{"id":194,"date":"2021-09-18T01:37:01","date_gmt":"2021-09-18T01:37:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mupages.marshall.edu\/sites\/masscommhistorybibliography\/?page_id=194"},"modified":"2025-08-08T22:40:54","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T22:40:54","slug":"television","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/mupages.marshall.edu\/masscommhistorybibliography\/television\/","title":{"rendered":"Television"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This list contains mostly studies of the television industry, the development of broadcast news, and cultural history of some entertainment programming.  It doesn’t deal much with TV stars and producers, or audience analysis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Back to Index Page<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Abernathy-Lear, Gloria.  \u201cAfrican Americans\u2019 Criticisms Concerning African American Representations on Daytime Serials.\u201d Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly<\/em> 71:4 (1994): 830-839.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Abramson, Albert.  The History of Television, 1880 to 1941<\/em>.  Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 1987.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Adams, William C., ed.  Television Coverage of International Affairs<\/em>.  Norwood, NJ: Ablex, 1982.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ackerman, Colin.  \u201cPublic or Private Interest? The History and Impacts of Children\u2019s Television Public Policy in the United States, 1934 to Present.\u201d  Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth<\/em> 12:2 (Spring 2019): 285-304.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Adler, Richard, and Douglass Cater, eds. Television as a Cultural Force<\/em>. New York: Praeger, 1976.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alexander, Alison, Louise M. Benjamin, Keisha Hoerrner, and Darrell Roe.  \u201cWe\u2019ll Be Back in a Moment: A Content Analysis of Advertisements in Children\u2019s Television in the 1950s.\u201d Journal of Advertising<\/em> 27:3 (Fall 1998): 1-9.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Allen, Craig.  \u201cNews Conferences on TV: Ike Age Politics Revisited.\u201d Journalism Quarterly<\/em> 70:1 (1993): 13-25.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Allen, Craig M.  News is People: The Rise of Local Television News and the Fall of News From New York<\/em>.  Ames: Iowa State University Press, 2001.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Allen, Craig. \u201cGender Breakthrough Fit for a Focus Group: The First Women Newscasters and Why They Arrived in Local TV News.\u201d Journalism History<\/em> 28:4 (Winter 2003): 154-162.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Allen, Robert C.  Speaking of Soap Operas<\/em>.  Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1985.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Altheide, David L.  Creating Reality: How TV News Distorts Events<\/em>.  Beverly Hills, Cal.: Sage, 1976.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anderson, Christopher.  Hollywood TV: The Studio System in the Fifties<\/em>.  Austin: University of Texas Press, 1994.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anderson, J. Kent. Television Fraud: The History and Implications of the Quiz Show Scandals<\/em>. New York: Praeger, 1979.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Arlen, Michael J.  The Camera Age<\/em>.  New York: FSG, 1981.    Arlen published several collections of his New Yorker<\/em> television criticism that are also insightful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Armstrong, Jennifer Keishin.  When Women Invented Television: The Untold Story of the Female Powerhouses Who Pioneered the Way We Watch Today<\/em>. New York: Harper Collins, 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Aubin, Stephen P.  Distorting Defense: Network News and National Security<\/em>. Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 1998.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Auletta, Ken.  Three Blind Mice: How the TV Networks Lost Their Way<\/em>.  New York: Random House, 1991.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Auten, Philip J., and Douglas A. Boyd.  \u201cDumont: The Original Fourth Network.\u201d  Journal of Popular Culture <\/em>29:3 (Winter 1995): 63-83.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Baird, David A. \u201cAn Emerging Emphasis on Image: Early Press Coverage of Politics and Television.\u201d American Journalism<\/em> 20:4 (2003): 13-31.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ballard-Reisch, Deborah.  \u201cChina Beach<\/em> and Tour of Duty<\/em>: American Television and Revisionist History of the Vietnam War.\u201d Journal of Popular Culture<\/em> 25:3 (Winter 1991): 135-149.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bannister, Jennifer Burton.  “From Laboratory to Living Room: The Development of Television in the United States, 1920-1960.” Ph.D. dissertation, Purdue University, 2001.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Barbree, Jay. Live from Cape Canaveral: Covering the Space Race, from Sputnik to Today. <\/em>Washington DC: <\/em>Smithsonian Books, 2007.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Barfield, Ray.  A Word from Our Viewers: Reflections from Early Television Audiences<\/em>.  Westport, CT: Praeger, 2008.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Barkin, Steve M.  \u201cEisenhower\u2019s Television Planning Board: An Unwritten Chapter in the History of Political Broadcasting.\u201d Journal of Broadcasting<\/em> 27:4 (1983): 319-331.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Barkin, Steve M.  American Television News: The Media Marketplace and the Public Interest<\/em>.  New York: Routledge, 2003.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Barnouw, Erik. The Image Empire: A History of Broadcasting in the United States From 1953. <\/em> New York: Oxford University Press, 1970.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Barnouw, Erik. Tube of Plenty: The Evolution of American Television. <\/em>New York: Oxford University Press, 1975.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Barnouw, Eric.  \u201cBlacklisted: How FCC Commissioner Clifford Durr Earned his Place on the Cold War\u2019s Roll of Honor.\u201d  Television Quarterly<\/em> 28:2 (1996): 60-66.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Baughman, James L.\u00a0 \u201cThe National Purpose and the Newest Medium: Liberal Critics of Television, 1958-1960.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0Mid-America<\/em>\u00a064:2 (April-July 1982): 41-55.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Baughman, James L. \u201cTelevision in the \u2018Golden Age\u2019: An Entrepreneurial Experiment.\u201d\u00a0The Historian<\/em>\u00a047, no. 2 (1985): 175\u2013195.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Baughman, James L.  Television\u2019s Guardians: The FCC and the Politics of Programming, 1958-1967. <\/em>Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1985.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Baughman, James L.  “Television in the Golden Age: An Entrepreneurial Experiment.” Historian<\/em> 42 (February 1985).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Baughman, James L. The Republic of Mass Culture: Journalism, Filmmaking and Broadcasting in America Since 1941.<\/em> 3rd Edition.  <\/em>Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Baughman, James L.  Same Time, Same Station: Creating American Television, 1948-1961<\/em>.  Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Baughman, James L. \u201cShow Business in the Living Room: Management Expectations for American Television, 1947-56.\u201d Business and Economic History<\/em> 26:2 (Winter 1997): 718-726.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Beadle, Mary E., and Michael D.  Murray, eds.  Indelible Images: Women of Local Television<\/em>.  Ames: Iowa State University Press, 2001.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Becher, Ron. \u201cHear-See Radio in the World of Tomorrow: RCA and the Presentation of Television at the World\u2019s Fair, 1939-40.\u201d  Historical Journal of Film, Radio, and Television <\/em>21:4 (2001): 361-378.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Becker, Christine.  It\u2019s the Pictures That Got Small: Hollywood\u2019s Film Stars on 1950s Television<\/em>.  Middletown: CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2008.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Beltran, Mary.  Latino TV: A History<\/em>.  New York: NYU Press, 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bennett, David Stephen.  \u201cThe Televised Revolution: \u2018Progressive\u2019 Television Coverage of the 1960 New Orleans School Desegregation Crisis.\u201d  Louisiana History<\/em> 58:3 (Summer 2017): 339-365.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bergreen, Laurence.  Look Now, Pay Later: The Rise of Network Broadcasting<\/em>. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1980.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Berke, Annie.  Their Own Best Creations: Women Writers in Postwar Television<\/em>. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Berkman, Dave.  \u201cLet\u2019s Sightsee Radiovision- TV Terms That Didn\u2019t Last.\u201d Journalism Quarterly <\/em>63:3 (1986): 626-627.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Berkowitz, Edward D. Mass<\/em> Appeal: The Formative Age of the Movies, Radio, and TV.<\/em> New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bernhard, Nancy E. US Television News and Cold War Propaganda, 1947-1960. <\/em>New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bernhardt, Mark. “American Cold War Hospitality: Portraying Societal Acceptance and Class Mobility of Mexican, Cuban, and Chinese Immigrants in 1950s Sitcoms.” Journal of Cinema and Media Studies<\/em> 62, no. 4 (2023): 9-32.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Besen, Stanley, and Bridger Mitchell.  \u201cWatergate and Television: An Economic Analysis.\u201d Communication Research<\/em> 3:3 (1976): 243-260.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bibb, Porter.  It Ain’t As Easy as it Looks: Ted Turner’s Amazing Story<\/em>.  New York, Crown, 1993.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Blair, Gwenda.  Almost Golden: Jessica Savitch and the Selling of Television News<\/em>.  New York: Simon and Schuster, 1988.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bliss, Edward, Jr., ed.  In Search of Light: The Broadcasts of Edward R. Murrow, 1938-1961<\/em>.  New York: Knopf, 1967.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bliss, Edward Jr.  Now the News: The Story of Broadcast Journalism<\/em>.  New York: Columbia University Press, 1991.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bluem, A. William.  Documentary in American Television: Form, Function, Method<\/em>.  New York: Hastings House, 1965.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Boddy, William.  Fifties Television: The Industry and Its Critics.  <\/em>Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Boddy, William. \u201cThrills Sweep Like Electric Currents Through Multitudes: Spectacle, Sociality, and Media Competition in Mid-Century America.\u201d Historical Journal of Film, Radio, and Television <\/em>41:3 (2021): 354-377.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bodroghkozy, Aniko. Groove Tube: Sixties Television and the Youth Rebellion. <\/em>Durham: Duke University Press, 2001.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bodroghkozy, Aniko. Equal Time: Television and the Civil Rights Movement.<\/em> Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2012.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bodroghkozy, Aniko.  \u201cBlack Weekend: A Reception History of Network Television News and the Assassination of John F. Kennedy.\u201d  Television and New Media<\/em> 14:6 (November 2013): 560-578.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bodroghkozy, Aniko, ed.  A Companion to the History of American Broadcasting<\/em>.  Malden: Wiley-Blackwell, 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bodroghkozy, Aniko.  \u201cPolitical Satire, That Was the Week That Was<\/em>, and the Assassination of John F. Kennedy.\u201d Television and New Media<\/em> 22:8 (December 2021): 859-877.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bogart, Leo.  The Age of Television: A Study of Viewing Habits and the Impact of Television on American Life<\/em>.  New York: Frederick Unger, 1958.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bogart, Leo.  The Age of Television<\/em>.  New York: Frederick Ungar, 1972.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bogle, Donald.  Primetime Blues: African Americans and Network Television<\/em>.  New York: FSG, 2001.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bor, Stephanie E.  \u201cLucy\u2019s Two Babies: Framing the First Televised Depiction of Pregnancy.\u201d Media History<\/em> 19:4 (November 2013): 464-478.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Boulton, Mark. \u201cSending the Extremists to the Cornfield: Rod Serling\u2019s Crusade Against Radical Conservatism.\u201d Journal of Popular Culture<\/em> 47:6): 2014: 1226-1244.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bowser, Robert.  Television and the Public<\/em>.  New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1973.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Boyer, Peter J.  Who Killed CBS?  The Undoing of America’s Number One News Network<\/em>.  New York: St. Martin’s, 1988.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bratslavsky, Lauren. \u201cBroadcast History Gaps When Archival Material Exists: Inserting Peg Lynch and Ethyl and Albert<\/em> into Sitcom History.\u201d Journal of 20th<\/sup> Century Media History<\/em> 1:1 (2023): 46-72.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Breed, Warren, and James R. De Foe. \u201cDrinking and Smoking on Television, 1950-1982.\u201d Journal of Public Health Policy<\/em> 5, no. 2 (1984): 257\u201370.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Brinson, Susan L.  The Red Scare, Politics, and the Federal Communication Commission, 1941-1960<\/em>.  Westport: Praeger, 2004.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bronstein, Phoebe.  \u201cSouthern Projections: Black Television Hosts, Madison Avenue, and Nationalizing the South in 1950s Primetime.\u201d Television & New Media<\/em> 23:3 (2022): 219-234. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Brook, Vincent.  \u201cThe Americanization of Molly: How Mid-Fifties Television Homogenized The Goldbergs<\/em>.\u201d Cinema Journal<\/em> 38:4 (Summer 1999): 533-551.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Brooks, Tim.  The Blackface Minstrel Show in Mass Media: 20th<\/sup> Century Performances on Radio, Records, Film, and Television<\/em>.  Jefferson: McFarland, 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Brown, Les.  Television: The Business Behind the Box<\/em>.  New York: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1971.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Brundson, Charlotte.  Screen Tastes: From Soap Opera to Satellite Dish<\/em>.  New York: Routledge, 1997.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bryant, Jennings, ed.  Television and the American Family<\/em>.  Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum, 1990.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bullart, B.J.  Public Television: Politics and the Battle Over Documentary Film<\/em>. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1997.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bullock, Katherine. \u201cOrientalism on Television: A Case Study of I Dream of Jeannie<\/em>.\u201d ReOrient<\/em> 4, no. 1 (2018): 4\u201323.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Burns, Gary.  \u201cVisualizing 1950s Hits on Your Hit Parade<\/em>.\u201d Popular Music<\/em> 17:2 (May 1998): 139-152.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Burns, Eric.  Invasion of the Mind Snatchers: Television\u2019s Conquest of America in the Fifties<\/em>.  Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2010.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Butler, Monica L. \u201c\u2018Guardians of the Indian Image\u2019: Controlling Representations of Indigenous Cultures in Television.\u201d American Indian Quarterly<\/em> 42, no. 1 (2018): 1\u201342.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Burroughs, Todd Steven. \u201cKerner\u2019s Other Black Explosion: The Chapter 15 Mandate and the Birth of New York\u2019s Black Public Affairs Programming, 1967-68.\u201d Howard Journal of Communication <\/em>30:4 (2019): 355-370.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Butler, Bethonie.  Black TV: Five Decades of Groundbreaking Television from Soul Train to Black-ish and Beyond<\/em>.  New York: Black Dog & Leventhal, 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Butler, Monica L.  \u201cGuardians of the Indian Image\u2019: Controlling Representations of Indigenous Cultures in Television.\u201d The American Indian Quarterly<\/em> 42:1 (Winter 2018): 1-42.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Buzenberg, Susan and Bill, eds.  Salant<\/em>, CBS, and the Battle for the Soul of Broadcast Journalism<\/em>.  Boulder: Westview Press, 1999.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Byung Joon Lee.  \u201cAttacking the Airwaves: How Television Changed the American Presidential Campaign.\u201d  New England Journal of History<\/em> 73:1 (Fall 2016): 1-27.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cailteaux, Karen Sue.  \u201cThe Political Blacklist in the Broadcasting Industry: The Decade of the 1950s.\u201d PhD dissertation, Ohio State University, 1972.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Calhoun, Claudia.  Only the Names Have Been Changed:<\/em> Dragnet, the Police Procedural, and Postwar Culture<\/em>.  Austin: University of Texas Press, 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Campbell, Angus, Gerald Gurin, and Warren E. Miller. \u201cTelevision and the Election.\u201d Scientific American<\/em> 188, no. 5 (1953): 46\u201352.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Campbell, Kathryn B. \u201cTrying Television: WKOW-TV in the 1950s.\u201d American Journalism<\/em> 18, no. 2 (2001): 83\u2013102.  (Madison, Wis. station)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Campbell, Richard.  60 Minutes and the News: A Mythology for Middle America<\/em>.  Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1991.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Capo, James A.  \u201cNetwork Watergate Coverage Patterns in Late 1972 and Early 1973.\u201d  Journalism Quarterly<\/em> 60 (1983): 595-602.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Capsuto, Steven.  Alternate Channels: The Uncensored Story of Gay and Lesbian Images on Radio and Television, 1930s to the Present<\/em>.  New York: Ballentine Books, 2000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Carstarphen, Meta, and John Sanchez, eds.  American Indians and Mass Media<\/em>. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2012.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cassata, Mary, and Thomas Skill.  Life on Daytime Drama: Tuning in American Serial Drama<\/em>.  Norwood, NJ: Ablex, 1983.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cassidy, Marsha F.  \u201cVisible Storytellers: Women Narrators on 1950s Daytime Television.\u201d Style<\/em> 35:2 (Summer 2001): 354-374.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cassidy, Marsha F.  What Women Watched: Daytime Television in the 1950s.<\/em>  Austin: University of Texas Press, 2005.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Castleman, Harry, and Walter J. Podrazik.  Watching TV: Four Decades of American Television<\/em>.  New York: McGraw-Hill, 1982.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cater, Douglass, and Richard Adler, eds.  Television as a Social Force<\/em>. Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 1975.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cerulo, Karen A. \u201cTelevision, Magazine Covers, and the Shared Symbolic Environment: 1948-1970.\u201d American Sociological Review<\/em> 49, no. 4 (1984): 566\u2013570.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cheers, Imani M.  The Evolution of Black Women in Television: Mammies, Matriarchs, and Mistresses<\/em>.  New York: Routledge, 2017.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chisholm, Bradley F.  \u201cThe CBS Color Television Venture: A Study of Failed Innovation in the Broadcasting Industry.\u201d  PhD dissertation, University of Wisconsin, 1987.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chunovic, Louis.  One Foot on the Floor: The Curious Evolution of Sex on Television from I Love Lucy to South Park. <\/em> New York: TV Books, 2000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Clark, Jennifer S.  Producing Feminism: Television Work in the Age of Women\u2019s Liberation<\/em>. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Clark, Naeemah. \u201cThe Birth of an Advocacy Group: The First Six Years of Action for Children\u2019s Television.\u201d Journalism History<\/em> 30:2 (Summer 2004): 66-75.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Coates, Norma J.  \u201cIt\u2019s a Man\u2019s, Man\u2019s World: Television and the Masculinization of Rock Discourse and Culture.\u201d  PhD dissertation, University of Wisconsin- Madison, 2002.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cole, Barry G., ed.  Television: A Selection of Readings From TV Guide Magazine<\/em>.  New York: Free Press, 1970.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cole, Barry, and Mal Oettinger.  The Reluctant Regulator: The FCC and the Broadcast Audience<\/em>.  Boston: Addison Wesley, 1978.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Colt, Barry D., ed.  Television: A Selection of Readings from TV Guide Magazine<\/em>.  New York: Free Press, 1970.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Conway, Mike.  \u201cThe Birth of CBS-TV News: An Ambitious Experiment at the Advent of U.S. Commercial Television.\u201d  Journalism History<\/em> 32:3 (Fall 2006): 128-137.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Conway, Mike.  \u201cBefore the Bloggers: The Upstart News Technology of Television at the 1948 Political Conventions.\u201d  American Journalism<\/em> 24:1 (Winter 2007): 33-58.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Conway, Mike.  “A Guest in Our Living Room: The Television Newscaster before the Rise of the Dominant Anchor.” Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media<\/em>  51:3 (September 2007): 457-478.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Conway, Mike. The Origins of Television News in America: The Visualizers of CBS in the 1940s<\/em>. New York: Peter Lang, 2009.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Conway, Mike. \u201cThe Extemporaneous Newscast: The Lasting Impact of Walter Cronkite\u2019s Local Television News Experiment.\u201d American Journalism<\/em> 26 (Summer 2009): 33\u201354.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Conway, Mike.  \u201cThe Origins of Television\u2019s \u2018Anchor Man\u2019: Cronkite, Swayze, and Journalism Boundary Work.  American Journalism<\/em> 31:4 (Fall 2014): 445-467.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Conway, Mike.  \u201cThe Ghost of Television News in Media History Scholarship.\u201d  American Journalism<\/em> 34:2 (Spring 2017): 229-239.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Conway, Mike.  Contested Ground: The Tunnel and the Struggle over Television News in Cold War America<\/em>.  Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cowan, Geoffrey.  See No Evil: The Backstage Battle Over Sex and Violence on TV<\/em>.  New York: Simon and Schuster, 1979.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cox, Jim.  The Daytime Serials of Television, 1946-1950<\/em>.  Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2006.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Craig, Allen.  \u201cDiscovering \u2018Joe Six Pack\u2019 Content in Television News: The Hidden History of Audience Research, News Consultants, and the Warner Class Model.\u201d  Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media<\/em>49 (December 2005): 363\u201382.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cramer Brownell, Kathryn. \u201cWatergate, the Bipartisan Struggle for Media Access, and the Growth of Cable Television.\u201d Modern American History<\/em> 3 (2020): 175-198.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cranston, Pat.  \u201cPolitical Conventions Broadcasts: Their History and Influence.\u201d  Journalism Quarterly<\/em> 7 (Spring 1960): 186-194.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cressman, Dale L. \u201cFighting for Access: ABC\u2019s 1965\u20131966 Feud with NASA.\u201d  American Journalism<\/em> 24 (Summer 2007): 133\u2013151.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Crosby, John.  Out of the Blue! A Book About Radio and Television<\/em>.  New York: Simon & Schuster, 1952.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Culbert, David.  \u201cTelevision\u2019s Visual Impact on Decision-Making in the USA, 1968: The Tet Offensive and Chicago\u2019s Democratic National Convention.\u201d  Journal of Contemporary History<\/em> 33:3 (July 1998): 419:449.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cullen, Jim. From Memory to History: Television Versions of the Twentieth Century<\/em>.  New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Curtin, Michael.  Redeeming the Wasteland: Television Documentary and Cold War Politics.  <\/em>Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1995.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dalton,  Mary M., and Laura R. Linder, eds.  The Sitcom Reader<\/em>. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2005.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe Darkened Channels: UHF Television and the FCC.