting the viewer in control', TES Oct 27.
The success of video-on-demand trials in British schools.
Coughlan, Sean & G. Macdonald (1996), 'Parties offer stake in
future', TES May 10. A report on a TES/BFI conference on education
and the moving image.
Cuff, John Haslett (1996), 'Media-literacy guru needs an angel',
The Globe and Mail Dec 2. Canada's national newspaper profiles the
work of media educator John Pungente, andthe uncertain future his
Jesuit Communication Project faces.
Davies, Andrew (1995), 'TV/Film Masterclass', TES Aug 25. Advice
on scripting film and television drama from a noted screenwriter.
One of a series called 'Masterclass'--other were on writing novels,
short stories and children's fiction.
Flood, James & D. Lapp (1994), 'Broadening the lens: toward an
expanded conceptualization of literacy'. In Perspectives On Literacy
Research and Practice. Forty-fourth Yearbook of The National Reading
Conference An interesting contribution to a forum dominated by print,
which argues for teaching both with and about media.
Gold, Karen (1996), 'Testing the tube in class', TES May 17. A British
school experiment in interactive television.
Henry, Neil (1998), 'Journalism education: a lost cause?', The Chronicle
of Higher Education Sept 25. Argues that the current state of the
US news media seldom set a good example to those entering the profession.
Hobbs, Renee (1998), 'The Seven Great Debates in the Media Literacy
movement', Journal of Communication Winter. Why North Americans fail
to agree on what media education is, or should be.
Holt, Maurice (1996), 'The making of Casablanca and the making of
curriculum', Journal of Curriculum Studies 28:3. An unusual article,
which uses the process of film-making as a model for creating effective
and popular curr iculum change.
Hooper, Robert A. (1997), 'teaching film and television in developing
nations: a Malaysian case study', Journal of Film and Video 48.4,
Winter. Useful for teaching with foreign students.
Hotere, Andrea (1996), 'Shortland end of the stick', NZ Education
Review, Sept 27-Oct 3. An interview with Barbara Cairns, co-author
of Shortland Street: Production, Text and Audience, presenting the
case for media teaching.
Holt, Maurice (1996), 'The making of Casablanca and the making of
curriculum', Journal of Curriculum Studies 28:3 . An unusual article,
which uses the process of film-making as a model for creating effective
and popular curr iculum change.
Jenkins, Henry (1998), 'Empowering children in the digital age: towards
a radical media pedagogy', Radical Teacher 50. One of the best articles
on media teaching to appear for some time--all the more surprising
that it comes from an American source, as it avoids over-simplication
and the usual alarms. Highly recommended! This isue of Radical Teacher
is devoted to Media Studies, with articles by Alexandra Juhasz 'Making
AIDS video as radical pedagogy', Gene Michaud 'Class conflicts: teaching
the war film', David Owen and Charles Silet 'Changing perception,
not just channels, in the heartland: teaching television's teaching',
Peter Lemish & Devorah feldash 'Exposing indifference'
Kirshner, Jonathan (1996), 'Alfred Hitchcock and the art of research',
PS: Political Science & Politics Sept. An uunusual approach to
teaching graduate research, using Hitchcock's approach to film production
as an exemplar.
Kouvaros, George (1997), 'On dangerous ground: film studies in Australia',
Screen 38:1, Spring. The unstable state of academic film studies in
Australia.
Landy, Marcia (1997), 'Film and English/American studies: what are
we doing in an English department?', Critical Quarterly 39:1. The
difficulties of finding a comfortable home for film studies.
Ljunggren, Carsten (1996), 'Education, media and democracy: on communication
and the nature of the public in the light of John Dewey, Walter Lippmann
and the discussion of modernity', Journal of Curriculum Studies 28:1,
Jan-Feb. A very long-winded title for long discussion of media education
in Swedish schools.
Mastrolia, Barbara Ann (1997), 'The media deprivation experience:revealing
mass media as both message and massage', Communication eEducation
46, July. The idea that you can sensitise student to media by depriving
them of it.
Megee, Mary (1997), 'Students need media literacy: the new basic',
The Education Digest September. Approaches to media education in the
USA.
Newell, A.R. (1995), 'Video production: process not product', Journal
of Educational Television 21:3 . Argues for process in student video
production, with the final product a secondary outcome.
O'Hara, John (1996), 'The communications race', Campus Review March
14-20 . The former head of the Australian Film, Television & Radio
School (now at Charles Sturt University) gives his views on communication
education, in a Campus Review special report on 'Media'.
Pearson, Mark (1998), 'Weighed down by popular demand', The Australian
May 13. The popularity of communication studies and media studies
in Australia.
Puig, Claudia (1995), 'Teaching children to watch TV', Los Angeles
Times Aug 31. A report on media literacy initiatives in the US makes
the front page of the LA Times (a fair report too!)
Reynolds, Terry (1995), 'Boys and English: so what's the problem?',
The English & Media Magazine 33, Autumn. Not strictly about media
education but a very good article on the problems and possibilities
of getting boys to read. One explanation offered is that it has a
lot to do with English teachers'expectations of what is 'acceptable'
reading.
Richards, Chris (1995), 'Popular music and media education', Discourse:
studies in the cultural politics of education 16:3. Argues that media
education should more actively engage with popular music--'as a domain
for the production of social identities'.
Shuker, Roy (1995), 'Media education and media literacy'. Paper to
the NZ Association for Research in Education conference, Massey University.
A review of the current state of media teaching in New Zealand.
Simons, Michael & Jenny Grahame (1998), 'Remission Impossible:
teaching old soaps in a new pack', The English & Media Magazine
No. 38, Summer. Describes a new teaching resource for teaching continuing
drama.
Watson, Chris (1996), 'Media Studies and the curriculum', New Zealand
Annual Review of Education 5: 1995. Although more about media education
than Media Studies, this provides a very good analysis of developments
in courses and evaluation in New Zealand.
Williams, Sue (1997), 'The rise of the televisionary', The Australian
March 12. A profile of Rod Bishop, head of the Australian Film, Television
and Radio School. He explains how the AFTRS is now putting more emphasis
on television production.
Media-International
Attwood, Alan (1996), 'The incredible expanding Rupert', The Age
(Melbourne), August 22. The global empire of Rupert Murdoch and his
expansionist plans.
Brewster, Deborah (1997), 'Double whammy kinks BSkyB's orbit', The
Weekend Australian June 21-22. The problems of satellite TV in Europe.
Cooper, Peter (1997), 'Western at the weekends', Admap October. How
Asian teengers live a double life.,p. During, Simon (1997), 'Popular
culture on a global scale: a challenge for Cultural Studies?', Critical
Inquiry 23, Summer. An interesting essay which argues that 'The global
popular weakens academics capacity to make political judgements of
cultural artifacts'.
Farhi, Paul & Megan Rosenfeld (1998), 'American pop penetrates
worldwide', Washington Post Oct 25. How American popular culture obliterates
borders. This is a three-part series, which includes Shaton Waxman
on 'Hollywood attuned to world markets'.
Fiske, John (1997), 'Global, national, global? Some problems of culture
in a postmodern world', The Velvet Light Trap 40, Fall. How 'interlocalism'
(social formations and cultures crossing borders) can counter homogenising
globalisation.
Ferguson, Marjorie (1995), 'Media, markets, and identities: reflections
on the global-local dialectic', Canadian Journal of Communication
20. Examines recurrent issues in debates about the 'conditions and
processes of globalism and localism with regard to problems of multiple
meaning, relations, and relative power'.
Gunkel, David J. & A.H. , (1997), 'Virtual geographies: the new
worlds of cyberspace', Critical Studies in Mass Communication 14.
Employs a well-used metaphor (eg Wark) and a cultural studies approach
to discourses about new means of communication.
Isofides, Petros (1997), 'Methods of measuring media concentration',
Media, Culture & Society 19. European strategies for assessing
concentrations of ownership and media territories.
Kirby, Michael (1996), 'The impact of global media on the rule of
law',Media Asia 23:3. A Justice of the High Court of Australia expands
on the implications of cross-border technology.
Patience, Allan (1998), 'Warming to a global society', AQ Sept-Oct.
Argues that 'Globalisation ... is a humanly contrived combination
of factors, some good, others evil. We have to discriminate between
the good and bad elements and work closely with the former to benefit
ourselves and the world at large'.
Rothkopf, David (1997),'In praise of cultural imperialism?', Foreign
Policy Summer. An unapologetic call to acknowledge the US as the best
model nation.
Stenger, Josh (1997), 'Consuming the planet: Planet Hollywood, stars,
and the global consumer culture', The Velvet Light Trap 40, Fall.
How the Planet Hollywood chain assist in the American colonisation
of the world.
Tracey, Michael & W.W. Redal (1995), 'The new parochialism: the
triumph of the populist in the flow of international television',
Canadian Journal of Communication 20. Uses the 'paradoxical case'
of Canadian television viewing, to argue for a revision of traditional
patterns of distribution of international television.
Media Theory
Casetti, Francesco (1996), 'Communicative situations: the cinema
and the television situation', Semiotica 112-1/2. An interesting comparison
on how we receive and perceive film and television texts.
Harms, John B. & David R. Dickens (1996), 'Postmodern Media Studies:
analysis or symptom?', Critical Studies in Mass Communication 13.
A useful review of the strengths and weaknesses of PM sensibilities.
Frith, Simon (1997), 'The good, the bad and the ugly choices', The
Australian April 9. The noted music sociologist argues, wisely and
coherently, for 'value judgements' across all strands of cultural
consumption.
Hoover, Stewart M. & Shalini S. Venturelli (1996), 'The category
of the religious: the blindspot of contemporary media theory", Critical
Studies in Mass Communication 13. Argues that media theory must take
account of 'the realms of meaning, ontology and cultural practice
traditionally in the province of religion'.
Lewis, Justin (1997), 'What counts in media studies', Media, Culture
& Society 19. Lewis argues for greater use of quantitative research
in cultural studies, to test theory against empirical data.
Liebes, Tamar (1996), 'Notes on the struggle to define involvement
in television viewing', Reseaux: the French Journal of Communication
4:1. An analysis of the 'open text' and levels of engagement.
Loshitzky, Yosefa (1996), 'Travelling culture/travelling television',
Screen 37:4, Winter. An interesting perspective on television and
globalisation.
McRobbie, Angela (1997), 'Let's hear it for cultural studies', New
Stateman Feb 14. A spirited defence of cultstuds.
Mehl, Dominique (1996), 'The television of intimacy: meeting a social
need', Reseaux: the French Journal of Communication 4:1. The articulation
of intimacy and personal experience on French TV.
Roach, Colleen (1997), 'Cultural imperialism and resistence in media
theory and literary theory', Media, Culture & Society 19. Citing
John Fiske's shift to cultural 'struggle', away from his celebration
of 'resistence', this article calls for greater engagement with political
action.
Salomon, Gavriel (1997), 'Of mind and media: how culture's symbolic
forms affect learning and thinking', Phi Delta Kappan Jan. Examines
how different symbolic forms of representation are processed and understood
by different sets of mental skills and capacities.
Media Violence and standards
'A look at..The new TV ratings', Washington Post Jan 5 1997. A group
of 7-14 year old Americans talk about their understanding of the age-based
television rating system on US television.
Amis, Martin (1996), 'Violence as an art form', The Weekend Australian
Nov 30-Dec 1. Reprinted from Screen Violence, a collection by Karl
French.Astrongly-argued, intelligent defence of representations of
violence in film.
Barratt, Jim (1997), 'Video rights and wrongs: teenagers' attitudes
to video classification in Britain', The English & Media Magazine
36, Summer. Argues for alternatives to increased censorship, based
for on the perceptions of users than institutions.
Billen, Andrew (1996), 'We have no faith in the law. Could it be
because our police are watching the box not wisely, but too well?',
New Statesman Oct 25. Morality in 1990s TV police drama.
Bogart, Leo (1998), 'Should the V-chip fall where it may?', Television
Quarterly 3. Arguing for a techno-fix for perceived problems.
Boyle, Ian (1996), 'The sounds of violence', arena magazine Oct-Nov.
A long-serving television sound technician gives his views on violence
in the movies.
Bragg, Sara (1997), 'Teaching TV violence critical approaches', The
English & Media Magazine 36, Summer. A critique of one British
approach to teaching a contentious subject. ,p. Browne, David (1997),
'Must bleed TV', Entertainment Weekly Jan 24. The last refuge of action-adventure
TV, on US cable and syndication.
Buckingham, David & Julian Sefton-Green (1997), 'From regulation
to education? Sex, violence and censorship', The English & Media
Magazine 36, Summer. The problems of using media education as a cure-all
for perceived problems.,p. Cerone, Daniel H (1995), 'TV Networks'
handling of violence praised by study', Los Angeles Times. Sept. 20.
