Series Editor

 

FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS

 

Communication and Media Studies

 

 

Our media culture helps shape the social, political and economic world in which we live. The Communication and Media Studies series seeks to provide the best analysis of the media industry, its cultural aesthetics, history, political influence and technological developments. Drawing on the best of intellectual traditions while encouraging new forms of inquiry appropriate to the changing media landscape, this series will provide students, scholars and the public with timely and enduring media scholarship.

 

Books in the Series

 

Hand Held Visions: The Impossible Possibilities of Community Media

DeeDee Halleck

With an Introduction by John Downing

 

“Here are the triumphs and heartaches of our movement as recalled by its most passionate participant-observer. DeeDee was there, is there, and will be there, bless her, as long as people around the world fight media monopolists with their Hand-Held Visions.”

George Stoney, Professor of Film and Television, Tisch School of the Arts, NYU

 

For the Record: An Oral History of Rochester, New York, Newsworkers

Bonnie Brennen

With a Forward by Joe Wershba

 

“Bonnie Brennen has created a first-rate, from-the-bottom-up workers’ history of the two Gannett newspapers that dominated Rochester for generations. Based in ideological awareness from Louis Altusser and interviewing techniques from Studs Terkel, Brennen has added an important volume to the history of American journalism, a history too often dominated by big-name publishers and star writers. From idealistic copy boys to victims of Al Neuharth’s union-busting, here is an unmistakably true account of lived professional journalism at the grassroots level, warts and all.

                       Michael Real, Director, E. W. Scripps School of Journalism, Ohio University

 

 

Media Lost and Found

 Erik Barnouw

With an Introduction by Dean Duncan

 

“This wonderful collection proves again and again with insight and quiet humor that Erik Barnouw is our keenest observer of the frighteningly complicated world of media. No one has seen more, no one sees more, no one understands more than Barnouw. I am a huge admirer.”

Ken Burns, Filmmaker

 

When Giants Ruled

The Story of Park Row, New York’s Great Newspaper Street

 Hy B. Turner

 

“Hy Turner’s saga of the saints and scamps who populated Park Row in the remarkable early days of the New York newspapers gives a rich account of an era that revolutionized the press of the time and created the first mass newspaper market.”

Louis D. Boccardi, President and CEO, Associated Press

 

Murrow: His Life and Times

A.M. Sperber

With an Introduction by Neil Hickey

 

“The definitive biography.” 

Bill Moyers, NOW on PBS

 

 

Please send completed manuscripts to Robin Andersen, Department of Communication and Media Studies, Fordham University, Bronx, NY 10458