\u201d Harvard Law Review<\/em> 75, no. 8 (1962): 1578\u20131607.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Davies, David R. \u201cFrom Ridicule to Respect: Newspapers\u2019 Reaction to Television, 1948-1960.\u201d American Journalism<\/em> 15, no. 4 (1998): 17\u201333.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Davis, Blair.  \u201cSmall Screen, Smaller Pictures: Television Broadcasting and B-Movies in the Early 1950s.\u201d  Historical Journal of Film, Radio, and Television<\/em> (Abingdon) 28 (June 2008): 219\u201338.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Davis, Gerry.  The Today Show: An Anecdotal History<\/em>. New York: Morrow, 1987.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Day, James.  The Vanishing Vision: The Inside Story of Public Television<\/em>.  Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dayan, Daniel, and Elihu Katz.  Media Events: The Live Broadcasting of History<\/em>.  Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1992.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dell, Chad.  \u201cWrestling with Corporate Identity: Defining Television Programming Strategy at NBC, 1945-1950,\u201d in Transmitting the Past: Historical and Cultural Perspectives on Broadcasting<\/em>, J. Emmett Winn and Susan L. Brinson, eds.  (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2005).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Delong, Thomas.  Quiz Craze: American\u2019s Infatuation with Game Shows<\/em>. New York: Praeger, 1991.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Desjardins, Mary R.  Recycled Stars: Female Film Stardom in the Age of Television and Video<\/em>.  Durham: Duke University Press, 2015.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Delmont, Matt. \u201cMaking Philadelphia Safe for \u2018wfil-adelphia\u2019: Television, Housing, and Defensive Localism in Postwar Philadelphia.\u201d Journal of Urban History<\/em> 38 (January 2012): 89\u2013113.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Denton, Robert E.  The Primetime Presidency of Ronald Reagan<\/em>.  Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 2001.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Devlin, Paul. \u201cGood Night, Sweet Blues and the Legacy of Ida Cox: Jazz, Women, and Agency in Route 66<\/em>.\u201d Film & History<\/em> 51:2 (Winter 2021): 30-42.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Diamond, Edwin, and Stephen Bates.  The Spot: The Rise of Political Advertising on Television<\/em>.  Cambridge: MIT Press, 1988.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doherty, Thomas.  \u201cFrank Costello\u2019s Hands: Film, Television, and the Kefauver Crime Hearings.\u201d Film History<\/em> 10:3 (1998): 359-374.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Doherty, Thomas.  Cold War, Cool Medium: Television, McCarthyism, and American Culture<\/em>.  New York: Columbia University Press, 2003.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Donahue, Hugh Carter.  The Battle to Control Broadcast News<\/em>.  Cambridge: MIT Press, 1989.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Donovan, Robert J. Unsilent<\/em> Revolution: Television News and American Public Life, 1948-1991.<\/em> New York: Cambridge University Press, 1992.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Downey, Gregory J. Closed Captioning: Subtitling, Stenography, and the Digital Convergence of Text with Television.  <\/em>Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Downing, Spencer.  \u201cWhat TV Taught: Children\u2019s Television and Consumer Culture from Howdy Doody to Sesame Street.\u201d PhD dissertation, University of North Carolina, 2004.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dunham, Corydon B.  Fighting for the First Amendment: Stanton of CBS vs. Congress and the Nixon White House<\/em>.  Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 1997.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dunn, Mark.  Quizzing America: Television Game Shows and Popular Culture in the 1950s.  <\/em>McFarland, 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Eagan, Eileen.  \u201cOur Town in Cold War America: The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show (1950-1958).\u201d Film & History<\/em> 26:1-4 (1996): 62-70.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Eddy, William C.  Television: The Eyes of Tomorrow<\/em>.  New York: Prentice Hall, 1945.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Edgerton, Gary R. and Peter C. Rollins, eds., Television Histories: Shaping Collective Memory in the Media Age. <\/em>Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2001.*<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Edgerton, Gary.  The Columbia History of American Television<\/em>.  New York: Columbia University Press, 2008.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Edmondson, Marylyn, and David Rounds.  The Soaps: Daytime Serials of Radio and Television<\/em>.  New York: Stein and Day, 1973.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Edwardson, Mickie.  “James Lawrence Fly v. David Sarnoff: Blitzkrieg Over Television.” Journalism History <\/em>25:3 (Summer 1999): 42-52.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Eisenmann, Thomas R.  “The U.S. Cable Television Industry, 1948-1995: Managerial Capitalism in Eclipse.”  Business History Review<\/em> 74 (Spring 2000): 1-40.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ellerbee, Linda.  And So it Goes: Adventures in Television<\/em>.  New York: Putnam, 1987.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ellison, Harlan.  The Glass Teat: Essays of Opinion on the Subject of Television<\/em>.  New York: Ace Books, 1970.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Engelman, Ralph.  “The Origins of Public Access Television, 1966-1972.” Journalism Monographs <\/em>73 (October 1990).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Engelman, Ralph.  Public Radio and Television in America: A Political History.  <\/em>Beverly Hills: Sage Publications, 1996.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Engelman, Ralph.  Friendlyvision<\/em>: Fred Friendly and the Rise and Fall of Television Journalism<\/em>.  New York: Columbia University Press, 2009.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Epstein, Edward J.  News From Nowhere: Television and the News. <\/em>New York: Random House, 1973.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Eschler-Fredenrich, Cristi.  \u201cOral Roberts and the Battle to Access National Network Television.\u201d Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media<\/em> 65:2 (May 2021): 289-310.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Eskridge, Sara K.  Rube Tube: CBS and Rural Comedy in the Sixties<\/em>.  Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Everitt, David.  A Shadow of Red: Communism and the Blacklist in Radio and Television<\/em>. Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2007.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fager, Jeff.  Fifty Years of<\/em> 60 Minutes: The Inside Story of Television\u2019s Most Influential News Broadcast.<\/em>  New York: Simon & Schuster, 2017.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Falk, Andrew J.  \u201cReading Between the Lines: Negotiating National Identity on American Television, 1945-1960. Diplomatic History<\/em> 28:2 (2004): 197-225.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fay, Jennifer.  \u201cAtomic Screen Test.\u201d  Modernism\/Modernity<\/em> 23:3 (September 2016): 611-630.    1952 broadcast of atomic test<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fickers, Andreas, and Catherine Johnson. \u201cTransnational Television History: A Comparative Approach.\u201d  Media History<\/em> (Abingdon) 16 (February 2010): 1\u201311.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fisher, David E. and Marshall Jon Fisher, Tube: The Invention of Television. <\/em> Washington DC: Counterpoint, 1996.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fisher, Heather Elise. \u201cMythologizing Charles Van Doren: The 1950s, the Media, and the Making of Cultural Memory.\u201d PhD dissertation, University of Pittsburgh, 2011.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fitzgerald, Michael Ray. \u201cTelevision Westerns, Termination, and Public Relations: An Analysis of the ABC Series Broken Arrow<\/em>, 1956-1958.\u201d Film & History <\/em>41, no. 1 (2011): 48\u201370. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fitzgerald, Michael Ray.  \u201cThe White Savior and His Junior Partner: The Lone Ranger and Tonto on Cold War Television (1949-1957).\u201d Journal of Popular Culture<\/em> 46:1 (February 2013): 79-108.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fitzgerald, Michael Ray. Native Americans on Network TV: Stereotypes, Myths, and the \u201cGood Indian.\u201d<\/em>  Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield, 2013. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fitzgerald, Michael Ray.  \u201cThe Indianized White Man and the Anglicized Indian: Imperial and Anti-Imperial Discourse in NBC\u2019s Daniel Boone<\/em>, 1964-1970.\u201d Journal of American Culture<\/em> 37:3 (September 2014): 281-289.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Flach, Kate L. \u201cAmerica\u2019s Nervous Breakdown: Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman<\/em>, Popular Psychology, and the Demise of the Housewife in the 1970s.\u201d Journal of 20th<\/sup> Century Media History<\/em> 1:1 (2023): 3-29.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Foley, Karen Sue.  The Political Blacklist in the Broadcasting Industry: The Decade of the 1950s<\/em>.  New York: Arno Press, 1979.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Foote, Joe S. Television Access and Political Power: The Networks, the Presidency, and the Loyal Opposition<\/em>. New York: Praeger, 1990.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fordan, Robert C., and Todd M. Schaefer. \u201cAn Overlooked Campaign Pioneer?: Thomas Dewey and Television in the 1950 New York Governor\u2019s Race.\u201d New York History<\/em> 100, no. 2 (2019): 209\u2013227.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Forman, Murray.  One Night on TV is Worth Weeks at the Paramount: Popular Music on Early Television<\/em>.  Durham: Duke University Press, 2012.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Forr, James. \u201cCommercial Television Arrives in Missouri: The Birth of ksd-tv in St. Louis.\u201d Missouri Historical Review<\/em> 105 (July 2011): 233\u2013244.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Foust, James C. and Katherine A. Bradshaw.  \u201cSomething for the Boys: Framing Images of Women in Broadcasting<\/em>Magazine in the 1950s.\u201d Journalism History<\/em> 22:2 (Summer 2007): 93-100.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Foust, James C.  \u201cWe Need This Television Just Like Any Other American Citizen: The Battle over Western TV Boosters.\u201d American Journalism<\/em> 35:1 (Winter 2018): 27-49.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Foust, James C. \u201cThe Paternalistic Eye: Senator Edwin Johnson and the U.S. Television Freeze.\u201d Historical Journal of Film, Radio, and Television <\/em>38:3 (2018): 584-602.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Frank, Reuven.  Out of Thin Air<\/em>.  New York: Simon and Schuster, 1996.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fraterrigo, Elizabeth. “Betty Friedan\u2019s \u2018Monsters in the Kitchen\u2019: Women Watching Television in the 1960s.” Journal of Women’s History<\/em> 37, no. 2 (2025): 93-114.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Friendly, Fred.  Due to Circumstances Beyond Our Control<\/em>.  New York: Random House, 1967.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Friendly, Fred W.  \u201cThe Unselling of \u2018The Selling of the Pentagon.\u201d Harpers<\/em> (June 1971): 30-<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fuller, Linda K.  Community Television in the United States: A Sourcebook on Public, Educational, and Governmental Access<\/em>. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1994.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fuller-Seeley, Kathryn.  \u201cWell!\u2019  Jack Benny\u2019s Unperformative Performance in His Transition from Radio to Television.\u201d  Journal of Film & Video<\/em> 68:3 \/4 (Fall\/Winter 2016): 18-29.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Galili, Doron.  Seeing by Electricity: The Emergence of Television, 1878-1939<\/em>.  Durham: Duke University Press, 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gans, Herbert. Deciding What’s News. <\/em>New York: Pantheon, 1979.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gates, Gary Paul.  Air Time: The Inside Story of CBS News<\/em>.  New York: Harper & Row, 1978.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gauger, Michael.  \u201cFlickering Images: Live Television Coverage and Viewership of the Army\u2013McCarthy Hearings.\u201d  Historian<\/em> 67 (Winter 2005): 678\u201393.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Getz Rouse, Morleen.  \u201cA History of the F. W. Ziv Radio and Television Production and Syndication Companies, 1930-1960.\u201d  PhD dissertation, University of Michigan, 1976. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gitlin, Todd.  Inside Prime Time, <\/em>revised edition. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gitlin, Todd., ed., Watching Television. <\/em>New York: Pantheon, 1986.* <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Godfrey, Donald G. \u201cCBS World News Roundup: Setting the Stage for the Next Half Century.\u201d American Journalism<\/em> 7, no. 3 (1990): 164\u201372.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Godfrey, Donald G.  Philo T. Farnsworth: The Father of Television<\/em>.  Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2001.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Godfrey, Donald G., and Susan L. Brinson, eds.  Routledge Reader on Electronic Media History<\/em>.   New York: Routledge, 2015.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Goldenson, Leonard, and Marvin J. Wolf.  Beating the Odds: The Untold Story Behind the Rise of ABC<\/em>.  New York: Scribner’s, 1991.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Goldstein, Leigh.  \u201cDesigning Women!<\/em>  Space, Affect, and Femininity in Postwar American Public Affairs Television.\u201d Critical Studies in Television<\/em> 9:2 (Summer 2014): 39-53.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gomery, Douglas. \u201cRethinking TV History.\u201d\u00a0Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly<\/em>\u00a074:3 (1997): 501-514.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gomery, Douglas. \u201cRethinking Television Historiography.\u201d Film & History<\/em> 30:2 (2000): 17-28.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gomery, Douglas.  \u201cFinding TV\u2019s Pioneering Audiences.\u201d Journal of Popular Film & Television<\/em> 29:3 (Fall 2001): 121-129.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gomery, Douglas.  A History of Broadcasting in the United States<\/em>.  New York: Wiley, 2008.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gottfried, Erika. “\u2018TWU ON TV!\u2019 \u2013 The Transport Workers\u2019 Union and Television in the Early 1950s and 1960s.” Film History: An International Journal<\/em> 20, no. 4 (2008): 508-512.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gould, Lewis L., ed.  Watching Television Come of Age: The New York Times Reviews of Jack Gould<\/em>.  Austin: University of Texas Press, 2002.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Graham, Allison.  Framing the South: Hollywood, Television, and the Civil Rights Struggle<\/em>.  Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gray, Herman.  Watching Race: Television and the Struggle for Blackness<\/em>.  Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1995.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Griese, Noel L. \u201cRosser Reeves and the 1952 Eisenhower TV Spot Blitz.\u201d Journal of Advertising<\/em> 4, no. 4 (1975): 34\u201338.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Grieves, Kevin.  \u201cA New Age of Diplomacy: International Satellite Television and Town Meeting of the World<\/em>.\u201d  Journalism History<\/em> 40 (Summer 2014): 98-107.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Grossman, Gary H.  Saturday Morning TV<\/em>.  New York: Arlington House, 1987.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gunther, Marc.  The House that Roone Built: The Inside Story of ABC News<\/em>.  Boston: Little, Brown, 1994.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hall, Nick.  Zoomar: Frack G. Back and the Postwar Television Zoom Lens.\u201d Technology and Culture<\/em> 57:2 (2016): 353-379.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hallin, Daniel C. We Keep America on Top of the World: Television Journalism and the Public Sphere. <\/em>London: Routledge, 1994.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hamamoto, Darrell Y.  Nervous Laughter: Television Situation Comedy and Liberal Democracy<\/em>.  New York: Praeger, 1989.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hammond, Charles M., Jr.  The Image Decade: Television Documentary, 1965-1975<\/em>.  New York: Hastings House, 1981.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Han, Benjamin M.  Beyond the Black and White TV: Asian and Latin American Spectacle in Cold War America<\/em>.  New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hanni, Adrian.  \u201cA Chance for a Propaganda Coup? The Reagan Administration and The<\/em> Day After<\/em> (1983).\u201d  Historical Journal of Film, Radio & Television<\/em> 36:3 (2016): 415-435.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Haralovich, Mary Beth, and Laren Rabinovitz, eds.  Television, History, and American Culture: Feminist Critical Essays<\/em>.  Durham: Duke University Press, 1999.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hawes, William.  American Television Drama: The Early Years<\/em>.  Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1986.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hay, Peter.  Canned Laughter: The Best Stories from Radio and Television<\/em>. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Haywood, Ian. \u201cFathers and Sons: Locating the Absent Mother in 1960s Children\u2019s Television Series.\u201d Critical Survey<\/em> 6, no. 2 (1994): 195\u2013201.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hawes, William.  Filmed Television Drama, 1952-1958<\/em>.  Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2002.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Heffelfinger, Elizabeth. \u201cForeign Policy, Domestic Fiction: Government-Sponsored Documentaries and Network Television Promote the Marshall Plan at Home.\u201d Historical Journal of Film, Radio, and Television<\/em>28 (March 2008): 1\u201321.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Heflin, Kristin. \u201cThe Future Will be Televised: Newspaper Industry Voices and the Rise of Television News.\u201d  American Journalism<\/em> 27:2 (Spring 2010): 87-110.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Heitner, Devorah. \u201cBlack Power TV: A Cultural History of Black Public Affairs Television, 1968\u20131980.\u201d  PhD dissertation, Northwestern University, 2007.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hendershot, Heather.  When the News Broke: Chicago 1968 and the Polarizing of America<\/em>. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2022.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Henderson, Felicia D.  \u201cThe Culture Behind Closed Doors: Issues of Gender and Race in the Writers\u2019 Room.\u201d Cinema Journal<\/em> 50:2 (Winter 2011): 145-152.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Henson, Robert.  Weather on the Air: A History of Broadcast Meteorology<\/em>.  Boston: American Meteorological Society, 2010.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hersey, Curt.  \u201cNBC\u2019s That Was the Week that Was as Proto-News Parody in the Network Era.\u201d Journal of Film, Radio, and Television <\/em>38:3 (2018): 603-621<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hess, Gary Newton.  An Historical Study of the DuMont Television Networ<\/em>k.  New York: Arno Press, 1979.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Higby, Mary Jane.  Tune in Tomorrow<\/em>.  New York: Cowles, 1968.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hoerschelmann, Olaf.  Rules of the Game: Quiz Shows and American Culture<\/em>.  Albany: State University of New York Press, 2006.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Holland, Travis A.  \u201cFrom Apollo to the ISS: The Televisual Image in Human Spaceflight.\u201d Television & New Media<\/em> 25:1 (2024): 57-73.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Horwitz, Jonah.  \u201cVisual Style in the \u2018Golden Age\u2019 Anthology Drama: The Case of CBS.\u201d Cinemas<\/em> 23:2\/3 (2013): 39-68.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Howard, Herbert H.  \u201cTelevision Station Ownership in the United States: A Comprehensive Study (1940-2005).\u201d  Journalism and Communication Monographs<\/em> 8:1 (Spring 2006).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hrach, Thomas J.\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cAn Incitement to Riot: Television\u2019s Role in the Civil Disorders in the\u00a0Summer\u00a0of 1967.\u201d\u00a0Journalism History<\/em>\u00a037: 3 (Fall 2011): 163-171.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hughes, Kit. “Reconsidering the Network Era: 16mm Film on Television.”\u00a0Journal of Cinema and Media Studies<\/em>\u00a062, no. 2 (2023): 177-182.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hutchison, Phillip J, and Richard V. Birley. \u201cMarshal J and Cap\u2019n Ken: The Lost History of Local Television in Fifties America.\u201d  Historical Journal of Film, Radio, and Television <\/em>28:3 (August 2008): 371-390.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hutchison, Phillip, J. \u201cTransmitters, Antennas, and Rituals: Constructing Television Communities in Illinois, 1949\u20131975.\u201d Journal of Illinois History<\/em> 14 (Spring 2011): 21\u201340.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hutchison, Phillip J. \u201cMagic Windows and the Serious Life: Rituals and Community in Early American Local Television.\u201d Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media<\/em> 56 (January 2012): 21\u201337.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hutchison, Phillip J. \u201cRemembering Local Entertainment Television: Video Rituals and the Exemplary Recurrences of Mid-20th<\/sup> Century America.\u201d Journal of Popular Culture<\/em> 48:6 (2015): 1171-1192.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hutchinson, Thomas H.  Here is Television, Your Window on the World<\/em>.  New York: Hastings House, 1948.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ignatieff, Michael. \u201cIs Nothing Sacred? The Ethics of Television.\u201d Daedalus<\/em> 114, no. 4 (1985): 57\u201378. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ilson, Bernie.  Sundays with Sullivan: How the Ed Sullivan Show Brought Elvis, the Beatles, and Culture to America<\/em>.  Lanham, MD: Two Trade Publishing, 2009.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Inglis, Andrew F.  Behind the Tube: A History of Broadcasting Technology and Business<\/em>.  Boston: Focal, 1990.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Inglis, Ian.  \u201cThe Ed Sullivan Show<\/em> and the (Censored) Sounds of the Sixties.\u201d  Journal of Popular Culture<\/em> 39 (September 2006): 558\u201375.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Inman, David.  Television Variety Shows: Histories and Episode Guides to 57 Programs<\/em>.  Jefferson: McFarland, 2006.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Inman, David.  Louisville Television<\/em>.  Mt. Pleasant, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 2010.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jack, Caroline. \u201cProducing Milton Friedman\u2019s Free to Choose<\/em>: How Libertarian Ideology Became Broadcasting Balance.\u201d Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media<\/em> 62:3 (September 2018): 514-530.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jaramillo, Deborah.  The Television Code: Regulating the Screen to Safeguard the Industry<\/em>.  Austin: University of Texas Press, 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Johnson, Thomas C.  \u201cTelevision, Pro Football, and Mobile Privatization, 1939-1970.\u201d Historical Journal of Film, Radio & Television<\/em> 41:2 (June 2021): 338-353.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jowett, Garth.  “Dangling the Dream?  The Presentation of Television to the American Public, 1928-1952.”  Historical Journal of Film, Radio, and Television<\/em> 14:2 (!994): 121-145.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kaiserman, Adam. \u201cThe Book and the Box: Postwar Literature and Cultural Regulation in the Age of Television.\u201d PhD dissertation, University of California, Irvine, 2011.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kamick, Kilsilne Brunovska. \u201cNBC and the Innovation of Television News, 1945-1953.\u201d Journalism History 15:1 (Spring 1988): 26-34.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kaplan, E. Ann, ed.  Regarding Television: Critical Approaches- An Anthology<\/em>.  Frederick, MD: University Publications of America, 1983.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Katz, Elihu.  \u201cMedia Events: The Sense of Occasion.\u201d Studies in Visual Communication<\/em> 6:3 (Fall 1980): 84-89.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kessler, Kelly.  \u201cBroadway in a Box: Television\u2019s Infancy and the Cultural Cachet of the Great White Way.\u201d  Journal of Popular Music Studies<\/em> 25:3 (September 2013): 349-370.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kibler, M. Alison. \u201cBlack Feminists on Television in the 1970s.\u201d Frontiers<\/em> 44:1 (2023): 80-109.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