A report on the year-long study by the UCLA Center for Communication
Policy on television representations ov violence in the USA. The networks
are described as "generally responsible" buyt children's programmning
is strongly criticised.
Chiricos. Ted, S. Eschholz & M. Gertz (1997), 'Crime, news and
fear of crime: towards an identification of audience effects', Social
Problems 44:3, August. Extensive research of Florida citizens suggests
that fear of crime generated by TV news coverage is only significant
for white females between the ages of 30 and 54.
Cockburn, Alexander (1996), 'When US politicians get fired up about
screen violence, it has to be election year', New Statesman &
Society May 17. The title says it all!
Dargis, Manohla (1997). 'Sleeping with guns', Sight and Sound May.
Film-maker Wim Wenders talks violence on the screen and his new film
The End of Violence.
Dessart, George (1997), 'Reflections on the V-Chip', Television Quarterly
28:3. A commentary on regulation in the USA, by a former VP of CBS.
In July, another network (NBC) announced that it was boycotting any
further extension of TV content ratings.
Dietz, Tracy L. (1998), 'An examination of violence and gender role
portrayals in video games: implications for gender socialization and
aggressive behavior', Sex Roles 38:5/6. Rather predictable findings,
that conclude that male characters and agressive characters dominate
video games.
Dutka, Elaine (1995), 'Debate on violence in films intensifies',
Los Angeles Times Nov 29. The focus this time is the Columbia Pictures
Money Train which has attracted little criticism in New Zealand.
Dworkin, Andrea (1996), 'Slicing the baby in half', The Times Higher,
Nov 1 A n extended review of a new collection Screen Violence, edited
by Karl French. Even though Dworkin's own views intrude more than
they should, it does not sound like a good book.
Farhi, Paul (1996), 'Is TV pulling its punches?', The Washington
Post Oct 16. Reports on the 1996 UCLA study of representations of
violence on American network TV which concludes that network TV programmes
are becoming less violent.
Felson, Richard B. (1996), 'Mass media effectson violent behavior',
Annual Review of Sociology 22. Yet another review of the literature
on the effect of exposure to media violence,arguing that it 'probably
does have a small effect on violent behavior for some viewers, possibly
because the media direct viewer's attention to novel forms of violent
behavior that they would not otherwise consider.'
Groebel, Jo (1998), 'The UNESCO Global Study on Media Violence' A
joint project of UNESCO, the World Organization of the Scout Movement,
and Utrecht University. These kind of reports keep coming, saying
pretty much the same things again, but nothing much happens in the
area of policy and media education.
Harvey, Sylvia (1998), 'Doing it my way--broadcasting regulation
in capitalist cultures: the case of 'fairness' and 'impartiality'',
Media, Culture & Society 20. Addresses the fundamental question
'Why regulate broadcasting?'.
Herd, Juliet (1996), 'Crash: art or erotic trash?', The Weekend Australian
Nov 30-Dec 1. Controversy in Britain over the new David Cronenberg
film Crash.
Hepburn, Mary A. (1997), 'TV violence: a medium's effects under scrutiny',
Social Education 61:5, September. A fairly predictable review of North
American effects research. The Classroom Focus insert 'Media literacy
and violence' is better.
Holley, Joe (1996), 'Should the coverage fit the crime?', CJR May/June.
How a Texas TV station is attempting to avoid or downplay sensational
and excessive reporting of crime and public violence.
Kurtz, Howard (1997), 'Violence on TV: a lot of it is on the Network
News', Washington Post Aug 12. Content analysis that while the actual
homicide rate in the USA is falling, stories on crime are increasing
on TV news (by over 700% in the period 1993-1996).
Levin, Diane E. & N. Carlsson-Paige (1996), 'Disempowering the
Power Rangers'', The Education Digest May. Teacher opinions about
the contentious Rangers. Isn't it a pity though that children are
seldom asked for their opinion?
Meade, Amanda (1998), 'No sex please', The Australian June 24. Political
pressure behind the demise of the Australian programme Sex/Life.
Miller, David & Greg Philo (1996), 'Against orthodoxy: the media
DO influence us', Sight and Sound Dec. Really tilting at straw men
as there is no 'orthodoxy' that argues that the media has No influence.
The argument is more about the degree or importance of such influence.
Murray, Matthew (1997), 'Technological thresholds: the V-Chip, the
family and media regulation', Convergence3:1, Spring. A fuller examination
of media regulation which argues that solutions such as the V-Chip
just 'privilege certain viewers' values over others'.
Patel, Kam (1995), 'Crime, lives and videotape', The Times Higher
Oct 27. Film-makers David Puttnam and Michael Winner provide opposing
views on the influence of violence in the movies.
Potter, W. James (1997), 'The problem of indexing risk of viewing
television aggression', Critical Studies in Mass Communication 14,
Sept. Argues that a ratings system for television violence 'is not
just a simple solution; it is simple-minded'.
'Real violence and TV', Washington Post March 3 1997. One example
of rampant stupidity in the 'television violence' debate, when a US
congressman aired his views on 'the violence..and nudity' after a
TV screening of Schindler's List..
Sander, Igo (1997), 'How violent is TV violence? An empirical investigation
of factors influencing viewers' perceptions of TV violence', European
Journal of Communication 12(1). An imaginative and persausive examination
of how viewers perceive this thing called 'TV violence'. It shifts
the focus away from research definitions, to those who watch the programmes.
Recommended reading (even if it is very long!
Shales, Tom (1997), 'TV ratings: G is for give them a chance', Washington
Post March 9. Shales argues that attacks on the new TV ratings system
are premature.
Shoesmith, Brian (1998), 'No sex! No violence! No news! Satellite
and cable television in China', Media Asia 25:1. Interrogates the
Australian documentary No Sex! No Violence! No News!
Soothill, Keith (1998), 'Crime and the media: a vicious circle?',
AQ March-April. Reviews the literature and arguments over the connections
between violent content in the media, and violence in society.
Stossel, Scott (1997), 'The man who counts the killings', Atlantic
Monthly May. A profile of George Gerbner and his Cultural Indicastors
project; the dominant research paradigm which is being interrogated
in the article above.
Turnbull, Sue (1997). 'On looking in the wrong places: Port Arthur
and the media violence debate', AQ 69:1. The title of this article
is self-explanatory, as a challenge to predictable responses to the
1996 mass killings in Tasmania. The saddest image in this piece is
the image of killer Martin Bryant regularly flying around the world,
in order to have someone to talk to in the next seat.
'The V-Chip: Where do we go from here? The reality of television
ratings in the United States'. Children Now . One
of a series of briefings hosted by Children Now's Children and the
Media program. Lobbyists and industry representatives discuss the
rights and wrongs of the V-Chip, as a technological fix for a perceived
problem. (On this subject, who were the Labour Party listening to
when they decided to include the V-Chip in their1996 Broadcasting
Policy statement?)
Wood, Julian (1996), 'Screen violence still a maze', small screen
109,Oct. A report on a 1996 conference on the media, organised by
the British Board of Film Censors.
Music
Banks, Jack (1997), 'MTV and the globalization of popular culture',
Gazette 59(1). The role of MTV in fostering and exploiting an international
youth culture.
Banks, Jack (1998), 'Video in the machine: the incorporation of music
video into the recording industry', Popular Music 16/3. The influence
of the music video and MTV , and further concentration of power, in
contemporary popular music.
Barber, Lynden (1997), 'Decomposing rock', Weekend Australian Oct
11-12. Argues that record companies releasing 'new' songs by dead
artists is 'merely a form of musical necrophilia'.
Barnett, Antony (1996), 'Who calls the tune?', New Zealand Herald
March 9. Ownership and control in the British music industry (from
The Observer).
Bowles, Scott (1997), 'For the record: a vinyl revival', Washington
Post Feb 10. How vinyl albums are making some kind of come-back against
CDs.
Breen, Marcus (1995), 'The end of the world as we know it: popular
music's cultural mobility', Cultural Studies 9(3). Applies research
and analysis methods developed in institutional economics to patterns
of ownership and control in contemporary popular music.
Breen, Marcus (1998), 'Evolving at speed: theorizing popular music
in the digital age', Society and Leisure 21:1. A complex analysis
that argues for a significant transformation in the consumption of
poular music, 'moving from mass consumption to electronically mediated,
singular, domesticated engagement'.
Buchanan, Ian (1997), 'Deleuze and popular music, or, Why is there
so much 80s music on radio today?', Social Semiotics 7:2. Using Deleuze
to explain why people 'want to listen to the same song over and over
again'
Capling,Ann (1996), 'Gimme Shelter', arena magazine 21 Feb/March.
Globalisation and Australian popular music.
Chunn, Mike (1998), 'Give us NZ songs to sing', The Dominion July
13. Predicts diaster for the New Zealand music industry in wake of
the repeal of parallel import restrictions.
The Cult of the DJ: A Symposium. Social Text 43, Fall 1995. A panel
discuusion from a 1994 conference A to the K: New Directions in Popular
Music. Interesting stuff!
Dettmar, Kevin J.H. (1998),'An introduction to postmodernism: just
let them hear some of that rock 'n' roll music', The Chronicle of
Higher Education, Sept 25. Teaching popular music to undergraduates.
Elder, Bruce (1997), 'Pop goes everywhere', New Zealand Herald Oct
25. An Australian music critic argues that pop music is 'the pre-eminent
artistic form of the 20th century'.
Este, Jonathan (1997), 'Rock dinosaurs defy extinction', The Australian
Aug 20. The detritus of rock'n'roll history.
Frank, Thomas (1998), 'Variations on a descending theme: pop music
in the shadow of irony', Harper's Magazine March. Incursions of high-brow
thinking in popular music.
Gow, Joe (1996), 'Reconsidering gender roles on MTV: depictions in
the most popular music videos of the early 1990s', Communication Reports
9:2, Summer. Argues that music videos still under-represent and misrepresent
women.
Hakanen, Ernest A. (1998), Counting down to number one: the evolution
of the meaning of popular music charts', Popular Music 17/1. How pop
charts are more to do with marketing than popular taste.
Jinman, Richard (1997), 'Pop is dead, long live pop', The Australian
Magazine Feb 15-16. A retort to the misplaced attacks on popular music
by right-wing British philosopher Roger Scruton.
Megalogenis, George (1997), 'Industry discord', Weekend Australian
Oct 25-26. Disputes in the Australian music industry over the deregulation
of the CD market.
Mitchell, Tony & Roy Shuker (1997), 'Music scenes and national
identity: popular music and the press in Aotearoa/New Zealand', New
Zealand Sociology 12 (1), May. An excellent example of cross-Tasman
cooperation in media research, in a study of the links between popular
music and print media in New Zealand. 'Music makers play for TV time',
Broadcasting & Cable September 1 1997. Music on US cable television.
Rawsthorn, Alice (1997), 'What I wanna, wanna, really wannabe', National
Business Review Oct 24. Asks 'how long can the Spice Girls maintain
their phenomenal sales record?' It would seem for at least another
few months, if the merchandising associated with Spice World is any
indication.
Scott,Jody (1997), 'Golden oldies retain pulling power at top of
the all-time pop chart', The Weekend Australian July 5-6. The Seekers
and John Farnham still top tables of top-selling Aussie albums.
Shedden, Iain (1998), 'Chart choppers', The Australian July 8. How
the pop charts persist, to encourage record sales.
Sly, Lesley (1998), 'The X in success', The Bulletin Oct 27. Winners
and losers in the Australian music scene.
Stewart, Cameron (1997), 'Elvis gets a facelift', The Australian
Magazine (The Weekend Australian), July 5-6. Describes attempts to
'clean-up' the image of Elvis by something called Elvis Presley Enterprises.
Wilson-Brown, Carrie & Cameron McCarthy (1995), 'The organization
of affect: popular music, youth and intellectual and political life--an
interview with Larry Grossberg', Discourse: studies in the cultural
politics of education 16:3. A renowned figure in cultural studies
ponders on music, life and meaning.
New Technology
Bell, Emily (1996), 'Everyone wants a finger in the $6 billion digital
pie', Guardian Weekly May 19. The European ditigal TV market.
Burr, Ty (1996), 'Interactive entertainment', Entertainment Weekly
Oct 11. Monitoring the future of movies, television, music and books.
Callaghan, Greg (1998), 'Get smart', The Australian Magazine May
30-31. An opyimistic view of the impact on technology for the future.
This magazine has a general theme 'Fast Forward', with other article
like 'Can democracy survive?' and 'Playing God'.
