CDES 303: Communication Criticism Bibliography--Meriam Library. CSU-Chico

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Selected Reading List for CDES303: Communication Criticism
Created by Kristin Johnson, formerly liaison librarian to the Department of Communication Design

Need help choosing or narrowing a topic? Need to learn more about criticism? The following list of books in the Meriam Library represents a small sampling of titles useful for CDES 303. Check it out!

Please remember that you can always AskALibrarian for additional research help. Or, if you'd like, you can contact Aaron Bowen, the liaison librarian to the Communication Department directly at 898-5686, or asbowen@csuchico.edu.

Quick links to books about:
Advertising / Commercials :: Film & Movies :: Internet :: Images / Graphics :: Music :: Scripts :: Television

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Advertising / Commercials

The 100 Best TV Commercials--And Why They Worked  HF6146 T42 K36 1999 (Main Collection)

Ads, Fads, and Consumer Culture: Advertising's Impact on American Character and Society  HF5823 B438 2000 (Main Collection)

Consumer Behavior and Culture: Consequences for Global Marketing and Advertising  Call Number: HF5415.32 M66 2004 (Main Collection)

Fables, Fashions, and Facts about Advertising: A Study of 28 Enduring Myths  Call Number: HF5823 J7172 2004 (Main Collection)

Harvesting Minds: How TV Commercials Control Kids  LB1044.8 F69 1996 (Main Collection)

Manipulation of the American Voter: Political Campaign Commercials  JK2281 J64 1997 (Main Collection)

Pulp Politics: How Political Advertising Tells the Stories of American Politics  JK2281 R53 2003 (Main Collection)

Film / Movies

Best in Show: The Films of Christopher Guest and Company  Call Number: PN1998.3.G853 M85 2004 (Main Collection)

The Films of Orson Welles  Call Number: PN1998.3 W45 G37 2004 (Main Collection)

God in the Movies: A Sociological Investigation  Call Number: PN1995.5 B44 2000 (Main Collection)

The Horror Film   Call Number: PN1995.9 H6 H667 2004 (Main Collection)

Martin Scorsese's Raging Bull  Call Number: PN1997.R2253 M37 2005 (Main Collection)

Narrative and Stylistic Patterns in the Films of Stanley Kubrick  Call Number: PN1998.3 K83 G37 1999 (Main Collection)

Operation Hollywood: How the Pentagon Shapes and Censors the Movies  Call Number: PN1998.3 K83 G37 1999 (Main Collection)

The Politics of James Bond: From Fleming's Novels to the Big Screen  Call Number: PR6056 L4 Z585 2001 (Main Collection)

Psycho Paths: Tracking the Serial Killer Through Contemporary American Film and Fiction  Call Number: PN1995.9 W3 S297 S56 2002 (Main Collection)

Scorsese Up Close: A Study of the Films  Call Number: PN1998.3 S39 N93 2004 (Main Collection)

The Internet

Critical Perspectives on the Internet   Call Number: TK5105.875 I57 C75 2002 (Main Collection)

Dark Fiber: Tracking Critical Internet Culture  Call Number: HM851 L68 2002 (Main Collection)

Girl Wide Web: Girls, the Internet, and the Negotiation of Identity   Call Number: HQ798 .G525 2005 (Main Collection)

Leonardo to the Internet: Technology & Culture from the Renaissance to the Present  Call Number: T15 M575 2004 (Main Collection)

Religion Online: Finding Faith on the Internet  Call Number: BL37 .R46 2004 (Main Collection)

Society Online: The Internet in Context  Call Number: HM851 S655 2004 (Main Collection)

Images

Action Chicks: New Images of Tough Women in Popular Culture  Call Number: P94.5.W652 U614 2004

Art and Propaganda in the Twentieth Century: The Political Image in the Age of Mass Culture  Call Number: NX650 P6 C63 1997 (Main Collection)

Graphic Agitation: Social and Political Graphics Since the Sixties  Call Number: NC997 M37 1993 (Folio)

Insurgent Images: The Agitprop Murals of Mike Alewitz  Call Number: ND237 A345 A4 2002 (Folio)

Lara Croft: Cyber Heroine  Call Number: P96.C77 D4813 2005 (Folio)

Music

Avant Rock: Experimental Music from the Beatles to Björk  Call Number: ML3534 M411 2002 (Main Collection)

Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, and American Song  Call Number: ML400 S657 2002 (Main Collection)

Expression in Pop-Rock Music: A Collection of Critical and Analytical Essays  Call Number: ML3534 E985 2000 (Main Collection)

Fell in Love with a Band : The Story of the White Stripes  Call Number: ML421 .W49 H36 2004 (Main Collection)

Girls Rock!: Fifty Years of Women Making Music  Call Number: ML82.C37 2004 (Main Collection)

Punk Rockers' Revolution: A Pedagogy of Race, Class, and Gender  Call Number: ML3918.R63 M35 2004 (Main Collection)

Rimbaud and Jim Morrison: The Rebel as Poet  Call Number: PS3563 O8746 Z66 1993 (Main Collection)

The U2 Reader: A Quarter Century of Commentary, Criticism, and Reviews  Call Number: ML421.U2 U15 2003 (Main Collection)

Scripts

Adaptation: The Shooting Script / Screenplay by Charlie Kaufman and Donald Kaufman  Call Number: PN1997.2 A33 2002 (Main Collection)

A Beautiful Mind: The Shooting Script  Call Number: PN1997 B357 G6 2002 (Main Collection)

Dogma: A Screenplay / by Kevin Smith   Call Number: PN1997 D53 1999 (Main Collection)

Punch-drunk love: The Shooting Script / Paul Thomas Anderson  Call Number: PN 1997.2 P86 A53 2002 Main Collection)

Sideways / Screenplay by Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor  Call Number: PN1997.2 .S534 2004 (Main Collection)

Spanglish: The Shooting Script / written by James L. Brooks  Call Number: PN1997.2 .S534 2004 (Main Collection)

The West Wing Script Book: [six teleplays]  Call Number: PN1992.77 W44 S67 2002 (Main Collection)

Television

Blood Relations: Chosen Families in Buffy, the Vampire Slayer and Angel   Call Number: PN1992.77.B84 B38 20 (Main Collection)

Deny all Knowledge: Reading The X Files  Call Number: PN1992.77 X22 D46 1996 (Main Collection)

Enterprise Zones: Critical Positions on Star Trek  Call Number: PN1992.77 S73 E58 1996 (Main Collection)

Gen X TV: The Brady Bunch to Melrose Place  Call Number: PN1992.6 O93 1997 (Main Collection)

Planet Simpson: How a Cartoon Masterpiece Defined a Generation  PN1992.77 S58 T875 2004 (Main Collection)

Rerun Nation: How Repeats Invented American Television Call Number: PN1992.8.R47 K66 2005 (Main Collection)

Reality TV: Remaking Television Culture  Call Number: PN1992.8 R43 R45 2004 (Main Collection)

The Simpsons and Philosophy: The D'oh! of Homer  Call Number: B68 S55 2001 (Main Collection)

The Sopranos on the Couch: Analyzing Television's Greatest Series  Call Number: PN1992.77 S66 Y33 2002 (Main Collection)

Strange TV: Innovative Television Series from the Twilight Zone to the X-files  Call Number: PN1992.6 B656 2002 (Main Collection)

Tabloid Culture: Trash Taste, Popular Power, and the Transformation of American Television  Call Number: PN1992.8 R43 G59 2000 (Main Collection)

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