King, R. W. \u201cThe Wonders of Television.\u201d Current History <\/em>26, no. 3 (1927): 450\u2013455.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kirkpatrick, Bill.  \u201cBringing Blue Skies Down to Earth: Citizen Policy Making in Negotiations for Cable Television, 1965-1975.\u201d Television & New Media<\/em> 13:4 (2012): 307-328.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kiska, Tim.  A Newscast for the Masses: The History of Detroit Television News<\/em>.  Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2009.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kisseloff, Jeff.  The Box: An Oral History of Television, 1920-1961<\/em>.  New York: Penguin, 1995.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Klik, Ella.  \u201cWe Should Have Had a Historian: Live Television and the Accident of the Moon Landing Tapes.\u201d Television & New Media<\/em> 22:7 (November 2021): 799-814.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Knopf, Terry Ann.  The Golden Age of Boston Television<\/em>.  Lebanon, NH: University Press of New England, 2017.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Koenig, Allen E., ed.  Broadcasting and Bargaining: Labor Relations in Radio and Television<\/em>.  Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1970.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kovacs, Peter.  \u201cI Love Lucy<\/em>, Single Sponsorship, and Marketing Communication.\u201d Journal of Cinematic and Media Studies<\/em> 61:2 (Winter 2022): 110-137.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Krampner, Jon.  \u201cThe Case of the Fourth Network: The Rise and Fall of DuMont Television.\u201d  Media History Digest<\/em> 10:2 (Fall-Winter 1990): 32-40.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kraszewski, Jon.  \u201cAdapting Scripts in the 1950s: The Economic and Political Incentives for Television Anthology Writers.\u201d  Journal of Film and Video<\/em> 58 (Fall 2006): 3\u201321.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kutulas, Judy.  Sitcom Mom: The Evolution of a Classic Television Character<\/em>.  Lanham: Lexington Books, 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kutulas, Judy. “Pearls and All”: June Cleaver, Symbol and Myth.” Journal of 20th Century Media History <\/em>2:1 (Summer 2024): 3-22.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