Champ, Robert (1998), 'Medium cruel?', American Outlook Summer. The
impact of email on American public and private culture.
Clark, Nigel (1997), 'Taking images seriously: new media technologies
at the New Zealand Documentary Conference', Sites No. 34, Autumn.
The rhetoric (cautious and enthusiastic) about the future of documentary.,p.
Coffey, Steve & H. Stipp (1997),'The interactions between computer
and television usage', Journal of Advertising Research March/April.
Recent research suggests that the predicted rapid decline in television
use has not happened. A small-scale NZ survey (500 respondents) done
by Xtra, in July 1997, also showed limited effects eg half spent between
1 and 5 hours a week on-line.
Cole, George (1995) , 'Transmission vamp', TES Aug 4. The likely
impact of digitised signals on television.
Daly, James (1997)' Hollywood 2.0", Wired November. How technology
is transforming film-making.
Farhi, Paul & R. Chandrasekaran (1997), 'WebTV: is the Internet
wave about to come crashing into living rooms?, Washington Post Jan
4. So far, mixed reviews for WebTV.
Frewen, Tom (1996, 'The schlock of the new', Quote Unquote Sept.
A scepticalview of 'today's cybertoys'.
'The games Sony plays', Business Week June 15. The domination of
the video games market by Sony PlayStation.
Garnham, Nicholas (1998), 'Information society theory as ideology:
a critique', Society and Leisure 21:1. Theories of communication and
technologies.
Griffin, Al (1997), 'Emerging technologies', films in review May.
The imminent arrival of flat panel TV.
Gunn, Timothy(1996), 'The effects of new technologies on independent
film and video artists', Leonardo 29:4 . Guarded enthusiasm for the
new creative freedoms of digital signals.
Hansell, Saul (1998), 'Marketers ponder how to sell soap without
the operas', The New York Times Aug 24. The problems of selling on
the Internet.
Harwood, Richard (1997), 'Speculating in cyberspace: will it pay
off?', Washington Post Jan 23. Debate continues over the commercial
potential of the Internet.
Katz, Jon (1997), 'The digital citizen', Wired Dec. A poll which
finds 'Digital Citizens are optimistic, tolerant, civic-minded, and
radically committed to change'. This appears to be in direct opposition
to a report 'Researchers find sad, lonely world in cyberspace' in
The New York Times (Aug 30 1998).
Krantz, Michael (1997), 'A tube for tomorrow', Time April 14. Plans
for high-definition digital TV in the US.
Johnstone, Bob (1995), 'Godzone', Wired November. A enthusiastic
profile of Maurice Williamson (NZ'S Minister of Communications) and
his part in telecommunications/broadcasting deregulation in New Zealand.
Again, it gives only part of the story!
La Franco, Robert (1997), 'The $5,000 home movie', Forbes June 16.
A radically new method of storing and playing feature films is DVD
(digital video/versatile disc) but the hardware is still too expensive
for most. Note: I bought a DVD of Citizen Kane (2 hours of film on
a CD-Rom for $26) in Singapore in May but I don't yet have the means
to play it.
Luke, Carmen (1996), 'ekstasis@cyberia', Discourse: studies in the
cultural politics of education 17:2. A 'mapping..of the shifts in
concepts and practices from modernist print-based culture to...cyberculture'.An
excellent article and helpful for teachers grappling with shifts in
education.
Luke, Timothy W. (1996), 'Humanities, Multimedia and the Informational
Society', Sites 32, Autumn. Luke was a visiting scholar at Victoria
University last year and is an innovative thinker in communication
theory. Here he examines the future of the humanities in face of redefinitions
of knowledge.
Mills, Simon (1996), 'Writers' blocs lose the old plot', Times HIGHER,
June 14. Interesting news on how cyberspace is being used as a home
for a new kind of creative writing.
Miller, Ian (1997), 'How CD-ROM is shaping up', AdMedia Feb. The
possibilities and limitations of NZ-produced CD-ROMs.
Miller, Leslie (1997), 'TV really is the boob tube', USA Today Nov
11. Argues that digital television will change television for the
better.
Mills, Mike (1997), 'Interactive TV dream fades for licensees', Washington
Post Feb 17. Another example of how technology has not lived up to
the hype.
'The Net effect', The Weekend Australian Jan 4-5 1997. How the Internet
is encouraging the spread of English as a global language. Apparently,
it is also acting to improve grammar and spelling!
Parisi, Paula (1995), 'The new Hollywood silicon stars', Wired December.
Making films on location--in cyberspace.
Queau, Philippe (1995), 'Virtual thought', Reseaux: The French Journal
of Communication 3:2. The philosophical implications of virtual reality.
Rose, Frank (1996), 'The end of TV as we know it', Fortune Dec 23.
More enthusiastic talk about the convergence of computers and TV.
Schwartz, Evan I. (1995), 'People are supposed topay for this stuff?',
Wired July/Aug. A sceptical view of the much-hyped new world of interactive
television.
Starr, Robin M. & William D. Milheim (1996), 'Educational uses
of the Internet: an exploratory survey', Educational Technology Sept/Oct.
This survey suggests that, despitethe enormous increase in use of
the WWW and listservs,the Internetis not yet being widely used for
classroom materials or student research.
Stipp, Horst (1998), 'Should TV marry PC?', American Demographics
July. Produces evidence to suggest that the much-touted convergence
of the television set and the computer is not desired nor welcomed
by most Americans.
Winseck, Dwayne (1998), 'Pursuing the Holy Grail: information highways
and media convergence in Britain and Canada', European Journal of
Communication 13(3). Argues that current efforts to encourage information
highways in Britain and Canada promotes rather than prevents media
reconverge.
News Media
Altheide, David L. (1997), 'The news media, the problem frame, and
the production of fear', The Sociological Quarterly 38,4. An examination
of the role of the news media in promoting a public discourse of fear
and uncertainty.
Austin, Keith (1998), 'Serving up junk food for thought', The Age
Green Guide Nov 12. Criticisms of television current affairs in Australia.
Baker, Russ (1997), 'Squeeze', Columbia Journalism Review Sept/Oct.
How major advertisers are seeking to influence the content of some
US magazines. Balance and Fairness In Broadcasting News (1985-1994):
A Response. Prepared by Colin Feslier for New Zealand Public Radio,
August 1995. A response to the McGregor and Comrie June 1995 critique
of radio and television news performance, challenging many assumptions
of the authors
Bertrand, Claude-Jean (1995), 'The media in 2045 - not a forecast,
but a dream', Public Relations Review 21 (4). An unusual perspective
on the news media, which is not uncritical of some PR practice. Also
argues for universiy training as 'the best means, bar none, of improving
journalism'.
Buckingham, David (1997), 'News media, political socialization and
popular citizenship: towards a new agenda', Critical Studies in Mass
Communication 14. Interrogates conventional views about the decline
of news media use by young people, calling for popular laternatives
to mainstream forms of news.
Brants, Kees (1998) 'Who's afraid of infotainment?', European Journal
of Communication 13(3). Argues against the 'infotainement scare' levelled
by many against commercial TV news.
Cohen, Nick (1998), 'The death of news', New Statesman May 22. 'Quality
journalism is in crisis' in Britain.
Cronkite, Walter (1997), 'More bad news', The Guardian Jan 27. The
'doyen of US anchors' launches an attack on modern TV journalism.
de Vries, Bert & W. E.R. Zwaga (1997), 'Legislators or interpretors?
On the relationship between journalists and their readers', Media,
Culture & Society 19. The role of journalists in the Netherlands,
with one of the authors being Wiebe Zwaga (formerly of the NZ Broadcasting
School in Christchurch).
Edwards, Denis (1995), 'The last tabloid', Quote Unquote October.
An affectionate look at Truth, which is now 90 years old but in decline.
Evans, Gareth (1998), 'Sideshow alley', AQ March-April. An Australian
politician comments on the shortcomings of political reporting.
Fallows, James (1996), 'Why Americans hate the media', Atlantic Monthly
February. A diatribe against the 'self-aggrandizement' of the American
news media.
Fulton, Katherine (1996), 'http://www.journalism.now: a tour of our
uncertain future', CJR March/April. Explores the fate of journalism
in the digital age, with the assertion 'The choice is simple: follow,
or lead'.
Fulton, Katherine (1996), 'A tour of our uncertain future', CJR Mar/Apr.
A guide to journalism and the Internet.
Gans, Herbert J. (1998), 'What can journalists actually do for American
democracy?', Press/Politics 3(4). Interrogates journalistic theories
of democracy.
Greenslade, Roy (1997), 'No, they're not reading about it at all',
The Guardian July 7. A n international survey suggests a rather dismal
future for conventional newspapers.
Guttenplan, D.D. (1997), 'Dumb and dumber?', Columbia Journalism
Review July/Aug. An American perspective on the British press.
Harrington, C. Lee (1998), ''Is anyone else out there sick of the
news?!': TV viewers' responses to non-routine news coverage', Media,
Culture & Society 20. A sympathetic examination of the reasons
why daytime soap viewers resent the interruption of their regular
viewing by special news events. Rather than such viewers having problems
with ' reality', they can distinguish between valid and unnecessary
interruptions.
Heyward, Andrew (1997), 'The seven daily sins of television news',
Television Quarterly 26:4. Strong criticisms from the President of
CBS News.
Harwood, Richard (2997), 'A triumph of journalism', Washington Post
Jan 7. How 'good journalism' is 'good business'.
Hill, Deborah (1995), 'Smell of newsprint still persuades', National
Business Review Nov 24. A short piece on newspaper circulation in
New Zealand.
Horrocks, Nigel (1997), 'Newspapers lose millions in cyberspace',
The Independent Aug 22. Newspapers are still figuring out how to make
a profit on the Internet.
Jacobs, Ronald N. (1996), 'Producing the news, producing the crisis:
narrativity, television and news work', Media, Culture & Society
18. The social world of the news worker and the process of television
news production, based on a study of a Los Angeles television newsroom.
Jensen, Klaus Bruhn (1996), 'Audience uses of television news in
world cultures: comparative findings from the 'News of the World Project'.
Paper to the 20th IAMCR conference, Sydney. Preliminary findings from
a UNESCO/IAMCR-sponsored study of the reception and social uses of
television news in seven countries.
Katz, Jon (1997), 'Q: Who's killing newspapers? A: Raging Old Farts',
The Guardian Dec 8. New media techologies are not the real reason
for the dcline of newspapers; it is because they have become 'ugly,
irrelevant, passive, dull, and pompous...the clucking old maids of
the digital age'. Katz provides an agenda for change.
Kelly, Paul (1998), 'Players, pollies and party games', AQ March-April.
More on politics and the media in Australia.
Krajicek, David J. (1998), 'The bad, the ugly and the worse', The
Guardian May 11. More alarms about journalism, this time from the
USA.
Morrow, Lance (1997), 'Journalism after Diana', CJR Nov/Dec. The
erasure of 'the necessary line between the public and the private'.
Kuo, Wayne & Glenn Richardson (1997), 'The enchantment of Black
Magic: decoding social meanings from the media coverage of the America'
Cup', NZ Journalism Review 5, Spring. Substantiates the belief that
corporate interests where the key movers behind the excesses of the
1995 Team New Zealand America's Cup win. McManus, John (1995), 'A
market-based model of news production', Communication Theory 5:4,
Nov. How market economics shape all aspects of the news--consumers,
advertisers, investors and sources.
Miller, David (1995), 'The reel crisis in Ireland', New Statesman
& Society Aug 4. According to this article, even though censorship
of Northern Ireland has been lifted, coverage still remains unbalanced.
Munro, Catharine (1996), 'Witchunt', Refractory Girl 51, Autumn.
The media game of 'hunting down real live women and turning them into
carcicatures'.
Murphy, Damien (1996), 'Facts and friction', The Bulletin May 28
. A public opinion suggests that 'Australians do not like what their
media has become' but the figures do not really support this eg only
36% said that journalists and commentators are poor at behaving in
a trustworthy manner.
Newport, Frank & Lydia Saad (1998), 'A matter of trust', AJR
July/August. A new Gallup Poll shows that Americans have more confidence
in TV news than print.
Norris, Paul (1997(, 'Balance and fairness in broadcasting news (1985-1994),
NZ Journalism Review 5, Spring. The head of the NZ Broadcasting School
in Christchurch responds to the 1994 McGregor and Comrie study of
fairness and balance in broadcast news.
Norris, Pippa (1996), 'Does television erode social capital? A reply
to Putnam', PS: Political Science & Politics, Sept. A challenge
to the claims of the influential Robert Putnam article 'Tuning In,
Tuning Out: The Strange Disappearance of Social Capital', and other
claims that television has made Americansdisinterested in politics.
