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Recommended Reading
 In addition to course handouts, and the viewing and discussion of examples within session times, you will need to read some of the following. They will provide useful background information, but more importantly they develop much of the material which is covered throughout the course.

Allen, R.C., (ed), Channels of Discourse: Television and Contemporary Debate, (Methuen, 1985).

Alvarado, M., Gutch, R., & Wollen, T., Learning the Media, (Macmillan, 1987).

Armes, R., On Video, (Methuen, 1988).

Baistow, T., Fourth Rate Estate, (Comedia, 1985).

Barr, C., All Our Yesterdays: 90 Years of British Cinema, (BFI, 1987).

Buckingham, D., Public Secrets: EastEnders and its Audience, (BFI, 1987).

Burton, G., More than meets the eye, (Arnold, 1990).

Clarke, M., Teaching Popular Fiction, (H.E.B., 1987).

Coben, S., & Young, J. (eds.), The Manufacture of News, (Constable, 1981).

Criseil, A., Understanding Radio, (Methuen, 1986).

Curran, J., & Seaton, J., Power Without Responsibility, (Fontana, 1988).

Dutton, B., The Media, (Longman, 1986).

Dutton, B., Media Studies: An Introduction, (Longman, 1989).

Dyer, G., Advertising and Communication, (Methuen, 1982).

Elliot, P., The Making of a Television Series, (Constable, 1984).

Ellis, J., Visible Fictions, (RKP, 1982).

Fiske, J., Introduction to Communication Studies, (Methuen, 1982).

Fiske, J., Television Culture, (Methuen, 1987).

Glover, D., The Sociology of the Mass Media, (Causeway, 1984).

Hackman, S. & W., Television Studies, (Hodder and Staughton, 1988).

Hackman, S. & W., Constructing Television, (Hodder and Staughton, 1989).

Hartley, J., Understanding News, (Methuen, 1982).

Hartley, J., Goulden, H. et al, Making Sense of the Media, (Comedia, 1985).

Hood, S., On Television, (Pluto Press, 1983).

Lusted, D., The Media Studies Book, (BFI, 1989).

Lusted, D. & Drummond, P., T.V. and Schooling, (BFI/ Inst. Ed., 1985).

McMahon, B. & Quin, R., Real Images: Film and Television, (Macmillan, 1986).

Masterman, L. (ed.), Television Mythologies, (Comedia, 1985).

Masterman, L., Teaching About Television, (Macmillan, 1980).

Masterman, L., Teaching the Media, (Comedia, 1985).

Morley, D. & Whitaker, B., The Press, Radio and Television, (Comedia, 1983).

O'Sullivan, T., et al., Key Concepts in Communication, (Methuen, 1989).

Root, J., (ed), Open the Box, (Comedia/Channel Four, 1986).

Schlesinger, P., Putting Reality Together: BBC News, (Methuen, 1989).

Trowler, P., Investigating the Media, (Tavistock, 1989).

Tunstall, J., The Media in Britain, (Constable, 1983).

Turner, G., Film as Social Practice, (Methuen, 1989).

Williams, R., Television: Technology and Cultural Form, (Fontana, 1980).

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