LaFollette, Marcel C.  Science on American Television: A History<\/em>.  Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2013.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lambe, Jennifer. \u201cThe Revolution\u2019s Fourth Face on the Fourth Network: Feuding over Cuba on U.S. Educational Television, 1959-1970.\u201d Journal of American History<\/em> 107:3 (December 2020): 636-657.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lashner, Marilyn A. The Chilling Effect in Television News: Intimidation by the Nixon White House<\/em>. New York: Praeger, 1984.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ledbetter, James.  Made Possible By\u2026: The Death of Public Broadcasting in the United States.  <\/em>New York: Verso, 1997.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

LeMahieu, D.L.  \u201cEric Sevareid and the Emotional Registers of Liberal Masculinity.\u201d Gender & History<\/em> 35:1 (March 2023): 287-304. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lehman, Christopher P.  American Cartoons in the Vietnam Era: A Study of Social Commentary in Films and Television Programs, 1961-1973<\/em>.  Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2006.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lehman, Christopher P.  A Critical History of Soul Train on Television. <\/em> Jefferson: McFarland & Company, 2008.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lehman, Christopher P.  \u201cHuck (Hound) and Jim (Crow): Syndicated Television Cartoons and Southern Segregation.\u201d Film & History<\/em> 50: 1 (Summer 2020): 4-14.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Leibman, Nina C.  Living Room Lectures: The Fifties Family in Film and Television<\/em>.  Austin: University of Texas Press, 1995.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Leonhirth, William J. \u201cSelling Cable Television in the 1970s and 1980s: Social Dreams and Business Schemes.\u201d American Journalism<\/em> 15, no. 4 (1998): 95\u2013124.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Levine, Elana.  Wallowing in Sex: The New Sexual Culture of 1970s American Television<\/em>.  Durham: Duke University Press, 2007.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Levine, Elana. Her Stories: Daytime Soap Opera and US Television History<\/em>. Durham: Duke University Press, 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lezma, John W.  The Big Picture: The Cold War on the Small Screen<\/em>.  Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2021.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lichty, Larry.  \u201cFactual Television in America: An Analysis of Network Television Documentary Programs, 1948-1975.\u201d PhD dissertation, University of Wisconsin, 1978.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lind, Rebecca Ann.  \u201cDifferent Paths, Different Voices: The Historical Contexts of Women\u2019s and Minorities\u2019 Access to Broadcasting.\u201d  Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media <\/em>62:1 (March 2018): 168-182.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lineberry, William P., ed.  Mass Communications<\/em>.  New York: H.W. Wilson, 1969. (tv)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lisby, Gregory C.  “Early Television on Public Watch: Kefauver and His Crime Investigation.”  Journalism Quarterly<\/em> 62 (1985): 236-42.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Liseblad, Madeleine.  \u201cClearing a Path for Television News.\u201d  Journalism History<\/em> 42:4 (Winter 2017): 182-190.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lockman, Brian, and Don Sarvey.  Pioneers of Cable Television: The Pennsylvania Founders of an Industry<\/em>.  Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2005.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Londino, Cathleen M.  The Today Show: Transforming Morning Television<\/em>.  Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2016.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lopate, Carol. \u201cDaytime Television: You\u2019ll Never Want to Leave Home.\u201d Feminist Studies<\/em> 3, no. 3\/4 (1976): 69\u201382.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Love, Ruth L.  \u201cTelevision and the Death of a President: Network Decisions in Covering Collective Events.\u201d  PhD dissertation, Columbia University, 1969.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lowe, Carl, ed.  Television and American Culture<\/em>.  New York: H.W. Wilson, 1981.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lowry, Dennis T.  \u201cAgnew and the Network TV News: A Before\/After Content Analysis.\u201d Journalism Quarterly<\/em> 48:2 (1971): 205-210.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lucht, Tracy, and Chunyu Zhang. \u201cTelevision\u2019s Closet Revolutionary: Mary Jane Odell and Her Fight for Public Affairs Programming.\u201d American Journalism<\/em> 34:2 (2017): 132-151.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