Pavlik, John V. (1997), 'The future of on-line journalism', Columbia
Journalism Review July/Aug. Is it a 'bonanza or black hole?'
Pilger, John (1997), 'Truth in war and peace', arena magazine Aug/Sept.
Pilger argues 'Now more than ever journalists must speak the truth
to power'.
Rose, Jeremy (1998), 'The pull of real life events', The Dominion
June 30. A useful Outlook classroom resource on journalism in New
Zealand.
Rose, Brian (1997), 'Steering the Six O'clock News', Television Quaterly
28:4. Creating local TV news in the USA.
Smith, Paul (1997), 'Flaws showing despite Granny's new skirt', National
Business Review June 27. Journalist Paul Smith makes a welcome return
to NBR, with a weekly 'Inside media' column. This column features
a critical look at changes at the New Zealand Herald.
Shopland, Alice (1996), 'The future of newspapers', AdMedia Oct.
How New Zealand newspapers are dealing with declining readership.
'Stop press', The Economist July 4. The buying and selling of television
news services.
Winter, Pahmi (1997), ''Here Be Dragons': the New Zealand news media
and international news', New Zealand Sociology 12 (1) May. Pahmi's
contribution to an extensive study of international newsflows in the
1990s.
Radio
Day, Pat (1996), 'American popular culture and New Zealand broadcasting:
the reception of early radio serials', Journal of Popular Culture
30.1, Summer. Pat (Sociology, Waikato) describes how American forms
exemplified 'the new' in the early days of NZ radio.
McDonough, John (1995), 'Radio: a 75-year roller-coaster ride', Advertising
Age Sept 4. The history of radio in the USA
Solomon, John (1997). 'Radio crazy', Working Woman Feb. The resurgence
of radio in the US.
Radio - New Zealand
Atkinson, Joe (1998), 'Why we should not allow public radio sponsorship',
National Business Review April 3. Because, this critic argues, it
would marry 'bad economics with selfish politics'.
Television-Australia
Broadcast Audiences in the 90s. Trends & Issues No 4, February
1996. Longitudinal analysis of peoplemeter (television) data and radio
diary data for Australian listeners and viewers in 1994.
Cunningham, Stuart& Elizabeth Jacka (1996), 'The role of television
in Australia's 'paradigm shift' to Asia', Media, Culture & Society
v. 18. Australian television moves into Asia.
Moore, Tony (1997), 'These babies stopped booming in 1975', The Australian
Feb 20. Contests the domination of Australian television production
by a restrictive nationalist agenda, which privileges 'British realism
and the cultural reference points of the baby-boomers'.
Murphy, Damien (1997), 'Lord of the rings', The Bulletin Dec 23.
The stories behind pay-TV in Australia.
Out of the Box', The Weekend Australian, Sept 14-15 1996. An 8-page
special celebrating 40 years of television in Australia, with contributions
from Phillip Adams, Graeme Blundell and others. Great stuff!
O'Reilly, David (1996), 'Grundy's big picture', The Bulletin July
16. Australian soap around the world. For some reason it fails to
refer to Cunningham & Jacka (1996) ,Australian Television and
International Mediascapes.
Papandrea, Franco (1996), 'Telling our own stories on TV: is it really
worth it?. Paper to the 20th IAMCR conference, Sydney . An economist
looks at the costs and benefits of Australian television production.
Pokarier, Christopher (1996), 'A diverse media or an Australian media?',Policy
: A Journal of Public Policy and Ideas, Winter. An economic rationalist's
vision of 'diversity'.
Sutton, John (1996), 'How many free-to-air television channels?'.
Paper to the 20th IAMCR conference, Sydney. Proposals for a sixthg
broadcast channel in Australia.
Westbury, Marcus (1996), Pay TV - A threat to the net?', internet.au
April. Usually the threat is perceived the other way round (the net
diminishes use of broadband services) so Australians probably have
little to fear.
Williams, Sue (1996), 'Boys on top, but habits change', The Australian
Oct 28. How British and American sitcoms fare in Australia.
Williams, Sue (1997), 'Dangerous liaisons in the studio', The Australian
Feb. The possibilities and problems of television co-productions in
Australia. Includes comments from John Barnett (South Pacific Pictures)
on the NZ experience.
Williams, Sue (1997), 'Telly laughs', The Australian Magazine (Weekend
Australian), May 3-4. The problems of creating successful Australian
sitcoms. In many ways, their problems are the same as New Zealand's.
Television-Asia
Lees, Caroline (1995), 'Future shock for tiny kingdom', Sunday Star-Times
Sept 10. What television might do to the Kingdom of Bhutan. (Note:
I have been teaching a student from Bhutan this year and it has been
fascinating reading his perspectives on New Zealand TV!)
Martin, Geoffrey Lee (1995), 'West unraveling mysteries of culture',
Advertising Age Oct 16. From a special AA report marketing in Asia
Television - Canada
Filion, Michel (1996), 'Broadcasting and cultural identity: the Canadian
experience', Media, Culture & Society 18 . The history of national
broadcasting in Canada.
Television-Europe
Hillve, Peter, P. Majanen & K.E. Rosengren (1997), 'Aspects of
quality in TV programming: structural diversity compared over time
and space', European Journal of Communication 12(3). Uses a theoretical
model of 'quality' and 'diversity' to judge the performance of Swedish
television.
Liebes, Tamar & Sonia Livingstone (1998), 'European soap operas:
the diversification of a genre', European Journal of Communication
13(2). Examines the particular features of locally made soaps in five
European countries.
Motta, Massimo & Michele Polo (1997), 'Concentration and public
policies in the broadcasting industry: the future of television',
Economic Policy: A European Forum 25, October. Restructuring and realignments
in European television.
Wagner, Jurgen (1997), 'Public service in retreat', Dox 11 Summer.
The styate of television documentary-making in Europe.
Television-General
Adams, Phillip (1997), 'The truth is out there--but don't look for
it on TV', Weekend Australian Aug 9-10. More Adam's vitriol--this
time about television.
Anderson, Doug (1996), 'The moose vamooses', Sydney Morning Herald
Guide Jan 15-21. A eulogy for the end of Northern Exposure on Australian
screens. In New Zealand it has suffered death by scheduling.
Anderson, Tim (1995), 'Thou Shall Not Steal Television: signal theft
in the Age of Information', The Velvet Light Trap 36, Fall. An interesting
piece of the changing role of the viewer for cable television.
Afrani, Mike (1996), 'The rise of the African soap opera', New African
February . Television soap operas in Ghana,Kenya and Tanzania.
Appleyard, Bryan (1996), 'Why we need the lies', The Australian Magazine
Nov 23-24. How every generation 'has to find its own source of paranoia..from
The Prisoner to The X-Files'.
Billen, Andrew (1998), 'Laughter in the dark', New Statesman Aug
21. A glowing review that concludes 'Seinfeld is beautiful, but in
a dark, dark way'.
Cantor, Paul A. (1997), 'In praise of television: the greatest TV
show ever', American Enterprise Sept/Oct. A Shakespeare scholar lauds
The Simpsons.
Casetti, Francesco (1996), 'Communicative situations: the cinema
and the television situation', Semiotica 112-1/2. The social ritualsand
contexts of watching television and film.
Cavander, Kenneth (1998). 'The art & craft of jumping fences',
American Theatre March. Six theatre writers talk about writing for
television.
Coleman, Loren (1996), 'The truth behing The X-Files', Fortean Times
82. For those who believe that The X-Files is something to do with
'real' events.
Collins, Michael (1997), 'You must be joking', The Guardian July
14. A British critic that comedy should give up on irony and 'play
it straight'. But I say..the more irony the better!
Collins, Michael (1998), 'Tears'r'us', The Guardian Jan 19. How the
media 'fell in love with the new sensitivity'.
Corner, John (1997), 'Television in theory', Media, Culture &
Society 19. Ways of studying television fromm theoretical perspectives.
Cooks, Leda M. & Roger C. Aden (1995), 'Northern Exposure's sense
of place: constructing and marginalizing the matriarchal community',
Women's Studies in Communication 18:1, Spring. NE is likely to produce
academic writing for some time despite its demise on screen.
Dordick, Gwendolyn & Seth Rachlin (1997), 'Television in the
lives of the homeless', The Communication Review 2(2). Interesting
research on the role of television in the lives of residents of a
public shelter for homeless men in New York City
Durbin, Karen (1998), 'Shakespearean soaps for complicated times',
New York Times Oct 18. The best police dramas as morality plays.
Dyas, Ronald (1997), 'Structure of episodic television: detective,
police and mystery dramas', Creative Screenwriting 3:4. Recipes for
TV drama. Useful for teaching narrative structures.
Farber, Celia (1996), 'Don't tread on me', Spin 12:2, May. Roseanne
Barr gives her unguarded opinions on critics, life and television.
This 'TV Nation' issue of Spin also features articles on TV sport
shows, a profile ofAaron Spelling , girls and TV, The X-Files , and
talk shows.
Fischoff, Stuart (1995), 'Confessions of a TV talk show shrink',
Psychology Today Sept/Oct. Criticisms of American talkshows ('With
a very few exceptions, those who book the guests must be con artists
and ambulance chasers') from a former participant.
Fiske, John & Kevin Glynn (1995), 'Trials of the postmodern',
Cultural Studies 9(3). Analyses the Rodney King beating to explore
'the instability of truth in a mediatized society'.
Flaherty, Mike (1997), 'Xenaphilia', Entertainment Weekly March 7.
The 'cultlike passion for TV's most ferocious and fetching heroine'
on Xena: Warrior Princess. The NZ origins of Lucy Lawless get a good
mention.
Fretts, Bruce (1995), 'TV saves the world', Entertainment Weekly
Oct 20. Fretts presents '10 reasons TV is better than the movies'
eg 'Movie characters are one-night stands. TV characters are Friends!')
He is writing about American TV but worth testing this on your students!
Gardam, Tim (1998), 'Television's true lies', New Statesman May 15.
Accusations of deception in television documentaries.
Glynn, Kevin (1996), Normalization and Its Discontents; the Conflictual
World of TV Talk Shows. Paper to the 17th Biennial ANZASA Conference,
Christchurch. A spirited defence of the discourses of the American
TV talk show.
Greenwald, Jeff (1996), 'Write for Star Trek', Wired January. The
possibilities of writing to formula, and selling a script to the producers
of Star Trek.
Handy, Bruce (1998), 'It's all about timing', Time Jan 12. A cover
story about the imminent demise of Seinfeld. Life will never be the
same again!
Heath, Rebecca Piirto (1998), 'Tuning in to talk', American Demographics
Feb. The American fascination with TV talk shows.
Heaton, Jeanne Albronda & N.L. Wilson (1995), 'Tuning in to trouble',
Ms Sept/Oct. Strong criticisms of US talk shows, from the authors'
Tuning In Trouble: Talk TV's Destructive Impact on Mental Health.
Jacobs, A.J. (1995), 'Talkin' trash', Entertainment Weekly December
8. Another, more populist, defence of Ricki Lake and her TV talk show
kin.
Kane, Pat (1996), 'There's method in the magic', New Statesman &
Society Aug 23. Argues the value of The X-Files and sci-fi, against
'Science's warriors of rationality'.
Kennedy, Dana (1997), 'The mad chatters'. Entertainment Weekly May
2. Amateur web sites on film.
Krause, Andrea J. & E.M. Goering (1995), 'Local talk in the global
village: an intercultural comparison of American and German talk shows',
Journal of Popular Culture 29:2. The role of talk shows in 'constructing/preserving
national narratives'.
Koszarski, Richard (1998), 'Coming next week: images of television
in pre-war motion pictures', Film History 10. A fascinating investigation
of how television was portrayed in films of the 1920s and 1930s.
Lawson, Mark (1996), 'Over here, and doing fine', New Statesman &
Society May 24. Argues that the sniffy attitude of British critics
to American TV programmes must change, in face of ER, Murder One and
The X-Files.
Liebes, Tamar (1996), 'Notes on the struggle to define involvement
in television viewing', Reseaux: the French Journal of Communication
4:1. Arguements overthe 'closed' and 'open' texts in audience readings
of texts.
Lipsky, David (1997), 'All Gillian Anderson wants is her dark places',
Rolling Stone Feb 20. A great interview with Scully. The pictures
are even better!
LIpsky, David (1997), 'The virtue of paranoia', Rolling Stone Feb
20. An extended interview with Chris Carter, the inventor of Scully
and Mulder.
Livingstone, Sonia & T. Liebes (1995), 'Where have all the mother's
gone? Soap opera's replaying of the Oedipal story'. Critical Studies
in Mass Communication 12, June. A comparison between the narratives
of fairy stories and the stories daytime soaps such The Young and
the Restless tell.
