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volume 1, number 1
January 2002


Table of Contents

Timothy Havens, White Viewers, Black Media, and Disciplinary Boundaries

Robert M. Entman and Andrew Rojecki.  The Black Image in the White Mind: Media and Race in America.  Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2000.  xix + 305 pages.  Appendices, notes, bibliography, and index. $26.00.

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Julie Grossman, The Machinery of Death and Desire: Modernist Landscape in the Films of Fritz Lang

Tom Gunning. The Films of Fritz Lang: Allegories of Vision and Modernity.  London:  BFI, 2000.  xiii + 528 pages.  $49.95 (cloth); $24.95 (paper).

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Kimber Charles Pearce, Constitutional Debates in American Popular Culture from the Turn of the Twentieth Century to the New Deal

Maxwell H. Bloomfield. Peaceful Revolution: Constitutional Change and American Culture from Progressivism to the New Deal. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2000. ix + 209 pages. Notes and index. $35.00.

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Jeffrey St. John, Minding the Law

Anthony G. Amsterdam and Jerome Bruner. Minding the Law. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2000. 453 pages. $35.00.

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Dale Cyphert, Excavating the Writerly Workplace

Jim Henry. Writing Workplace Cultures: An Archaeology of Professional Writing. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2000. 260 pages. Appendices, research abstracts, and index. $34.95.

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Alistair Duff, The Internet and Society

James Slevin. The Internet and Society. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2000. xi + 266 pages. $66.95 (hardcover); $29.95 (paper).

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Alison Macor, Girl Trouble: Women Go to the Movies

Shelley Stamp. Movie-Struck Girls: Women and Motion Picture Culture After the Nickelodeon. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2000. 274 pages. $22.95 (paper).

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Gregory Eiselein, Society as Communication, Art as Communication, and the Paradoxes of Autonomous Systems

Niklas Luhmann. Art as a Social System. Trans. Eva M. Knodt. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2000. x + 422 pages. Notes and index. $65.00 (cloth); $24.95 (paper).

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Brian L. Ott, Identity and the Internet: Mapping Scholarship on Cybercommunity

Nancy K. Baym. Tune In, Log On: Soaps, Fandom, and Online Community. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 2000. ix + 249 pages. Appendices, references, and index. $79.95 (cloth); 34.95 (paper).

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Jennifer L. Adams, Letter Writing: A Social Phenomenon

David Barton and Nigel Hall, editors. Letter Writing as a Social Practice. Amsterdam, The Netherlands: John Benjamins, 2000. 262 pages. Notes, bibliography, and index. $70.00.

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Cinzia Padovani, Public Spaces in American Capitalist Culture: An Endangered Species

Aufderheide, Patricia. The Daily Planet. A Critic on The Capitalist Culture Beat. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2000. xv + 347. $19.95 (Paper).

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Robert S. Oventile, Dialogue’s Impossibility: The Case of Jews and Christians in Germany

Jeffrey S. Librett. The Rhetoric of Cultural Dialogue: Jews and Germans from Moses Mendelssohn to Richard Wagner and Beyond. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2000. xxiii + 391 pages. Notes, bibliography, and index. $65.00 (cloth); $24.95 (paper).

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Kevin M. Carragee, Capitalism in the Digital Age

Dan Schiller. Digital Capitalism: Networking the Global Market System. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1999. xxvi + 294 pages. Notes and index. $29.95 (cloth); $16.95 (paper).

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Hemant Shah, Race, Congress, and the News

Jeremy Zilber and David Niven.  Racialized Coverage of Congress: The News in Black and White. Westport CT: Praeger, 2000. 141 pages. $60.00.

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Hong Cheng, Foreign Advertising in China: A Pilot Book Exploring the New Market

Jian Wang. Foreign Advertising in China: Become Global, Become Local. Ames, IA: Iowa State University Press, 2000. x + 122 pages. Notes, selected bibliography, and index. $52.95.

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Grace Moore, Cultural Studies: A Whistle-Stop Survey

Chris Barker. Cultural Studies: Theory and Practice. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 2000. 448 pages. $83.00 (cloth); $31.00 (paper).

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Jon Paulson, Theology and Politics in the Declaration of Independence

Allen Jayne. Jefferson’s Declaration of Independence: Origins, Philosophy and Theology. Lexington, KY: The University Press of Kentucky, 1998. xiii + 245. Appendix, notes, bibliography, index. $39.95 (cloth); 18.00 (paper).

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Merrilee A. Cunningham, The Bard and the Bijou

Douglas Brode. Shakespeare in the Movies. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. ix + 257 pages. Index. $25.00.

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Ronald L. Jackson II, Cultivating Viewers

James Shanahan and Michael Morgan. Television and Its Viewers: Cultivation Theory and Research. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. xiii + 267 pages. $57.95 (cloth); $19.95 (paper).

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James Jasinski, Puritans/Puritanism as Ideograph

Dean Hammer. The Puritan Tradition in Revolutionary, Federalist, and Whig Political Theory: A Rhetoric of Origins. New York: Peter Lang Publishers, 1998. xi + 218. Notes and index. $32.95.

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Leah R. Vande Berg, Eros and Education

Jo Keroes. Tales Out of School: Gender, Longing and the Teacher in Fiction and Film. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 1999. 164 pages. Notes, bibliography, index. $39.95.

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Robert S. Oventile, Post-Apocalyptic Representations as Symptoms of Trauma

James Berger. After the End: Representations of Post-Apocalypse. Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, 1999. xx + 278 pages. Notes, bibliography, and index. $47.95 (cloth); $18.95 (paper).

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E. Michele Ramsey, Gender in Contemporary Science Fiction and Fantasy Television

Elyce Rae Helford, editor.  Fantasy Girls: Gender in the New Universe of Science Fiction and Fantasy Television.  New York: Rowman and Littlefield, 2000.  xxi + 273 pages.  Index.  $65.00 (cloth);  $22.95 (paper).

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John Sundholm, The Poetics and Politics of Social Research and Cultural Studies

Alison Lee and Cate Poynton, editors. Culture & Text: Discourse and Methodology in Social Research and Cultural Studies. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman and Littlefield, 2000. xix + 225 pages. Bibliography and index. $65.00 (cloth); $24.00 (paper).

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