McCabe, Peter.  Bad News at Black Rock: The Sellout of CBS News<\/em>.  New York: Arbor House, 1987.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

McCarthy, Anna.  \u201cThe Front Row is Reserved for Scotch Drinkers: Early Television\u2019s Tavern Audience.\u201d  Cinema Journal<\/em> 34:4 (Summer 1995): 31-49.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

McClure, Daniel R. \u201c\u2018Have You Understood Anything I\u2019ve Said?\u2019: The Dick Cavett Show<\/em>, Jimi Hendrix, and the Framing of the Black Counterculture in 1969.\u201d The Sixties: A Journal of History, Politics, and Culture<\/em> 5 (June 2012): 23\u201346.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

McCracken, Chelsea. \u201cRegulating Swish: Early Television Censorship.\u201d Media History<\/em> 19 (August 2013): 354\u2013368.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

McEnteer, James.  Shooting the Truth: The Rise of American Political Documentaries<\/em>.  Westport: Praeger, 2006.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

McMurria, John.  Republic on the Wire: Cable Television, Pluralism, and the Politics of New Technologies, 1948-1984<\/em>.  New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2017.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

MacDonald, J. Fred.  Who Shot the Sheriff? The Rise and Fall of the Television Western<\/em>.  Westport: Praeger, 1986.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

MacDonald, J. Fred.  One Nation Under Television: The Rise and Decline of Network Television<\/em>.  New York: Pantheon, 1990.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

MacDonald, J. Fred.  Blacks and White TV: African Americans in Television Since 1948<\/em>.  2nd ed.  Chicago: Nelson Hall, 1992.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

MacKenzie, S. P.  \u201cStructural Failure: The Steve Canyon Television Series (1958-1959).\u201d Historical Journal of Film, Radio, and Television<\/em> 42:2 (2022): 311-327.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