'Losing the plot', New Zealand Herald August 31, 1996. An article
from The Economist about the problems of developing good British sitcoms.
(Father Ted is obviously a good model!)
McDonald, Bernard (1996), 'Drug of the nation', Pavement 17 June/July.
A New Zealand appreciation of transgressive TV (X-Files et al).
McLean, Adrienne L. (1998), 'Media effects: Marshall McLuhan, television
culture and The X-Files', Film Quarterly 51:4, Summer. The literal
conjunctions of The X-Files and media theory.
McNamara, Martin (1998), 'A load of crap on television', The Guardian
June 29. One of the last taboos--defecating--is shown on British television,
in the cause of public health.
Mehl, Dominique (1996), 'The television of intimacy', Reseaux: the
French Journal of Communication 4:1. The role of public confession
in contemporary television.
Mules, Warwick (1998), 'Media evolution', AQ July-August. Argues
that tel;evision parodies such as the wonderful Australian series
Frontline (shamefully neglected in New Zealand) demands a rethink
of contemporary journalism.
Mullen, Megan (1995), 'Surfing through "TV Land": notes towards a
theory of "Video Bites" and their function on cable TV', The Velvet
Light Trap 36, Fall. Calls for a new theory of television 'flow' and
viewer reception.
Neumann, Anne Waldron (1996), The X Files and the longing for belief,
Quadrant Sept. Argues that the adventures of Scully and Mulder provide'a
kind of space for belief'. For some of us, however, it is just good
drama!
Neumann, Anne Waldron (1996), 'The Simpsons', Quadrant Dec. An appreciation
of Homer, Bart & Co, and their role in 'encouraging children to
be postmodern about their television viewing'.
Newman, Rae (1998), 'Remote rules!', Next Jan. The remote control
in New Zealand homes. One those articles which asks the wrong sort
of people for their opinion and knows nothing about research. But
it is interesting.
O'Reilly, John (1996), 'So you think this sick?', The Guardian Dec
23. How Carter's Millennium outdoes The X-Files
Raphael, Chad (1997), 'Political economy of Reali-TV', Jump Cut 41.
The rise of reality-TV shows on American television.
Riggs, Karen E. (1996), 'The case of the mysterious ritual: murder
dramas and older women viewers', Critical Studies in Mass Communication
13. Research on television and the daily rituals of the elderly.
Rule, Greg (1996), 'A day in the life of The X-Files', Keyboard March.
A long article which focuses on the contribution of composer Mark
Snow.
Scannell, Paddy (1995), 'For a phenomenology of radio and television',
Journal of Communication 45(3), Summer. Explores the parallel magic
and mundane world of radio and television.
'Seinfeld turns nothing into $385m', The Australian Sept 9. Jerry
heads Forbes magazine's 1998 highest-paid entertainers list.
Sherry, John L. (1997), 'Prosocial soap operas for development: a
review of research and theory', The Journal of International Communication
4(2). A review of the literature on the use of serial drama for educational
purposes.
Simon, Ron (1998), 'Serial seduction: living in other worlds', Television
Quarterly 3. The history of the soap opera.
Simpson, Roger (1997), 'Ratings, reason and television drama', Between
The Sheets Nov 19. An Australian writer recounts his experiences of
writing television drama
Stabile, Carol A. (1995), 'Resistance, recuperation, and reflexivity:
the limits of a paradigm', Critical Studies in Mass Communication
12. The 'analytical and political limits of..the paradigm of resistance',
focusing on Roseanne and other sitcoms.
Turner, Graeme (1996), 'Infotainment Tonight', arena magazine Oct-Nov.
The excesses of Australian current affairs.
Walker, Chip (1996), 'Can TV save the planet?', American Demographics
May . A strange title for an article about the emergence of global
youth culture.
Wark, McKenzie (1996), 'Schlock of the Newties', arena magazine Oct-Nov.
A pock-in-the-eye for self-appointed intellectual critics of TV. Good
stuff!
Wark, McKenzie (1996), 'Suspicious midsets', Weekend Australian Nov
16-17. Argues that the 'success of The X Files challenges our views
about what 'quality' television should be'.
Watson, Bret (1996), 'Pay Daze', Entertainment Weekly Aug 16. The
big bucks to US television actors and 'Are they worth it?'.
Wear, Peter (1997), 'Who Who?', The Bulletin June 24. An Australian
scrap over newly-discovered Dr Who footage.
Willis, Ellen (1996), 'Bring in the noise', The Nation April 1. A
defence of talk shows, arguing that 'Popbashing is the humanism of
fools".
'Virtual Geography' , 21-C 1-96. McKenzie Wark in conversation with
Philip Adams and Darren Tofts about his 1995 book on international
television Virtual Geography.
Television - Israel
Katz, Elihu, H. Haas & M. Gurevitch (1997), '20 years of television
in Israel: are there long-run effects on values, social connectedness,
and cultural practices?', Journal of Communication 47(2). The answer
is 'yes and no'!
Television-New Zealand
Barker, Anne (1997), 'Why TV is so trashy...and what we can do about
it', Reader's Digest June. Complaints about the current state of programming
on New Zealand television. One possible solution: don't turn to the
Reader's Digest for useful commentary!
Brett, Cate (1996), 'Who killed CTV?', North & South May. The
background and consequences of the sale of the regional station Canterbury
Television (CTV) to the TVNZ-owned network Horizon Pacific Television.
(Interesting how North & South now seems to have the most in-depth
journalism on developments in NZ television these days!
Brewster, Deborah (1997), 'TVNZ rides high on crest of the airwaves',
The Weekend Australian Feb 8-9. An Australian interview with Chris
Anderson, CEO of Television New Zealand.
Drinnan, John (1997), 'The Minister for ad breaks', AdMedia Feb.
Describes the Coalition Govt's plans (not yet realised) for television.
Drinnan, John (1996), 'TV 'underdog' bites back', AdMedia February.
TV3 attempts to 'reclaim its role as the innovative television channel'
(It is making a good start with 3rd Rock From the Sun!)
Drinnan, John (1995), 'The 1 who went from 2 to 3', Onfilm October.
Cleverly describes the career path of programmer Bettina Hollings,
who is profiled in this article.
Dunleavy, Trisha (1996), 'Come back Pukemanu...all is forgiven: A
case study of popular (local) television drama, 1970 style'. Paper
to the Celebration of a Century of Cinema in New Zealand conference,
University of Waikato, Dec. For those without a sense of history,
this reminds us that there were primetime drama series before Shortland
Street.
Dunleavy, Trisha (1998), 'Precious national archive in danger', New
Zealand Herald Nov 5. What might happen if the Government is foolish
enough to sell off the New Zealand Television Archive.
'Focus: New Zealand', Variety Oct 7-13, 1996. The annual Variety
review of New Zealand film and broadcasting, with Paul Smith and Don
Groves writing on television, and Groves writing on film. A useful
resource!
Hope, Wayne & Bruce Jesson (1997), 'Fade to black: the slow,
cruel death of New Zealand public television', New Zealand Political
Review Dec. A worthy article but rather flawed in its lack of clarity
as to what 'public service television' means in the 1990s. A companion
piece by Dean Parker 'Freeing up television drama' (originally published
in the Writers Guild Newsletter) is more interesting and challenging.
Hunter, Lani David (1998), 'Sex, race and the melting pot: The Holmes
Show and the new bio-politics', The Pander #3, Autumn. An interesting
perspective on television and ethnicity.
Lindsay, Derek (1998), 'What will happen to TV?', AdNews 19 June.
Speculations about the future of television in New Zealand, in face
of fragmentation and new media options. This Australian trade journal
features a special report on New Zealand, with coverage of advertising
in TV, radio, magazines and newspapers, and outdoor advertising.
Mahy, Penny (1995), 'New Zealand on air or Auckland on air?', North
& South October. A South Island perspective, with strong criticisms
of Auckland domination of New Zealand television.
Martin, Frances (1996), 'Do Kiwi media need government to set the
ownership rules?' The Independent Nov 29. Compare Austrtalian interventionist
policies on media ownership with New Zealand's non-interventionist
policies. It does not really answer the question it poses but it does
provide a useful ownership of television and other media in NZ.
McManus, Jenni (1996), 'TV3: out of the rough and onto the green
with its first Kiwi ceo', The Independent 15 March. More on TV3 and
its current performance.
McVey, Kathy (1996), 'The new television', AdMedia May. The expansion
of channels, and the future of television in New Zealand.
Mogridge, Fiona (1998), 'Greener Pastures Seminar 'Catch the Next
Wave'. Background paper for the 1998 SPADA New Zealand Film &
Television Conference. Useful backgrounding on local content on New
Zealand television.
'Music TV--dead or just resting?', Auckland Magazine July 1998. The
rise and fall of youth TV in New Zealand.
'A New Broadcasting policy for New Zealand' . A Discussion Paper
published by the Screen Producers and Directors AssociationofNew Zealand,
July 1996. Thorough and detailed discussions are rare in NZ broadcasting
circles so this discussion paper is very timely.However, we await
the creation of a new government to see if anything will change in
NZ broadcasting, such as the paper'srecommendation of a privatised
Channel 2.
Roscoe, Jane (1997), 'Immigrant Nation: television documentary and
the narration of national and cultural identities in New Zealand',
Sites No. 34, Autumn. A study of the documentaries series on immigrant
communities in New Zealand. A book is also forthcoming.
Smith, Paul (1997), 'Changing face of media makes retention of TVNZ
vital', National Business Review July 4. Paul argues against selling
off TV2.
Smith, Paul (1998), 'Kiwi role reversal', Television Business International
March. A review of the current state of NZ television.
Smith, Paul (1996), 'Whatever happened to public service broadcasting?',
The Independent Sept 20. Referring to the SPADA discussion paper,
Smith traces the decline of non-commercial television in New Zealand.
Smith, Paul (1998), 'What the Kiwi TV audience really, really wants',
National Business Review Aug 28. Describes a recent Booz-Allen &
Hamilton study of public broadcasting in six different countries.
with unfavourable comments on the state of New Zealand television.
Suich, Max (1997), 'Is there a case for a non-commercioal channel?'.
Presentation to the New Zealand Broadcasting School Seminar on Broadcasting
Policy, Christchurch June 6. An Australian media commentator compares
funding of television in New Zealand with experiences in Canada, the
UK and Australia. (Note: there are plans to publish the full proceedings
of this important seminar)
Ward, Stephen (1996), 'Sky bid draws mixed responses', National Business
Review Oct 25. Reactions to Murdoch's News Corporation bid for a share
of New Zealand pay-TV
Wilson, Tim (1997), 'McCready's back in town', AdMedia Feb. A profile
of former TVNZ-programmer John McCready and his current involvement
in pay-TV (he is probably responsible for the odious introduction
of ad breaks on Sky!).
Wood, Alan (1997), 'Media moguls shape up to fight for pay-tv market',
The Independent July 11. The second attempt by INL, and others, to
buy into pay-TV in New Zealand.
Television-South Africa
Leslie, Michael (1995), 'Television and capitalist hegemony in the
'new' South Africa', The Howard Journal of Communications 6:3, November.
Change and reinforcement of old practices in 1990sSouth African television.
Maingard, Jacqueline (1997), 'Transforming television broadcasting
in a democratic South Africa', Screen 38.3, Autumn. How television
is attempting to mirror political and social change in the new South
Africa.
Television-United States
Bennett, James R. (1997), 'The Public Broadcasting System: censorship,
self-censorship and the struggle for independence', Journal of Popular
Film & Television 24:4, Winter. Problems and solutions for PBS
in the USA.
Bowman, Karlyn (1997), 'The reach of television', American Enterprise
Sept/Oct. How Americans use television in the 1990s.
Carter, Bill (1998), 'Shrinking network TV audiences set off alarm
and reassessment', New York Times Nov 22. By the middle of November,
network viewer totals were down by about 9% from last season, with
viewers unenthusiastic about new fare.
Clark, John (1996), 'Shifting engagements' lessons from the 'Bowling
Alone' debate'. Hudson Briefing Paper number 196, October. A challenge
to the influential contentions of US political scientist Robert Putnam,
who argues that Americans are becoming increasing isolated and unwilling
to participate in politics and social activity--all because of television!
This paper is a convincing retort to such allegations.
Diamond, Edwin & Robert Silverman (1995), 'Virtual politics,
as seen on TV', The Times Higher Oct 27. How the media image dominates
American political debates.
Fabrikant, Geraldine (1998), 'Few bidders for Networks despite good
curb appeal', The New York Times Aug 31. Which is another way of saying
that the buying and selling of television systems in the USA is slowing.
