Books in the Communications and Media Studies series

Murrow is the biography of America's foremost broadcast journalist, Edward R. Murrow.

As city editor of Pulitzer's New York Evening World, Charles E Chapin was the model of the take-no-prisoners newsroom tyrant: he drove reporters relentlessly - and kept his paper in the center ring of the circus of big-city journalism. This book tracks Chapin's rise from legendary Chicago street reporter to celebrity powerbroker in New York.

Dean Duncan provides a critical survey of the aesthetics of classical music in film. Exploring tensions between high art and commercial culture, he examines how directors quote themes and classical passages in genres ranging from the Soviet avant garde to Hollywood romances.

A collection of more than 30 years of editorials and commentary given by William O'Shaughnessy. The pieces encompass a wide spectrum of Westchester life, from politics to just plain citizens.

This work takes the reader behind the scenes of newspaper life in Park Row, New York.

Topics covered by the essays in this volume include: documentary film pioneer Robert Flaherty; a discussion of Holland's role in Western civilization; accounts of pioneers of camera obscura and magic lantern phantasmagoria; and a history of communication breakthroughs.

A collection of essays, presentations and lectures written with the aim of developing a critical sense of the potential and limitations of mediated communication. The author includes a discussion of her own development as a teacher, producer and participant in the struggle for media democracy.

For the Record focuses on the experiences of journalists, primarily in their own words, who worked in Rochester, New York, on the Gannett owned Democrat & Chronicle and the Times Union.

This collection features profiles and vignettes about figures like Jeanine and Alan Pirro, Archbishop Edward Egan and George W. Bush as well as a tribute to former US governor Malcom Wilson. It also incorporates transcripts of the author's TV programme interviews.

Stories with no substance. Talking heads without a clue. Teamcoverage that still misses the big picture. Overheated hype. Cute chatter. Film at eleven. Is it any wonder more and more of us count less and less on the news?It used to be that a news story told you who, what, where, when, how, and why,Art Athens writes

For this compelling and fascinating collection, O'Shaughnessy gathers interviews with everyone from Tony Bennett on the singer's art to Ed Koch on the art of politics. Essays and talks from luminaries range from Henry Kissinger to Larry King, Rudolph Giuliani to Tim Russert and Dan Rather.