MacNeil, Robert.  The People Machine: The Influence of Television on American Politics<\/em>.  New York: Harper & Row, 1968.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Madsen, Axel.\u00a0\u00a060 Minutes: The Power and Politics of America’s Most Popular News Show<\/em>.\u00a0 New York: Dodd, Mead, 1984.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Markusen, Bruce.\u00a0 Hosted Horror on Television: The Films and Faces of Shock Theater, Creature Features, and Chiller Theater<\/em>.\u00a0 Jefferson: McFarland, 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Marc, David.  Democratic Vistas: Television in American Culture. <\/em>Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1996.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Marc, David.  Television in the Antenna Age: A Concise History<\/em>.  New York: Wiley-Blackwell, 2005.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Marling, Karal Ann.  As Seen on TV: The Visual Culture of Everyday Life in the Fifties<\/em>.  Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1994.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Marron, Jeff.  \u201cMurrow on TV: See it Now, Person to Person, and the Making of a \u2018Masscult Personality.\u2019\u201d  Journalism Monographs<\/em> 106 (July 1988).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Marquis, Elizabeth.  \u201cAn Individualist, Just Like the Rest of Us: The Performance of Hegemonic Masculinities in \u2018The Case of Milo Radulovich.\u2019\u201d  Journal of Film and Video<\/em> 66:1 (Spring 2014): 39-51.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mascaro, Thomas A. \u201cThe Peril of an Unheeded Warning: Robert F. Rogers\u2019 Vietnam: It\u2019s a Mad War<\/em>.\u201d Journalism History<\/em> 28:4 (Winter 2003):182-190.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mascaro, Thomas A.  \u201cThe Chilling Effect of Politics: CBS News and Documentaries during the Fin-Syn Debate in the Reagan Years\u201d  American<\/em> Journalism<\/em> 22 (Fall 2005): 69\u201397.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mascaro, Tom. Into the Fray: How NBC\u2019s Washington Documentary Unit Reinvented the News<\/em>.  Dulles, VA: Potomac Books, 2012.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mascaro, Thomas A. \u201cThe Blood of Others: Television Documentary Journalism as Literary Engagement.\u201d American Journalism<\/em> 35:2 (Spring 2018): 171-195.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mashon, Michael.  \u201cNBC, J. Walter Thompson, and the Evolution of Prime-Time TV Programming and Sponsorship, 1946-1958.\u201d PhD dissertation, University of Maryland-College Park, 1996.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Matusow, Barbara.  The Evening Stars: The Making of the Network News Anchor<\/em>.  Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1983.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mauk, Maureen.  \u201cPolitics is Everybody\u2019s Business: Resurrecting Faye Emerson, America\u2019s Forgotten First Lady of Television.\u201d  Journal of Cinema and Media Studies<\/em> 59:4 (Summer 2020): 129-152.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meltzer, Kimberly. \u201cIrreconcilable Differences: An Analysis of Television\u2019s Difficult Marriage with Journalism as Seen through the Role of Its Anchors, 1950\u20132006.\u201d  PhD dissertation, University of Pennsylvania, 2007.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Merron, Jeff.  “Murrow on TV: See it Now<\/em>, Person to Person<\/em> and the Making of a ‘Masscult’ Personality.”  Journalism Monographs<\/em> 106 (July 1988).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Metress, Christopher.  \u201cSubmitted for Their Approval: Rod Serling and the Lynching of Emmett Till.\u201d  Mississippi Quarterly<\/em> 61: 1\/ 2 (2008): 143-172.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Metz, Robert.  CBS: Reflections in a Bloodshot Eye<\/em>.  Chicago: Playboy Press, 1975.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meyers, Cynthia B. \u201cInside a Broadcasting Blacklist: Kraft Television Theatre, 1951-1955.\u201d Journal of American History<\/em>105:3 (December 2018): 589-616.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mickelson, Sig.  The Decade That Shaped Television News: CBS in the 1950s<\/em>.  Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 1998.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Miller, Cynthia J., and A Bowdoin Riper, eds.  1950s Rocketman TV Series and Their Fans: Cadets, Rangers, and Junio Space Men<\/em>.  New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Miller, Quinlan.  Camp TV: Trans Gender Queer Sitcom History<\/em>.  Durham: Duke University Press, 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mitchell, Pama A.  \u201cThe Response of the Broadcasting and Advertising Trade Press to Television Blacklisting Practices.\u201d  Mass Communication Review<\/em> 16 (1989): 63-69.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mock, Erin Lee.  \u201cThe Horror of \u2018Honey, I\u2019m Home\u2019: The Perils of Postwar Family Love in the Domestic Sitcom.\u201d Film & History<\/em> 41:2 (Fall 2011): 29-50.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mock, Erin Lee.  \u201cThe Soap Opera is a Hell of an Exciting Form: Norman Lear\u2019s Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman <\/em>and the 1970s Viewer.\u201d Camera Obscura<\/em> 28 (2013): 108-149.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Morgan Parmett, Helen.  \u201cTelevision for the Peace Arch Country: Transnational Broadcasting History in the Pacific Northwest.\u201d Television and New Media<\/em> 21:5 (July 2020): 510-529.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mullen, Megan. \u201cThe Pre-history of Pay Cable Television: An Overview and Analysis.\u201d Historical Journal of Film, Radio, and Television<\/em> 19:1 (March 1999): 39-56.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mullen, Megan.  The Rise of Cable Programming in the United States: Revolution or Evolution?<\/em>  Austin: University of Texas Press, 2003.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mullen, Morgan.  Television in the Multichannel Age: A Brief History of Cable Television<\/em>.  New York: Wiley, 2008.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Murphy, Caryn. \u201cThe Continuing Story: Experiments with Serial Narratives in 1960s Prime Time Television.\u201d Journal of Screenwriting<\/em> 5:3 (2014): 381-392.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Murphy, Caryn.  \u201cBlack Panthers in Peyton Place<\/em>: Integrating the Prime-Time Serial.\u201d Media History<\/em> 26:2 (2020): 185-198.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Murray, Matthew.  \u201cNBC Program Clearance Policies During the 1950s: Nationalizing Trends and Regional Resistance.\u201d  Velvet Light Trap<\/em> 33 (Spring 1994): 37-48.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Murray, Michael D.  The Political Performers: CBS Broadcasts in the Public Interest<\/em>.  Westport, CT: Praeger, 1994.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Murray, Michael D., and Donald G. Godfrey, eds.  Television in America: Local Station History from Across the Nation<\/em>. Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1997.*<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Murray, Michael D.  Encyclopedia of Television News<\/em>.  Phoenix: Oryx Press, 1999.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Murray, Susan. \u201cEthnic Masculinity and Early Television\u2019s Video Star.\u201d Cinema Journal<\/em> 42:1 (Fall 2002): 97-119.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Murray, Susan.  Hitch Your Antenna to the Stars: Early Television and Broadcast Stardom<\/em>.  New York: Routledge, 2005.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Murray, Susan.  Bright Signals: A History of Color Television<\/em>.  Durham: Duke University Press, 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Murray, Susan.  \u201cThe New Surgical Amphitheater: Color Television and Medical Education in Postwar America.\u201d Technology and Culture<\/em> 61:3 (July 2020): 772-797.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Murrow, Edward R., and Fred W. Friendly, eds.  See It Now<\/em>.  New York: Simon and Schuster, 1955.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nachman, Gerald.  Right Here on Our Stage: Ed Sullivan\u2019s America<\/em>.  Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nadel, Alan.  Television in Black-and-White America: Race and National Identity<\/em>.  Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2005.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nadel, Alan.  \u201cCold War Television and the Technology of Brainwashing,\u201d in Douglas Field, ed.  American Cold War Culture<\/em>.  Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2005.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Napoli, Linda.  Up All Night: Ted Turner, CNN, and the Birth of 24-Hour News<\/em>.  New York: Abrams, 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Neuwirth, Allan.  They\u2019ll Never Get That on the Air: An Oral History of Taboo-Breaking Comedy<\/em>. New York: Allworth, 2006.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Newbold, Kate. \u201c\u2018History as It\u2019s Made\u2019: The Popular Practice of TV Photography in the Postwar Era.\u201d Velvet Light Trap<\/em> 71 (Spring 2013): 59\u201369.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Newcomb, Horace, ed.  Television: The Critical View<\/em>.  New York: Oxford University Press, 1987.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Newman, Michael Z.  Video Revolutions: On the History of a Medium. <\/em> New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 2014.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Newton Hess, Gary.  \u201cAn Historical Study of the DuMont Television Network.\u201d  PhD dissertation, Northwestern University, 1960.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Niebling, Laura.  \u201cThe Broadcasted Operating Room: Early Medical Television as a Telemedicine Device in the United States, 1939-1960.\u201d Media History (June 2024): 1-15.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Noriega, Chon.  Shot in America: Television, the State, and the Rise of the Chicano Cinema<\/em>. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Novotny, Patrick. \u201cThe Impact of Television on Georgia, 1948\u20131952.\u201d Georgia Historical Quarterly <\/em>91 (Fall 2007): 324\u201347. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

O’Connor, John E., ed.  American History\/ American Television: Interpreting the Video Past<\/em>.  New York: Frederick Ungar, 1983.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

O\u2019Connor, John E. \u201cAHR Forum: History in Images\/Images in History: Reflections on the Importance of Film and Television Study for Understanding the Past.\u201d  American Historical Review<\/em> 93:5 (December 1988): 1200-1209.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