Hickey, Neil (1996), 'What's at stake in the spectrum war?', CJR
July/Aug. The race to tie up digital television in the US>
Ledbetter, James (1996), 'Merge overkill', Village Voice Jan 16.
How media mergers are threatening open debate in the USA. Includes
a very useful full-page to US media ownership.
Lieberman, Joe (1996), 'Why parents hate TV', Policy Review May/June.
A Democratic US Senator presumes to speak for all American parents,
and defends the V-Chip.
Matthei, Harry (1997), 'Inventing the commercial', American Heritage
May/June. The very earliest days of television advertising in the
USA.
Meisler, Andy (1995), 'To reach Generation X, hire Generation X',
New York Times Sept 25. How US networks are attempting to chase a
changing television audience
Mifflin, Lawrie (1998), 'Putting the 'M' back in MTV', The New York
Times Aug 31. How MTV is moving back to music.
"The National Entertainment State', The Nation June 3, 1996. A special
issue of the this American left-wing journal, which features critical
perspectives from Oliver Stone, Peggy Charren, Michael Arlen, Mark
Crispin Miller (and numerous others) on media ownership in North America.
Includes an invaluable media ownership centrefold.
Schmuckler, Eric (1997), 'Search for tomorrow', WorkingWomen July/Aug.
Problems with the daytime TV audience, with the decline of soaps and
game shows.
Thomas, Richard (1997), 'Queen of the American drean comes unstuck',
Guardian Weekly May 18. How Oprah Winfrey has 'fallen under her own
spell..the belief that [she] can solve any problem'.
Thompson, Robert J. (1997), 'Television's second Golden Age: The
Quality Shows', Television Quarterly 16:6. Argues that 'quality' in
US television resides in a generation of programmes spawned by Hill
Street Blues.
Television-United Kingdom
Brunsdon, Charlotte (1998), 'Structure of anxiety: recent British
television crime fiction', Screen 39:3, Autumn. An interesting analysis
of crime/police shows on British television.
Carroll, Rory (1998), 'Massacre in Albert Square', The Guardian July
20. Cutting characters on Eastenders.
Cole, Williams Rossa (1996), 'The decline of dissent?', Dox 10 Winter.
Dexcribes the effects of market forces on British television documentaries.
Culf, Andrew (1997), 'Around the clock', The Guardian Feb 3. Plans
for a BBC 24-hour TV news service.
Dugdale, John (1997), 'Make (over) or break', The Guardian Dec 15.
Reviews the broadcasting year (1997) in the UK.
Fraser, Nicholas (1997), 'The new moronism', The Media Guardian June
2. A BBC producer bewails the state of Brioish television but it can't
really be that bad!
Horsman, Mathew (1996), 'Manifesto for a new media age', New Statesman
Nov 15. Argues thatBritish television, like television elsewhere,
must face de-regulation.
Lee, Stewart (1998), 'And here's another funny thing, why can't we
make sitcoms like theirs?', The Guardian Aug 3. Comparisons of British
and American sitcoms.
Mitchell, Austin (1997), 'Saving the Beeb from itself', The Guardian
Feb 17. Media commentator, politician and semi-New Zealander Mitchell
argues for less thoughtless change at the BBC.
Pratten, Stephen (1998), 'Needs and wants: the case of broadcasting
policy', Media, Culture & Society 20. Debates on the social purpose
of broadcasting in Britain.
Saundry, Richard & P. Nolan (1998), 'Regulatory change and performance
in TV production', Media, Culture & Society 20. The impact of
technological change and de-regulation on employment practices in
British television.
'Whyfree television is doomed', New Statesman Aug 30 1996. An anonymous
senior ITV executive argues that the traditional broadcasters in the
UK (BBC, ITV and Channel Four) have to 'become pay-TV operators'
Willis, John (1997), 'May the 4 be with you', The Guardian Oct 20.
Reviews the performance of fifteen years of Channel 4.
RECENT NEWSLETTERS AND MAGAZINES
News and Listing of Resources
The Big Picture issue eight, Autumn 1996. Interesting features on
the centenary of cinema in New Zealand-- articles on early film-makers,
and news of upcoming commerative events.
Broadwaves: Newsletter of the New Zealand Broadcasting School. Dec
1995. Another well-produced, large format newsletter from Christchurch,
with news of student and staff activities.
CAST: Center for Advanced Study in Telecommunications. Ohio State
University. no 1, Winter 1996. News and listings of resources, mainly
about telecommunications.
CIFEJ info. A publication of the International Centre of Films for
Children and Young People. Montreal. number 47 & 48, Sept &
Oct 1995. News on children's TV production across a range of countries.
CIFEJ info. A publication of the International Centre of Films for
Children and Young People (Montreal) no. 52 & 53, March &
April 1996. News on children's TV production across a range of countries.
Complaints bulletin. Broadcasting Standards Council [UK]. number
55 & 56, August & September 1995. Full decisions on complaints
procedures in UK radio and TV. Interesting material on what agitates
UK citizenry.
Complaints bulletin. Broadcasting Standards Council [UK]. numbers
60 & 61, Feb & March 1996 Full decisions on complaints procedures
in UK radio and TV. Interesting material on what agitates UK citizenry
and what complaints are upheld.
Connect: a publication of the Center for Media Literacy/Los Angeles.
Number 8, Winter 1994 & Number 10, Summer 1995. A well-produced,
informative newsletter which replaces Media & Values.
Directions PCDS. Published by the Program on Communication and Development
Studies, Northwestern University. v. 6 (1992) & v. 7 (1993). These
two issues arrived rather belatedly. They contain interesting articles
on cultural identity and the media, and globalisation.
Educommunication - NEWS. Quarterly bulletin of the International
Catholic Assn for Radio and Television, Brussels. no 33, Dec 1995.
Articles on media education, with an emphasis on feature film. FaEM
Newsletter . Number One, March 1996. News, views, and information
from the New Zealand Film and Electronic Media Industry Training Organisation
(ITO). Available from: FaEM, P O Box 9692, Te Aro, Wellington
Mediacy: The Newsletter of The Association for Media Literacy. (Ontario),
18:1, Winter 1995. Full news of Canadian developments, more on the
Internet, a article by John Pungente 'The Return of the Youth News
Network', and an appraisal of the 1995 North Carolina conference.
Menu: Media Education News Update. No. 9, Spring 1996. News from
the BFI on United Kingdom happenings.
NOTED. NZ Journalists Training Organisation. Feb 1996 & April
1996. This newsletter from the NZJTO continues to provide valuable
information on journalism training in New Zealand, as well as reprints
of features about journalism.
Small Screen: News Digest of the Australian Council for Children's
Films and Television. Nos. 98&99, Dec 1995/Jan 1996 & No.
101, Feb 1996. Full news on issues and developments in Australian
children's TV. Spectrum: the Quarterly Magazine of the Independent
Television Commission in Britain, focuses on new technology (virtual
systems, interactive TV) in the Autumn 1996 issue.
Spectrum: the Quarterly Magazine of the Independent Television Commission
{UK]. Winter 1996. Good articles on commercial TV in the UK and elsewhere,
such as 'the tapeless newsroom', subtitling for deaf viewers, and
attitudes to television advertising.
Telemedium: The Journal of Media Literacy, 42:1, Spring 1996. This
issue of the National Telemedia Council (US) journal includes reports
on recent activities and the first of a three-part feature by David
Considine 'Teaching with motion pictures'.
Recent Magazines, Reports and Newsletters
ABA Update number 45 (July 1996) includes summary reports of their
Music, new music and all that: Teenage radio in the 90s' and Families
and Electronic Entertainment research studies. I have a copy of these
two reports, as well as the ABA Your Say : A review of audience concerns
about Australia's broadc ast media 1996.
AdMedia, the monthly magazine of the New Zealand advertising industry,
should be required reading for media teachers. The August 1997 issue
has features on the state of television and radio in New Zealand.,
and a feature on soundtracks in advertising. The September issuue
has more on the radio market and the October issue focuses on the
newspaper industry.
The Australian Broadcasting Authority has published a review of its
International relations program, 1992-1997. It includes reports of
international co-opervative ventures, participation in international
forums and other exchanges.
The Australian Journal of Communication 24 (1) 1997 has articles
on the media and Pauline Hanson, Aboriginality in Australian soaps,
and communication in the workplace. Volume 24(2), edited by Shirley
Leitch and Gael Walker, focuses on the profession of public relations.
Volume 23(1), 1996 of the Australian Journal of Communication has
articles on media representations of HIV/AIDS, talkshows and election
campaigns.
The Australian Journalism Review (17:1, 1995) has articles on print
and television news, and journalism training.
The Australian Journalism Review 18 (1), Dec 1996 includes analysis
of journalists' perceptions of newspaper quality, journalism training,
ethics, and new technology.
Benchmarking Public Broadcasters is a 56pp 1997 report, written by
Australian media consultant Max Suich on behalf of Television New
Zealand. Its brief was to examine 'How TVNZ compares with other state
owned broadcasters in Australia, Britain and Canada' and although
it does little to challenge the status quo of market forces and commercial
imperatives, there a great deal of useful detail in the report.
The Big Picture: NZ Film-Video-Television-New Media has sad news
in its Spring/Summer 1997 (No. 13) issue. Because of the withdrawal
of Creative New Zealand funding, this will be the last issue in print
but TBP will continue, in an electronic form, on the Moving Image
Centre website . This journal, under the editorship
of Helen Martin, has developed in an authoritative and very readable
journal and it will be missed as a print publication. Issue No. 13
has article on innovative video-making, music and the screen, Brakhage
and Norman McLaren, and festival and book reviews.
The British Film Institute Annual Review 1996-97 describes the recent
work of the BFI.
Cinema Papers, the excellent Australian film monthly, has an interview
with New Zealand film-maker Gregor Nicholas in the August 1997 issue,
as well as a review of his Broken English. November 1997 has features
on LA Confidential (the Australian contribution) and recemt Australian
films. December 1997 has a feature on New Zealand film, most particularly
The Ugly and Topless Women. Other articles focus on Titanic and composing
music for film.
The July 1998 issue of Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural
Studies is a special on Philosophy and Cultural Studies, with contributions
on the role of the intellectual in cultural life, and media regulation.
The Winter 1997 (11:2) issue of John Pungente's Clipboard: A Media
Education Newsletter from Canada has Canadian news, and coverage from
countries as varied as Mexico and Norway. In Canada, the national
broadcaster CHUM (producer of MediaTelevision) has recently appointed
a Director of Media Education.
Clipboard: A Media Education Newsletter from Canada Summer 1998 has
the customary useful news and reviews compiled by John Pungente but
was is particularly enjoyable is the wry commentary 'Things We Wouldn't
Know Without Movies & TV'.
The April 1998 issue of Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural
Studies is a special on Censorship and Pornography, Contributors include
John Hartley 'When your Child Grows up too Fast: juvenation and the
boundaries of the social in the news media', Catharine Lumby 'No Kidding:
paedophilia and popular culture', and McKenzie Wark 'Bad Girls do
it in Public'.
Educommunication - NEWS, the quarterly bulletin of the International
Catholic Association for Radio and Television (Brussels) features
articles on media and religion, and children's television in its September
1997 (no. 40) issue.
Educommunication - NEWS, the quarterly bulletin of the International
Catholic Association for Radio and Television (Brussels) features
articles on youth and media, and new technology in the Decemember
1997 (no. 41) issue, and articles on media education strategies in
the March 1998 (no. 42) issue.
The Film and Electronic Media Industry Training Organisation (FaEM)
reports on that state of training in New Zealand, and compliance with
the NZQA unit standards, in its 1996/97 Annual Report. Available from
P O Box 9692, Wellington, as is a brochure Introducing New Skill Standards
for the Film and Electronic Media Industry.
Globalisation & Local Culture: Emerging Issues for the 21st Century
is the publication which resulted from a June 1997 seminar held in
the Royal Society conference rooms in Wellington. Key papers by Manuka
Henare, Jane Kelsey and Brian Easton are provided, with a summary
of perspectives from a range of geographers, sociologists and cultural
critics.
in focus: Moving Image Media Education Newsletter is a new publication
from the British Film Institute Education & Training Department
in London. Issue 1 (Autumn 1997) has features by Cary Bazalgette on
changes at the BFI, and the state of Media Studies in Britain.
in focus: Moving Image Media Education Newsletter is a new publication
from the British Film Institute Education & Training Department
in London. Issue 2 (Spring 1998) has features on media teacher training
in Britain, and the activities of the BFI. The international research
forum on children and media newsletter, published by the Australian
Broadcasting Authority, has got bigger and glossier with issue 6,
June 1998. It now reaches 430 members in 50 countries, with articles,
news of research activities, and conference notices.
