Crime & Media: Selected Additional Bibliography

Updated 04/01/2003

Altheide, David. 1976. Creating reality: How TV news distorts events. Beverly Hills: Sage.

Altheide, David. 1985. Media power. Beverly Hills: Sage.

Altheide, David. 1996. Qualitative Media Analysis. Beverly Hills: Sage.

American Correctional Association. 1993. Improving Media Relations: A Handbook for Corrections.

Armes, Roy. 1988. On video. NY: Routledge.

Barak, Greg . (ed.) 1994. Media, process, and the social construction of crime: Studies in newsmaking criminology. NY: Garland Press.

Berger, Ronald et al. 1991. Feminism and pornography. NY: Praeger.

Berman, Ronald. 1987. How television sees its audience. Newbury Park, CA: Sage Publications.

Best, Joel. 1989. Images of issues: Typifying contemporary social problems. NY: Aldine de Gruyter.

Best, Joel. 1990. Threatened children. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Biskind, Peter. 1983. Seeing is believing: How Hollywood taught us to stop worrying and love the Fifties. NY: Pantheon.

Breslin, Jack. 1990. America's most wanted. NY: Harper.

Campbell, Christopher. 1995. Race, myth, and the news. Beverly Hills: Sage.

Campbell, Douglas. 1993. Free Press v. Fair Trial. NY: Praeger.

Campbell, Richard. (1991). 60 Minutes and the news. Chicago: University of Illinois Press.

Carey, James (ed.). 1988. Media, myths, and narratives. Beverly Hills: Sage.

Chibnall, Steven. 1977. Law-and-Order news. London: Tavistock.

Christensen, F. M. 1990. Pornography: The other side. NY: Praeger.

Clarens, Carlos. 1980. Crime movies. NY: W. W. Norton.

Claster, Daniel. 1992. Bad guys and good guys: Moral polarization and crime. NY: Greenwood Press.

Cohen, Stanley and Jock Young (eds.). 1973. The manufacture of news. London: Constable.

Considine, David. 1985. The cinema of adolescence. London: McFarland.

Corner, John (ed.). 1986. Documentary and mass media. Baltimore: Edward Arnold.

Crowther, Bruce. 1989. Film noir: Reflections in a dark mirror. NY: Frederick Ungar.

Crowther, Bruce. 1990. Captured on film. NY: Batsford.

D'Acci, Julie. 1994. Defining Women: TV and the Case of Cagey & Lacey. Chapel Hill, NC: UNC Press.

Davies, R. Philip and Brian Neve (eds.). 1981. Cinema, politics, and society in America. NY: St. Martin's Press.

Dawidziak, Mark. 1988. The Columbo file. NY: Mysterious Press.

Denzin, Norman. 1995. The Cinematic Society: The Voyeur's Gaze. Sage

Dines, Gail & Jean M. Humez. (eds.). 1994. Gender, race, and class in media. Beverly Hills: Sage.

Elliott, Philip. 1979. The making of a television series. Beverly Hills: Sage.

Ericson, Richard, Patricia Baranek, and Janet Chan. 1987. Visualizing deviance: A study of news organizations. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.

Ericson, Richard, Patricia Baranek, and Janet Chan. 1989. Negotiating control: A study of news sources. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.

Ericson, Richard, Patricia Baranek, and Janet Chan. 1991. Representing order: crime, law and justice in the news media. Toronto: Open University Press.

Featherstone, Mike and Roger Burrows (eds.). 1996. Cyberspace/Cyberbodies/
Cyberpunk. Beverly Hills: Sage.

Fishman, Mark. 1980. Manufacturing the news. Austin: University of Texas Press.

Fiske, John. 1987. Television culture. New York: Methuen.

Fowles, Jib. 1996. Advertising and popular culture. Beverly Hills: Sage.

Fox, James and Ira Levin. 1993. How to Work with the Media. Survival Skills for Scholars, Volume 2. Newbury Park, CA: Sage.

Gaines, Donna. 1992. Teenage wasteland: Suburbia's dead end kids. NY: Harper.

Gans, Herbert. 1980. Deciding what's news: A study of CBS Evening News, NBC Nightly News, Newsweek and Time. New York: Vintage.

Genge, N. E. 1995. The Unofficial X-Files Companion.

Gilbert, James. 1986. A cycle of outrage: America's reaction to the juvenile delinquent in the 1950s. New York: Oxford University Press.

Gitlin, Todd. (ed.). 1986. Watching television. New York: Pantheon.

Gordon, Diana. 1990. The justice juggernaut. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press.

Graber, Doris. 1980. Crime news and the public. New York: Praeger.

Grant, Barry. (ed.). 1986. Film genre reader. Austin: University of Texas Press.

Gunter, B. 1987. Television and the fear of crime. London: John Libby.

Gunter. B. 1998.  "Ethnicity and involvement in violence on television; nature and context of on-screen portrayals." Journal of Black Studies: July

Hall, Stuart, et. al, 1978. Policing the crisis: mugging, the state, and law and Order. New York: Holmes and Meier Publishers.

Haynes, Colin. 1994. Paperless Publishing. NY: McGraw-Hill.

Himmelstein, Hal. 1984. Television myth and the American mind. New York: Praeger.

Hise, James Van. Calling Tracy: Six decades of Dick Tracy.