O\u2019Dell, Cary.  Women Pioneers in Television<\/em>.  Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 1997.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Okuda, Ted, and Jack Mulqueen.\u00a0\u00a0The Golden Age of Chicago Children\u2019s Television<\/em>. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2016.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Okuda, Ted.\u00a0 Chicago TV Horror Movie Shows: From Shock Theater to Svengoolie<\/em>.\u00a0 Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2016.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Opotowski, Stan.  TV, the Big Picture<\/em>.  New York: Collier Books, 1962.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Overpeck, Deron.  \u201cIs This Pay-TV to Be the End of Us?: Film Exhibitors Confront Pay Television, 1968-76.\u201d The Moving Image<\/em> 12:2 (Fall 2012): 2-40.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ozersky, Josh.  Archie Bunker\u2019s America: TV in an Era of Change, 1968\u20131978<\/em>. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2003.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ozmun, David. \u201cOpportunity Deferred: A 1952 Case Study of a Woman in Network Television News.\u201d Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media<\/em> 52 (March 2008): 1\u201315.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Paletz, David L., and Martha Elson. \u201cTelevision Coverage of Presidential Conventions: Now You See It, Now You Don\u2019t.\u201d Political Science Quarterly<\/em> 91, no. 1 (1976): 109\u2013131. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Parsons, Patrick R.  Blue Skies: A History of Cable Television<\/em>.  Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2008.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Patnode, Randall.  \u201cGoing Places: Mobility, Domesticity, and the Portrayal of Television in New Yorker<\/em> Cartoons, 1945-1959.\u201d  Media History Monographs<\/em> 13:1 (2011): 1-15.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Patterson, Thomas E., and Robert D. McClure.  The Unseeing Eye: The Myth of Television Power in National Politics<\/em>. New York: Putnam, 1976.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Paul, Andrew.  \u201cReassessing Blacklist Era Television: Civil Libertarianism in You Are There<\/em>, The Adventures of Robin Hood<\/em>, and The Buccaneers<\/em>.\u201d  American Studies<\/em> 54:1 (2015): 29-52.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Paul, Eugene.  The Hungry Eye: An Inside Look at TV<\/em>.  New York: Ballantine Books, 1962.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pavlounis, Dimitrios.  \u201cOscar\u2019s Close-Up: Producing the Live Television Broadcast of the 25th<\/sup> Academy Awards.\u201d Historical Journal of Film, Radio & Television<\/em> 38:2 (June 2018): 378-397.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pennock, Pamela.  \u201cTelevising Sin: Efforts to Restrict the Televised Advertisement of Cigarettes and Alcohol in the United States, 1950s to 1980s.\u201d  Historical Journal of Film, Radio, and Television<\/em> 25 (October 2005): 619\u201336.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Perlman, Allison.  Public Interests: Media Advocacy and Struggles Over U.S. Television<\/em>.  New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2016.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Perlmutter, David.  America Toons In: A History of Television Animation. <\/em> Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, 2014.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pickard, Victor.  \u201cA Social Democratic Vision of Media: Toward a Radical Pre-History of Public Broadcasting.\u201d  Journal of Radio & Audio Media<\/em> 24:2 (November 2017): 200-212.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pierce, David. \u201c\u2018Senile Celluloid\u2019: Independent Exhibitors, the Maior Studios and the Fight over Feature Films on Television, 1939-1956.\u201d Film History<\/em> 10, no. 2 (1998): 141\u2013164.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Podber, Jacob J.  \u201cTelevision\u2019s Arrival in the Appalachian Mountains of the USA: An Oral History.\u201d  Media History<\/em> 14 (April 2008): 35\u201352.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pondillo, Robert J.  “Censorship in the Golden Age: Television and America’s First Network Censor, NBC’s Stockton Helffrich.”  PhD dissertation, University of Wisconsin, 2003.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pondillo, Bob.  “Racial Discourse and Censorship on NBC-TV, 1948-1960.”  Journal of Popular Film and Television<\/em> 33 (Summer 2005): 102-114.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pondillo, Robert. America\u2019s First Network TV Censor: The Work of NBC\u2019s Stockton Helffrich<\/em>. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 2010.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Porst, Jennifer. \u201cUnited States v. Twentieth-Century Fox, et. al.<\/em> and Hollywood\u2019s Feature Films in Early Television.\u201d Film History<\/em> 25:4 (2013): 114-142.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Porst, Jennifer.  Broadcasting Hollywood: The Struggle Over Feature Films On Early TV<\/em>.  New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Powe, Lucas A.  American Broadcasting and the First Amendment<\/em>.  Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Powers, Ron.  The Newscasters<\/em>.  New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1977.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Powers, Ron. Supertube<\/em>: The Rise of Television Sports. <\/em>New York: Coward-McCann, 1984.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Press, Andrea.  Women Watching Television:  Gender, Class, and Generation in the American Television Experience<\/em>.  Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1981.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Press, Andrea. \u201cGender and Family in Television\u2019s Golden Age and Beyond.\u201d The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science<\/em> 625 (2009): 139\u2013150.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pride, Richard A., and Barbara Richards.  \u201cDenigration of Authority?  Television News Coverage of the Student Movement.\u201d  Journal of Politics<\/em> 36 (August 1974): 637-660.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Raphael, Chad.  Investigated Reporting: Muckrakers, Regulators, and the Struggle over Television Documentary<\/em>.  Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2005.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rapping, Elaine.  The Movie of the Week: Private Stories, Public Events<\/em>.  Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1992.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Richter, Richard.  \u201cProducing Documentaries For Network Television.\u201d Studies in Visual Communication<\/em> 8:1 (Winter 1982): 55-60.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Riekki, Ron, and Keven J. Wetmore Jr, eds.  The Many Lives of the Twilight Zone: Essays on the Television and Film Franchise<\/em>.  Jefferson: McFarland, 2022. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ritchie, Michael.  Please Stand By: A Prehistory of Television<\/em>.  Woodstock, NY: Overlook, 1994.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Robinson, Mary Jean. \u201cVoice of the City: The Rise and Fall of WNYC-TV.\u201d PhD dissertation, New York University, 2008.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Robinson, Michael J.  \u201cPublic Affairs Television and the Growth of Political Malaise: The Case of \u201cThe Selling of the Pentagon.\u201d  American Political Science Review<\/em> 70 (June 1976): 409-432.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Robinson, Michael J. \u201cTelevision and American Politics: 1956-1976.\u201d Public Interest<\/em>, no. 48 (1977): 3\u201339.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rogers, Jimmie N., and Theodore Clevenger, Jr.  \u201cThe Selling of the Pentagon\u2019: Was CBS the Fulbright Propaganda Machine?\u201d  Quarterly Journal of Speech<\/em> (October 1971): 266-273.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Roberts, Ivy. \u201cDistant Electric Vision: Cultural Representations of Television From Edison\u2019s Telephonoscope to the Electronic Screen.\u201d PhD dissertation, Virginia Commonwealth University, 2017.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Roman, James.  From Daytime to Primetime: The History of American Television Programs<\/em>.  Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2005.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rosenthal, Michele.  American Protestants and TV in the 1950s: Responses to a New Medium<\/em>.  New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2007.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rouse, Morleen Getz.  \u201cA History of F. W. Ziv Radio and Television Syndication Companies, 1930-1960.\u201d  PhD dissertation, University of Michigan, 1976.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rymsza-Pawlowska, Malgorzata J.  \u201cBroadcasting the Past: History Television, \u201cNostalgia Culture,\u201d and the Emergence of the Miniseries in the 1970s United States.\u201d Journal of Popular Film & Television<\/em> 42:2 (2014): 81-90.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Salant, Richard S.  \u201cThe Television Debates: A Revolution That Deserves a Future.\u201d  Public Opinion Quarterly<\/em> 26:3 (Autumn 1962): 335-350.  (CBS executive)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sanders, Marlene and Marcia Rock.  Waiting for Prime Time: The Women of Television News<\/em>.  Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1988.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sanders, Steven M., and Aeon J. Skoble, eds.  The Philosophy of TV Noir<\/em>.  Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2008.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Schaefer, Richard J.  “Reconsidering Harvest of Shame<\/em>: The Limitations of a Broadcast Landmark.”  Journalism History<\/em> 19:4 (Winter 1993):121-132.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Schaefer, Richard J.  \u201cThe Development of the CBS News Guidelines during the Salant Years.\u201d  Journal of Broadcast and Electronic Media<\/em> 42 (1998): 1-20.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scheiner, Georganne. \u201cWould You Like to be Queen for a Day?: Finding a Working Class voice in American Television of the 1950s.\u201d Historical Journal of Film, Radio, and Television <\/em>23:4 (October 2003): 375-388.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Schneider, Molly A.  Gold Dust in the Air: Television Anthology Drama and Midcentury American Culture<\/em>.  Austin: University of Texas Press, 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Schoenbrun, David.  On and Off the Air: An Informal History of CBS News<\/em>. New York: Dutton, 1989.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Schoenfeld, Reese.  Me and Ted Against the World: The Unauthorized Story of the Founding of CNN<\/em>.  New York: Harper Collins, 2001.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Schroeder, Alan.  Presidential Debates: Forty Years of High Risk Television.<\/em>  New York: Columbia University Press, 2000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Schudson, Michael. \u201cThe Politics of Narrative Form: The Emergence of News Conventions in Print and Television.\u201d Daedalus<\/em>111, no. 4 (1982): 97\u2013112. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Schultz, Debra Lauren. \u201cA History of the Television Interview Program in Network Broadcasting in the United States.\u201d PhD dissertation, New York University, 1985.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Schumach, Murray.  The Face on the Cutting Room Floor: The Story of Movie and Television Censorship<\/em>.  New York: William Morrow and Co., 1964.  (1975 reprint also available)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Schwoch, James.  Global TV: New Media and the Cold War, 1946-1969<\/em>.  Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2008.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scott, David K., and Robert H. Gobetz.  “Hard News\/Soft News Content of the National Television Networks, 1972-1987.”  Journalism Quarterly<\/em> 69 (1992): 406-412.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scott, Mack.  \u201cFrom Blackface to Beulah: Subtle Subversion in Early Black Sitcoms.\u201d Journal of Contemporary History<\/em> 49:4 (October 2014): 743-769.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seagrave, Kerry.  Movies at Home: How Hollywood Came to Television<\/em>.  Jefferson: McFarland, 1999. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sebro, Adrien.  Scratchin\u2019 and Survivin\u2019: Hustle Economics and the Black Sitcoms of Tandem Productions<\/em>.  New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2023. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sewell, Philip W.  Television in the Age of Radio: Modernity, Imagination, and the Making of a Medium<\/em>.  New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2014.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Shandler, Jeffrey Alan. \u201cWhile American Watches: Television and the Holocaust in the United States, from 1945 to the Present.\u201d PhD dissertation, Columbia University, 1995.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sharrett, Christopher.  \u201cJack Webb and the Vagaries of Right-Wing TV Entertainment.\u201d Cinema Journal<\/em> 51:4 (Summer 2012): 165-171.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sheehan, Stephen T.  \u201cPow! Right in the Kisser:  Ralph Kramden, Jackie Gleason, and the Emergence of the Frustrated Working-Class Man.\u201d  Journal of Popular Culture<\/em> 43:3 (June 2010): 564-582.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Shiers, George, ed.  Technical Development of Television<\/em>.  New York: Arno Press, 1977.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Shor, Francis. Soupy Sales and the Detroit Experience: Manufacturing a Television Personality<\/em>.  Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Silverman, David S.  \u201cYou Can\u2019t Air That\u2019: Four Cases of Controversy and Censorship in American Television Programming<\/em>.  Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2007.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Simon, Art.  \u201cBroadcasting Jewish Americanism: The American Jewish Community and Live Television in the 1950s.\u201d American Jewish History<\/em> 105:4 (2021): 535-561.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Skornia, Harry J. Television and Society: An Inquest and Agenda for Improvement<\/em>. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1965.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Slater, Robert.  This…Is CBS: A Chronicle of 60 Years<\/em>.  Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1988.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Smith, Anthony. \u201c\u2018Just a Pleasant Way to Spend an Evening\u2019: The Softening Embrace of American Television.\u201d Daedalus<\/em> 107, no. 1 (1978): 195\u2013212.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Smith, Jr., Glenn D.  \u201cThe Guiding Spirit\u201d: Philip Loeb, The Battle for Television Jurisdiction, and the Broadcasting Industry Blacklist.  American Journalism<\/em> 26:3 (Summer 2009): 93-150.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Smith, Myron J., Jr., comp.  U.S. Television Network News: A Guide to Sources in English<\/em>.  Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 1984.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Smoller, Fredric T.  The Six O’Clock Presidency: A Theory of Presidential Press Relations in the Age of Television<\/em>.  Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 1990.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Socolow, Michael J. \u201cAnchors Away: Hunley, Brinkley, and Cronkite and the 1967 AFTRA Strike.\u201d Journalism History<\/em>29:2 (Summer 2003):50-58.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Socolow, Michael J.  \u201c\u2018We Should Make Money on Our News\u2019: The Problem of Profitability in Network Broadcast Journalism History.\u201d Journalism<\/em> 11 (December 2010): 675\u2013691.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Smythe, Dallas W.  \u201cA National Policy on Television?\u201d  Public Opinion Quarterly<\/em> 14:3 (Autumn 1950): 461-474.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Socolow, Michael J. \u201c\u2018We Should Make Money on Our News\u2019: The Problem of Profitability in Network Broadcast Journalism History.\u201d Journalism<\/em> 11:6 (2010): 675\u2013691.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Spigel, Lynn. Make Room for TV: Television and the Ideal Family in American Culture. <\/em>Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Spigel, Lynn and Denise Mann, eds., Private Screenings: Television and the Female Consumer. <\/em>Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1992.*<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Spigel, Lynn and Michael Curtin, eds., The Revolution Wasn’t Televised: Sixties Television and Social Conflict.  <\/em>London: Routledge, 1997.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Spigel, Lynn.  Welcome to the Dreamhouse: Popular Media and Postwar Suburbs<\/em>.  Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2001.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Spigel, Lynn.  TV By Design: Modern Art and the Rise of Network Television<\/em>.  Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Spigel, Lynn.  \u201cBack to the Drawing Board: Graphic Design and the Visual Environment of Television at Midcentury.\u201d  Cinema Journal<\/em> 55:4 (Summer 2016): 28-54.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stadel, Luke. \u201cCable, Pornography, and the Reinvention of Television, 1982\u20131989.\u201d Cinema Journal  53<\/em> (Spring 2014): 52\u201375.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stabile, Carol, and Mark Harrison, eds.  Prime Time Animation: Television Animation and American Culture.<\/em>  New York: Routledge, 2003.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stabile, Carol A.  The Broadcast 41: Women and the Anti-Communist Blacklist<\/em>. London: Goldsmiths Press, 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stadel, Luke. \u201cCable, Pornography, and the Reinvention of Television, 1982-1989.\u201d Cinema Journal<\/em> 53, no. 3 (2014): 52\u201375.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stavitsky, Alan G.  \u201cCounting the House in Public Television: A History of Ratings Use, 1953-1980.\u201d  Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media<\/em> 42:4 (Fall 1998): 520-535.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stedman, Raymond William. \u201cA History of the Broadcasting of Daytime Serial Dramas in the United States.\u201d PhD dissertation, University of Southern California, 1959.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stein, Benjamin. The View from Sunset Boulevard: America as Brought to You by the People Who Make Television<\/em>. New York: Basic Books, 1979.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Steinberg, Cobbett.  TV Facts.<\/em>  New York: Facts on File, 1985.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Steiner, Gary A.  The People Look at Television: A Study of Audience Attitudes<\/em>. New York: Knopf, 1963.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sterling, Christopher, Phyllis Bernt, and Martin Weiss.  Shaping American Telecommunications: A History of Technology, Policy, and Economics<\/em>.  Mahwah: Lawrence Erlbaum, 2006.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sterne, Jonathan.  \u201cTelevision Under Construction: American Television and the Problem of Distribution.\u201d  Media, Culture & Society<\/em> 21:4 (1999): 503-530.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sterne, Jonathan, and Dylan Mulvin.  \u201cThe Low Acuity for Blue: Perceptual Techniques and American Color Television.\u201d  Journal of Visual Culture<\/em> 13:2 (August 2014): 118-138.   Technical standards for color television.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stevens, Jennifer L.  \u201cConsuming the Past: Television and the Popular American Historical Consciousness.\u201d  PhD dissertation, Michigan State University, 2005.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stiffler, Brad.  \u201cPunk Subculture and the Queer Critique of Community on 1980s Cable TV: The Case of New Wave Theater.\u201d  Television and New Media<\/em> 19:1 (January 2018): 42-58.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stole, Inger.  \u201cThere\u2019s No Place Like Home: NBC\u2019s Search for a Daytime Audience, 1954-1957.\u201d Communications Review<\/em> 2:2 (1997): 135-161.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stole, Inger L. \u201cThe Kate Smith Hour<\/em> and the Struggle for Control of Television Programming in the Early 1950s.\u201d Historical Journal of Film, Radio, and Television <\/em>20:4 (October 2000): 549-555.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sturcken, Frank.  Live Television: The Golden Age of 1946-1958<\/em>.  Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 1990.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sugar, Bert Randolph.  The Thrill of Victory: The Inside Story of ABC Sports<\/em>.  New York: Hawthorne Books, 1978.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Svitavsky, William L. \u201cDark Shadows: Monster Culture on Daytime Television.\u201d Journal of Popular Film & Television<\/em> 50: 3 (2022): 130\u201340.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Swezey, Robert D.  \u201cGive the Television Code a Chance.\u201d  Quarterly Journal of Film, Radio, and Television<\/em> 7:1 (Autumn 1952): 13-24.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Takacs, Stacy.  \u201cThe US Military as Cold War Programmer.\u201d Journal of Popular Culture<\/em> 50:3 (June 2017): 540-560.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Talbert, Melinda.  \u201cMediating the News: Television Critics and News Commentary.\u201d  PhD dissertation, University of Oklahoma, 1995.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Taylor, Ella. Prime Time Families: Television Culture in Postwar America. <\/em>Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tedlow, Richard S.\u00a0\u00a0\u201cIntellect on Television: The Quiz Show Scandals of the 1950s.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0American Quarterly<\/em>\u00a028:4 (Autumn 1976): 483-495.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Telotte, J.P. “Watching\u00a0Science Fiction Theatre<\/em>, Seeing Television.”\u00a0Science Fiction Studies<\/em>\u00a051, no. 1 (2024): 17-31.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thimons, Alexander.  \u201cBlurred Visions: Atomic Testing, Live Television, and Technological Failure.\u201d  Journal of Film and Video<\/em> 72: 3\/4 (Fall\/Winter 2020): 102-118.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thompson, Ethan.  Parody and Taste in Postwar American Television Culture<\/em>. New York: Routledge, 2011.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thompson, Robert J., and Gary Burns.  Making Television: Authorship and the Production Process<\/em>.  New York: Praeger, 1990.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thomson, Charles A. H.  Television and Presidential Politics<\/em>.  Washington DC: Brookings Institution, 1956.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thornton, Brian.  \u201cPublished Reaction When Murrow Battled McCarthy.\u201d  Journalism History<\/em> 29:3 (2003): 133-146.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thumin, Janet, ed.  Small Screens, Big Ideas<\/em>. London: I.B. Tauris, 2001.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tichi, Cecelia.  Electronic Hearth: Creating an American Television Culture.  <\/em>New York: Oxford University Press, 1991. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tijmstra, L.F.  \u201cThe Challenge of Television to the Press: The Impact of Television on Advertising Revenues and Circulation of Newspapers.\u201d Journal of Broadcasting<\/em> 4:1 (1959): 3-13.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Torres, Sasha, ed.  Living Color: Race and Television in the United States<\/em>.  Durham: Duke University Press, 1998. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tuchman, Gaye, ed.  The TV Establishment<\/em>.  Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1974.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tuchman, Gaye.  \u201cTelevision News and the Metaphor of Myth.\u201d Studies in Visual Communication <\/em>5:1 (Fall 1978): 56-62.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tyrrell, Ian.  \u201cHistorians and Publics in the Early Televisual Age: Academics, Film, and the Rise of Television in the 1950s and 1960s.\u201d  Maryland Historian<\/em> 30 (Spring 2006): 41\u201359.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Udelson, Joseph H.  The Great Television Race: A History of the American Television Industry 1925-1941<\/em>.  Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1982.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Upright, Craig. \u201cBringing Color into the Living Room: Analyzing TV Guide<\/em> Covers, 1953 to 1997.\u201d Teaching Sociology<\/em> 43, no. 3 (2015): 214\u2013226. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vincent, Richard C.  \u201cThe Evolution of Television Criticism in the New York Times: 1949-1977.\u201d  Journalism Quarterly<\/em> 57 (Winter 1980): 647-651. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vogt, Randall Lee.  “The Rise of an American TV Model: Network Scheduling, Production, and Sponsorship of Programs from 1948 to 1959.”  PhD dissertation, University of Wisconsin, 1993.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Von Hodenberg, Christina.  Television\u2019s Moment: Sitcom Audiences and the Sixties Cultural Revolution<\/em>.  New York: Berghahn Books, 2015.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Waldman, Diane. \u201cJust Travesties: TV Parodies of Hollywood Films and Copyright Infringement Lawsuits.\u201d Film History<\/em> 27, no. 3 (2015): 73\u2013103.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Walker, James R.  “Old Media on New Media: National Popular Press Reaction to Mechanical Television.”  Journal of Popular Culture<\/em> 25 (Summer 1991): 21-29.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Waltzer, Herbert.  \u201cIn the Magic Lantern: Television Coverage of the 1964 National Convention.\u201d  Public Opinion Quarterly<\/em> 30:1 (Spring 1966): 33-53.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Warner, Harry P. \u201cTelevision and the Motion Picture Industry.\u201d Hollywood Quarterly<\/em> 2, no. 1 (1946): 11\u201318.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Watson, Mary Ann. The Expanding Vista: American Television in the Kennedy Years.<\/em> New York: Oxford University Press, 1990. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Watson, Mary Ann.  Defining Visions: Television and the American Experience<\/em>.  2ed  New York: Wiley, 2008.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Webb, Richard C.  Tele-Visionaries: The People Behind the Invention of Television<\/em>.  Hoboken: Wiley Interscience, 2005.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Weaver, Pat.  The Best Seat in the House: The Golden Years of Radio and Television<\/em>.  New York: Knopf, 1994. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Weinstein, David.  “The Forgotten Network: DuMont and the Birth of American Television.”  PhD dissertation, Temple University, 2004.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Weinstein, David M.  \u201cLive from the Nation\u2019s Capital: A History of Television in Washington DC, 1948-1958.\u201d  PhD dissertation, University of Maryland, 1997.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