Local Content 97: New Zealand Television is the most recent survey
of local content on broadcast channels in New Zealand. New Zealand
On Air reports that total NZ programme hours increased in 1997 (by
10.5%) but this was mainly due to increases in offpeak and repeat
programming. New Zealand-made programming comprised 21.3% of the schedule
in 1997.
Maori Broadcasting Training Initiative is a report prepared by Richard
Jefferies for the Film & Electronic Media Training Organisation.
It investigates the current levels of Maori working in broadcasting
(as might be expected, there are too few) and recommends strategies
for increasing numbers, and training opportunities. For further details
contact: FaEM, P O Box 9692, Wellington.
Media Focus in Literacy across the curriculum (13:4 1998) from The
Centre for Literacy in Quebec focuses on 'local literacies' and adult
literacy.
Media Literacy, Information Technology and the Teaching of English
by Chris Abbott and Len Masterman is a theoretically-informed and
strongly-argued Working Paper published by The Centre for Literacy.
The British film monthly Neon (which, as far as I am concerned, leads
the pack of mainstream movie mags) features Johnny Depp and Brian
De Palma in the November1998 issue, as well as the usual interesting
news and views.
The future of Media International Australia has now been decided.
The new home for this journal is the Key Centre for Cultural and Media
Policy at Griffith University. The Key Centre intends merging its
existing journal Culture and Policy with MIA, beginning from from
Feb 1998. The November 1997 issue of MIA--the last under old arrangements--
is a special bumper issue on 'Panic: Media, Morality, Culture', edited
by Helen Wilson and Peter B. White and drawing on contributions to
the April 1997 seminar. 'Panics' include media violence, paedophilia,
video and computers, and Generation X. There is also a screenwriting
supplement, with four articles on the craft. Most importantly of all,
this will mean that MIA will continue to be a strong voice in media
publishing.
The new Media International Australia incorporating Culture &
Policy has now appeared in three issues. No. 86 (Feb 1998) has the
theme 'Marketing on the Internet'. Contributions include 'Global marketing
and the new Hollywood: the making of the 'Always Coca-Cola' campaign'
and 'HoW will new media affect television'. No. 87 (May 1998) has
three themes: 'Making Information Policy', 'Menzies, ASIO and Australian
Television' and 'Cultural Policy in Cool Britannia'. Both issues continue
MIA's practice of reviewing, 'Media Briefs', editorials and great
covers. No. 88 (August 1998) is guest edited by Helen Molnar and focues
on rural and remote telecommunications in Australia. With these three
issues, it is wonderful to see MIA still healthy.
Media Focus in Literacy across the curriculum from The Centre for
Literacy in Quebec has an article 'Who will train the teachers: media
education and teacher education' in issue 13:1, 1997.
The Fall 1997 (19:3) issue of Mediacy: The Newsletter for Media Literacy
(Ontario) traces the development of the media literacy movement in
Ontario, as well as news of contemporary events. Barry Duncan also
contributes a resource on 'Deconstructing the Death of Diana'.
Mediacy: The Newsletter of the Association for Media Literacy [Canada]
features articles on computers, and marketing to youth in the Winter
1998 (20:1) issue. The Spring 1998 issue is almost totally devoted
to perspectives on the 1998 monster movie Titanic--'The Ship/The Disaster/The
Movie/The Phenomenon' Great stuff!
The Winter 1997/1998 (23) issue of mej: media education journal [Scotland]
ranges across talkshows in Asia, live television, 'Marx, Marley, and
Madonna', and the media use of Scottish students. The Summer 1998
issue (24) features Cary Bazalgette's address to the Media 98 Conference
(on the state of media education) and a lengthy essay by Peter Watkins,
on what he sees as the failings of 'main-stream media education'.
There also resources on local media in Scotland, and teaching approaches
for Shakespeare on film.
Media Focus in Literacy across the curriculum (13:2, 1997) from The
Centre for Literacy in Quebec focuses on information technology and
adult literacy.
The New Zealand Journal of Media Studies 5:1, 1998 appeared in November
and features Joe Grixti on media portrayals of violence, Alan Cocker
on broadcasting deregulation, Graeme Bassett on political advertising,
and my critique of television audience measurement in New Zealand.
The New Zealand Broadcasting Standards Authority reports, in its
1996/97 Annual Report, that complaints about 'good taste' and 'decency'
have declined, whilst complaints about 'balance, fairness and accuracy'
have increased. The BSA has also released two research reports Review
of the Pay Television Code of Broadcasting Practice and Community
Attitudes to Adult Material on Pay Television, both reporting on extensive
research done in 1995-96.
You can now find the Australian journal Metro in many New Zealand
magazine stores (Metro Mags in Wellington, Maggazino in Auckland,
Bennetts and Accent on Magazines in Hamilton). Number 111 features
'Scren History/Screen Culture', a tribute to Robert Mitchum, and feminism
and film. Number 112 features 'Findinding an Audience: the Challenge
for Australian Cinema' and three articles on NZ film and television--Trish
Dunleavy on Shortland Street, Craig Hight & Jane Roscoe on Forgotten
Silver and teaching documentaries, and Judy McGregor & Susan Fountaine
on women's sport and print media. Metro Education 11 has teaching
resources on The Simpsons, approaches to studying film narrative,
and a study guide to Hamlet.
The Australian journal Metro grows in size and stature. Number 113
/114 1998 is a double issue, with perspectives on government film
policy, screen violence, Visconti and Howard Hawks, Chinese film-makers
and 'Mixed Media' . Issue 115 has commentaries on Project Blue Sky,
recent Australian films and documentaries, and a check-list of the
1998 ATOM Film and Television Awards. Metro Education #13 has teaching
resources for Approaches to Teaching Media & Communication, deconstructing
the documentary (by University of Waikato academic Jane Roscoe), and
strategies for using the Internet in the classroom. Metro Education
#14 has teaching resources on the Internet, teaching the Holocaust
on film, imagery of childhood and teaching Rats in the Ranks and The
Woodlanders. Metro Education #15 features a special section on technology
education, in addition to strategies for teaching photography and
Australian film.
Nation, the left-wing journal from the US, follows up its earlier
investigation of media conglomerates with a special 'Who Controls
the Music?' in the Aug 25/Sept 1 issue. There are excellent features
on The Spice Girls (a sympathetic treatment by Susn J. Douglas), U2,
reggae, and the business of corporate rock.
The June 8 1998 issue of the American journal The Nation is particularly
wonderful, featuring features on 'Who controls TV?' and a fold-out
centerfold of media ownership in North America.
Neon: mainling movies, the newish and often iconoclastic film magazine
from Britain has features on Ewan McGregor (Trainspotting, A Life
Less Ordinary ), a student exam as set by Quentin Tarantino, why we
must accept that Elvis really is dead, and all kinds of peculiar stuff
in the October 1997 issue. The September issue has a very provocative
cover-page ('Movie violence is good for you'), with 27 pages devoted
to challenges to conventional wisom about media violence. The November
issue features Robert Carlyle, crime and the Indian film industry,
and LA Confidential. December 1997 features Roman Polanski, film audiences
around the world, and alien movies. This is one film magazine I read
from cover to cover.
The British film monthly Neon (which, as far as I am concerned, leads
the pack of mainstream movie mags) features Sean Penn, Woody Allen
and the Coen Brothers in the May 1998 issue, and Drew Barrymore, British
film-makers and a feature on An American Werewolf in London (1981)
in the June issue.
Noted, the newsletter of the NZ Journalists Training Organisation,
features articles on privacy issues in its Jan 1998, ethics and accuracy
in March 1998, and defamation issues and a review of the new-look
New Zealand Herald in June 1998. The August 1998 issue focuses on
Maori television, television news, and journalism training.
The second issue in 1998 of News on Children and Violence on the
Screen, from the UNESCO International Clearinghouse on Children and
Violence on the Screen, has interesting perspectives from Europe.
Africa and Australia (including a report on the 'Cool or Gross' study
from the lsast country).
New Zealand On Air has published a second edition (Oct 1997) of its
NZ On Air: A Study Guide for School Students. Copies are available
free of charge from NZOA, P O Box 9744, Wellington (as their 1996/97
Annual Report).
Volume 4, Number 1 (1997) of the New Zealand Journal of Media Studies
has articles by Brian McDonnell on Holmes, Heather Devere and Alison
Wilson on representations of women in NZ current affairs, Graeme Bassett
on Westerns, and Canadian academic Barry Grant on the horror genre.
Volume 4, Number 2 (1997) is edited by Brian McDonnell and articles
include articles on New Zealand film (The Piano, Cinema of Unease)
and film distribution.
News on Children and Violence on the Screen is a newsletter from
The UNESCO International Clearinghouse on Children and Violence on
the Screen. It includes reports of research and conferences and is
less alarmist than its title might suggest. Published three times
a year. it is free of charge for individuals and institutions registered
with the Clearinghouse, at:
Nordicom:
Goteborg University:
Sprangkullsgatan 21:
S-411 23 GOTEBORG, SWEDEN [website :
Noted, the newsletter of the NZ Journalists Training Organisation,
features articles on jornalism ethics in its June 1997 issue, and
television news (including 'The seven deadly sins of TV news') in
the September issue. The November 1997 issue discusses training and
privacy considerations in reporting.
Onfilm: The New Zealand Film, Television & Film Magazine has
launched a new look in its November 1997 issue--more colour, more
content and more contributors. It looks a bit like Variety but the
content is fully New Zealand. This issue has the bonus insert, celebrating
20 years of the New Zealand Film Commission.The Dec'97/Jan'98 issue
has coverage of the 1997 SPADA conference.
Onfilm: The New Zealand Film, Television & Film Magazine for
July 1998 features its very useful 'Industry training courses for
1999', in addition to a guide to film locations around New Zealand.
The Pander ( 'the quarterly serial') is a new broadsheet publication,
published and distributed by Ming Press, P O Box 68 779, Newton, Auckland.
Its focus seems to be art and architecture, with some attention to
popular icons.
Privacy: Interpreting the Broadcasting Standards Authority's Decisions,
January 1990 to June 1998 is a review of the BSA's work in the areas
of the privacy of the individual and freedom of expression in the
New Zealand electronic media, written by its current Executive Director
Michael Stace.
research roundup from the Research Department of the Children's Television
Workshop focuses on policy on US children's television in the August
1997 (No. 9) issue.
A Review of Good Practice in Media Education, co-authored by James
Learmonth and Mollie Sayer, is a 1996 publication from BFI Education.
It evaluates media education in action in England and Wales, and points
to examples of good classroom practice, and effective examples of
departmental and whole-school management of media education. From
the same source is Audit of Media in English, a report by A.J.B.Barratt
on a 1998 survey of how widespread media related work occurs in English
schools, and what kind of work is done. One finding: '91% of the secondary
school English teachers we sampled believe that media related work
has a valid place within English teaching'.
*If I haven't already mentioned Stay Free! I should have! This well-produced
magazine (more than the 'zine' it claims to be) comes out of New York
and is published by Carrie McLaren 'when there's time and money'.
It features very sharp and well-informed critiques of media and consumerism,
and is seldom simplistic or moralistic. Issue #15 focuses on the cult
of media personalities and is great reading. Check out their website
at: http://sunsite.unc.edu/stayfree/
(shortly to change to: http://metalab.unc.edu/stayfree)
or email them at stayfree@sunsite.unc.edu. I bought my copy at a local
magazine store so it gets around the world.
Young Media Australia, which produces the bi-monthly small screen,
reports in the March/April 1998 issue that it is facing a funding
crisis. This seems to be trhe fate of many a good cause these days.
But I hope they can continue with this publication, as it is a very
good source of reports and newsclippings.
The British film magazine Sight and Sound includes an insert booklet
'360 film classics from the National Film and Television Archive'
in the June 1998 issue.
The Fall 1997 issue of Telemedium: The Journal of Media Literacy
from the National Telemedia Council (USA) features 'Mass Media &
popular culture', with contributions from Douglas Rushkoff, Barry
Duncan, Richard Fehlman, Ethan Stewart and Martin Rayala.
Telemedium: The Journal of Media Literacy [USA] focuses on 'Media
Literacy and the Internet' in the Summer 1998 issue, with a range
of interesting perspectives from leading figures in North American
media education.
The popular magazine Who Weekly has a special 1997-98 'Collector's
Edition The Ultimate Seinfeld Viewer's Guide. Everything you wanted
to know of this masterpiece of the twentieth century, including plot
summaries of every episode to date.
There are nearly 300pp of dense stuff (once you get past the ads)
in the November 1997 issue of Wired but the most interesting section
is 'Hollywood 2.0: The people who are reinventing entertainment'.