Howitt, Dennis. 1982. Mass media and social problems. New York: Permagon Press.

Jenkins, Philip. 1992. Intimate enemies: Moral panics in contemporary Great Britain. NY: Aldine de Gruyter.

Jenkins, Philip. 1994. Using Murder: The Social Construction of Serial Murder. NY: Aldine de Gruyter.

Jones, Steven. 1994. Cybersociety: Computer-mediated communication and community. Beverly Hills: Sage.

Kaniss, Phyllis. 1991. Making local news. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Karem, Brian J. 1992. Shield The Source.Far Hills, NJ: New Horizon Press.

Kelly, Patricia. (ed.). 1987. Police and the media. Springfield, IL: Charles C. Thomas Publishers.

Knight, Stephen. 1980. Form and ideology in crime fiction. Bloomington: University of Indiana Press.

Kracauer, Sigfried. 1960. The theory of film. New York: Oxford University Press.

Lichter, Linda, and Lichter, S. Robert. 1983. Prime time crime. Washington, DC: The Media Institute.

Liebert, Robert M. and Sprafkin, Joyce. 1988. The early window: Effects of television on children and youth. (3rd edition). New York: Pergamon Press.

Lindekugel, D. M. 1994. Shooters: TV News Photographers and Their Work. NY: Praeger.

Lotz, Roy Edward. Crime and the American Press. 1991. New York: Praeger Publishers.

Lowery, Sharon and DeFleur, Melvin. 1988. Milestones in mass communication research. (2nd edition). New York: Longman.

Manoff, Robert Karl, and Schudson, Michael. (eds.). 1986. Reading the news. New York: Pantheon.

Martin, Linda, and Seagrave, Kerry. 1988. Anti-rock. New York: Archon.

Martindale, David. Television detective shows of the 70s.

McGee, Mark Thomas, and Robertson, R. J. 1982. The J. D. films: Juvenile delinquency in the movies. London: McFarland.

McManus, John. 1994. Market-driven Journalism. Newbury Park: Sage.

McManus, Michael. (ed.). Final report of the Attorney General's commission on pornography. Nashville: Rutledge Hill Press.

Meyers, Richard. 1981. TV detectives. San Diego: A. S. Barnes.

Meyrowitz, J. 1985. No sense of place: The impact of electronic media on social behavior. NY: Oxford University Press.

Montgomery, Kathryn. 1989. Target: Prime time. New York: Oxford University Press.

Morgan, John, and Welton, Peter. 1986. See what I mean: An introduction to visual communication. New York: Routledge.

New York City Police Foundation. 1987. Television and police: attitudes and perceptions of the police and the public. New York: Penn and Schoen Associates, Inc.

Nobile, Philip, and Nadler, Eric. 1986. United States of America v. sex: How the Meese Commission lied about pornography. New York: Minotaur Press.

Oskamp, Stuart. (ed.). 1988. Television as a social issue. Newbury Park, CA: Sage Publications.

Postman, Neil. 1985. Amusing ourselves to death. Baltimore: Penguin.

Reeves, Jimmie and Richard Campbell. 1994. Cracked Coverage: Television News, the Anti-Cocaine Crusade, and the Reagan Legacy. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.

Sanders, Barry 1994. A is for Ox: Violence, Electronic Media and the Silencing of the Written Word. NY: Pantheon.

Schudson, Michael. 1978. Discovering the news: A social history of American newspapers. New York: Basic Books.

Selnow, Gary and Richard Gilbert. 1993. The Impact of Society on Television. NY: Greenwood Press.

Silver, Alain, and Ward, Elizabeth. (eds.). 1978. Film noir: An encyclopedic reference to the American style. New York: The Overlook Press.

Sparks, Richard. 1992. Television and the Drama of Crime. Buckingham: Open University Press.

Stein, Benjamin. 1979. The view from Sunset Boulevard: America as brought to you by the people who make television. New York: Basic Books.

Stoller, Robert. 1991. Porn: Myths for the twentieth century. New Haven: Yale University Press.

Strasburger, Victor. 1995. Adolescents and the media. Beverly Hills: Sage.

Surette, Ray. (ed.). 1984. Justice and the media. Springfield, IL: Charles C. Thomas Publishing.

Surette, Ray. (ed.). 1989. Media and the criminal justice system. Springfield, IL: Charles C. Thomas Publishing.

Sussman Peter and Dannie Martin. 1993. Committing Journalism: The Prison Writings of Red Hog. NY: W. W. Norton.

Thaler, Paul. 1994. The Watchful Eye: American Justice in the Age of the Television Trial. NY: Greenwood Press.

Tuchman, Gaye. 1978. Making news. NY: Free Press.

Tunstall, Jeremy. 1971. Journalists at work. London: Constable.

Twitchell, James. 1989. Preposterous violence: Fables of aggression in modern culture. New York: Oxford University Press.

Ulmer, Gregory. 1989. Teletheory. New York: Routledge.

Weinstein, Deena. 1991. Heavy Metal: A Cultural Sociology. NY: Lexington Books.

Williams, Linda. 1989. Hardcore. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Woeller, Waitraud, and Cassidy, Bruce. 1988. The literature of crime and detection. New York: Ungar Publishing.

Wright, Kevin. 1987. The great American crime myth. New York: Praeger.

Zettl, Herbert. 1973. Sight, sound, motion. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth.

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