West, Darrell M.  Air Wars: Television Advertising in Election Campaigns, 1952-2004<\/em>.  Washington: Congressional Quarterly Press, 2005.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wexman, Virginia Wright. \u201cReturning From the Moon: Jackie Gleason, The Carnivalesque, and Television Comedy.\u201d\u00a0Journal of Film and Video<\/em>\u00a042, no. 4 (1990): 20\u201332.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Whitaker, Harrison. “How Hollywood Watched Television.”\u00a0The Cambridge Quarterly<\/em>\u00a053, no. 1 (2024): 46-63.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Whitt, Jan. \u201cGrits and Yokels Aplenty: Depictions of Southerners on Prime-Time Television.\u201d Studies in Popular Culture<\/em> 19, no. 2 (1996): 141\u2013152.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wilbur, Susan K. \u201cThe History of Television in Los Angeles, 1931-1952: Part I: The Infant Years.\u201d Southern California Quarterly<\/em> 60, no. 1 (1978): 59\u201376.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wilbur, Susan K. \u201cThe History of Television in Los Angeles, 1931-1952: Part II: The Boom Years.\u201d Southern California Quarterly<\/em> 60, no. 2 (1978): 183\u2013205.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wilbur, Susan K. \u201cThe History of Television in Los Angeles, 1931-1952: Part III.\u201d Southern California Quarterly<\/em> 60, no. 3 (1978): 255\u201385.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Williams, Julian. \u201cBroadcast Segregation: WJTV\u2019s Early Years.\u201d American Journalism<\/em>19:3 (2002): 87-103.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Williams, Robert Coyle.  “Saving Radiance: United States Broadcast Reformers, ETV, and the Invention of National Public Television.”  PhD dissertation, University of New Mexico, 2001.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wilson, James Graham. \u201cJack Benny and America\u2019s Mission after World War II: Openness, Pluralism, Internationalism, and Supreme Confidence.\u201d Journal of American Studies<\/em> 45, no. 2 (2011): 337\u2013353.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wilson, Pamela.  \u201cNBC Television\u2019s \u2018Operation Frontal Lobe\u2019: Cultural Hegemony and Fifties Program Planning.\u201d Historical Journal of Film, Radio, & Television<\/em> 15:1 (1995): 83-104.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wilson, Pamela. \u201cAll Eyes on Montana: Television Audiences, Social Activism, and Native American Cultural Politics in the 1950s.\u201d Quarterly Review of Film & Video<\/em> 16, no. 3\/4 (1999): 325\u2013356. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Winberg, Oscar.  Archie Bunker for President: How One Television Show Remade American Politics<\/em>.  Berkeley: University of California Press, 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Winick, Charles.  Taste and Censor in Television<\/em>.  New York: Fund for the Republic, 1959.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Winn, J. Emmett, and Susan L. Brinson. eds.  Transmitting the Past: Historical and Cultural Perspectives on Broadcasting<\/em>.  Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2005.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Worland, Rick. \u201cSign-Posts up Ahead: \u2018The Twilight Zone,\u2019 \u2018The Outer Limits,\u2019 and TV Political Fantasy 1959-1965.\u201d Science Fiction Studies<\/em> 23: 1 (1996): 103\u2013122.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Worland, Rick. \u201cThe Other Living Room War: Prime Time Combat Series, 1962\u20131975.\u201d Journal of Film and Video<\/em> 50, no. 3 (1998): 3\u201323.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wright, John L.  \u201cTune In: The Focus of Television Criticism.\u201d  Journal of Popular Culture<\/em> 7:4 (Spring 1974): 887-894.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Xavier, Roy Eric. \u201cDistant Signals: A History of Cable Television in the United States.\u201d PhD dissertation, University of California-Berkeley, 1988.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yogerst, Chris.  \u201cRod Serling\u2019s Vast Promised Land: Battling Sponsors, Debating the FCC, and Fighting for Mature Television, 1959-1966.\u201d  Historical Journal of Film, Radio & Television<\/em> 38:4 (December 2018): 828-842.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Back to Index Page<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This list contains mostly studies of the television industry, the development of broadcast news, and cultural history of some entertainment programming.  It doesn’t deal much with TV stars and producers, or audience analysis. Back to Index Page Abernathy-Lear, Gloria.  \u201cAfrican Americans\u2019 Criticisms Concerning African American Representations on Daytime Serials.\u201d Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly 71:4 (1994): 830-839. Abramson, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-194","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mupages.marshall.edu\/masscommhistorybibliography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mupages.marshall.edu\/masscommhistorybibliography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mupages.marshall.edu\/masscommhistorybibliography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mupages.marshall.edu\/masscommhistorybibliography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/48"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mupages.marshall.edu\/masscommhistorybibliography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194"}],"version-history":[{"count":45,"href":"https:\/\/mupages.marshall.edu\/masscommhistorybibliography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2332,"href":"https:\/\/mupages.marshall.edu\/masscommhistorybibliography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/194\/revisions\/2332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mupages.marshall.edu\/masscommhistorybibliography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}