The very pink Winter 1996 (no. 9) issue of the big picture is crammed
with interviews with NZ film-makers (including Ian Mune), historical
analysis and news and reviews.
John Pungente's Summer 1996 issue of Clipboard has news of his new
Scanning Television resource (see review elsewhere), together with
North American and international news.
Volume 9, number 2 (1996) of Continuum: The Australian Journal of
Media & Culture is a special 'Media Education'issue, edited by
Robyn Quin and Roberto Aparici, containing papers and presentations
from the 1995 La Coruna World Meeting on Media Education, plus others
specially written for this issue (including Roy Shuker on 'Video Games:
Serious Fun'.
Look for the next issue of Continuum (due Oct/Novb 1996) which is
a special issue on New Zealand, edited by Ian Hutchison and myself.
The June 1996 issue of Educommunication - NEWS from Belgium has articles
on media education in India and Europe.
A brilliant new mag from Australia is geekgirl, heralded as 'The
world's first cyberfeminist zine'. Issue No. 6 features articles and
interesting things to follow up, including a site where you can find
out more about this mag at
Illusions, the New Zealand magazine of moving image and performing
arts criticism focuses on 100 years of film-making in New Zealand
in its tenth anniversary issue (Winter 1996), with articles on early
and recent film (including my colleagues Jane Roscoe and Craig Hight
on the mock-doco Forgotten Silver).
Issue twenty (Summer1996) of the Media Education Journal features
articles on representations of Scotland in the movies, with examples
of classroom practice and reviews
The Australian journal Media International Australia continues to
build on its well- deserved international reputation with issues 80
(May 1996) and 81 (August 1996). If your school or institution is
looking to buy one good Australian/New Zealand academic journal, don't
go past MIA.
In addition to being the twentieth anniversary issue of MIA, number
80 features 'Cinema, past and present'--a range of perspectives on
Australian and New Zealand films and film history . Includes an article
by Rochelle Simmons on Lee Tamahori and Once Were Warriors.
A joint effort by Stuart Cunningham and Mark Finn in MIA 80on 'Media
theory and the Internet' provides a good introduction to the focus
of MIA 81, which is titled 'Digital Desires'. Features around 19 contributions
of the nature of 'new' media such as CD-ROMs and digital information,
and the impact of these on constructing media texts. The Spring 1996
issue of the US Media Studies Journal focuses on issues of media ownership
in North America.
Mediacy, the newsletter of the Canadian Association for Media Literacy,
in its Spring 1996 issue, has reviews of Scanning Television and Signal
to Noise (a PBS series on TV), investigations of the Internet and
valuable informationabout trans-national ownership.
Number 106 (1996) of Australian Metro includes articles on the Jane
Austen industry, a checklist of 1996 ATOM Awards, and perspectives
on film-maker Leni Riefenstahl and TV series The X-Files and Absolutely
Fabulous. Metro is now freely available in New Zealand bookstores.
They have begun publishing a companion magazine Metro Education (previously
an insert in Metro). Issue no. 8 includes teaching resources on newspaper
production, Schindler's List and Richard III, and multimedia.
The New Zealand advertising industry journal AdMedia features tables
of money spent on advertising last year ('Adspend '96') and analysis
of advertising in the cinema, in the March 1997 issue.
The New Zealand Journal of Media Studies has produced seven issues
and volume 3 Number 1 (1996) features article on New Zealand film,
including an interview with Gaylene Preston and a critique by Chris
Watson of the doco Cinema of Unease.
Spectrum, the quarterly magazine of the Independent Television Commission
in the UK, has articles on ethical issues in broadcasting and digital
TV in issue 21 (Spring 1996), and on political programming and gay
TV in issue 22 (Summer 1996).
Telemedium: The Journal of Media Literacy features an editorial 'What's
it all about: Media Literacy or media bashing?' in the Summer 1996
issue. Also articles on 'Sexuality, substance abuse and violence'
and part two of David Considine's series 'Cinema and society'.
Issue no. 4 (Spring 1996) of 20:20, the British magazine for photography
and media education, has an article by Laura Mulvey on 'Cinema and
the supernatural', as well as an investigation of what 'visual literacy'
means.
The September1996 issue of Educommunication - NEWS from Belgium has
articles on children and learning, and media education in South America.
I have received 1995 and 1996 issues of Literacy across the curriculum,
produced by The Centre for Literacy in Montreal. This superbly produced
20pp magazineincludes the 8pp Media Focus insert in each issue, with
news and reviews of North American developments. For example, the
Winter 1996 issue has Chris Worsnop on 'Assessing media work' and
a description of The Media Workshop New York. A nother issue (12:2)
has Robert Kubey on 'Traditional versus New Television' and critic
David Bianculli on 'TV is not satan's little helper'.
Mediacy, the newsletter of the Canadian Association for Media Literacy,
in its Fall1996 issue, has featurtes on media literacy in India,television
advertising, David Buckingham, writing on violence, and lots of reviews
and news.
The strongly-nationalistic Media Education Journal of the Association
for Media Educationin Scotland features articles on filmmaker/film
teacher Alexander Mackendrick, andScottish film both old and new ,
in issue 20(Summer 1996). David Buckingham also contributes 'The last
big thing?", on the future of media education.
The Fall 1996 issue of Media Matters from the USA features an article
'Cartoon literacy; reading television, living X-Men'.
Another brilliant new mag from Australia is J MAG, a spin-off fromtheAustralian
youth radio network Triple J. The focus of the Winter 1996 (no. 3)
issue is 'Sexy'. Used carefully, there is good teraching material
here. You can find J MAG in New Zealand bookshops.
Number 107 (1996) of Australian Metro includes an interview with
Bernardo Bertolucci talking about Stealing Beauty, Sam Rohdie on Pasolini,
and extensive coverage of Australian film, television and multimedia.
Issue 108 features 104pp on all aspects of teaching, creating and
understanding multimedia, accessible both to practitioners and novices.
The October 1996 issue of NOTED, the newsletterof the NZ Journalists
Training Organisation, has news of recent developments in journalism
training, as well as an article on press freedom in the Pacific and
Jim Tucker writing on changes at the New Zealand Herald.
The October 1996 issue of Sight and Sound features articles on recent
British and Russian films, Orson Welles and Touch of Evil, and Friends
('the best comedy of the 90s')
Issue 6 (Autumn 1996) of vertigo, the 'Film and TV Quarterly by and
forFilm-makers and Audiences', covers strife at the British Film Institute,
commentaries on new British films, new technology(including Graham
Murdock on 'Moving towards the millennium'), reviews and tributes.
A very good, adventurous film magazine!
The Summer 1997 (no. 11) issue of the big picture features reviews
of film, video and books, as well as an article about the early days
of film in New Zealand ( 'The Illusionist and the Cinematographe').
A new feature is the 'Best and worst' list for 1996.
The December 1996 issue of Cinema Papers (number 113)covers two recent
Australian films (Children of the Revolution, Hotel de Love), a reassessment
of Sunday Too Far Away (1975) and a feature on Peter Jackson's The
Frighteners.
The Winter 1996 issue of Clipboard: a Media Education Newsletter
from Canada explains how the Jesuit Communication Project has been
rescued from looming death, enabling John Pungente to carry on his
invaluable work through the help of a consortium of Canadian media
groups (The Alliance for Children and Television. Chum Television,
Warner Bros Canada, Cable in the Classroom). We can all breathe a
sigh of relief! Also in this issue is media education news from Australia,
India, Japan and North America, as well as great facts and figures
on film, television and sport.
Connect #14, the newsletter of the Center for Media Literacy (Los
Angeles) consists of a series of documents recording events of 1996,
and future developments in the US media literacy movement.
The December1996 issue of Educommunication - NEWS from Belgium has
articles on media education in South America and elsewhere. The March
1997 issue celebrates ten years of publication.
How Children See Themselves on Television: Children's Identification
With People on Screen is a report for Channel Four by Hannah Davies,
published in October 1996. It was initiated for the 1996 Children
on Screen conference and offers unique insights into the opinions
of British children in three age bands (7-8, 11-12, 14-15); opinions
which are 'complex and subtle'.
Literacy across the curriculum (12:3, 1996), produced by The Centre
for Literacy in Montreal temporarily suspends its Media Focus insert
for full coverage of the International Adult Literacy Survey.
Literature Review: Children's Viewing Behaviour is a 32pp report
compiled for New Zealand On Air by Emma Tetley. It includes invaluable,
up-todate information on children and television, and information
on what we know about New Zealand hildren--from both social science
and marketing perspectives. A very useful resource to keep handy!
The Media Education Journal of the Association for Media Education
n Scotland features articles on Scottish film, John Grierson and 'Children
and the Internet in an interesting Winter 1996/97 issue.
The Fall 1996 issue of Media Matters from the USA features articles
on North American developments, as well as a fun resource on Baywatch.
'
Mediacy, the newsletter of the Canadian Association for Media Literacy,
in its Winter 1997 issue, has features on media guru Douglas Rushkoff,
adolescents and music, and comprehensive book reviews. It also reprints
the 'Top Moneymaking Entertainers 1995 96' list.
Metro Education 9 has interesting articles and classroom exercises
on Bladerunner, 'Babe on the Internet', representation of the family
in Wall Street and Parenthood, photography, and advertising and much
needed) advice on teaching media to young children.
Volume 3, number 2 (1996) of the New Zealand Journal of Media Studies
is guest edited by Lynne Star and has a special emphasis on Maori
issues and the media. Contributions include: Danny Keenan 'Utu and
the search for 'real history'', Craig Young 'Anti-colonial theory
and normativity: a challenge to educational media research in Aotearoa'
and Sue Abel ''Wild Maori' and 'Tame Maori' in television news'.
The December1996 and February 1997 issues of NOTED, the newsletter
of the NZ Journalists Training Organisation, has news of recent developments
in journalism training, as well as articles from New Zealand (Judy
McGregor on Tuku's underpants and the media, 'Cyberjournalism on the
Internet) and overseas ('Why the US media is unpopular').
The Feb 1997 issue of Onfilm: the New Zealand Film, Television &
Video Magazine includes analysis of the AotearoaTV controversy, whilst
the March issue celebrates the appointment of Ruth Harley to head
the NZ Film Commission.
A special 1997 issue of the popular film mag Premiere is devoted
to 'Women in Hollywood', with articles on 'Female bonding' and Meryl
Streep, and lots of illuminating facts and figures.
Telemedium: The Journal of Media Literacy [US] dedicates its Fall
1996 issue to pioneer media educator Jessie McCanse, who died in July
1996. This issue includes general articles on media teaching in North
America, as well as part 3 of David Considine's 'Teaching With Motion
Pictures'. There is also an open letter from Kathleen Tyner regarding
the closure of Strategies for Media Literacy, after 10 years of invaluable
service in San Francisco.
The Winter 1996 issue of 20:20 Media Magazine [UK] ranges across
new techology, representations of the Italian male in cinema, The
X-Files, and queer cinema.
More Newsletters
Educommunication - NEWS. Quarterly bulletin of the International
Catholic Assn for Radio and Television, Brussels. no 32, Sept 1995.
Articles on media education and one titled 'Why do teachers fear the
Internet?
Mediawise 95: journal of the South Australian Assn for Media Education.
no 35/2. Includes an article by Gordon Lawrence on Adelaide community
TV, and more on the Internet
NOTED. NZ Journalists Training Organisation October 1995. A new-look
8pp newsletter from the NZJTO, with training news and articles such
as 'What's wrong with newspapers..
NZ Public Radio. No 1, 26 May 1995. A four-page information newsletter,
available from POBox 123, Wellington
PEC: Political Economy of Communication. International Assn for Mass
Communication Research, Spring 1995. Includes an article 'Global village
or global pillage?
Spectrum: the Quarterly Magazine of the Independent Television Commission
{UK]. Summer 1995. Good articles on commercial TV in the UK and elsewhere,
such as 'Sex on the box' and TV sport.
Telemedium: The Journal of Media Literacy, 41:2, Fall 1995. This
issue of the National Telemedia Council (US) journal includes reports
on recent conferences and a bonus supplement 'Media Literacy: The
What, Why and How Tos' by David Considine.
Televiews: Industry News & Issues from TVNZ Television. no. 6,
1995. What you need to know about how television advertising operates.
TubeViews: Magazine of the Children's Television Foundation. no 24,
Sept 1995. Reviews, articles--and a free "TV Minder' in this issue.
20/20: The National Magazine for Photography and Media Education.
Issue 2, Summer 1995. The second issue of this UK glossy, with photo
essays on 'African identities', new technology and writing TV drama
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