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Magazines Handbookby Jenny McKay
Routledge 2000; US$ 41.95The Magazines Handbook is a comprehensive introduction to the magazine industry. Tracing the development of magazine publishing, Jenny McKay explores the business of magazines and the role of the magazine journalist. more...
Understanding Women's Magazinesby Anna Gough-Yates
Routledge 2002; US$ 33.95Anna Gough-Yates considers the rapid shift in women's magazines towards titles aimed at newly-identified 'lifestyle' groups of women readers. more...
The First Lady of Hollywoodby Samantha Barbas
University of California Press 2005; US$ 12.95Hollywood celebrities feared her. William Randolph Hearst adored her. Between 1915 and 1960, Louella Parsons was America's premier movie gossip columnist and in her heyday commanded a following of more than forty million readers. This first full-length biography of Parsons tells the story of her reign over Hollywood during the studio era, her lifelong alliance with her employer, William Randolph Hearst, and her complex and turbulent relationships with such noted stars, directors, and studio executives as Orson Welles, Joan Crawford, Louis B. more...
Print Journalismby Richard Keeble
Taylor & Francis 2005; US$ 41.95This excellent critical introduction provides an up-to-date overview of the skills needed to work within the newspaper and magazine industries whilst also offering a discussion of print journalism in a broader, critical context. more...
Online News and the Publicby Michael B. Salwen; Bruce Garrison; Paul D. Driscoll
Lawrence Erlbaum Associates 2004; US$ 56.95Offers insights on the state of online news, exploring the issues surrounding this convergence of print and electronic platforms, and the public's response to it. The heart of the book is formed by empirical studies - mostly social surveys - coming out of the media effects and uses traditions. more...
A Futile and Stupid Gestureby Josh Karp
Chicago Review Press 2006; US$ 12.95The ultimate biography of National Lampoon and its cofounder Doug Kenney, this book offers the first complete history of the immensely popular magazine and its brilliant and eccentric characters. With wonderful stories of the comedy scene in New York City in the 1970s and National Lampoon ’s place at the center of it, this chronicle shares how the magazine spawned a popular radio show and two long-running theatrical productions that helped launch the careers of John Belushi, Bill Murray, Chevy Chase, and Gilda Radner and went on to inspire Saturday Night Live . More than 130 interviews were conducted with people connected to Kenney and the magazine, including Chevy Chase, John Hughes, P. J. O’Rourke, Tony Hendra,... more...
Journalism Onlineby Mike Ward
Elsevier 2002; US$ 52.95Journalism Online tackles the pressing question of how to apply fundamental journalism skills to the online medium. It provides an essential guide to the Internet as a research and publishing tool. In particular, it examines how to forge key journalism skills with the distinctive qualities of the World Wide Web to provide compelling web content. Trainee and practicing online journalists will learn: - core journalism skills of identifying, collecting, selecting and presenting news and information; - multimedia skills such as audio recording and editing; - online research methods including use of search tools, newsgroups and listservs; - story construction and writing for the Web; - an introduction to HTML; - web site design for the effective... more...
The Man Time Forgotby Isaiah Wilner
HarperCollins 2007; US$ 10.99Here is the tale of The Man Time Forgot : the story of Briton Hadden, the genius behind Time magazine, and his betrayal by Henry R. Luce. The true story of their tortured friendship has never before been told. Friends, collaborators, and childhood rivals, Hadden and Luce are not yet twenty-five when they start the nation's first newsmagazine at the outset of the Roaring Twenties. Millionaires at thirty, together they lay the foundation for a media empire. But their partnership is explosive and their rivalry ferocious, inspired by envy as well as love. When Hadden dies at the age of thirty-one, Luce begins to bury the legacy of the giant he was never able to best. In this groundbreaking biography, Isaiah Wilner offers the first full account... more...
Little Magazinesby Reed Whittemore
University of Minnesota Press 1963; US$ 36.00Little Magazines - American Writers 32 was first published in 1963. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. more...
Condensing the Cold Warby Joanne P. Sharp
University of Minnesota Press 2000; US$ 35.00By examining the changing ways in which Reader?s Digest has explained America and its relation to the world, Sharp exposes the links that the magazine has forged between the individual reader and the destiny of the United States, particularly as this relates to the Soviet Union, the Cold War enemy whose character the Digest is often credited with helping to create. Not about the Soviet Union per se, or about the historical details of any other threat to the United States, this is a book about America and the changing roles that this central voice of American mass culture envisioned for the country and its citizens. more...









